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Honolulu (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Most danceable foxtrot-of-the-month, from the namesake picture...
...Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make this tips...Catch the Duke's recording of "Aint The Gravy Fine" (Vocalion) if you want nice bounce rhythm and a salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near the Art Shaw of the same
...allure of a "name" band; a week end of frolic with the one girl, enticed from afar by the promise of Jimmy Dorsey or Benny Goodman; the opportunity for a party of such proportions that even "Life" might come--this is the picture often painted of a single, monumental class prom. Now that the House Committees are considering abandonment of the costly but not quite sensational $800 band--abandonment of the attempt partially to satiate the jitterbug enthusiasm of Harvard name-band devotees--and acceptance of the smaller, restricted House dances, the prom has again become an issue...
...must. Reply was "Ah just leans back and Ah thinks of low lights and the right girl." Excellent criteria for the judgment of swing. The rhythm section of the band turned out a record this week called "How Long How Long Blues" and "Boogie-Woogie" that swings quietly . . . Jimmy Dorsey celebrated his tenth anniversary about a month ago. You'd think he would have run out of ideas by now, but his alto chorus on "All of Me" is really one for the books. Helen O'Connell's vocal shows much improvement, being more like Mildred Bailey, but is still...
...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 a mixed band may have some chance for success. . . . Jimmy Dorsey's newest disc, "It's All Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch her last two measures and Herb Haymer's fragment at the end . . . Decca records, having lost Jimmy Lunceford, goes out and digs up a band...