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...their first rugs. The swing of which he became "King" was an inevitable commercial outgrowth of an earlier music-jazz, which drifted up the Mississippi from New Orleans in the '20s. By coincidence jazz, too, completed a cycle this week, and in Chicago. Some of the pioneer Chicago jazzmen whom reverent connoisseurs know as the "Austin High School Gang"-although few of them actually went there to school-assembled in their native city for the first time in many a year, to play in a minuscule Loop joint, the Brass Rail...
...commentary on the state of musical appreciation here five years ago that these records were made by American musicians in this country for European consumption only. Fortunately that period has finally ended when American jazzmen could find a market for their music only in England and France, even travelling to Europe to work because there were no pennies to be turned by playing hot over here. It is hard to realize that these records could be bought here only for a fat $1.25 at a few stores which imported them, and as one who shelled out that amount on four...
...tunes, big, black, Alabama-born Jim Europe held Negro jam sessions in a cafe in West 53rd Street. White folks dropped in, hired so many of Europe's friends to play "gigs" - single party dates - that Jim opened a booking office. He formed a Clef Club of Negro jazzmen, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall in 1911. He (at the piano) and his boys played for Vernon and Irene Castle. Once he excited the Castles' curiosity by playing Memphis Blues too slow for their brisk one-step. That, said Jim Europe and his friends...
...both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this world. Recently a Café Societarian, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., took his mother to hear the Golden Gate boys...
Meyer Davis, biggest businessman among U. S. band leaders, has 89 orchestras, with his name clearly printed on each, 1,100 musicians on his $3,500,000-a-year pay roll. Ever since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight...