Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What I have to say is only a suggestion and made even more difficult by the fact that there's nothing wrong with House dances in the first place. They've always been a lot of fun, from the swell two last night at Kirkland and Dunster right down to the famous dance at Lowell House where the whole Stuff Smith band passed out (with the exception of drummer Cozy Cole, who just kept the beat going for a good half-hour and knocked everybody out, including himself). However, it seems to me that House dances could...
...when measured by other than the banker's standards, the present charge on student loans is unjustifiable. It is calculated to yield profits--profits that swell the endowed loan funds, and also the revolving funds as far as losses through defaults are covered. Harvard does not milk its needy students to erect fancy laboratories and hire costly lecturers. But it holds its debtors responsible for building up its loan funds--a function that should be left exclusively to the donors of the future. At present, there is no shortage of loanable money; and considerable surplus margins are left over each...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES: Four sides by Benny Goodman have finally come out on COLUMBIA, and they're everything you could ask for. First coupling is by the band: Nobody, and Henderson Stomp. Nobody is a swell pop tune sung by Helen Forest, who seems to be more and more influenced by Billie Holiday. The arrangement is very good; ideal for dancing. Henderson is typical orchestration by the arranger for whom the tune was named. Very unpretentious stuff, but the kind that really kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny...
What with all the swell Cole Porter and Irving Berlin tunes lying around, I can't understand why arrangers don't use them more to create something that will have a lasting musical value, not only for the fine melody that's already there, but for the good jazz that should be. I guess the best answer to this lies in what Glenn Miller told me a couple of years...
...rally a few weeks ago, the Benny Goodman Sextet showed true sportsmanship in dedicating a number to Wendell Willkie. Tune was Gone With What Wind ... Record of the week: Woody Herman's Beat Me Daddy. Pianist Tommy Linehan and the rhythm section are outstanding, in addition to a swell low register clarinet chorus by Woody himself, with a barrelhouse guitar background (Decca) ... COLUMBIA has tried the interesting experiment of using a small jazz group to accompany a schmaltz singer, and surprisingly enough the experiment is a terrific success. Singer is Eddy Howard, and the band is led by Teddy Wilson...