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...Sammy Kaye, and Dick Todd to form a new record company to be known as Discs Incorporated. General feeling in the industry is that this will seriously impair the Victor line, observes pointing to the atrophy of Brunswick records after Jack Kapp left in 1934, taking Guy Lombardo, Casa Loma, the Dorsey brothers, and other along to form Decca Records...
...worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records in the last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie), then "Wrappin' It Up (Fletcher...
With a background of jam sessions with Bennie Goodman and Casa-Loma, and two years experience as a band leader, Michael I. Levin '42 will talk on "Jazz, its Origin and Place in American Life" at 7 o'clock tonight in the Union. The program is to be illustrated by records and by playings...
...years old and a high ranking scholar, Levin says that he "just took to it." In addition to informal playing, or "jamming with Bennie Goodman and Casa-Loma, he has worked out with some of the players from Count Basie's and Andy Kerk's orchestras. Every week Levin sends to the "cleveland News" a column called "Swing," which tells of the activities of the important bands in Ohio...
Normandie--The Casa Loma quartette still lulis boys and girls. Dancing to the strains of Frank Ward's swing band makes the evening complete. $1.50 per couple. Also an excellent cuisine...