Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listening audience alone. The musicians themselves were discovering a new kind of arranged jazz, and their enthusiasm for it was shown by the enthusiasm with which they played. All bands sound best when they're young, and Goodman's was no exception. The way that outfit would dig into an ordinary pop tune was nothing short of amazing, and some of the most exciting jazz I've ever heard came from Benny's band at the Pennsylvania. Goodman's success is directly responsible for every good swing orchestra playing today, for if his music hadn't gone over back...
...with Scramble Two, a clean job on a fine arrangement, featuring a wacky vocal break by Ray McKinley and family (COLUMBIA). . . . DECCA has issued an album of Count Basie piano, accompanied by Freddie Green, Joe Jones, and Walter Page. Just the thing for those who want to dig a rhythm section that doesn't have to sweat in order to swing. . . . Best solo of the week comes from Eugene Cedric's tenor sax, on My Mommie Sent Me To The Store, a BLUEBIRD recording by Fats Waller. . . . Charlie Barnet's arrangement of Night and Day (BLUEBIRD), gives new life...
Said he: "Wendell Willkie will presumably go out here with a spade and dig up Bonneville and Grand Coulee. . . . The United States Government has $270,000,000 invested in Bonneville and Grand Coulee and I have more conception of the value that that investment represents than all the New Deal crew put together and piled up double...
...upped its rate of increase: Washington, D. C., with its swelling Government employe lists. Many cities showed an actual decrease: Philadelphia, Newark, N. J., Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco. Reasons for this urban "flattening out": the depression; a renascence of the old-fashioned U. S. passion to own a home, dig in the earth; the migration of city workers to the suburbs...
...Amherst that none of its teams shall ever sit down. Timeouts mean nothing to those Sabrinas; they wait on their feet, anxious for the next play. They didn't have to open up very much last Saturday against Hobart, and Harvard can expect the Lord Jeff quarterbacks to dig down deep into their bag of tricks...