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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting technically, but adds up to some strings of spaghetti as far as getting any, idea of swing across. A written solo is so polished that it loses the life which is the essence of swing. It's too full of notes--if you don't believe it, listen to this record, and then to some of the old Goodman Trio records or Irving Fazola's doings with Bob Crosby...
...Listen to the Boston Pops record and see if you don't find its effect to be over-pretentious and Virginia Reelish in the extreme. While I don't think the Scott record is any prize-winner, at least it gains some vestige of swing by being smoother and looser in style. The same thing holds for "Pavanne" but in a lesser degree, since it was originally designed for a concert jazz orchestra (whatever that...
...very slow Kansas City colored sock style that sounds a great deal like Andy Kirk only much more cleanly performed and with better phrasing. Best example of this style (which he is using on most of his pop tunes) is the theme song with which he opens his broadcasts. Listen especially to tenor saxman Sam Donahue, who is one of the best white men playing. Gene's playing has quieted down into good solid drumming for the band instead of for himself, so that things really swing most of the time...
...hoped it would be . . . Count Basie's "I Left My Baby" a swell side of blues with Jimmy Rushing doing better singing than he has done for quite some time. Lester Young on sax gives him good backing . . . This new bass player that Duke Ellington found is really sensational. Listen to "Plucked Again" wherein he plays a duet with the Duke. It's quite something...
...Listen," replied Dr. Goebbels, "if I wanted to get the German people emotionally steamed up, I could do it in 24 hours. But they don't need it-they don't want it. ... We Germans do not like this war. We think it is needless and silly. The average German feels like a man with a chronic toothache-the sooner it is out, the better. And he does not need brass bands and flowers to get it over with...