Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of bad acoustics, the Crimsonians did creditably with their first five numbers which were imitations of old time jazz bands and which illustrated the change of jazz through the twentieth century. These five places were undoubtedly the best of the evening, although most of the solos were in too modern a vein. The band showed its amateurishness in its arrangements and presentation when it warmed up and plunged into its original numbers...
...night last week 5,000 California students gathered on the campus, waved torches and placards, marched behind a band and cheer leaders to President Sproul's square old mansion: "We want Sproul!" they chanted. Soon, with his arms around his wife and his mother, President Sproul appeared on a second-floor balcony...
...Count's band, when it's on, is "the best swing band in the country." The quote marks enclose a remark of Mr. Goodman's. It has the greatest rhythm section ever put together. Proof offered is any one of Count's solos wherein you get his weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home...
...Dunster House dance of a week ago forces this reviewer to add Jack Teagarden's outfit to the Red Norvo-Jimmy Dorsey classification of coming bands. The band has excellent arrangements, is very danceable, Jack's trombone playing is as great as it ever was, and the total effect is very good. Highlight of the evening was Jack's playing a waltz at special request, and proceeding to play the blues in three-four time. Suggested exercise for prospective track men; Walk up to anybody in Jack's band and say that Tommy Dorsey is the world's greatest trombone...
...Raymor tonight, Woody Herman and Harry James in a battle of swing at the Roseland tomorrow, and Basie at the Southland . . . Not generally known, but still true is the Anglo-Saxon word for music: "swin(g)" . . . Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though...