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SWING!

OMETHING. has happened to

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jazz. A thing called swing. year ago only initiates had heard of the word. Now there are a hun- dred and ten swing clubs in the country. totalling well over 10,000 members.

The biggest club is London No. 1; the krenost, Dundee, Members mert of an even- ingr. talk about their heroes and play their records.

There are sixteen clubs in London and the suburbs alone. Clubs throughout the country are welded together by a central organisation known as the British Rhythm Club Federation. Members (maybe we should call them delegates) from clubs come up to town for big swing "dos."

THE peak of British Rhythm Club Federation activity is reached with highbrow Sunday concerts of jazz. They had one at the Grotrian Hall, you remember. - Since then, like Larry Adler and Reginakl Foresythe-have drawn the faith by their Sabbath interpreta-

Then a member will play a programme of records. And maybe the evening will be topped off with "hot renderings of old favourites" by local five, six, or seven-piece combinations. Amateurs all.

out of Ragtime came Jazz: and out of Jazz has come- "Swing," fans call it

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jam session.

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the terrific swing he produces; he plays modern jazz in the Mozartian manner.

vast

Wilson is twenty-three. He WHY educated at the coloured Tuskeegee University in Alabama. Both his parents are teachers there.

Two more. You wouldn't think Rachmaninoff would care for swing? He goes to the Central Park Casino, New York. to listen to Eddle Duchin, who goes to Chicago's Grand Terrace Cafe to study Earl Hines.

about.

MORE

men the rhythm fans talk

There's Buil Freeman, saxo- phonist, and Jack Lacey on the trombone, and Johnny Hodges, who is Duke Ellington's head sax man... we hadn't men- tioned Duke.

He is not reckoned in the first flight of performers, but stands alone as a composer of swing music. He represents the quiet, reflective mood of the cult with pieces like "Sophisticated Lady" and "Mood Indigo." Two years ago the only way they could get the classic "Mood Indigo" on the recording market was by calling it "Dreamy Blues" and hoping for the host. Now publishers would give their eyebrows for one like it.

Danse and at Rector's Club

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Recent information regarding the conditions of British Inbaur demonstrates two outstanding and important facts. During the past few years there have been fow industrial disputes, while wages in many industries have shown appreciable in-tions.

No doubt both factors Around the country, though, due to the steady im- proceedings are hearlier and provement in trade an indus-less formal. Rhythm clubs meet try, though it might be argued and have nice homey debates on that the second condition is in Straight Jazz versus Swing. some measure due to the first. The absence of friction between employers and employed has given general confidence in the industrial position, and both

THE birth and the drunk and slap happy. No, this together for sides have reaped the benefit.

growth of modern Their idea of a gala night is isn't getting us anywhere. We jam session, that's when you swing music makes good read- the year now closing will prove to attract a professional musi- must try to describe this strange all mug in together on a piece. ing. This is our theory.

cian from one of the big London music.

You play it the way you're feel Around about the end of the the best for wage increases bands to give a lecture on There's a man with a wooden ing. Just throw away, the rules war dance fans used to shuffle since-the-immediate-post-war technique. The man becomes-leg coming fast-down-a-dark-of-music-and-play-it-your at the Hammersmith Palais de boom period which ended in the lion of the evening.

street. Stop and shuffle; stop way.. 1920. During the first eight| It is surprising, though, the and shume. That's the rhythm. "Now, I'd say the greatest of London to a combination known

of effective local months of the year there was a number

Suddenly a trumpet flares: them all is Louis Armstrong, as the Original Dixieland Band.

They were the first swing net increase of £362,000 a week amateur jazz combinations there like a baby waking in the night Satchelmouth, they call him. ..

are, Twice as many as a year with a pin in its tummy-bless (We remember the great (Le Rocca) wrote "Tiger Rag".

artists. The leader of the band in the wages of 3,250,000 per- ago. The men, maybe, are bank its little tummy. The yell Satch'mo' ourselves. One night The Tiger is the national anthem sons. The annual value of this clerks, accountants, bus drivers. gradually turns to a lilt. increase in purchasing power is

we went to a party in White of swing. Like "The Blue Then a voice starts gabbling, chapel. One of those parties Danube" and the Barcarolle about £18,100,000. If this state the fatal ambition to be a pro- like a voice in the car after a where you drink gin and lime out from "Tales of Hoffmann," it of affairs is maintained, there fessional. For most, swing is hot lobster supper. Menacing, of beer tankards. Armstrong will never die. The men who will have been three successive their hobby.

insistent, never finishing a sen- sat in a corner, quietly playing wrote that tune have split up years of increases. Since the

PROBABLY you're tence. And all the time a piano his trumpet all evening. Silver since. A fortnight ago I heard never heard of many keeps going quietly, like the silvers; daggers of sound he there was talk of reforming the war the changes have followed

of their heroes-men like Fals noise from a honky-tonk on the played.) irregular cycles. According to Waller, Wingy Mannone, Louis car of a tired reveller trying to

band, with the original members, Armstrong, first sounded a Le Rocca now lives at his case in Ministry of Labour statistics, Prima, Jack Teagarden. They go home.

trumpet in a New Orleans New Orleans. increases in wages were shown are the new kings of jazz.

Sounds crazy? It is crazy orphanage. He played for years These men may still be world- in 1919, 1920, 1924 and 1926.

in Mississippi river boats. Now famous. It would not be hard The year from 1927 to 1933,

Buy a record to-day. But he is the idol of the negroes, the to make out a case to prove that inclusive, were bad years for

Fats Waller playing: "I'm gonna king of melodic invention. So by writing this crazy tune they wages. Since then there have

sit me down and write myself great is his popularity, rumours founded the basis of an age's been regular increases. The

a letter." Listen carefully, and follow him around the world. If dance music, just as Strauss did. if you are lucky you may discern he is in London, America hears a sound basis of sincerity in the that he is dying; that he will music. That is what jazz, has never play again. King Louls always lacked.

Is quite well, thank you.

last really good wage year was 1924, when net wage increases had an annual value of £27,650,- 000. If the last third of this year maintains the position of the other two-thirds, the annual value of increases will total £27,150,000, nearly as much as in 1924. Gratifying as these figures are, the stark fact re- mains that there are still many regions in which the jobless find it difficult to keep body and soul together. This is notably true of South Wales, where public attention has again been directed to the lot of the people by the recent tour of His Majesty through the distressed areas. King Edward. showed a very real sympathy with those who Have been so long without work, and his re- marks that. "Something must. be done to find work for willing hands," and "Now we must see what we can do" may be taken to indicate that a special effort will be made on behalf of d section of the community which has suffered long, and, 'through all its trials, has mained loyal and law-abiding.

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Only a small proportion have

Trouble is, nobody. can define And significant. swing. ・・

It's just a sensation. It makes your diaphragm. curl and your head snap back. It's a peak of emotion. It makes you punch

Work it out for

yourself

Young George was walking In his garden when he narrowly escuped sudden death from a grandInther clock thrown over- boord by a passing airship. On examining it he found it had stopped at ten o'clock.

To steady his shaken nerves he went inside and tried to read. picked up an

He

encyeto- paedia at

at random, which told

him that owing to cooling the earthi keeps on shrinking. After many centuries Its diame- ter will have shrunk by a mile. George begon to work out what difference this will make to its circumference, Do you know?

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Just as George found out, the radio announced that an air- ship, Anding itself In dificulties at a height of 10,000 feet, had; lightened ship by dropping a grandfather clock

vertically overboard at exactly--at exact- ly what time?

know, seo

If you don't Coturna, Four

SWING has made a knight's move in chess. Two jumps back and one two

policy.

IT is possible that the intrepid reader, hav- ing reached this point, may be thinking that a good deal of the THEN, BUYS Benný above is special pleading. But Carter there are we have a fact up our sleeve.

Jack great white ment

One firm, who turned out shil- to the side. A jump over the Teagarden is aces among ling, and sixpenny records, re- sleek, well-tailored orchestration trombonists, Gene Krupa is cently decided on a revolution in of men like Ambrose (though the Master of the Drums.

They bought from Ambrose can swing, too); again Most original, startling figure America matrices of swing re- over the noisy, Irritable jigging in this strange new gallery of cordings and decided to put them of early jazz (the Oom-lah fame is a giant negro (six foot out at half a crown. school); and a jump to the side tall, weighing 17 stone) called into the swamps of Louisiana. Fats Wailer. Fats sits bolt up Swing goes right back to first right at the piano with a principles of negro music. A "durby" hat on his head. He great artist never plays the holds his wrists high and prods same tune twice alike. He takes at the notes with fingers like the basic melody and in- sausage-rolls. Proda delicately provises. The more he wanders and with terrific effect. the greater the emotional effect.

I met a man yesterday who is Son of a negro minister, ho. one of the new kinga of swing, played the organ in church until A quiet-voiced young negro the congregation began to sway called Benny Carter. Experts to his voluntaries. He says rank him up among the first Bach was the best part of his training. They call him. the ten exponents of the Bax, Black Gargoyle of Rhythm. The clarinet, and trumpet in the best known hit he wrote was. world. Benny puts it this "Ain't Misbehavin."

As a pianist he has only one If you don't feel it, Mr. master a young, alight négro Holt, it isn't swing. You see, called Theodoro (Teddy) Wilson, you get half-a-dozen of the boys His touch is incredibly light for

way:

The first record they issued (it was Benny Carter's "Nightfall") sold 5,000 copies in a week.

That's business.

Paul-Holt

Worked out for you

The carth's circumference will have shrunk by three and one-seventh miles; because the elreuinference of circle alwayй equals its diameter multipled · by three and a seventh.

The time was still exactly 10 o'clock. The support of the clock's pendulum fell with the.. same acceleration as the bob, 80 ...that the pendulum no longer moved, and the clock stopped.