Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Chicago, in 1936, that Benny Goodman turned swing music loose on the U.S., set millions of jitterbugs cutting their first rugs. The swing of which he became "King" was an inevitable commercial outgrowth of an earlier music-jazz, which drifted up the Mississippi from New Orleans in the '20s. By coincidence jazz, too, completed a cycle this week, and in Chicago. Some of the pioneer Chicago jazzmen whom reverent connoisseurs know as the "Austin High School Gang"-although few of them actually went there to school-assembled in their native city for the first time in many...
...Chicago jazz style, rough, nervous, backed by a driving pulse, got its start when Austin High boys played in their gym on Friday afternoons in 1923 and 1924. One of them, the late, great Clarinetist Frank Teschmaker, taught Benny Goodman some stuff. Another, Tenor Saxophonist Bud Freeman, was one of many who later played in the Goodman band and now lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned...
...Brass Rail boys have always played hot, intricate, free-ranging music, without ever making much money from it. Benny Goodman dressed Chicago jazz up, quieted it down and turned it to profit. Returning to Chicago this week to play at the Hotel Sherman and broadcast a big commercial series (for Holland Furnace Co.), Benny Goodman could still call himself "King of Swing," although he would not want to. For one thing, he is now a concert artist, not the least of whose achievements is to convince the young that there must be something good about Mozart...
...first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond...
...winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down, in its own scale, is a likable enough performance. But it is scarcely adequate to its subject...