Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...just a hearty soldier. He collects Mexican art and fancies symphonic music. Though sociable he is not avidly social. He and his wife have friends to dinner most evenings, but directly dinner is over the friends are packed off home, and Avila Camacho goes to bed to study statecraft out of books...
...conducting the Chicago Symphony orchestra in the same methodical way for 35 years. Conductor Stock had never tried to create sensations, never toured Europe or South America, never made movies or interested himself in international politics. He had stuck in his own Chicago back yard for so long that music-lovers in big Eastern cities nearly forgot about him, certainly never mentioned his orchestra in the same breath with Toscanini's. But Conductor Stock stuck to his knitting, and the Chicago Symphony stuck to Conductor Stock. Its strings and brasses matured like old wine, and the Chicago Symphony developed...
...does fits in with the band. And this is the point I'm trying to get at : if a drummer doesn't fit in with a band, he's playing flash and is a one-man band himself. This seems to me to be extremely important in jazz music. For drums are naturally the loudest instruments in an orchestra, and consequently a bad drummer can do more harm to a good band than any other musician...
Just ask a musician who his favorite drummer is. The answer will be "Jo Jones" or "Cozy" or "Ray McKinley," It won't be "Buddy Rich." That's for the boys with the crew haircuts and bow ties to whom nothing is music if it's not noise...
...Coleman Hawkins', and you couldn't ask for a better master.... Dillagene, Woody Herman's new vocalist, does a nice job on Five O'clock Whistle, (DECCA). She's one of the few really good girl singers around these days. Reverse is The Golden Wedding, full of jungle music and tom-toms. Okay if you like that sort of thing.... Somebody by the name of Walter Cross has a piano solo called Creepy Weepy on BLUEBIRD. The label says it's boogie-woogie, but it's not. It's not anything at all, just a mess of inane runs...