OUTLOOK FOR JAZZ
The twilight of tho day of jazz is seen by Dr. James Cooke, of Philadelphia. While attending a meeting of sponsors of a national society to promote music and other arts, in an interview Dr. Cooke described jazz as a “•corruption of syncopation” from which “the public already is beginning to turn away.” "It is in its twilight,” Dr. Cooke said, “because of its deadly monotony. There is a thin lino of melody in it, under which there is the bump, bump, bump of tho African jungle.” He said he foresaw the rise of “music of a finer melodic type and bettor structural background”—even for synco pated dancing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 11
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111OUTLOOK FOR JAZZ Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 11
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