Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elements of "Reverie," and superimposed upon it the modern idiom of swing with superb effect. The result is the happiest since "Martha" took a new lease on life at the hands of swing and Connie Boswell. True, the subtle swaying rhythm has been sacrified to the accented rhythm of jazz and the chorale theme has been dropped; but the refreshing lack of a melodic sense of direction inherited from the original produces the most enhancing effect yet achieved in swing...
Five years ago, before the cry of the jitterbug was heard in the land, a boyish, exuberant Frenchman was busy filling a medieval French castle with hot phonograph records by U.S. jazz players. The Frenchman, Hugues Panassié, had never seen a U.S. jazz orchestra in the flesh. But what he heard on records convinced him: 1) that jazz was a very important type of music, 2) that the difference between good and bad jazz was worth serious critical consideration, 3) that this difference depended not on how jazz was written but on how it was played. To drive...
...arrived in Manhattan on his first visit to the U.S. After skimming the cream of Manhattan's swing spots, Pundit Panassie concluded that the U.S.,Manhattan, and Manhattan's Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...
Negro composers of jazz music, like W. C. Handy and Duke Ellington, have long taken top honors in their field, have long been street-corner names in the U. S. Practically unknown to the U. S. man in the street is the music of their highbrow Negro brethren. Known or not, however, much of it is equal to the best that is being written by U. S. white composers. Most prominent among such Negro composers are Los Angeles' sober-minded William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony), Tuskegee, Ala.'s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro...
Forty million Frenchmen think of the U. S. as the country of skyscrapers, rattlesnakes and riches, democracy, oil, ice water, le wild West and le jazz hot. With the hope of broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings...