Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show must go on, and so it will at 9 o'clock tonight when jazz hounds will have a chance to hear a professional jam session with former players from the bands of Bob Crosby, Kay Kyser, and Phil Harris. Directed by SO Robert K. Adams, the NTS chorus will introduce Officer William B. Chase's new song. "No Tears, Dry Eyes...
Considering that 99.99 per cent of the collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden...
...down to what little has been released lately, it is a pity that Decca, the one company that shows any interest in jazz, has the worst record surfaces. These have been improved lately, but not so that a cactus needle can approach them without a qualm. Decca's new Gams of Jazz, vol. 5, lives up to the standards set by the previous albums, and brings out the first batch of all-improvised jazz in over six months. This time, however, there are no big names like Hawkins, or Berigan. As a matter of fact, it is very probably that...
...Hodes has been known only to collectors of Solo-Art and Signature records and to explorers of New York jazz spots. With these new releases, Hodes' piano is fortunately within reach of everyone's ear, and definitely worth the listening time of two records. With a rhythm section of Zutty Singleton, drums, Eddie Condon, banjo, and Earl Murphy, bass, the band achieves a colossal beat, especially on "Indiana." On "Georgia Cake Walk" they outdo the Yerba Buena band in the latter's own territory...
Jimmy McPartland, trumpeter in the Bix style, you've met before in the Decca Chicago Jazz Album. His two sides here, made four years before the Chicago album, are even better. Jimmie Noone, clarinetist, is known to most people only as the man who taught Benny Goodman how to play. You won't hear much Goodman, how to play. You won't hear much Goodman, but you will hear the best work Noone has ever recorded...