Word: jitterbug
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They are Copenhagen and Jazz Me Blues, Milenberg Joys and Sugar Foot Stomp; a pleasant new tune (Falling Star) which shines brightly in the mellow orbit of Songstress Connie Boswell; spirituals from the Hall Johnson Negro Choir; a jitterbug jam session by instrumentalists Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa and others...
...many who needed to be educated gradually to an appreciation of the vital spark of the great jazz improvisers. It appealed, therefore, almost exclusively to confirmed addicts, and for them it performed a great service with its thoughtful criticisms and biographies of well-known jazzmen. To the ex-jitterbug who has tired of jive, however, its almost esoteric articles and dogmatic policy seemed too great a change from his usual musical fare. But in what it tried to do, Jazz Information succeeded, perhaps, too well for its own survival...
...Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two years ago pronounced his jitterbug followers morons, declared that the music business stinks, and, consigning the whole shebang to hell, left his band, got out of his contracts, went off to Mexico...
Huff & cuff as they might last week, the girl-birlers failed to get rid of Miss Malott. In the final, hoofing like a jitterbug, she took petite Bette Berkley, an 18-year-old stenographer from the sawmill town of Longview, Wash., for two straight falls...
Last week the world's biggest dance hall opened in Manhattan and thousands of the jitterbug youth of the Melting Pot jounced, flung and stomped themselves into possession of it. The hall was Manhattan's famous Madison Square Garden, turned into a summer Dance Carnival at a cost of $100,000 by Showman Monte Proser...