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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY

SWING IT, SMITH!

ALL ABOUT JAZZ, FROM THE BEGINNING (Third of four music articles in the SMITH into SUPERMAN series).

T

HE origins of jazz have worried a number people. It sprang, generally speaking, from negro spiritual, the religious music of a race covering a new religion.'

trate manner about Mother, somebody discovered that "June" rhymed' with "moon," the whole world was louch- ed by the Infidelles of a million "sweeties," ravished by the charms (to rhyme with "arms") of yet an- other million "cuties."

NANCE „nusic? Nonsense, Mr. Smith! Drawing- room ballads plugged on the dance floor, whither the world had gone to spend ils evenings on de- serting the drawing-room.

The modern "popular song" is dish- ed up with the instrumentation of

Tests to brush up

· 1937,

Smith's earlier work

1. Why do we hang legal notices of all kinds on church doors rather than on any other public place?

One of the few remaining relies of the days when the Church was the real centre of community life, when inquests were held there, all records kept there (even the standards of length and of weight), and when fairs were held in the church yard.

2. Find out,

by looking carefully at the flu-leaves, where any twelve of your-books were printed. What proportion of them were. printed in or near Flect-street? Can you think of any reason why so much printing is carried on there?

The first cheap and popular books in England were printed and sold by Wynkyn de Worde, who set up a press in Fleet-treet in 1500. kton's books were expensive; a Bible would cost the equivalent of £30 to £40.

3. Have you noticed that all old spiral staircases wind up in the same direction? Why should they?

Old

spiral staircases always wind in such a way that a man standing on them and looking down is able to swing his right arm.

This, would give the defenders of a house or tower a great advantage over the attackers, and throws light on the insecurity of life in the early Middle Ages.

Jazz for the convenience of publish A fortnightly pedicure

of ers and song writers, who find their the market among dancers.

Smith is not convinced?

Then

dis- think of "It's a sta to tell a lie," play-

Literature, painting, sculpture, music, and architecture have always, in every civilisation, had their origin in religion.

Gradually these arts have developed, and secular arts arisen not in their place but as well.

have

went He sang

So the negro, when he had been to his camp meeting, home to his backyard and sang about his girl friend. simply, to the accompaniment of a guitar, simple words in

form:

My gal done left me, left me all alone to cry.

(I said) My yal done left me, left me all alone to cry. And if she don't come back

I'm gonna lay me dowy an' die.

The tane varied only a little, the form remained,' still mains, and is known as the "blues."

this

ed equally as a a waltz, a fox-trot, sung in cabaret, broadcast by cinema organs.

I may be "popular music," but it's Jazz is dance music frst jazz. and last, can have no real exist- ence as anything else. Now to "swing."

All the time the tunes and senti-

men's of popular songs have been ar

tificially animated to resemble juzz, the true jazz of the American negrɔ has been going along en its own

Wenuse the dancing public graved ballads and musical comedy "num- bers." Jazz was hounded underground, re-into Harlem, into New Orleans "gin mills and Chlengo sprakensies..

The negro, however, is not always melancholy. A couple of generations removed from the jungle, the American negro brought a great deal of his natural rhythmic vitality even into his spirituals..

(Smith may remember Paul HHHH~|~|~|~||~||~|~|~||~|

Robeson singing "Joshua't de

baltle ob Jerichu" and noticed its

likeness to the "Charleston.")

This rhythm naturally came into

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SWING GLOSSARY

DEEP-Excellent.

LAY IT.--Let yourself go. SEND (verb).Music "sends" you when it excites you a lot. RIDE. To take a swing solo. BARRELHOUSE.-When no- body knows what the next man is playing,

CORNY Unsophisticated. GO TO TOWN--When the whole band swings as one man. GUTBUCKET-Crude, jazz, generally loud and fast.

JAM. To improvise. MR. CHARLIE.

man.

HOT-Exciting.

- Coloured

ON DOWN-When thing is just right.

every-

to

I emerged shyly on tramo

phone records for the few.

for musicians and enthusiasts who knew the names of every play- er on every record.

The names of the players in jazz. are important.

Jazz is sill, as it has always been, Improvised music; each instrumental- ist is a composer in a small way, and therefore deserves a credit for his work.

Gradually jazz came out into the open. To distinguish it from "popu lar musle" commonly, and wrongly, called jazz, the genuine thing was dubbed "hot jazz.”

Now Smith will agree that all dance music-Strauss waltzes, reels, Jigs, with and the rest-must be played "a swing." If it's going to do any good.

In Harlem they knew this, too. so that whenever a player came to his would admonish sold his colleagues him to "Swing it!"

will

keep your feet in good condition

says Jane Gordon, and when

beach days

come there will be

No Need

to Hide

your

J

Toes

UST because your feet are out of sight it seems mean to keep them out of mind until they bring them- selves to your notice in some more or less painful fashion.

They may be perfectly well- particular attention to the corners of feet or they may make the large, toe-nails. Be careful not behaved themselves felt by corns, a lump on to dig or push the nail. Next dip

nail-brush the rubber

into soapy ihe back of the heel, or a bunion,

any case they should be treated water and scrub off each nail. Dry Put a little of the lodine oil on to to a regular fortnightly pedicure, and

In

Take your fille "eull-brush," go

подру water. Dry

and

If you do not already have pedicure colton-wool and rub over each nail Once "swing" caught the public's

you should begin right away to en- and cuticle, fancy

it naturally wasn't long before

sure against being ashamed of your the same white Americans started to

toes when the summer comes and you run round in open sandals or round cach cuticle again, scrub off

with the hly non-religious music, too: and exploit the fashion as they did twenty- where there's rhythm somebody is five years ago.

thoroughly, With the result that the air is full expose your feet on the beach. bound to start dancing.

of fal

fakc Jazz

Now take your collon-wool and people talk gibly learned Gradually the neyro

You will need a good pair of clip- pers, which you can get for a few place a good thick wad between each play instruments-the trumpet, the about "swing" this and that, ne they

talked of

of "Jazz" when they trombone, the clarinet,

shillings from your chemist or the toe so as to make all the toes stand the piano, formerly

surgical department of any start on your nail varnish, first on one out apart from each other. Paint and, long afterwards, the saxophone, meant "popular music.'

"Swing," Smith can tell his friends

board; orange stick; emery and this new dance music invaded the ballroom.

for those who like jazz, is the differ-

brush while lodine in oil; a little foot, then on the other, then if the

a Arst

is dry give coating is once between rhythm and tempo.

peroxide; plenty of cotton wool; a A-Beethoven symphony under one--ittle bowl of soupy water and a rub- coating to the first foot and a second conting to the other foot. Leave the conductor may be played very cor-

ber nail brush." rectly at the right tempo and sound

If you want to have a luxurious cotton-wool in place until the var- pedicure you will add tale powder nish is absolutely dry.

Spray your feet with the eau-de- this to dry.. Dust or deodorant powder, and a small scent spray filled with good cau-de- Cologne. Allow Cologne, the same varnish you use over the tale powder or deodorant

powder. Anger nails, or else

the

п

WIEY called #t Jazz. dull as dishwater; under another it synonym for several things will have (at the same tempo) rhythm In the language of the South-3 matter, if Smith likes, of life and era negro, but generally believed to death! Rhythm, like lite, isn't learn-

famous "Charles," refer to a

or ed; you're born with it.

One point Smith may like to make "Chaz," who played in New Orleans. That's just another, theory.

is: How, if "populer song" is not Jazz, however, was never written jazz, can a band make a "swing downi. Tunes just came to be, as number" of it? folk-lunes do; or they were im- The answer to this is that precious provised on the spot, generally on little of the "popular song" remains if harmonic foundation of the it is going to be jazz. The melody "blues."

and harmony are used as an excuse. Then the white people started to as pegs to hang an improvisation on

Jews. The title and the statement of the organise jazz and exploit it.. Russians, Irish, Germans and the rest tune are a means of attracting the of the races that are America took public-like Hollywood making a film it up In a big way, and devised of a best-seller. something quite different-modern The author gets a credit, the public popular music.

is attracted, and then a lot of people 1010, Smith must remember, get together and turn into some Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1861 the drawing-room ballad had begun thing quite different.

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