Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crosby's bunch was covered here briefly last week. Most important thing to understand about the band is that their rhythm is completely different from that played by most bands of today. It is two beats to a phrase, instead of four. As a result, you get a style of jazz that is more staccatto, with shorter melodic phrases, and all sorts of trick rhythmic effects achieved thru breaking up the beat. In other words, this is a white man's way of playing jazz, as opposed to the colored man's more lagging, slurring attack of long phrase...
Apropos of the columns we have written on the necessity of a good swing band playing together for years, may we call your attention to the fact that Count Basic, considered by most critics to be the greatest of the colored style bands, has a band of men who grew up in Kansas City and have played together for about ten years; and that Bob Crosby, admitted to be the best of the Dixieland type jazz, has a band made up in large part of men who hail from New Orleans, where all this fuss called jazz really got started...
...miss hearing Crosby play some slow blues. They are really something. Irving, Fazola, the clarinet player, has a blues tone which is so full and clear that Mr. Goodman just shuts up when anybody mentions his name. Jesse Stacy, Goodman's old piano man, is with the band, and he alone is worth the trip down there. The rest of the band--the trick stuff of drummer Ray Baudue and bassist Bobby Haggert, you probably know about already, so there isn't any need to review it. Incidentally, the latter is the author of the very popular "What...
...Bunny, we reviewed him last week. And we repeat, don't miss him. The band is far better than early reports would have led one to suspect, and Bunny himself is almost always good. By the way, if you're looking for after-game amusement tomorrow. Leon Mayer at the Kirkland House Dance did a bang-up job of dance music last year for Winthrop House--and the rumor has spread amongst the local wolves that the vocalist with the band has charms beyond her vocal chords...
Notes between the notes: Stan Brown's signing the Dunster House dance November 11 comes as no surprise as he and his band are being considered for the Fitch Band Wagon . . . Victor records announce that the following Goodman records are being dropped from the Victor label to the Bluebird listings. And don't miss them, because they're all old ones that are good: "If I Could Be With You"--"Dear Old Southland"; "Japanese Sandman".--"I Know That You Know"; "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"--"Christopher Columbus"; "Madhouse"--"Get Happy"; "Can't We Be Friends"--"Swing...