Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-inch shelf of jazz literature has been considerably increased in the last few weeks by Winthrop Sargeant's anatomy, Jazz: Hot and Hybrid, and Wilder Hobson's up-to-date critique, American Jazz Music. Last week a biography was added to the shelf-Benny Goodman's and Irving Kolodin's The Kingdom of Swing*-which reveals nearly all there is to reveal about Mr. Goodman's life and four-four time...
...above is a rough condensation of what one Louis Armstrong now at the Southland with his band has done for jazz. "Satchmo'" has given jazz a colorful lexicography all its own, and even more important has exercised tremendous influence on the music itself...
...mere technical cadenzas or glissandos and become a pattern that conveys an idea. It is for developing this idea of emotional simplicity, of taste in playing, and of making a solo and ideas contained within it a unified whole that Louis is acclaimed as the papa of most good jazz in this country...
...believe that Louis has forgotten how to play the marvelous horn he used to, that he no longer does anything but blow high C's; the reason for this misapprehension is that in general Louis isn't playing as great jazz as he was ten years ago--for the very good reason that he was just about making jazz at the time and peaks like that are impossible to stay on. Now the critics listen to him and compare him to his greatest period and say that it isn't as good. Of course not--but despite occasional of-nights...
...Seventy jazz records and two record albums, personal gifts from Benny Goodman, "King of Swing", to the University to encourage the study of swing and other types of American music, were received Saturday by Mrs. Lillian Hall, custodian of the Theatre Collection in Widener Library...