Word: louie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman. In smart sets from Santa Barbara to Long Island, "Louie" Macy is popular. She radiates good spirits, talks well, laughs easily. At 36 she is trim as an athlete. She dresses with elegant plainness -sometimes in colors to match a ginger-brown French poodle which she leads on a pink patent-leather leash. Her dark hair falls in a long bob; her eyes are bright blue, a little gap between two front teeth emphasizes her firm chin and nose...
...wouldn't be the same without it. After all, he and the Rhythm Boys were making records with Bix Beiderbecke back in the Twenties, and since then some of his best work has been done in the company of swing artists (And if you didn't see Bing and Louie Armstrong in "Pennies From Heaven" you missed a treat). Today, of course, he's the only male ballad singer who is tolerated by members of his own sex. The luscious-lipped groaners of the Ray Eberle variety may be all right for a few frustrated high-school girls...
...improvisation. Nearly all of Crosby's many Decca recording are done in this style, and they show him to be a master of the ad lib, a good example of which is Small Fry, not exactly hot music, but with that quality of informal spontaneity which you hear in Louie Armstrong and others. Best of all is his famous Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, where Bing discovered that he was singing the wrong part of the tune at the wrong time. Without any hesitation he went on: "They cut out eight bars, the dirty--And I didn't know which...
When you actually get down to it, there are five great figures in jazz music. They are great not only because of their influence on other jazz musicians, but also for their important contributions to an art form which is only beginning to be recognized as such. Louie is still the king-there's no arguing about that. Bix Beiderbecke and Bessie Smith are dead, but their work was far ahead of its time; only recently has the average listener reached an appreciative stage as regards the jazz they played. Duke Ellington is still ahead of his time, and because...
...that when you hear it, you'll know that Jack's the boy, because without him his band wouldn't be the same, since it would be lacking in the one driving spirit which gives any band its outstanding quality. Bix had that spirit, and Louie still does (when he feels like it), and Bobby Hackett has the right idea. Mr. T has it too, as you'll find out tonight at Dunster House...