Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...
Back home in Manhattan, Sergeant Smith was soon in the big time, playing at Reisenweher's (as did the famed Original Dixieland Jazz Band), accompanying the great Mamie Smith on Okeh records, traveling the Keith Circuit with a band. Prohibition led him prosperously underground, and lovers of hot music flocked to hear him at Harlem's Pod's and Jerry's saloon as eagerly as early Christians to their interdicted devotions. So eminent a white jazz player as Saxophonist Bud Freeman has since declared him to be the best groove pianist a band could have...
...from Tschaikowsky can cover up some of the fine playing done this year both on records and in person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having a colored man as a regular member of his band. Fletcher...
...next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...
Since scholarly Frenchman Hugues Panassié (Le Jazz Hot) went seeking the kingdom of swing in the U. S. (1938), other foreign pilgrims have followed him. Latest is a diminutive, 21-year-old Javanese named Harry Lim, editor in chief of the Batavia, Dutch East Indies magazine Swing (Officieel Orgaan van the Batavia Rhythm Club), circulation 800. Critic Lim, whose favorite band leader is Duke Ellington, visited Manhattan, listened reverently in hotspots, bought about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said...