Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold, seems to be enmeshed in an attack of the blues due to last at least a week. For with Woody Herman and "The Band That Plays The Blues" at the Kirkland House dance tonight, and Jack Teagarden, considered by many to be one of the greatest soloists in jazz, coming to Dunster House next Friday, it looks as though we are going to hear lots of the music that Paul Whiteman says "is the basis of all Jazz...
...When you are entering into an important contract," inquired the French air attache in Washington, "do you provide yourself with a jazz band to attract attention?" Accorded full attention, the Embassy proceeded last week to itemize recent French orders for some $65,000,000 worth of U. S. military planes: 100 Curtiss fighters (added to 100 ordered last year); 200 North American advanced trainers; 115 Glenn Martin bombers; 100 replicas of the new Douglas bomber which crashed four weeks ago and revealed the presence of a French buying mission...
...they are]. It just robs them of any possible personal musical activity and of their musical keenness; it casts a spell of laziness on them." (Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski's first public performance on his coming U. S. tour will be a broadcast over the NBC-Blue network.) About jazz he is more tolerant. Says he: "To be frank, I detest it. But it can be used judiciously." Secretary Sylwin Strakacz, a confirmed swing fan, has long tried to get Paderewski interested in boogie-woogie, but the upshot of his efforts has usually been nothing but argument, long and loud...
Year and a half ago Manhattan's New York University hired Bandmaster Vincent Lopez to give a course in the appreciation of jazz music. Last week staid Harvard University burst shagging from its cell, organized an unofficial swing course in the Music Deaprtment and set aside $250 of Harvard's Rogers Fund to buy swing records...
...wander into the Raymor, where Larry Funk's band was playing. Someone was starting to sing "I Cried For You", but no one paid any attention until about three measures had passed. But those three measures and everything that came there-after made up some of the best jazz singing that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with the same rhythm that Ella Fitzgerald puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin...