Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Famous Door in New York. Fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, Count Basic had just been in the Door and had been breaking records right and left. Barnet decided then that in addition to his imitations of the Ellington slow style, he would copy the Basie fast style...
...results aren't too amazing, for the simple reason that Barnet doesn't have the soloists to play Duke's stuff, and his fast Basic tunes fall apart because his rhythm section just isn't equal to the task...
...corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...
...about time we got ourselves a little really decent jazz. Every big Midwestern school has at least one good band, and even Yale has creditable imitations of one. So with drum majorettes and stuff, it would seem as if the old place is taking life at an increasingly fast clip...
Instead of the alternate power and bounce-lightly that Lunsford uses, you have a white band playing a colored-style arrangement without anything behind it. The record strikes one as being slightly bewildered, as though the boys in Tommy's band just couldn't make the shift fast enough...