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...Described by FORTUNE as a purist who wants music undistorted and full, from treble to bass...
...finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment and the adjustments the individual musicians make for it. Jazz, like...
...purist will protest the many loose ends. "Love in the Snow" is fraught with many incongruities in book, in setting, and in score. The play at times becomes a revue, with an irrelevant but pleasing dance sequence interlarded between several ballet numbers. But the customer who comes to be diverted will not object, for he will not have been disappointed...
This, and all the other discrepancies in "Rhapsody in Blue," would not particularly matter except to the Gershwin purist if the result had been a good movie. But it is dull without being realistic grandiose without being epic, and emotional without having any feeling. Even the musical numbers are not well produced, the dancing being particularly uninspired. Exceptions were the fine performances of the major works, including the "Rhapsody in Blue," the "American in Paris," and the "Concerto in F," this last chopped up and presented in sections throughout the film. Oscar Levant and Paul Whiteman (who play themselves...
Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...