Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notice, that he is trying to copy the band with the greatest rhythm section in the business, and the one that is generally conceded to have the greatest bunch of soloists around...
...results aren't too amazing, for the simple reason that Barnet doesn't have the soloists to play Duke's stuff, and his fast Basic tunes fall apart because his rhythm section just isn't equal to the task...
...armies of France and Germany last week executed two more steps in their slow, solemn, martial minuet between the Moselle and the Rhine, the Westwall and the Maginot Line. Germany stepped forward the distance that the French had advanced since Sept. 3. The French, in perfect rhythm, stepped back, slaughtering the Germans as they came, as befitted accomplished war dancers...
Crosby's bunch was covered here briefly last week. Most important thing to understand about the band is that their rhythm is completely different from that played by most bands of today. It is two beats to a phrase, instead of four. As a result, you get a style of jazz that is more staccatto, with shorter melodic phrases, and all sorts of trick rhythmic effects achieved thru breaking up the beat. In other words, this is a white man's way of playing jazz, as opposed to the colored man's more lagging, slurring attack of long phrase...
...band prefers one sort of rhythm--a style of jump that starts very softly and lightly and ends by tearing the all gently down. Fats himself plays fine rhythm and occasionally takes off on solo flights that are just as good as anything he has ever done. Plus the fact that he puts on a killer of a show all during the evening, busting all the remaining vest buttons with a little demonstration on the art of trucking at the end of the show...