Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blackest white band that I have ever heard," said Metronome critic George Simon several months ago when reviewing Charlie Barnet's band...
What he meant of course was that Barnet's outfit manages to play more colored style jazz than anybody else in the country. I'm not too sure that I agree with this. Barnet's band has many faults; but it is perfectly true that he has an unusual idea in band style...
What he is trying to do basically is to imitate Duke Ellington. Several years ago, before Barnet bad formed his present band, I heard him play, and even then he was trying to imitate the Duke's ideas. He told me then that he felt that Ellington was the greatest of the living jazz leaders, and that his music was extraordinary by anybody's standards...
Lowell House rooters ended their football season yesterday with the traditional band parade, but this year they got in tune with the times by the addition of a comely and high-stepping drum majorette. The band consequently showed a unity and spirit never before witnessed in the march to Soldiers Field...
...crowd of fifty or more students, attracted by the stirring airs of the band and by the majorette, Miss Rennie Smith of Revere, joined the parade, while scores of others watched as it went down the street. Miss Smith, scorning the chill November wind, appeared in a costume appropriate for the occasion, and lent grace and precision to the enthusiastic but somewhat nondescript band...