Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, one of the noisiest of the famed French Six (only two others, Milhaud and Poulenc, ever amounted to anything). In those days in Paris, Swiss Composer Honegger had spent as much time talking as composing, and his talk was mainly directed, against the pernicious influence of jazz and the "street fair." He wanted his music to be austere...
...Readers Anderson and Bouras stash the gaff: TIME, not written and edited exclusively for hep cats, always labels "hot jazz" as such...
...Orleans (United Artists), which deals with early jazz, tries hard to give its subject the love and enthusiasm it deserves. In many respects, the movie does no more than clumsily suggest the fine picture that might be made about jazz. An elementary history of the cellar art, New Orleans barely hints at the fascinating redolence and toughness of New Orleans' red-lighted Storyville, where jazz was born, and little of it is imaginatively filmed...
Some of the people who worked on the film and acted in it plainly have a real feeling for jazz and the feeling shows up on the screen with honesty and warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...
General audiences will be no more than mildly pleased with New Orleans; even jazz lovers may be let down. But the film does give Louis Armstrong a chance to reproduce some of his best numbers...