Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late date it might seem a bit unsporting to wake the sleeping dogs and bring out an old our like Hugues Panassie if it weren't for the fact that he is the inspiration for a very formidable class of individuals who, in their iron-fisted championing of "pure jazz" are doing their level best to keep hot music in a state of suspended animation...
...those with short memories, Hugues Panassie is that colorful Frenchman who "discovered" jazz in the early thirties and later went on to write two very widely circulated books about it. Le Jazz Hot, the first one, is considered something of a milestone in the history of the criticism of hot music. His other book, The Real Jazz, though not a milestone, has developed into a sort of bible for those above mentioned "purists...
...fact that he is not a native American is probably the main reason why Panassie has failed to get a really accurate view of the jazz picture. At the time he was formulating his conception of it, Americans were busy fawning upon any and every eminent European classical musician obtainable. But in his native Europe the bell-shaped opera sopranos, weirdly posturing conductors et al were, comparatively speaking, the honorless prophets, while the imported hot records from the New World and the American jam bands got the vivas, saluts, and heils. The European Parlophone company, with branches in almost every...
...Real Jazz, Panassie tells us hot music is a finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment...
Blues (Stella Brooks; Disc, 6 sides). A little (109 Ibs.) white gal with a blue voice sings the naughty colored lyrics of West End, Jazz Me ("Come On Professor") and other New Orleans classics. Background music by Hot Trumpeter Frankie Newton and five others makes these real collectors' blues. Performance: good...