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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent among the pioneers in this new field of composition is Raymond Scott, a Brooklyn-born musician, whose brother Mark Warnow has long rated as one of the Big Ten of U. S. danceband leaders. Composer Scott, whose real name is Harry Warnow (originally Warnofsky) is the creator of a dozen-odd recordings (Twilight in Turkey, Powerhouse, War Dance for Wooden Indians, etc.). His music, whose deliberate jazz style is so sophisticated that it seems almost a caricature of jazz, has attracted the attention of such musical bigwigs as Igor Stravinsky. Last week Bandleader Paul Whiteman devoted the best part...
With the help of his "quintet" (which consists not of five, but of six instrumentalists), Composer Scott has recently created a "jazz laboratory" at CBS. Here, with recording equipment, engineers and arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings...
Something of a wag in a field where well-considered waggery is always good publicity, Composer Scott has long been notorious for his absentmindedness, his incredible stories about himself ("I tell people I do things, and they believe me," he complains) and the goofy titles he gives his works. Sample: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals. Of his wife, who carefully checks over all his compositions, on the lookout for unintentional plagiarisms, he says, "She's a regular musical blotter...
...John Scott...
...Manhattan, John Scott, Negro, was arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder. John Scott was surprised. Said he: "Judge, I didn't even know that man I stabbed died." Said Judge William Allen: "This man was shot.'' Said John Scott: "No, judge, I stabbed him." Judge Allen checked up. The man wanted for the shooting was another Harlem Negro, also in the Tombs, also named John Scott. First John Scott was then arraigned for second-degree assault. Both John Scotts pleaded not guilty...