Word: moonglow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When up in New York's Harlem a short time ago, I wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play...
...playing with the band. And Mr. Teagarden himself, known to the trade as "Big Gate," is going to lead the four man trombone section. Jack was playing hot trombone when Tommy Dorsey was playing licks on a milk bottle. Listen to "Texas Tea Party" (Columbia 31671) of "Moonglow" (Columbia 2927D, all made with the old Goodman band, to hear what Teagarden can do with a trombone. Thus while the quality of the band as a whole is an unknown, inspiring jazz is a certainty next Friday night...
Eddy Delage is also a musician of note, having written the lyrics to such smash hits as "Moonglow," "Solitude," and "Haunting...
Hudson and De Lange, leaders of a New York orchestra now on tour of New England colleges, are nationally famous as the composers of such well known hits as "Moonglow", "Solitude", "Haunting ME," and "Jazznocracy". All the arrangements for the featured songs in the very successful recent musical, "Broadway Melody of 1936", were Hudson's. The Hudson-DeLange outfit contains 14 artists, including a blues singer...
...uncanny colored sense of rhythm is given full play in producing Moonglow, Dinah, Margie, and Sylvin, the first being especially pleasing. The Five Percolators provide a certain amount of entertainment by their verbal antics and assorted tap dancing...