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...still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds as if the Ellington combo were a little weary when it made this...
...band was still at the Onyx Club, has a few too many pretty trills for me, although it does show off the amazingly pure symphonic tone that Buster can get on clarinet when he wants to. The reverse of "San Juan Hill" is by one of the small Duke Ellington groups and is much better than usual...
Last week Emporia, Kans. held a five-day Fiestaval to dedicate its new $613.000 Civic Auditorium. Jiving, jittering climax of the Fiestaval was a dance, to music supplied (at $1,100) by dapper Duke Ellington, greatest of black swing-sters, and his band. The Sage of Emporia, wise old William Allen White, watched the cavortings, went home and wrote a garrulous, kindly-shrewd editorial for his Emporia Gazette. Excerpts...
...vast primeval panorama that flowed so slowly around the hall with its kaleidoscope of ever mingling colors and forms? . . . How could the slow, moving, billowy, syrupy music of the 'eighties fit into this new world picture? Youth had to construct its own rowdy modern music. ... So let Duke Ellington and his black boys blare and bleat and bawl with their saxophones and bull fiddles and muted trumpets syncopating the call of the wild. And it is all right. But it's the same old inner urge, the more we change the less we change...
...asleep. Fletcher Henderson didn't hit his stride until 1934. Since then not only he, but many others including Eddie Bauter, Mary Lou Williams, By Oliver, Eddie Durham and Glenu Miller, have turned out orchestrations that are a vast improvement on the jerky, jazzy arrangements of the twenties (Duke Ellington, of course, is an exception...