Word: fours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four Veterans...
...matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa was depending on the ear of the listener, used to hearing four-four tempos from marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band proceeded to play ahead of this implied beat. Push, push, push, till the record...
...think "lag" style can be found by pounding ahead in four-four drive. Just the opposite results. And if your are going to be successful, you must have a band that plays in the "same hag"; in other words, plays as a unit the same amount behind the beat. That's why all new bands, bands of all-stars, bands mixing two beat and four beat men are bad. You can't have a mixture of ideas about the "proper lag" and get the swing. For unity, a really good swing band must make a football team look like...
...Hutter and George Scott '34 will meet Art Bosworth and Dave Stearns in the two-lap sprint. Scott who has been improving ever since he left college, and who beat Hutter last year, has been fast in practice time trials. Although he may well thrash out another win, all four men should finish within a half-second...
...backstroke. The latter may be booed as a "ringer" but no one will deny that he is an alumnus, the Alumni leaders have asserted. Darle Berizzi '38, ebullient breastroker who has a physique like a tree trunk and Jameson will butterfly against Waldron and Max Kraus in a four-lap event...