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Scherchen has strong views about U.S. orchestras: they have become so technically perfect that "they no longer risk" experiments in contemporary idioms such as jazz ("I luff der jass"). He has been invited to the U.S. many times, has refused because he was expected to do a whole series of conventional programs ("the Tchaikovsky Pathétique on one concert and Beethoven's Fifth on the next"). Says he: "I do not have to conduct works I don't like. I will not conduct to order...
Levin has "jammed" with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Lunceford, Glen Gray and Gene Krupa in his capacity as a piano player. He has ambitions to form a band here and feels that swing music is "jass in the truest sense of the world...
Other passengers on the Homeric focused much of their attention upon the chieftain of those eight blue-broidered heroes. Ed Leader, crafty coach, did not pass unobserved. "Al" Lindley, brainy, bespectacled stroke-setter, moved tall and silent down the decks. But the cynosure was James S. ("Jass") Rockefeller, Yale and Olympic crew captain...
...Pallo, g. g., Deuvel Hartley, Walker, r.f. l.f., Atahualtha Greenidge, l.f. r.f., Oon Begg, r.h.b. l.h.b., Sun Wale, c.h.b. c.h.b., Peterson Sullivan, Pattison, l.h.b. r.h.b., Kurdman Byington, o.r. o.l., Rego Dorman, Pringle, i.r. i.l., Macorra (Capt.) Heizer (Capt.), c.f. c.f., Ruyz Lamont, Mersereau, i.l. i.r., Sousa Tuttle, o.l. o.r., Jass...