Word: goodmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goodman Randall took home to his wife was the neckties...
...Star record that Metronome Magazine in conjunction with Columbia Record Corp. is putting out next week will be very interesting from many standpoints. Besides having the winners of Metronome's Band Poll playing in one band, it will settle the argument about Gene Krupa's drumming. When Krupa left Goodman, he was a brilliant show-off--and therefore a lousy band drummer. Since then, all the critics that have given his band any attention at all have agreed that Gene has changed into one of the most unostentatious and best band drummers around. Since the record will have most...
...market on records from Walt Disney's Pinocchio by a month, on Broadway Melody of 1940 by six weeks. During his days with Victor he claims to have skyrocketed most of the big name bands to the top, including such best-sellers as Eddy Duchin, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields, Larry Clinton, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller. Says he: "I told them how to develop an individual style. A band must have a recognizable style so that when kids start to play a record, they can listen for a minute and then say 'Why, that...
...Sometimes I'm Happy" by Benny Goodman and his band (Victor--recorded in 1935). Acclaimed by French jazz critic Huges Panassic as "the greatest ensemble record by a white band," this is a diso with excellent ensembles, some beautiful sax solo work by Vido Musso, piano by Jesse Stacy, and the band playing in a soft style that it was very shortly to lose for four years...
...getting any, idea of swing across. A written solo is so polished that it loses the life which is the essence of swing. It's too full of notes--if you don't believe it, listen to this record, and then to some of the old Goodman Trio records or Irving Fazola's doings with Bob Crosby...