Word: izvestia
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...newspaper Cinema warned Russian moviemakers that they "must be faithful to the principles of Bolshevik partisanship in art," while Izvestia turned its attention to dance bands (see Music...
...Russians, busy cleaning house on the political levels (see FOREIGN NEWS), found time to cock an ear at the subject of Chattanooga Choo Choo and related items of sub-basement culture. They were not amused. Moscow's mighty Izvestia, whose nods and scowls are promptly imitated by all right-thinking bureaucrats, scowled at "dzhaz...
...Izvestia frowned particularly at a jazzy comrade named Eddy Rozner, who leads the Government-sponsored State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia, and is one of the hottest of the Soviet Union's not-so-hot bandsmen. His band is one of the six most popular in the U.S.S.R., ranks with Leonid Utesov and his "Merry Lads" who go in for such literal stunts in showmanship as mounting the drummer on a massive 20-ft. high stand built like a drum...
...Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...
Americans in Moscow, who have heard Eddy Rozner's dzhaz, were inclined to think that Izvestia had something there. Eddy's band has a good hot fiddler, a talented pianist, and an uncertain beat. Its arrangements, based on 5-&-10? store sheet music of U.S. hits which reach the U.S.S.R., is either imitative of U.S. jazz circa 1930, or unrecognizable...