Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chautauqua began letting its hair down last summer, when it heard housebroken "symphonic" jazz by Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Last week 8,000 people jammed the acoustically excellent, open-sided amphitheatre to hear Pianist Templeton. He warmed up on classics, soon went to town with Grieg's in the Groove. By the time he gave his irreverent impression of senatorial Dr. Walter Damrosch analyzing Three Little Fishies for children, Alec Templeton had Chautauqua roaring its approval...
When Jack Kapp was recording master for Brunswick, he used to roam the South looking for new hillbilly quartets, jug bands, spiritual singers, colored jazz outfits and blues shouters to add to Brunswick's list. Jack Kapp not only has big, useful ears, but kind eyes and a soft heart. When he returned to Chicago with his recordings, so depressed would he feel about the underprivileged folk among whom he traveled that it would take two or three nights listening to the Civic Opera before he felt right again. For Mr. Kapp understood Beethoven as well as 3-woogie...
...John Hammond, pinko, Negrophile, jazz-purist and talent scout for Columbia, WPA seemed insulting to workers, degrading to Negroes. "It's inciting everything that's lousy," proclaimed Mr. Hammond, and took steps. He asked Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. to alter the offensive lyrics. They refused. Thereupon Mr. Hammond squashed a projected Columbia recording of the song, and called the cops-the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians...
...fast if not faster than Miller's "Bugin Call," but it has none of the tenseness and lack of molo-Ideas that the Miller does. Glenn copied Carter's record of "Slow "Freight" and even then it isn't as good as a total picture or as good Jazz. And for rendition of "Bugle Call," we'll still take the Goodman made...
...that bad... While Father Hincs is still the king of all pianomen to me, his work on his theme "Deep Forest" sounds a little listless... "W.P.A.," by Jan Savitt, is worth getting. While you may agree or disagree with its lyrics. It's one of the few times a Jazz song has had words that were really meaningful...