Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record so far released to dealers, Twilight in Turkey and Minuet in Jazz. The minuet is a wild variation of Paderewski's Minuet in G. Twilight in Turkey expresses, according to Composer Scott's program notes: ". . . a crowded square . . . twilight is setting in ... Arab barters with Arab . . . prayer time is approaching . . . camels are resting ... a group of dancing girls are entertaining...
...movement has been more thoroughly and contradictorily expertized than jazz music in the past few years. Trumpeter Loring ("Red") Nichols, one of the great players of the nation's native rhythms, states a widely accepted point of view on swing music's development. The March of Time, whose February issue contained a salute to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band as the organization whence swing music sprang full-born, was stating a belief also widely held by jazz reactionaries, academicians and purists. Most of "Red" Nichols' recordings during his great period in 1922-28 (Ida, Back Beats, Alice...
...Satchmo" Armstrong's eminently satisfactory comment on the Art of the Hour, Swing Music. The greatest trumpeter since that day at Jericho when "The people heard the sound of the trumpet and the wall fell down flat." (Joshua VI, 20). Louis Armstrong, whom Hugues Panassie, the author of "Le Jazz Hot", considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over known", lay on the cot of Metropolitan Theatre star dressing room trying to cool down from the heat he had delivered in the stage show...
...render something called Our Song in a forest whose birds stop twittering to listen. At her husband's country lodge, complying with the new convention whereby Metropolitan Opera stars show cinema patrons how jolly and unpretentious they really are by breaking into jazz, Miss Moore rivals the recent efforts of Lily Pons and Gladys Swarthout by moaning an expurgated version of "Minnie the Moocher" while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing...
...March of Time takes a look at the liquor business with side glances at the W.C.T.U. and similar crusaders, the recent history of the Turks and Ataturk, and the origin of swing music in the Dixieland Jazz Band...