Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
...When MacPartland does let loose with something like China Boy, Jazz Me Blues, etc., he faintly resembles Bix, but nowhere near enough to warrant the title of the article being "Like...
...Jazz music receives three types of treatment from writers today: 1) complete disregard from those who prefer not to "stoop"; 2) lofty head-patting from classical critics who think Louis Armstrong primarily a movie comedian; and 3) intelligent reporting by explorers who know whereof they speak...
...just as the American Civil War gave birth to a period of low public morality. Confucius said, 'Without a full stomach one cannot speak of high principles.' . . ." Chen adds: "When man's natural desires are sufficiently satisfied, he can be turned from the temptations of jazz, debauchery, goods and profits...
...This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Hot Pianist James P. Johnson and Hot Saxophonist Sidney Bechet, in a tribute to the late Fats Waller...