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...group voted overwhelmingly for Stacy after prolonged consideration of over twenty names submitted by several local, New York, and Chicago agencies. Particularly influencing the choice of Stacy was the fact that for seven straight years he has won the "Downbeat" poll for the outstanding commercial pianist of the country...
...introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue). Downbeat a trade journal for those who like it hot, scornfully voted Lombardo "The King of Corn...
Uptown local to 52nd Street, where Billy Holiday and Red Norvo are featured at the Downbeat, the Onyx has Lips Page and Stuff Smith, and the Eddie Heyward band alternates with Slam Stewart and Johnny Guarnieni at the Three Deuces, and of course Art Hodes with Mezzrow and Danny "Sister Kate" Alvin at Jimmy Ryan's ... Art says the Jazz Record is new in the black and continues to be the best magazine in the field ... We agree ... Ran into George Lugg and Vic Dickerson who is still with Eddie Heyward...
...budgets are balanced over the period of the business cycle, cannot some deficit financing be risked to bring about a business upturn at the bottom of the cycle? To such a hypothetical question, Mr. Flynn would probably answer: Yes, the Swedes know how to spend on the downbeat and how to tax and pay off deadweight debt on the upbeat. But the U.S., like pre-fascist Italy and pre-Hitler Germany, seems bent on spending all the time. Mr. Flynn seems to imply that we just haven't got the brains of the Swedes...
...about time, however, that someone came out and gave Mildred her due. Downbeat and Metronome give her a kind word now and then, taking her for granted most of the time. The more csoteric jazz magazines ignore her completely. As a result, the rising generation of jazz lovers misses out almost entirely. Peggy Lees may come and Ramonas may go, but Mildred Bailey remains the best female singer since Bessic Smith. The strange part of the public's ignoring of Mildred is that she resembles in many respects the greatest living male singer, Bing Crosby...