Still a Floozie
HY do they try to do it? Jazz was brought up in the honky tonks of New Orleans, and the music still doesn’t fit into a genteel mould. Yet well-mean-ing people go on trying to make a marriage between jazz and third-rate art music. Paul Whiteman tried for years,
and made a good deal of money, Gershwin tried spasmodically, and succeeded better than most, but was much more at home with pop tunes, The other night, from 3YA, along came Mantowani’s Orchestra, with solo pianist
Art Young, and a "thing written by Donald Phillips called (yes,. another one) Concerto in Jaz%. I listened dutifully to the trills and tinkles and blares from the brass, I hadn’t heard it before, and, who knows, this time the trick might have been pulled. But it wasn’t
_jazz, and I don’t think it was a concerto. Jazz remains .a comfortable floozie, and concerti remain concerti.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 526, 22 July 1949, Page 11
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157Still a Floozie New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 526, 22 July 1949, Page 11
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