Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMERICAN JAZZ MUSIC-Wilder Hobson-Norton...
...JAZZ, HOT & HYBRID-Withrop Sargeant-Arrow Editions...
...conclusion, the dance band is today a big business enterprise. Fashions in music, like fashions in clothes change year after year. So the music makers must keep abreast of the times. Years ago we called dance music rag time. A few years later, we called it Jazz. Today it is known as swing, and tomorrow, who knows...
...bits she will do a Mazurka in Jazz...
Nine years ago a band leader named Ben Pollack was drawing hot music's purists to Chicago's Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...