Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn, Europe's leading conductors cross the Atlantic to direct U. S. symphony orchestras through the formal winter concert season. In the summer, U. S. jazz bands go to Europe to demonstrate in music halls and night clubs their country's one & only original contribution to music. Europe in the past few summers has heard smooth, suave jazz played by Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallèe, Guy Lombardo. It has also heard Negro syncopators who scorn sweet stereotype melodies and easy orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played...
When an authentic history of hot jazz is written it will include the name of a legendary Buddy Bolden, a Negro trumpeter from the Rampart Street section of New Orleans who as long ago as 1910 persisted in interpolating wild, melancholy notes not written in his scores. He ended in an insane asylum. The jazz history will also tell about William Christopher Handy who brought "St. Louis Blues" north from Memphis, and about the Negro bands whose frenzied improvisations took the Barbary Coast by storm, inspired Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis and countless other white-skinned imitators...
...real "hot" jazz will be shown as coming from Negro performers like mad Buddy Bolden-free-lance trumpeters, saxophonists and trombone players who started the hot jazz cult which today has such heroes as Cab Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good...
...newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravada, suggested that young workers who could not "resist the appeal of the bourgeois dance" confine their depravity to their homes. Finally the Moscow Conservatory's Music Professor Konnus pulled a long face and gravely approved Tsfasman's jazz...
Alexander Tsfasman stands for jazz in Russia. Some of his compositions: "Jolly Blues." "Sky Trot/' "Willy Brest...