Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sheean found Singapore "a mass of contradictions." He heard some Australian troops singing Sweet Adeline loudly and off key, and thought that their "raucous dissent with their surroundings" was "pure essence of Singapore-jazz dancing on the edge of the jungle, unthinking but offensive racial pride, a general clash of unrelated forces and a great unawareness of destiny." There was greater awareness at Mandalay, where the Flying Tigers' Colonel Claire Chennault first told Sheean about a new Japanese plane, the Zero. Chennault had reconstructed a fallen Zero, had great respect...
...Goodman, Teagarden, Krupa, etc., he plays above himself. There's still a lot of repression and self-consciousness, but there's also a good beat and a few good ideas. I wouldn't dare play Teschemacher's "China Boy" afterward, but the album is full of good, ripe jazz...
...Commodore for the same price, if you can find it. PT, as you probably know, is one of the acknowledged originators of BW, though there is still plenty of argument going on. Regardless of whether he did or didn't, Pine Top is undeniably one of the most remarkable jazz pianists. His BW is strong and flexible, but it never skims the surface like Kenneth Kersey or smashes the piano into kindling like Ammons or Johnson...
...important, however, as the basis for much of the improvised jamming of the "session." Around them these men have built up a large number of fine musicians, but their music is not Chicago jazz. Perhaps the name for it would be the jam style, an indefinite sort of term at best, combining the essence of New Orleans and Dixieland, and Chicago...
...ghost of old Chicago jazz, which we have resurrected only to bury again, is dead. It is really a case of misnomer, for most jazz-lovers actually think of the Chicagoans and their influence when they speak of the Chicago style. Bud Freeman, not Chicago style is the father of the jam session tenor. Then, too, many of the original Chicagoans have left the fold. Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, who still gives us a faint aroma of Teschmaker, Muggsy Spanier, and countless others are fronting commercial or semi-commercial bands...