Word: jaxx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of the hot is indeed deplorable at present, Dorsey, Miller, Goodman, et al. are quite incapable of even the most juvenile attempts at the righteous stuff. The hope of jaxx is the new string, reed, and brass ensemble of Artie Shaw. He plays strictly out of this world stuff. It is RELAXED and SINCERE. And that's what jazz needs, relaxation and sincerity. Artie informs me by telegram that Louis Armstrong may soon add depth to the orchestra by taking the second chair in the trumpet section...