European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R it Peewee Russell and his clarinet popular music Back Home Hast changed the same familiar bands play the new hit by Al mine yank staff writer when a critic in the new York Herald Tribune panned Benny Goodman Clari net playing As flashy and a neighbourly critic in Chicago Down beat mag Azine promptly panned the trib Man for making the most asinine remark of the none of which is of any great importance it is simply typical of the growing popularity of this popularity is so great now that jazz who used to stand together ruggedly against the classicists of have now split into two fairly Large warring one school will listen to nothing but spontaneous Dixieland combinations the other favors larger groups and More complicated such stalwarts of the Dixieland school As Trum Petman Muggsy Spanier have gone so far As to forcibly eject that throw out on the can anti Dixieland critics from Nicks combination jazz shrine and night club in new the anti Dixieland critics go about their own Brand of mayhem by writing polite and poisonous articles inferring that All Dixieland musicians refuse even to share Kennel space with their fortunately nobody is getting no blood is being no Bones Are being broken and the great majority of the jazz musicians you used to like to listen or swaying in front of the bandstand with your still making the Battle is mostly one of fans and the leading big bands now Are Woody her Duke Ellington Lionel Benny who broke up his own band for the umpteenth is a featured performer in Billy roses super the seven Lively but the Maestro is said to be thinking of turning Over his Rose Job to Raymond Scott and making another Stab at the band Ellington has been the standout of the the whose mood indigo you hummed 10 years is going Strong both As a composer and a he won the Gold medal jazz award for presented by Esquire and accepted it at a concert with All the trim mings at new Yorks Carnegie the Dukes Carnegie whole n a that is for the great pity is that we cant show you the color of Lucille balls famous Blue eyes and Strawberry red hair to go with it a few vital statistics she is 5 feet 6 inches weighs 120 was born in Mont thinks Bette Davis is the Best actress in her next Star ring role will be in mems without length of the stage Back of the band was packed with a Peculiar combination of straight jazz and jazz dolled up symphony presumably for the the All happiest listening to oldies like it dont mean a if it aint got that swing and new popular tunes like dont you know i care they got a Little fidgety when the Duke launched into More pretentious perfume suite and excerpts from a musical history of the negro Brown and it was a solid and the Duke showed that his band could absorb the loss of men like Cootie Williams now on his own and Juan Tizol valve now with Harry James without any serious other recent jazz doings at Carnegie Hall have been the concerts of Eddie Dean of Eddie has been making a shambles of the sacred stage of Carnegie since three years ago when he first featured the late Thomas fats Waller on the he draws a less respectful crowd than but they represent much the same Cross maybe this time with their wraps there is the same seasoning of gis in the and a few of them sit in with the various combinations Eddie whips the Condon concerts Are a very exceptional grab bag out of which Eddie plucks a few Choice Jackson on Max Kaminsky on Kansas Fields in Navy blues on Lou Mcgarity another Sailor on trom Bone and Bob Haggart on Eddie introduces the announces the number to be gives a three and settles Down to playing with them and his As soon As one number is his Bow tie fluttering like the antennae of a rare pulls an entirely different group of hot artists out of the grab bag and starts a new the whole business is Impromptu and Condon keeps his selections strictly on the Dixie i wish i could Shim my like my sister Kate and a Breezy Assumption if you dont like what the hell Are you doing at his concert in the first place his audiences like it and Carnegie shut particularly at moments like the last num Ber of his january series when he had three five four three Clari four two three basses and lord knows what All else blasting the rafters and the customers at these concert appearances High spots and unusual spots in current most people still get their jazz As they always in ballrooms and night Flavoured with the cigarette smoke and the stale drink smell that Are almost a part of the or from the radio switched on automatically while dressing in the morning or washing the dishes in the or from the Juke boxes in bars and drug the names of the bands in the ballrooms and the clubs Are almost the same As the names you saw three and even four years Hal for is playing in Chicago and Freddy Martin in los Jerry who got into big time Only a few years is in new and so Are Jimmy Tommy Erskine Hawkins Guy Vaughn Monroe is at the palladium in Holly Wood and Woody Herman is at new jerseys famous Miff Peewee Muggsy Spanier and Bob Casey Are the drawing cards at Nicks in new though at this writ ing Miff is Laid up in the one reason All these band names Are so familiar and no really new band has come into the Lime Light is the most of the younger musicians Are fingering bars instead of and even those who have Hung onto their instruments Are tooling them in service one of the newest individual stars is Lou Mcgarity of the who still gets an occasional Chance to slide his trombone at Jam he plays a Strong Mas Culine a Little like George Brunis now Back with Ted Lewis in Chicago but without Georges one new launched about a month draws heavily on exse vice Ray and Gil who served together in the old Ben Pollack in Bob Crosby bobcats and in the coast hatched this new combo after they were Dis Gil was thought to be the main organizing brain of the Crosby Crew and plays the same role he is handling sax for a while but is expected to drop out and concentrate on management once things get Bea Ducs name will be a big draw to fans who remember ram part Street Parade and big noise from win the rest of the band is mostly discharged gis who got their training in Camp orchestras and As Long As they can resist the impulse to give out with a hot Retreat or to the colors they should catch where you will find new names is in the list of song titles All these bands Are screw Ness has always been a trademark of hit tunes from the music goes round and around to Mirzy and the present hit Parade is no the Andrews Sisters launched a number called rum and coca cola which is leading popular Ity lists everywhere except in the radio one reason for this is outside record pro nobody in radio seems to want to give coca cola free the song is a Calypso Type modelled on ditties of and in some versions it gets very sexy carib bean gis will dont Fence me a Cole Porter Western introduced by Bing is another and accent Chuate the a moral lesson by Johnny is going the Squirrel est of current Jukebox hits is Spike Jones cock tails for the roughest treatment that senti mental Ballad Ever the Jones version has been popular on the air for some now that you can buy records once since the lifting of the recording ban by musicians Union Leader James its a retail Best on the conventional and romantic the songs you would be most Likely to put on your turntable just Sefc a you dim the lights on your Honey Are lets take the Long Way Home which has nothing to do with military rotation and a Little on the lonely there Are also i dream of saturday night is the loneliest night in the week and in making All of As you might chiefly suitable for humming into Young girls ears or for being hummed into your ears by Young preferably one at a just to restore sanity there is a Catchy thing entitled one meat All about a Man who has Only 15 cents and cant get a slice of bread to go with his meat Ball in a snotty try this one in your mess sergeants some of the Little Dixieland bands play one meat Ball and some of the big name bands play and the customers like both of meanwhile the critics continue to fight Over what is jazz and the increasing bitterness of their verbal battling is about the Only outstand ing change youll find in jazz As it is this change of address Scriber and have changed your use this Coupon together with the mailing address on your latest yank to notify us of the mail it to the army 205 East 42d new York and yank will follow you to any part of the full name and rank old military address order new military address allow 2 Days for change of address to become effective