Original sentence: At the time he was popular, his recordings were critically popular and commercially successful at the time.Whiteman hired many of the best white jazz men for his band, including Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Steve Brown, Mike Pingitore, Gussie Mueller, Wilbur Hall, Jack Teagarden, and Bunny Berigan
Edited sentence: Before Whiteman, musical arrangements were very cut-and-dried, with much repetition.Modern revisionists might look back and say "that wasn't the True Jazz", but his notions were critically popular and commercially successful at the time.Much of what his band played hasn't been considered "true" jazz by later generations.Others reject these notions, and regard Whiteman's music as an interesting development in jazz history.Paul Whiteman was primarily responsible for revolutionizing the dance orchestra and dance music after World War I.Prior to that time, dances were played by military bands, string ensembles, or small combinations.This innovation, combined with the jazz elements mentioned above, plus his insistence on using top notch, concert-calibre musicians, made Paul Whiteman's orchestra a vanguard force that changed the face of popular music in the 1920s.This set a standard for instrumentation that defined the dance orchestra, and remains in big bands to this day.Whiteman and Grofé introduced arrangements that instead of repeating, changed keys, textures and rhythms over their course, much like symphonic music.Whiteman appreciated jazz musicians and hired many of the best white jazz men for his band, including Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Steve Brown, Mike Pingitore, Gussie Mueller, Wilbur Hall, Jack Teagarden, and Bunny Berigan.Whiteman gave them constant chances to improvise, paid them top salaries and encouraged them to make small band jam recordings on the side.Whiteman was also one of the greatest of all talent scouts.Working in 1918-19  with arranger Ferde Grofé and in parallel with fellow San Francisco bandleader Art Hickman, Whiteman introduced the saxophone section as a musical unit of equal weight with the brass