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...boils down to a matter of one's definition of the two words. For years after the appearance of "Jazz," the word was baffling because people applied it indiscriminately to the original Negro improvisations and to the overblown dance arrangements of Paul Whiteman. So, too, with the word "Swing," which first applied to Benny Goodman's greatest band, and Sammy Kaye's "Swing and Swayers" at the same time. While the initial confusion about jazz has subsided for the most part, the confusion about "Swing" has increased. The boundaries of jazz may be disputed and indefinite, but when a Jazz...
...boils down to a matter of one's definition of the two words. For years after the appearance of "Jazz," the word was baffling because people applied it indiscriminately to the original Negro improvisations and to the overblown dance arrangements of Paul Whiteman. So, too, with the word "Swing," which first applied to Benny Goodman's greatest band, and Sammy Kaye's "Swing and Swayers" at the same time. While the initial confusion about jazz has subsided for the most part, the confusion about "Swing" has increased. The boundaries of jazz may be disputed and indefinite, but when a jazz...
...reprints a selection of popular tunes. Within a few weeks every U.S. Army company from North Africa to Guadalcanal is supplied with a new batch of sheet music. A committee of top-flight U.S. entertainers (Fred Waring, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Dinah Shore, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, etc.) gladly act as song judges...
...regular hours of newspaper work soon got on Cugat's nerves. That was in 1928 when Paul Whiteman was still King of Jazz. No jazzman, Cugat realized that he could not compete with Afro-Saxons on their own ground. So he bravely cultivated a little Afro-Latin plot of his own. With a rumba orchestra of six, he opened at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove...
Besides having grown up together, Bing and Mildred worked for Paul Whiteman when Whiteman's band included the greatest living white jazz men. Mildred may have stuck closer to the righteous music and Bing may have headed for greener commercial pastures, but their essential tastes and styles are the same...