TEMPO di JAZZ

Radio Record, 7 August 1936, Page 10

TEMPO di JAZZ

HERE is a possibility that Duke Ellington may try a new form-a piano concerto. It is about time another work was produced to succeed Gershwin’s Piano Concerto. "FAZZ is what you hear on the wireless after the stuffy people have gone to bed." -Definition by a noodern girl. HE brothers Van Eps, highly talented sons of a talented father, wrote, a little novelty in "Stop, Look and Listen," which has finally come into ‘well-deserved popularity on the other side of the world. "PATS" WALLER, negro pianist and dance band director, is said to be absolutely irresistible in his current film, "King of Burlesque." "THD latest bid for popularity is the far-famed Hungarian "suicide song,’ which, divested of the morbid aura wrought by extensive publicity, wouldn’t stand a Chinaman’s chance of attaining even a meagre amount of success anywhere. "PSE A-MUGGIN’" has been termed the illegitimate offspring of an African tribal chant and the multiplication table! Sounds somewhat fearsome! PEAKING of Ray Noble, an American critie says it is still a matter of some conjecture whether or not he should ever try to play hot. Being a musician of extraordinary versatility and inventiveness, he can accomplish the not-inconsiderable feat of duplieating the styles of half a dozen bands in just one record. STANLEY NELSON, London film critic, waxed caustic over a mistake in "Follow the Fleet." In one of the scenes the audience is invited to listen to dance music ostensibly played by the ship’s "outfit" of seven players, which could only have been produced by at least twenty musicians. Stanley is an observant lad, "GONG OF THE ’CHLLO," a new number by Jack Hylton and his Orchestra, has come in for a bit of a roasting. Its tune, says one critic, is only notable for the fact that its first sixteen bars, its principal theme, in other words, is boldly lifted, note for note, from Beethoven’s "Sonata Pathetique," for piano, which makes it easily the most bald-faced, shame‘less tune-theft for years. Under the circumstances the very least the fellow could have done would have been to acknowledge its derivation by some such procedure as calling it "That Beethoven Melody of Love," or worse, However, he chooses to lead us intu believing that .the sublime melody streamed from his own creative mechanism, and it is barely possible that he is getting away with it, worse uck,