Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...either dance to jazz music or you listen to it, or both. That's what it's for. And it can be something very minor in your life. Like going to the movies or skiing. Most people take it that way and they're probably just as well off. But there are some of us to whom it means a little more than that. Why, I'm sure I could never explain, although your jazz aesthete will tell you that it's the only art from that America can call her own, and they will go on to say that...
...personally feel that our two major swing magazines have so far proved inadequate to the task of putting jazz music on a respectable level with the other so-called "lighter arts," and that's why I'd like to mention two very minor publications whose editors have performed some excellent pioneering work in the field of jazz, criticism. Neither of these, to the best of my knowledge, has a circulation of over five hundred, yet their general content is far superior to and much more interesting than the comparatively immature stuff you read in the big commercial magazines...
...these is called the H.R.S. Rag, and is published by the Hot Record Society of New York. Its editor, Heywood Hale Broun, is a collector and critic whose work has included the tough assignment of going to New Orleans and recording the music of some of the oldest jazz artists in the country. Besides this he's a budding newspaperman (sportswriter on PM) and has the right idea on how to put a paper together. Every issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days when...
...other is called Jazz Information, and it's also published in New York. Editor Gene Williams, a Columbia graduate, writes his own record reviews, and has done much valuable work in the field of record collecting, bringing to light obscure yet excellent musicians, and the like. Contributors have included George Avakian, who is responsible for Decca's Chicago Jazz Album and many of the Columbia reissues, George Frazier, who is more or less responsible for Bobby Hackett, and a number of other well-known critics, musicians, photographers and artists. Each issue carries a comprehensive news column with complete information...
...cost fifteen cents, and both can be bought at Briggs and Briggs. I've devoted a column to them because I feel that they're worth the space. I also feel that you'll get a lot of fun out of them, as well as a deeper appreciation of jazz music and the men that play it, particularly if you're sick of reading handouts from band leaders press agents...