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...more promising keyboard artists. This goes for Rupe especially. He can't read a note of music, and he's such a lazy bum that I doubt if he'll ever bother to learn. However, what counts is the fact that he's endowed with an innate sense of chord structure that permits him to give full play to his musical ideas. He's got a style that's delicate without being saccharine, and imaginative without being ponderously elaborate. I've heard him on occasions when his work has been sufficiently inspired to rate with big-time jazz musicians...
...Muskrat Ramble with everybody in there driving for all he's worth. It's like a photo finish at Suffolk Downs, it can be so exciting. Jimmy McParland has the lead, and his cornet rips out what you'll recognize as the melody if you can follow the chord sequence. 'George Brunics makes a background foundation on trombone, long, deep, throaty notes which you won't ever hear Tommy Dorsey play. Pee Wee Russell is playing clarinet obbligato, weaving a jerky, almost insane pattern of dissonant, spit-laden phrases, companying his efforts with facial contortions that make you fear...
This was not exactly hot news. But it was one minor chord, a treble note, in the vastly planned, superbly played concert that Virtuoso Roosevelt was playing on the national organ-the U. S. Press...
...last gradually building crescendo, a final thrilling chord, and the four musicians were bowing their appreciation of the audience's very audible approval. At first Vag felt cheated--the music should never have stopped; he should have been allowed to continue musing in this delicious manner. Finally, he forced himself to leave his chair and wander outside--the night air was crisp, the snow was an iridescent mass of white, and a haunting theme kept running through his sleepy mind. Vag went into hibernation to wait for the next Stradivarius concert on March first...
...impressionism: that is, the expression of specific moods or ideas by music, and Debussy is one of the best at this in the classics. Ellington has long acknowledged the basis of his style to be from Debussy and Stravinsky. And if nothing else, Debussy furnishes a basis of unusual chord and harmonic structure that is invaluable to anyone trying to learn how to express ideas spontaneously through music...