Word: stomps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. These tunes generally find their origin in the blues, where improvised melodies are often adaptable to orchestration. For instance, a little detective work will show you that In The Mood, a typical riff tune, is merely an arranged version of an old blues number called Tar Paper Stomp, recorded four or five years ago on Decca by Wingy Mannone. Some of our most popular novelty songs have been riff tunes, and have included Hold Tight, Well All Right, and Boog...
...Pigfoot Sonata and Just for Laffs and both guitars take all the honors (VICTOR)... Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Sullivan and Pete Johnson, are among the eight-beat pianists featured in DECCA's Boogie-Woogie Album. Best of the records is Ammons' Boogie-Woogie Stomp, with the fine trumpet of Guy Kelly, as well as Albert's own rolling bass... Benny Goodman of 1940, heard at his Totem-Pole one nighter, is one of the biggest things in jazz since the Goodman of 1936... Highlights: Cootie Williams with the Sextet, playing half an hour straight, including...
...within driving distance and probably worth going to see. A not-so-wild rumor says Cootie Williams will be with him. Ellington's loss is Goodman's gain, but I can't see Cootie with anyone but the Duke...Record of the week is Special Delivery Stomp by Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five (VICTOR). Featured is Billy Butterfield, whose muted trumpet beats Muggsy at his own game. Also heard are Johnny Guarneri, playing a harpsichord (!),, and Nick Fatool, whose drumming is reminiscent of Krupa at his best. Whole record jumps like hell. Reverse in Keepin' Myself For You, and makes...
...Folk Songs and Dances, by Nicholas Matthey and orchestra, is probably the most gratifying surprise of all the 150 albums Decca has released. Influenced by the melodies of Asia and North Africa, influencing the melodies of Eastern and Central Europe, Turkish music has everything from Bedouin thump to gypsy stomp. Notable in this collection is the weird and haunting Taxim, a harem dance which indicates that Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky were not faking their Moslem themes...
...Chick Webb and Gene Krupa has revolutionized the style of every rhythm section in the country, so that today even a mediocre band like Jan Savitt's can cut any of the old Armstrong or Henderson groups as for as pure rhythm is concerned. Compare Fletcher's Sugarfoot Stomp with Savitt's and see what I mean...