Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago Style is one of the most active ghosts on the jazz scene today, mainly because of the inability of many people to separate Chicago Jazz from the Chicagoans. Chicago jazz was the music of a group of young white musicians playing from about 1925 to 1932. It was characterized by artistic economy, the use of short phrases, and a large amount of Dixieland ensemble...
...tremendous range of variability with individuals, and today there is nothing but those individuals left. The Chicagoans themselves admit that their music as a group is not what it was. They still get together and play, but it is different, the men have changed, they have developed, with jazz and with years...
...date, 1932, is chosen partly because of the death of Frank Teschmaker, who was not only one of the finest of musicians, but the leader of the Chicagoans as a consolidated group. His album of the Columbia reprint series is probably the only set of recordings sold as Chicago jazz that does not misuse the term...
...done jazz a real service, particularly in Europe, but he doesn't have much knowledge of the subject, for all his love of it. You can blame it on his typically French argumentative, anti-traditional mind. Panassie has discovered jazz not so much for jazz's sake as for the sake of founding a coterie...
...your tastes are fairly well advanced, you will undoubtedly find much of value in "The Real Jazz." If you are a beginner, however, your best bet would be Charles Edward Smith's "Jazzmen...