Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week I'd like to turn the column over to my room-mate, Bill Hodson, who, unlike myself, is actually a musician, and knows what he's talking about. Besides, Bill is one of those rare birds who has a thorough appreciation of both Jazz and the classics, and his ideas on the relationship of the two impress me as being definitely worth the space of a column, since the subject is one which seldom gets proper treatment-Charles Miller...
...Joseph Louis '04 of Detroit, I am going to place myself squarely on the end of a limb. In short, your favorite columnist's room-mate is going on record here with respect to the unfortunate controversy which so often recurs concerning the relative values of the contributions of jazz and "classical" to music...
Here are my qualifications, such as they are, to discuss this much mooted question. I have been playing the violin (excepting only swinglanguage, a definite article precedes the name of an instrument) for nigh on ten years, and have been listening to jazz with steadily increasing interest for three...
...friend of Jazzman Benny Goodman, with whom he plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...
...Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia Grind provides most Waller, most listening...