Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those of you who are interested in hearing the difference between good hot style with technique and good sweet style with technique might well compare Tommy Dorsey's record of "Stardust" (Victor) and Jack Jenny's new Vocalion platter of the same. Jenny is a studio musician who has been playing around New York for years, making some swell records with such groups as the Red Norvo Octet and later, with the Paul Whiteman recording groups...
Most composers spend the early part of their lives in conservatories of music, where they learn to write potted fugues and hothouse symphonies. But no conservatory ever held Brazil's bouncing, fiery Heitor Villa-Lobos. When he was six years old his lawyer father, an amateur musician, taught him how to play a lick or two on the cello. He taught himself how to play the piano. By the time he was 19 he was roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often...
...this Ellington man goes, there is little this reviewer can say. His band was the only one that Gramaphone Shop listed of the jazz bands in its record catalogue. Ask any musician who has the best band, and he'll say, "Joe X--and of course, Duke...
...point is that he has the greatest band of swing soloists in the business. And playing together, they achieve effects that Mr. Strawinsky could well afford to copy. I have yet to meet the classical musician who, once having heard the Duke, isn't crazy about...
...shuffled down to the room of Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Ambassador to the U. S., knocked on the door of that poet-musician. Next day Dr. Najera presented the plan, lined up the suspicious delegates behind the new theory of continental solidarity, which has since had two additions: 1) hemisphere defense, 2) the Pan-American 300-mile safety belt...