Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit where credit is due? Glen Gray & orchestra, not so much Benny Goodman, are responsible for the present ''swing" craze...
TIME attempted no catalogish list of "swing" musicians, left swing addicts free to enjoy their favorites...
...Anyone who read the article entitled "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho" in the Jan. 20 issue of TIME, could scarce help carrying away the impression that: 1) Benny Goodman caused the present mild interest in swinging. 2) That Benny has the best swing band in the world. 3) That Louis Armstrong was passe...
None of these implications is true. Much as we white swing men would like to take credit for the renaissance of swinging, justice compels us to pass it along to a very black musician, Jimmie Lunceford...
...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...