Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheet copies of the Bob Zurke and Jesse Stacy piano solos. While they're not too easy to read, they're worth the try . . . To see just how much influence Louis Armstrong did exert on jazz, catch the opening bars in Erskine Hawkins' "Swing Out," his theme song . . . Art Tatum's piano on "Tea For Two" (Decca) while not real swing, is interesting enough technically to make listening...
...teams figured to be a real threat in the 1939 race, Coach Jim Tatum's Ithacans, were roundly whalloped in dangerous Dixieland this spring and got back just in time to drop their League opener to an improved Penn to the tune of 6 to 3. In justice to the Big Red team, however, it must be said that injuries, sickness, and lack of practice have retarded their progress...
Kenny Brown is a certainty at center, and Walt Matusczak will be in right field. Johnny Gannett and Hup Ryan will share the left garden duties. Coach Tatum has a pair of capable receivers in Bob White and Mike Ruddy...
...that music only swings when played loud and fast. That is not true. The things that the good swing musician tries to attain are relaxation and sincerity of expression. The idea of technique is secondary in jazz; that's why a good swing piano man doesn't like Art Tatum's work--a lot of octaves which when finished don't mean anything, don't convey any emotion, and could have been played twice as fast by Paderewski anyway. The true swing man tries to express sincerely, cleanly, and simply at all times the emotions and ideas which he feels...
...JOHN G. TATUM Fencing Coach Los Angeles Junior College Los Angeles, Calif...