Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
...your turntable. Which is as good a way as any to alienate your landlord, unless he, too, longs for the days when the New Orleans-in-Chicago Soicety of Upper State Street held regular meetings with the Cook County Choral Conclave and Jubilee Singers, better known as the Chicago Rhythm Kings...
...many a hepcat in his White Heat Club of America. When he moved across the river to St. Paul's station KSTP, Minneapolitans remembered him chiefly for the double talk he ad-libbed between records. It sounded something like: "Come on, you pulsating, cheerilating, titillating, palsadictasomnadictadypsomaniacs of thermal rhythm, and listen...
Personally, I feel that the question of swinging military marches is a question for commanding officers to settle. Do they want their armies to march with military bearing, to fine inspiring rhythm-or do they prefer them to "jitterbug" their way along...
...Perhaps the most important cyclical facts are those on business. Of many discernible economic rhythms, the "Hoskins" rhythm of about 41 months is present in more than half the kinds of business studied. (Oddly, this is precisely the length of the high-low cycle of heat received by the earth from the sun: 40.8 months.) The major long-run business cycle is one of 54 years; a 54-year rhythm in British wheat prices has been traced back 800 years. On the back of this basic cycle rides a lesser one of nine years. Foundation Director Dewey has arranged...