Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON reporter, as he attempted an unsuccessful clasping of his collar button in the bedroom of his suite at the Statler last Tuesday afternoon. "Yowsah, times have certainly changed. Why, yesterday's leading bankers are doormen today--if they're lucky; and the old saxophone-ish, wailing type of jazz has given way to a new style of popular music...
...Durham, N. C. tobacco warehouse, a dance where Manhattan Negro Cab Calloway and his Negro band were playing for a Negro dance, was crashed by several hundred jazz-crazy Negroes. Calloway told his men to stop playing, pack up their instruments. The mob threatened to gang them if they did not play again. Police escorted Calloway & band out while Negroes jigged to no music for two hours...
...They help give the program speed which, but for the excess of advertising comment, would make it one of the best on the air. Greta Keller has started making U. S. records. Best one so far is "Willow Weep for Me" (Brunswick). But her talent is wasted on stereotype jazz. With her warm, persuasive voice she can establish a dozen different moods. Critics have spotted her as an ideal performer for any brewery which, in the next year or so, decides to do its beer advertising with leisurely, old-fashioned melody...
...audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them that music belong to life. At least his music does...
...they call it Two-Time Square, "the double cross roads of the world." Here is the locale, motif, and gospel of "42nd Street," intense, jazz-maddened moving picture of backstage life, now at the Metropolitan Theatre. The show is another "Broadway Melody" without as many song hits, perhaps, but certainly with better acting, ballet, and fiercer tempo...