Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this they had the aid of the Senate's No. 1 Realist, Vice President John Nance Garner. At about ball-game time each day the Senate sits he bowlegs his way through tall swing-doors to survey the chamber scene-fresh unlit cigar in hand, little Neon-blue eyes flickering, his back-hair ruffled from his after-lunch nap. Reality always enters a room with John Garner, and last week his impatience with empty gabble, his dislike of oratorical set-pieces, brought the high-flown debate down to earth...
...future of swing in Boston looks very bright these days with Bob Crosby coming in for the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball at the Somerset on October 27 and Bunny Berigan camping down at the Southland starting next Monday...
What about "swing"? This is a question which musicians are repeatedly asked to comment upon. The answer--what the fate of "swing" itself will be and whether or not it will become the folk music of America--will be decided by time alone, but it is certain that the impression which the various forms of jazz have made on modern art-music will perpetuate its distinctive rhythmic and melodic types as important parts of the serious musical idiom of our time...
With Fats, on the other hand, there's no doubt whatsoever about what's coming. When he hits a bass note, it stays hit--the result being a fine jump rhythm that literally pushes a band along. Hugues Panaissie, the famous French swing critic, has long ranked Fats right with Earl Hines as the greatest, not only in orchestra, but in solo work...
...addition to writing such swing classics as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Ain't Misbehavin'," Fats makes a specialty of taking hopelessly syrupy tunes that no other swing band would touch, and converting them into classics that keep the record collectors scrambling. Historic examples of this trait are "Sweet and Low" and "West Wind," with lyrics as only Fats can do them...