Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gene Krupa's gang has taken over two years to learn: namely, a nice easy bounce on the Jimmy Lunceford style. Good swing (and for that matter, good dance music) should never be strained and pushed in the "killer" style. Relaxed rhythm is imperative to any kind of good jazz--and Donahue has it. Junie Mays (piano--also some excellent arrangements), Bill Hoffman (bass) and Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks...
This column wants to go on record, along with all the other critics, as saying that the Decca album of the Chicago Jazz Style released today is the greatest series of collected jazz over done. And that the individual records rank with almost anything that has heretofore been recorded...
With its opening day of broadcasting scheduled for April 15, the newly organized Crimson Radio Network issued its first call for candidates last night. Today at 12 o'clock tryouts for commentators on both classical music and jazz will be held in Holden Chapel...
...week and $10,000 bonus per picture. In rapid succession he acquired a list of good things that would stagger the imagination of the dreamiest moppet in the highest hayloft on the hottest day. Items: a ranch, a race horse, a twelve-room home, 19 radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the junior singles tennis championship of the Pacific Southwest, a wardrobe like Clark Gable's, two automobiles, a hideaway apartment in Beverly Hills, a football team, a colored valet, a collection of pipes, a golf score in the 80s, an Oscar, the authorship of three nationally popular songs...
...CRAZY HUNTER - Kay Boyle - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The setting of these three short novels - with one excur sion to Capri - is nonbelligerent England. Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence. Another, The Bridegroom's Body, draws sinister parallels between human emotional patterns on an English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life...