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...pound Army private named Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was making a great hit last week with A.E.F. boys all over the globe. In a new short-wave act called G.I.* Jive, short-waved from the Manhattan studios of OWI to all U.S. Army bases overseas. Master of Ceremonies Ives's friendly small talk, familiar recordings and songs on the git-tar were just what the first sergeant ordered...
...stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play their old platters down to a nub for all Donald Nelson cares, Only bugle at the funeral is that shellac in records can be reclaimed; maybe the jive jerks will be able to turn in old disks for new ones like toothpaste tubes. But the whole thing sounded to hot men like a can of corn at a real session...
...weeks ago, however, and I heard it kindly spoken of at the time. Then there is Johnnie "Scat" Davis at Lowell House, who suffers, at least in this column, from competition with Kirk the same night. You, too have probably sat through a collegiate movie in which his obstreperous jive has been prominently featured. His orchestra seems to be just a backdrop for his antics, which have been fairly well received in the stage shows in which he has been appearing for the past few weeks. It might be well to visit the RKO Boston the week before the dance...
This brief fantasy is keyed to a novel background score performed by a 50-piece symphony orchestra, to some Grade-A Negro choraling of Short'nin' Bread and Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen, and to some very solid jive. The result is a colorful, intriguing, three-dimensional cartoon whose smooth animation is the result of a considerable and clever technique...
...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...