Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie; the thin, sparse sax playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead of on improvisation; the Jerry Mulligan quartet; and today...
Compared with the smallest of the Braques, Afro's immense canvases seem slight. They do reflect facility, sensitivity and a highly personal approach, but somehow their content never quite justifies their expansive delivery. On the other hand, each modest Bonnard still-life, like Vuillard's little Woman in Green, voices far more substance in truly elegant chords of brilliant color...
...offer will probably be refused by Red China, Worthy thought, since "they will want to get a little more political propaganda out of the situation." Worthy, a reporter on the Baltimore Afro-American, defied the ban on China travel this past winter...
...Oslo. Between Bates and Oslo, Worthy acted as a public relations assistant to A. Philip Randolph, President of the Sleeping Car Porters Union and now a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. During this time, he received help in his work from the staff and editors of the Afro-American, and when he went abroad, he began sending dispatches to that paper...
...correspondent for the Afro-American, whose circulation is greater than any other Negro newspaper, he has covered the Asian Socialist Conference, the Korean peace negotiations at Panmunjon, and the Asian-African conference at Bandung. He has traveled as extensively as any American reporter can behind the Iron Curtain...