From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: CFD: Enough Interest Out There To
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:54:39 GMT
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

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In article <will.725036283@ogre>, will@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (William Sadler) writes:

> So what is the _true_ 20s-30s sound?  

I hope that any new group, if one is deemed necessary, will permit discussion
of classic pop as well as jazz.  That said, the _true_ 20s-30s sound might
include but not be exclusive to

        Irving Aaronsen, Henry "Red" Allen, Ambrose, Ivie Anderson, 
        Andrews Sisters, Harold Arlen, Louis Armstrong, Gus Arnheim, 
        Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Josephine Baker, Charlie Barnet, 
        Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, Ben Bernie, Boswell Sisters, 
        Al Bowlly, Fanny Brice, Brox Sisters, Chic Bullock, 
        California Ramblers, Cab Calloway, Eddie Cantor, 
        Hoagy Carmichael, Benny Carter, Casa Loma Orchestra, 
        Carmen Cavallaro, Maurice Chevalier, Chocolate Dandies, 
        Nat King Cole, Russ Columbo, Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, 
        Billy Cotton, Noel Coward, Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby, 
        Dolly Dawn, Vaughn DeLeath, Marlene Dietrich, Johnny Dodds, 
        Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Cliff Edwards, Duke Ellington, 
        Ruth Etting, Alice Faye, Gracie Fields, Shep Fields, 
        Ella Fitzgerald, Roy Fox, Jan Garber, Judy Garland, Geraldo, 
        George Gershwin, Caroll Gibbons, Jean Goldkette, Nat Gonella, 
        Benny Goodman, Glen Gray, Adelaide Hall, George Hall, 
        Lionel Hampton, Annette Hanshaw, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Haymes, 
        Chick Henderson, Fletcher Henderson, Harriet Hilliard, 
        Billie Holiday, Judy Holiday, Leslie Hutchinson, Jack Hylton, 
        Ink Spots, Ipana Troubadours, Al Jolson, Isham Jones, 
        Dick Jurgens, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Helen Kane, Gene Kardos, 
        Hal Kemp, Andy Kirk, Gene Krupa, Kay Kyser, Frances Langford, 
        Sam Lanin, Gertrude Lawrence, Lotte Lenya, Ted Lewis, 
        Beatrice Lillie, Sydney Lipton, Guy Lombardo, Joe Loss, 
        Jimmie Lunceford, Jeanette MacDonald, Wingie Manone, 
        Jessie Matthews, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, George Melachrino, 
        Ethel Merman, Glen Miller, Mills Brothers, Irving Mills, 
        Carmen Miranda, Helen Morgan, Russ Morgan, Jelly-Roll Morton, 
        Bennie Moten, Ozzie Nelson, Red Nichols, Ray Noble, 
        King Oliver, George Olsen, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 
        Jack Payne, Molly Picon, Ben Pollack, Cole Porter, Don Redman, 
        Leo Reisman, Harry Reser, Rhythm Boys, Harry Richman, 
        Paul Robeson, Ginger Rogers, Adrian Rollini, Harry Roy, 
        Savoy Orpheans, Ben Selvin, Artie Shaw, Nat Shilkret, 
        Bessie Smith, Jabbo Smith, Kate Smith, Whispering Jack Smith, 
        Spirits of Rhythm, Lew Stone, Jack Teagarden, Arthur Tracy, 
        Frank Trumbauer, Sophie Tucker, Rudy Vallee, Van and Schenck, 
        Fats Waller, Waring's Pennsylvanians, Ethel Waters, 
        Chick Webb, Anson Weeks, Ted Weems, Mae West, Paul Whiteman, 
        Lee Wiley, Victor Young 

> The
> history of jazz in this country is not comprised of discrete jumps from
> one style to the next. 

Perhaps not, but there's no denying that the sound of the sweet bands of the 
20s and 30s is quite different from that of the swing bands that followed 
them.  Also, there's no denying that the umbrella of jazz encompasses a 
number of styles that at first listen would seem to bear no relation to each 
other.  The evolution may have been in small increments, but those small 
increments add up to some giant leaps.