Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...
Notes between the notes: Magic Key program Sunday went sadistic, putting on a swell new swing band, and saying. "That's all, kiddies. We'll tell you the name of the outfit in a few weeks" . . . Ha! Kemp's record of "Blue Moonlight" (Victor), a concert jazz extract like "Deep Purple," is one of the best the band has done in a long while . . . Contrary to general reports, Jack Harlow's ('41) imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success...
Starting with a short lecture on swing by George Frazier, noted swing critic, Stan Brown's Crimsonians demonstrated the rise and fall of jazz last night in Sanders Theatre to an enthusiastic audience of 350 students and two Music 1 assistants...
Count's band, when it's on, is "the best swing band in the country." The quote marks enclose a remark of Mr. Goodman's. It has the greatest rhythm section ever put together. Proof offered is any one of Count's solos wherein you get his weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home...
Notes between the notes: Boston, supposedly a non-swing town, has Duke Ellington at the Roseland and Jack Teagarden at the Raymor tonight, Woody Herman and Harry James in a battle of swing at the Roseland tomorrow, and Basie at the Southland . . . Not generally known, but still true is the Anglo-Saxon word for music: "swin(g)" . . . Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started...