Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woogie and the Blues. So conceived and so dedicated, it has endured since 1940, giving twelve of NBC's staff musicians a weekly opportuni ty to cut "Maestro"' loose Paul with Laval the and joint "Dr." Henry conductors, ("Hot-lips'") Levine (trumpeter with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band...
Despite its changes in talent, Basin Street holds to its original idea, contrasting proper jazz with modern arrangements, needling the long-haired musicologists, giving original readings of such compositions as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left." The musicianship is sound; NBC Symphony players willingly take part, and well-known guest musicians need no fat fees as lure. The program's appeal was demonstrated when one week's script warned that Basin Street might be lost in a network budget cut and brazenly asked for letters to prove its popularity. ("If you must write two letters, be sure...
Phonograph companies have practically stopped issuing hot jazz records. If jazz could be given the needle, Guitarist Condon was the man to do it. An oldtime member of Chicago's Austin High gang, he organized bands for the first great jazz records of the Chicago school in 1927. Ever since he has been a catalyst of jazz, who never takes a chorus himself...
Last week's slim audience didn't bother Eddie Condon. Nor did it discourage his backer, bespectacled Ernest Anderson, onetime adman and CBS executive. For next season he has arranged eleven biweekly Town Hall jazz concerts for Eddie Condon, with more possibly to come, at the same unseasonal (for jazz) hour as last week...
Hesitating Blues (Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers; Decca). Compelling blues rhythms and rough, torrid blowing from an eight-man combination. Spanier, long venerated in the hot-jazz world, lately smashed attendance records at Manhattan's Arcadia Ballroom, now rates as a name-bander...