Jam Session
O viewsreel commentators do not listen to anything less than a symphony? Smarting under the correspondence column suggestion that we spend our hours too long on the peaks I listened the other night to the studio dance band from 1ZM. The band started merrily enough, but having roused my expectations and set my feet tapping it had to dash my hopes by switching to the incongruity of a sentimental violin solo, "To a Wild Rose." Soon afterwards I was stuck in a jam session on "Lady Be Good." Now a jam session, I gather, is properly an improvisation and to be successful-successful, that is, as an item of interest to a radio audience-it must be done by players who are technically proficient, possessed of a lively imagination and also quick in the up-take. Otherwise improvisation rapidly becomes impoverishment. The 1ZM band were veer enough, but their jam could ave done with a bit more cooking. Their programme avoided the more lugubriously offensive examples of modern dance numbers, but I wonder how devotees reacted to a mixed grill of foxtrot, sentimental violin solo, jam session, old-time waltz? Perhaps it was all jam to them, for the proof of the pudding is in the eating; and I did not dance.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 9
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210Jam Session New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 323, 31 August 1945, Page 9
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