Jazz a "Torture in Hades"

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 12, 3 October 1930, Page 6

Jazz a "Torture in Hades"

Judge’s Strong View A PROPOS requests made by several correspondents concerning. a "jazz week," the following views on ‘modern dance music éxpressed recently by an Irish judge may prove of interest. During the hearing of a case in Dublin, in which complaint was made of a — ee i ee ee ay

_- ~~ jazz band performance by the occupier of a room in an apartment house,’ the judge remarked: "There. will be a particular department in hell, and there will be nothing in it but jazz bands, gramophones, loudspeakers, and motorhorns all going at the same time. People who had these things in this world will be listening to them’ for all eternity"" "I call a jazz band,’ he concluded, "a form of hell."