Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's debt to Frankie Newton is tremendous. When his seven piece band moved into the Savoy last January, local jazz had been nonexistent for over five years. A jam band like Frankie's was a big risk for the Savoy, as their clientele was used to small jump bands, whose only virtue lay in six arrangements cribbed from Basic. If Newton's boys started the evening with any arrangements in their rack, there wasn't a sheet of paper in sight by ten. Fortunately the band went over tremendously. Weeks became months. The Savoy jammed and was jammed, nightly...
Thus Frankie started the present era of jazz in Boston, the greatest in Hub history. There've been regular engagements of some of the greatest living jazzmen, and first one, then two jam sessions simultaneously. Unbelievable in this day, because it happened in Boston, and all the more unbelievable because it happened when jazz is supposedly on its last legs...
Time was when James was a very, satisfying trumpet player in Benny Goodman's band. Flashy, yes, but we said to one another, "He'll get over it some day." After all, Harry played on a really great jazz record, Teddy Wilson's "Just a Mood." Then he left Goodman to form his own band, and what had been minor faults, James seemed deliberately to aggravate into major ones. Instead of the Beriganesque style in which he'd been playing, Harry cultivated something new to jazz, which for lack of a definite name we'll call the Sousa style...
...market. Scott branched out three years later with a 16-man orchestra, has spent the last 25 months playing theaters, parks, dance halls. What lured him back to CBS is an arrangement that gives him a chance to experiment, leisure to compose, and as free a hand in jazz as Norman Corwin has in drama...
...rounding up his new band, Scott was permitted, to pick Negro as well as white players. One of his programs, Jump Time, clings to the bouncier forms of jazz. Another, Pan American Hot Spot, has a Latin accent. Farthest off the beaten track is Secret Seven, a working laboratory for some of Scott's more outlandish ideas, out of which in a few weeks may come a more imposing program: The CBS Academy of Hot Music...