Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...
Back in 1936, when a few clever press agents were turning jazz into a commodity by calling it swing, a young Frenchman named Panassic wrote a book called Hot Jazz, which immediately caused a minor intellectual revolution in certain circles. Formerly, jazz had been for the common herd; now, with the exception of an isolated group of die-hards, the old snobbish attitude was thrown over, and the literati took record collecting and jazz criticism under their collective wing...
...ever unfortunate enough to be buttonholed by one of these specimens, probably the first thing he'll tell corded since 1931. Why, after all, it you is that no good 'Jazz has been rejust goes without saying. These were the days when the jonky-tonks were so filed with smoke that you had to cut your way to the bandstand with a lawnmower and the plane was out of tune and all the keys were busted except two but oh boy, was old Clubfoot Moe inspired and inviolate and sensitive that night, J, of course) and wouldn't play...
...long time it's been my opinion-and perhaps I'm all wrong that the best jazz music you and I have never heard, has been recorded since 1931. Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about the "jazz classics" where you have the privilege of paying a small fortune to hear Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell grunt into their respective instruments on a pretty label. I'm, talking about the records-six bits down-of the Count and the Duke, of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, Bittle Holiday and Mildred Balley, Fats Waller and Frankle Newton...
...seldom agree with Mike about jazz. For example, he's not too fond of Artie Shaw's new band, while I think It's the biggest thing in dance music since Benny Goodman. But at least Mike will give me a very convincing argument as to why he doesn't like Shaw, which is something I could never do, nor could anyone else who has, for the past few years, written what passes as criticism, for the various Harvard publications...