Show American Jazz Leaves Stamp on London's London s Music Popularity of Bleating Tones Replaced by Rhythmic Drags LONDON LO March tarch 20 29 UP UP- UP Pick Tick cin cm up and la lay hay cm enu down n learn th tho razz ma tazz l lt t me give Ivo you yon a n. we wont won't be horn homo until everybody's o full of ot Jazz bo In that ln lovin hovin land of ot Jazz Ten years ago London dipped an and rolled to Its first real taste of oC Jazz music the tho ol old original blatant br brassy A bleating product manufactured lured In tho the United States and ex exported cx- cx ported to all all- parts of or the tho world worM The laughing trombone tho the screaming tho the cornet cornel mu mut muted d with witha a derby or a tin can can the thc trap hap drummer drummer drum drum- rum rum- mer with his cowbells cymbals fly flyswatters flyswatters swatters und and steamboat whistles tho tattooed banjo with a hundred autographs on Its face fac the squeaking squeak ln trig ing clarinet the tho violin courageously tr trying to make e itself heard above the din I Jazz throbbing rhythmic pul at- at fn Ing music now dimmed to suit A a. slow Ilow drag until the tho blending of r rI brass ass anti and reed was barely audible I above e the tho regular pulse puls of or the bt bass baits c drum then loosed in In all the the- fur fury fur ofa ofa of ot ota a one one step t p or a Paul Jones Joncs I London lO lost t h hf her r dignity so SQ did 1 Franco France and Germany German the tle world goes round to the sound of or orthe the lie International Rag Ilal London went round roun and round from Crom Mayfair Mayfair May May- fair to Limehouse causeway The Jazzmen of time the new world Spec ht Ted Lewis the pioneers r in a new world orIll of or music I brought ht their sleek young joung men 11 1 and 1 their now new rh rhythm and melody to London N 1 Nc w now new combinations ions startling new noises soothingly soothingly sooth sooth- In h new melodies The craze for tor smashing crashing crashing- music passed jazz became softer oCter more civilized as 15 it gained in years eals ant and rl- rl ence London's craze for this new music has never nc been heen satiated and probably proba hi bly never A wm he be The En Englishman n loves Ions to dance and dances will never tr a again ain enJoy thin the popularity it gained here In the early postwar r years year ear en t blamed for fIO PO sO man many things in tho the British islet isles really regulates the lie jazz programs pro In England's hotels hotel cabarets and theatres The fortunes QC of En English musicians have havo been none too good goodIn In recent years cars rind and thousands of tiC them hera lost host their jobs with tho arrIval arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival of QC canned nned music and th the thA talkies With Pith tho the mu music mURle Ic market glutted lutted with unemployed n native ar artistes ar- ar tistes s it has become hocomo increasingly h difficult for tor foreign bands to get Jet booking bookings Se Several Seral ral American bands nd at ar lucre hero last fast year and more will be over o with tho the spring and th purists but when thc they lila play in hotels or restaurants an equal number nun num her ber of or British musicians will be em ent- m.- m. S There aro are a few faW of ot tho the original Jazzmen left in England They came over with big bands or th theatrical theatrical the the- troupes liked the tho country and Ii in III some cases ses organized bands or established sta small rackets of or their own Th Time They may be seen Inthe in tho the bars of oC Leicester square or the afternoon drinking clubs off otC Shaftesbury Shaftesbury Shaft- Shaft ebur avenue Americans wilt will be found found In important positions in publishing pub pub- lishing houses and recording labora labora- tor tories es The They still retain tho touch that I is not common property out- out I sido the land of oC jazz |