Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past 20 years Handy has devoted most of his time to his publishing business, though he has managed to turn out over 60 blues. His current complaint is that popular music has become too mechanical, that radio and cinema have proven big blights. As for "swing" music he says: ''It is the music I was playing 20 years ago, only with more brass and less rhythms...
...orchestra will play sets of four or five numbers lasting amount 20 minutes with five minute intermissions. In these sets will be a variety of tunes, varying from the hottest swing numbers to the slowest waltzes...
...silence the onus of an imitator. But Will has left St. Andrews College (in his native Toronto) to become an orchestra leader of note. He worked incessantly on special trombone effects, relied less on his voice. A year ago dancers began to notice that Will Osborne had a sweet swing to his playing. Today Rudy Vallee is known chiefly for his radio variety hour will Osborne is known for his band...
...stream of political writers and politically-minded citizens who have lately been pouring in on him a standard two-course luncheon. When a political correspondent arrived in midafternoon, Nancy Jo and Jack Landon were squabbling over a tricycle. Out on the big, semicircular front porch, with its comfortable swing, blue wicker chairs and table on which were lying a copy of Western Story and a cover-less May issue of Cosmopolitan, the correspondent played with the children under the eye of their plump nurse, Mrs. McCue...
Making their northern debut and featuring Hal Kemp arrangements with Dixie Swing, Johnny Long's Duke University Band will play for the Winthrop House Spring Dance on Friday, May 22. Well-known in the South, Long was discovered and introduced to the North by Hal Kemp...