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Elected to positions not on the executive board were David B. Stearns '42 of Milwaukee and Adams House as Sports Editor, Robert Barnet '42 of Boston and Adams House as Assistant Business Manager, and Harrison F. Lyman '42 of Winchester and Winthrop House as Assistant Editorial Chairman...
...think Barnet has shown any bad taste whatsoever in basting his style on the Duke's. True, his recordings of Ellington tunes are inferior, as most imitations are; but they're far from being "cheap and disgusting." Barnet has a more-than-adequate swing band whose reed and brass sections are clean and well-balanced, and whose rhythm section can really jump when it wants. There's nothing in the Barnet make-up that would cause him to harm the music created by a man whose work he has always admired and respected. Don't worry, Charlie knows what constitutes...
George Frazier, '33, record critic for Mademoiselle ("The Magazine for Smart Young Women" who can't think farther than the next week-end party), has the following to say about Charlie Barnet: "I happen to think that Barnet's records are uniformly stinking. . . I can't tolerate Barnet because he and the music he sponsors are doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless...
...reason for bringing this whole business up lies in the fact that I consider Charle Barnet's orchestra to be one of the finest and most tasteful all-round bands in the finest and most tasteful all-round bands in the game today. Don't forget that many band leaders imitate. It's nothing new, and I think we can all be thankful that Charlie picked the world's number one jazz musician as his master...
NEWS AND NEW REALEASES: Via airmail from New York: Count Basic will disband his orchestra and join Benny Goodman unless he is released from his contract with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere...