Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Soviet Government lists jazz music as "vulgar," "demoralizing," few good Communists have heard jazz orchestras. But tourists in Moscow may hear jazz at the tourist hotels. One of the best is at the Grand Hotel where Leader Alexander ("Sasha") Tsfasman, "Russia's Paul Whiteman," postures, stamps and waves his baton. His "Moscow Boys" blare out an acceptable version of jazz. Few Communists go to hear...
Whiteman" and his Moscow Boys were summoned to a meeting of the Moscow Workers Theatre Club. They were the case for the negative in a debate: "Is jazz too bourgeois for proletarian Russia?" In the close, airless clubroom the Moscow Boys took up their instruments and played jazz as they had never played before. They played a waltz, then several French and English foxtrots. The young workers, most of whom were hearing jazz for the first time, were exhilarated but confused. Then Tsfasman called for "Ho Hum," popular three years ago in the U. S. When it was finished...
...boxing stories; in three years he was studio dictator. When Warner Brothers merged with First National, Darryl Zanuck was placed in complete control of both studios. He has proved his ability by keeping average production costs for Warner pictures down to $250,000, producing such hits as The Jazz Singer, Disraeli, Doorway to Hell (which started the gangster cycle), Forty-Second Street (currently reviving the vogue for musical films...
Brunswick Record Corp.'s Manhattan laboratory has lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...
...truth is, we don't like the term jazz". It always signifies something more or loss crude. Ours is a certain type of American music that has caught the spirit of the music-loving world. Look at Olsen, Lombardo, Bernie--even in Europe--Paris, Berlin, London--this new American music has caught like wildfire. Pagan it may be called, but nevertheless just look how it's used. But we decry the word 'jazz.' Which reminds me, now that beer's here, there's going to be a great change in the music world, and people are going to learn...