Word: downbeats
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...skies dripped intermittently. The trees dripped steadily. Several hundred umbrellas dripped rhythmically above the benches. Suddenly a silver-haired little man skipped nimbly to the front of his band, waved the first downbeat...
...Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm" have split, and who should be reviewing records for the former but Mike Levin, the founder of this column three and a half years ago? He is their New York editor now, in fact. George Frazier, who wrote for both magazines, will concentrate on "Music and Rhythm" from...
...there is WEEI's all-night session after one o'clock, guided by an amusing night owl named Sherman Feller. More on the order of the Crimson Network's program is the Swing Nocturne on WCOP at ten-thirty Mon.-Wed.-Sat., at which Bill Ingalls, Boston correspondent of Downbeat, usually plays plenty of fine small-band recordings...
...single category, recognizing the existence of only minor variations on a general theme. We haven't seen that there is essentially as much difference between one film and another as there is between a symphony and a jam session. That example might stand us in good stead, incidentally; "Downbeat" doesn't try to judge Toscanini, nor does Olin Downes rip into Benny Goodman's work. Why ignore this demarcation when it comes to movies...
...public fancy. Anyway, it's now been done. The perpetrator is George Frazier '33, record reviewer for "Mademoiselle," who has just begun a daily column in the Boston Herald, and finds time also to proclaim his disapprobation of popular idols in the swing world once a month in "Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm." With all this, and an occasional short story, not to forget a casual stab at the great American novel, his creative urge has not been satisfied, and George has once more bloomed forth, this time with the lyrics to "Harvard Blues...