Word: combo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bandleader Basie sees new hope for such big outfits as his own 16-piece band. Like other jazzmen of the late '30s, he was forced to cut back in the mid '40s, toured for four years with a small combo. "People were trying to decide whether they were going to like bop," he says. "Nobody was thinking of dancing. Big bands had no place to work...
Django Reinhardt (Clef LP). French jazz in the modern manner, played by Paris' late guitar favorite and his combo. Softer in texture and drive than U.S. jazz, the selections still have authentic jazz feeling. Included: a frothy little number called Blues...
Shades of Bix (Jimmy McPartland and his band; Brunswick LP). Trumpeter McPartland undertakes the touchy task of recapturing the style and feeling of the cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, in the process socks out some fine Dixieland jazz. The combo, a duplication of Bix's own Gang (including a hoarse-voiced baritone sax), gets a lift from the inspired drumming of George Wettling...
...clatter continued, but Shaw turned to the group he calls the Gramercy Five (nostalgically named after his 1940 recording combo), stomped out a beat and began to play. For a while he sounded like a musical D.P., playing as if he could not decide between his old swing style and something considerably more jittery and "progressive." He mixed old Shaw favorites (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) with such new Shaw originals as Overdrive and Lugubrious...
...generation or more, France has happily imported le jazz hot in all shapes and sizes; any combo, preferably Negro, that thudded realistically with a Dixie beat could take a fling at Paris with a reasonable chance of success. Lately, U.S. "progressive" jazzmen on tour have been meeting with mixed reactions from the uninhibited French, who boo at the drop of a diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice...