Not Made in N.Z.
[HERE were Shirley and Doug; Shirley singing and Doug playing piano with string bass and drums to back him up. That was from 3YA, but it might have been from KNX California for the first quarter minute’s listening, then the small departures from tradition became noticeable. Jazz comes from America, It is made by confident young people who wear startling clothes and: from earliest youth call their parents by their Christian names. There is no such thing as New Zealand jazz. So any New Zealander wanting to make good jazz, or, if you don’t like the word "good" there, wanting to make what is said in America to be good jazz, must make it as it is made in America, down to the last inflection, That is a pretty tall order, and
Shirley and Doug didn’t quite rise to it. For myself, I must confess to divided feelings. I like good jazz and I like New Zealand. If Doug had played the piano as well as Tatum I should have been happy, as a critic, but as a New Zealander I should have listened with misgiving to the background rumble of another American wave breaking on our
unprotected beaches.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 10
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