Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast impatience of many U. S. citizens, the bumbling House last week thus took up the problem of Finnish aid, in exactly the same manner and tempo in which the bumbling Senate had passed it, 49-27. The bumbling House Banking & Currency Committee began hearings. As in the Senate, no one seemed to feel that civilization (in the shape of Finland) was approaching the zero-hour. Representatives, who are told almost daily by lobbyists, constituents and each other that civilization is imperiled unless such-&-such a bill passes, went on yawning, grooming their noses, reading the comics. Their equanimity drove...
While on the subject of piano solos, there was a very good one turned out for Commodore Record Shop by Jesse Stacy, formerly the Goodman piano ace, now with Bob Crosby. Both sides are blues, one quite slow and the other in a faster, more clipped tempo. Slow side, like most of Jesse's blues, is strongly influences by the sort of changes that Bix Beiderbecke used in "In a Mist." The whole side is built up on variations on one or two ideas of this nature. While at times is is genuinely beautiful blues, a great deal...
...playing three styles of tempos these days: his old fast killer style, softened down greatly--a fast Ellington bounce tempo-and a very slow Kansas City colored sock style that sounds a great deal like Andy Kirk only much more cleanly performed and with better phrasing. Best example of this style (which he is using on most of his pop tunes) is the theme song with which he opens his broadcasts. Listen especially to tenor saxman Sam Donahue, who is one of the best white men playing. Gene's playing has quieted down into good solid drumming for the band...
Lionel Hampden goes hog wild again on this two finger piano stuff in "I Found A New Baby." god help anybody who plays in his new band when it gets going this spring--he believes in the fastest tempos I've heard from a jam band in a long time. It isn't good saying, only attraction to it is the tempo...
...high commands of Belgium and The Netherlands was not divulged. All autumn the Belgians had worked feverishly to fortify their northern frontier, and the Dutch drilled dynamite into their roadside trees, against the much-feared German invasion which might come when the ground froze. Suddenly last week, the tempo changed, Belgium ordered the fourth stage of mobilization (the first three stages were completed last September), calling up 75,000 more men and bringing her armed strength to some 600,000. Trucks loaded with supplies and soldiers rolled through Brussels while civilians piled sandbags around buildings and factories. Messengers rushed through...