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...easy bounce on the Jimmy Lunceford style. Good swing (and for that matter, good dance music) should never be strained and pushed in the "killer" style. Relaxed rhythm is imperative to any kind of good jazz--and Donahue has it. Junie Mays (piano--also some excellent arrangements), Bill Hoffman (bass) and Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks on the bassoon for Red Norvo, is dispensing for Donahue, as are Sal Pace...
...comes of all our predictions. A few days ago Artie Shaw recorded four sides for Victor at their Hollywood studies with a thirty-one piece band. In addition to the usual six brass, four sax, four rhythm, and Shaw, they added eight violins, three violas, two cellos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and French horn. Victor says, "Despite the full combination, Shaw will remain (sie ! ! !) in the swing idiom. With the extra musicians, he plans to enhance his style with tone colors and effects, heretofore unattained...
...often that a program of organ music from the Thorough Bass period is given, like the one to be presented today at the Germanic Museum. With the exception of William Fenton, whose Concerto in B flat major (No. 3 for organ and orchestra opens the program, each of the composers represented has made some definite contribution to the literature of music...
George Friederich Handel, one of the greatest of Thorough Bass composers, made an important advance in the development of the concerto. In this period it was more common for composers to write a concerto grosso, a form of music in which a group of solo instruments are heard against a full orchestra, instead of the concerto where the contrast is made with a single instrument. But Handel needed relaxation between the sections of his Oratorios, so he turned to the Concerto, which in its contemporary state proved to be too heavy. Either some new form was needed, or some...
Boogie-woogie is a kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form is identical with that of the classical passacaglia, a kind of dance music (of Spanish origin) that was old stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple...