Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strings, woodwinds, and many brasses use vibrato; it is interesting to see a classical musician of Reiner's status admit that classical has something to learn from jazz...
...rumor, but definite fact is it that the swing end of the Freshman smoker the other night was really swell. Jack Hill's band was very solid backing and played good swing on its own numbers, Roy Eldridge and Albert Ammons stole the show with their fine jazz, Ella Fitzgerald really made a tremendous hit (she later said to me that she had more fun working the Smoker than anything she had done in a long while) by here very swell singing, and Hildegarde proved herself far more than just a good piano player and better singer by her showmanship...
Star three is Albert Ammons, a former Chicago lad whose boogiewoogie playing with Meade Lux Lewis at the Cafe Society in New York has had every piano man in the country practising up on his left hand. For some of the finest piano jazz ever recorded, get the two Blue Note records, a private release, which has piano by Albert...
With the goddess, Iris, careening, in on roller skates and a chorus, grotesquely masked in ancient Greek dramatic fashion "trucking" out to the tune of modern Jazz-blues, the 20th century A.D. and the 5th century B.C. join hands as the Harvard Classical Club whips into final shape its presentation of Aristophanes' fantasy. "The Birds" to be given Friday and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...
...interest mainly to aficionados of America's native rhythm, the Goodman biography provides a play-by-play account of the only jazz artist who, without once compromising with tinhorn commercialism, battled his way up from tootling in a synagogue to running his own band. The book also functions as a sort of Who's Who in hot music. In his 20 years in the business, Goodman has worked with or heard and known all the best players...