Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sabby's band, judged in a commercial light, is one of the finest. It is well drilled, plays, fast and complicated arrangements with laudable ease, and in spite of the loss of Al Morgan, one of the greatest bassists in jazz, has a rhythm section that really rocks. The brass men, although capable musicians, too often ride down loud, high, imaginative riffs and when not playing put on a floor show all their own by jumping all over the stand and waving their arms wildly. This really sends the squares and draws, the customers, but since Sabby and his boys...
...French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
...Broadway Rhythm (M.G.M.) is a Technicolored, tune-stirred summer salad into which M.G.M.'s chefs seem to have whipped practically everyone and every thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms...
...recall having read or having had read to you, as is his wont. And then again, it might be that you have sat in on one of his lectures, half asleep from the maze of electronic symbols on the blackboard but at the same time awake to the rhythm of his accented voice, rich with its Russian overtones. No matter what the contact might have been, however, one thing is certain. If you have once met Pietr Matvayevich Bulieba you will not easily forget...
...after seeing the world and realizing that the rhythm out there is not the one we have here, that soon we shall be rudely awakened from this enchanted and idiotic dream, one feels like warning and alerting everybody so that the shock will not be too severe...