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Every year Down Beat, jazzmen's magazine, polls the trade for its opinions, which are downright. This year's opinions, published last week...
...Street Blues, which at the close is played in the manner of Haydn's Farewell Symphony, the musicians leaving one by one until only Professor Harry ("Grumpy") Patent is left, slapping his doghouse. For all its clowning, the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is rated, by jazzmen, as among the best jazz programs...
Last week in Manhattan Charles Edward Smith, historian (Jazzmen) and friend of America's native rhythms, produced through new General Records Co. an album of barrelhouse tunes played by the greatest surviving barrel-houser-54-year-old Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton. The album's title is Jetty Roll Morton's New Orleans Memories, and both musically and otherwise Jelly has much of interest to remember...
...first, noted the audience, his tone wolfed and whistled a little. But as the ponderous instrument warmed up, Waldemar Giese began handling it with the ease of a cellist. Few composers have written exclusively for what jazzmen call "the dog-house." However, Bottesini's Elegie and Friedemann Bach's Largo earned Bull Fiddler Giese a pair of encores...
...Swing," is to jazz what the poetic spirit is to poetry. Its exact definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...