Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of us who have been suffering from a recent overdoes of the highly-arranged, sophisticated jazz of small groups like the Goodman Sextet and the John Kirby band, it's something of a pleasure to get on a Fats Waller Kick. While other orchestras have been receiving terrific publicity from swing critics and press agents, Fats and his band have remained somewhat in the background. For the past several years they have not been getting half the praise they deserve...
...completely effortless that the casual listener often tends to disregard the band and go on to something with more flash and immediate appeal. Yet take it from me, with the exception of the Red Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment voiced in the lyrics. After everybody digs a bit more, Gene Cedric (who, incidentally...
Besides being a finished jazz artist, Fats is a showman par excellence, and ranks with such topnotch colored entertainers as Bill Robinson, Eddie Anderson, and Louis Armstrong. Even Hughes Pannassie is forced to recognize Fat's insane sense of humor...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Muggsy Spanier has left Bob Crosby and will form his own band. Muggsy is a cornetist from way back, and one of the few musicians whose work has never at any time dropped below the standard of hot jazz at its finest. So whatever Muggsy does, you can count on a good job. . . Count Basic tries the experiment of a fast blues in rhumba time. It's called Volcano, and features a swell muted trumpet chorus by Harry Edison. In the ensemble, the brass section takes top honors (OKEH). . . Lionel Hampton's new sextet includes...
...stage almost all the time. Gertie (age 42), who offstage has never been in a psychoanalyst's office, runs an emotional gamut from the romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could an ar ray of costumes ? from a trig purple suit to a sequined man-killer? that had Designer Hattie Carnegie's telephone ringing constantly on the morning after the opening. Once, in changing costumes...