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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JANUARY 7, 1922
THE KNELL OF JAZZ RUNG AGAIN
Chicagoans of Various Types Comment Upon
the Passing of Jazz Music
ShemanJiiay & Go.
CHICAGO, I I I . , January 2.—The papers take a
slam at jazz music whenever they get a chance.
Rightly or wrongly, we do not attempt to say, but
have you noticed the unusual regularity with
which these articles have appeared of late? Un-
derstand, we are not attempting to defend jazz
music, but when the Chicago papers announce
that jazz is over, forever dead and buried, we
are called upon to announce this as untrue. We
have evidence of our own ears to the contrary.
Be it known to all and sundry that in the places
where jazz music originates and is popular it is
as thriving to-day as six months or a year ago.
It is true enough that the jazz fox-trot is losing
somewhat in popularity in the East, but this is
not true of the West. In Chicago (speaking for
the majority) jazz is still alive and the fol- " 'If music without jazz were played at dances
lowing article is all wrong:
and the fact not mentioned to the dancers, I
"Jazz music is moaning its own death lullaby. doubt whether the difference would be noted,'
Its cacophonic syncopation is pounding the nails she said.
in its own coffin, so to speak. Soon it will be
" 'Jazz undoubtedly fs passing,' said J. Louis
only a memory and will have entered the limbo Guyon, dance-hall proprietor. 'As for its being
of departed things to which John Barleycorn, missed, my personal opinion is that the persons
5-cent movies and corner what-nots have been who dance to jazz haven't enough intelligence to
consigned. Moreover, the tribute of mourning know whether jazz or a Hungarian rhapsody is
will not be paid it.
being played. Jazz has been overdone. Its
"These prophecies were made to-day by demise is assured'."'
authoritative persons—the head of a musical col-
lege, proprietor of a public dance hall and a dean
TO RENEW WRITERS' GUILD
of women at a co-educational university, where
dances form a prominent part of the social pro-
The Lyric Writers and Composers' Guild of
gram.
America, organized many months aback, but
" 'The jazz era is nearly over,' said Felix which discontinued its activities owing to the
Eorowski, head of the Chicago Musical College. depression in the music publishing field, has
'It will not be long until jazz is only a memory. made a recent effort to revive activity. How-
The increased popularity of the waltz, when it is ever, the two recent attempts to hold meetings
impossible to dance to jazz, is one proof of this. failed through lack of quorum. Another attempt
Jazz has been overdone and therefore it must to hold a successful meeting will be made shortly
die. It has been overvulgarized. The pendulum after the new year.
always swings as far in one direction as it does
the other.'
BEHIM JOINS HARMS, INC.
"Mary Ross Potter, dean of women at North-
western University, prophesied that jazz soon
Arthur Behim has been added to the profes-
would be, indeed, only a memory on the univer- sional staff of Harms, Inc. Mr. Behim is a well-
sity campus.
known figure in the publishing field.
"She said that dances without jazz had been
TWO SONGS JUST OFF THE PRESS
tried and found successful, and that she doubted
whether the dancers themselves were able to tell
"There's
a Little Lass in Scotland"
the difference when jazzless music was played.
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