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the year in jazz
Still another war year, with draftings, worry over whether musicians, were safe from enforced shifting into essential industries, etc. . . . Possibly trends of the time: Benny Goodman dissolved his band; King Cole well-started on his phenomenal rise . . . Orson Welles had a jazz band — Kid Ory's — on his West Coast radio show . . . Jimmy Noone, Bob Zurke, Rod Cless died . . . Juan Tizol left Ellington for Harry James . . . Dave Tough, out of service, joined Woody Herman (who was still playing the blues) . . . Roy Eldridge with Artie Shaw.
Record ban officially 100% over in November, as Victor and Columbia signed with union, reportedly were penalized for prolonged hold-out . . . Norman (Jazz at the Philharmonic) Granz held the first of innumerable jazz concerts, in Los Angeles . . . Billy Eckstine organized and took on tour a band that included Dizzy Gillespie, many other to-be-famous bop names . . . Eddie Condon's Town Hall concerts a regular radio feature . . . Billie Holiday and Red Allen were names that were big on 52nd Street and in Chicago . . . Spanier, Brunies, Parenti all with Ted Lewis . . . Commodore released two extremely different records, and each made a splash: the 'Brunies-Davison High Society/ That's a Plenty; the Eddie Heywood Begin the Beguine . . . The Record Changer two years old.
jazzman of the year: BUNK JOHNSON
Ernest Borneman's brilliant series, "The Anthropologist Looks at Jazz," was a landmark in jazz writing. It was the first example of the "scientific" approach to jazz criticism and was of tremendous importance in stimulating the ever-growing flow of serious scholarship in the field. The first of this provocative series, which eventually ran to more than a dozen articles, appeared in the April, 1944, issue.
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Bunk's first few new sides had created little stir, but A.M. records like this one (and the many that followed) struck a whole generation of young musicians and jazz lovers with an impact that is still undiminished— and will be felt for many years to come.
THE SAINTS
BUNK JOHNSON
(American Music)