Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting with a short lecture on swing by George Frazier, noted swing critic, Stan Brown's Crimsonians demonstrated the rise and fall of jazz last night in Sanders Theatre to an enthusiastic audience of 350 students and two Music 1 assistants...
...spite of bad acoustics, the Crimsonians did creditably with their first five numbers which were imitations of old time jazz bands and which illustrated the change of jazz through the twentieth century. These five places were undoubtedly the best of the evening, although most of the solos were in too modern a vein. The band showed its amateurishness in its arrangements and presentation when it warmed up and plunged into its original numbers...
Woody's band, previously discussed in this column, plays excellent jazz, both Dixicland and colored style, has good soloists including Woody himself (clarinet), and in general makes for very interesting listening and dancing...
...Dorsey was playing licks on a milk bottle. Listen to "Texas Tea Party" (Columbia 31671) of "Moonglow" (Columbia 2927D, all made with the old Goodman band, to hear what Teagarden can do with a trombone. Thus while the quality of the band as a whole is an unknown, inspiring jazz is a certainty next Friday night...
...article by Robert Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March...