Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow night in Boston's Symphony Hall, Duke Ellington will repeat his historic Carnegie Hall concert of last Saturday. From all reports, this concert is easily the most important yet, not only for jazz alone, but for American music in general...
...Jazz, the real jazz, is the acknowledged American muric, but those who have tried to force it into classical forms have been blatantly unsuccessful. The only composers to get anywhere expanding jazz for the concert stage have worked upward from it, not downward to it from classical music...
...widespread use of dissonance in jazz worries Dr. Hanson. Said he: "I hesitate to think of what the effect of music upon the next generation will be if the present school of 'hot jazz' continues to develop unabated. It should provide an increasing number of patients for [psychiatric] . . . hospitals, and it is, therefore, only poetic justice that musical therapeutics should develop at least to the point where music serves as an antidote for itself...
...reading to enjoy Shakespeare. It is also foolish to attach some sort of moral valuation to one kind of music, as so many people do, as if you would get an aisle seat in Heaven for listening to "good" music, and roast in Hades for fainting yourself with jazz. Tolstoi thought that all music was an invention of the devil, and he may have been right. Jazz is the music of the moment as football is the sport of the moment, but classical music, like a game of chess, takes practice to be understood. The critics who try to "popularize...
Since Goodman left the Hotel New Yorker, the most satisfying band is Muggsy Spanier's, on WNAC Tuesdays at 1:15 A.M., Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 A.M. For one of the jazz immortals, Muggsy has less ideas, but more drive than anyone I know. The band is rather sad without him, but the Dean Kincaide arrangements are wonderful listening...