OW many people in using the word " jazz " have paused to consider what it actually means l In the first days of "jazz "in this country we...

Mr. Darewski plays with his usual delicious deftness and swing. These piano solos are as "danceable " as any jazz band.

IAST month we saw that on the whole the rhythmic jazz singers make a good showing on the Agramophone, and I propose now to take some

Bigg, which appeared in a recent number of THE GRAMOPHONE. When the writer ridiculed the usual high-brow comment that all " jazz " is "an...

AS an exponent of the most modern forms of what for want of a better name is known as " jazz," I suppose that I come in for more argument...

iN America they call him the Daddy of Jazz. He gave us a stimulating syncopated cocktail recently at the Albert Hall, and for two hours...

DEAR SIR,—I am a member of that necessary evil, the General Public. Musicians sneer at us because we prefer jazz to Stravinsky and...

I was very glad to find amongst my pile a record by Sophie Tucker (Parlo. R.3455) : What'll you do ? and There'll be some changes made....

One of the most wide-spread uses of the gramophone is for providing dance music. Every month new and more exciting dance tunes are...

THE statistics of the claner' records issued this month certainly support the theory of a writer in The Observer of June 28th, who says :...

NEW RHYTHM STYLE SERIES. No. 5. Louis Armstrong's Hot Five: Ain't misbehavin'. No. 6. Tom Dorsey (trumpet): Tiger Rag. Parlophone R462.

I RECEIVE a good 111any letters like the following: I have been trying to find out what the modern composers are "getting at" and up to...

DEAR SIR,—In his review of the H.M.V. record of Eric Coates's Selfish Giant, played by Jack Hylton's Orchestra, "K. K." seems to be in...

To read the article was to feel at first trepidation, then amusement, then sympathy. Finally one seemed to look across and "see " him...

DEAR SIR,—May I, very briefly, say a word of thanks, make a complaint, and issue a challenge concerning matters raised in your May issue ?

DEAR SIR,—The discussion which is going on at present in THE GRAMOPHONE is a very welcome manifestation of the liberal and catholic...

DEAR S,—Your correspondent in "Anonymous Critics," of June number, asks what "K. K." suggests to other readers. To me, he sounds...

DEAR SIR,— . . . I really think that the time has arrived when strong comment should be made about the surfaces of records,...

Master Addash,—I do not know how old the young man may be, but he is described as a boy, and his photograph shows an engaging youth of...

Chris Hall (871) a.ndWalter[Miller (878 and 879) are stalwarts of the cheap Radio list; clean diction and good voices, but far too heavy...