Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened to Benny Goodman's record of "Can't We Be Friends" yesterday, and enjoyed it as much as, perhaps more than when I bought it four and a half years ago. For it was the first jazz record I ever owned, and hearing it again brought me to reflection on the enjoyment which my interest in jazz music has given me since those early days. And I mulled over particularly those attendant pleasures--satellite satisfactions, they might be called--which are apart from and yet a part of the fascination of the music itself...
...recently published "Jazz Record Book" will prove helpful to folk who are just beginning to grope their way along the paths and bypaths of jazz music and need a few signposts. But for the devotee who knows all the available records and what he likes as well, the chief interest of the book would seem to be merely the opportunity it offers for comparing his own appraisals with those of the authors. I'm not sure whether that is worth...
...most interesting part of the book for me was the introductory section, a short history of jazz into which considerable research must have gone. The descriptions of some of the old cradles of jazz, like Storyville, New Orleans's district of easy virtue, are particularly informative...
...particular band or player's work. Almost every big band of today that ever recorded a riff is mentioned, and there are some reflections on the quality of big-band arrangements. You'll find even the Alec Wilder Octet and the Golden Gate Quartet, not usually welcomed into the jazz household, but the line had to be drawn somewhere, and the door slammed before Hazel Scott and Carmen Cavallaro...
...than eight bars. The reverse, "I Got Rhythm," by a smaller band, is much better, with the improvisers given more of a chance. Except for a disorganized finale, it's perhaps unequalled in four years of these all-star sessions.... The new Columbia Roswell Sisters album officers the best jazz singing by a trio that can be heard today: Their interpretations far surpass in vitality and harmonic interest anything the Andrews Sisters can do. Connic Boswell's arrangements have the jazz idiom down pat. "Everybody Loves My Baby" is perhaps the best of the sides, for it includes a great...