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the year in jazz
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The war was the big news of the year . . . Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, hordes of sidemen, all departed for military service . . . The pattern for nearly four years: a manpower shortage that put big bands at a premium, boosted small combos . . . The War Production Board, facing a shellac shojrtage, slashed record production . . . Benny Goodman was still the big swing band . . .. But Harry James was packing them in at L. . A.'s Palladium . . . Red Norvo's septet, at the Famous Door, the hottest thing in New York . . . The Watters band made its first sides ... A new label — Capitol — made its appearance . . . Old Bunk Johnson, with new store teeth, recorded for Jazz Man . . . Charles Edwood Smith's Jazz Record Book published.
James Petrillo, " in August, called the AFM's first record ban . . . Bunny Berigan, Charlie Christian, and Jimmy Blanton died . . . Barney Bigard and, later, Ivie Anderson left Ellington . . . Willie Smith made a long jump from Lunceford to white, sweetish Charlie Spivak . . . Stan Kenton's N. Y. C. debut a flop . . . Ditto for Fats Waller's Carnegie Hall concert . . . Jess Stacy left Bob Crosby for Goodman . . . At year's end, the draft-riddled Crosby band faded, was taken over by Eddie Miller . . . Cozy Cole ended his long stay with Calloway . . . Dewey Jackson reformed his riverboat band . . . Kid Ory began playing again . . . The Okeh label was revived . . . The Record Changer was born.
jazzman of the year: LU WATTERS
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In July, 1942 — almost exactly ten years ago — the huge single sheet reproduced in part on the facing page launched* The Record Changer. It was an apt name; publishers Don Wilson and Gordon Gullickson's original purpose was only to provide a medium in which collectors could list records wanted or for disposition. It was not until the end of the year that the first editorial matter (a column of comment by Gullickson) made its appearance.
RECORD OF THE YEAR
One of the outstanding sides from the first Watters dates — the earliest work of the powerful band that literally created, and nurtured, the West Coast jazz revival.
CAKE WALKIN" BABIES
LU WATTERS
(Jazz Man)