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Then I searched for the exit. While I filed out I heard one red-cheeked girl of 12 or so remark, "Did you see how he danced? I was ballin in my seat...
...Cellar of Babel. Tennessee banjo pickers and American Negro folk singers take their turns with such musicians as a Sudanese oud player and a Japanese painter who sings improvised melodies to verses from Confucius. One night's program may include everything from a down-home treatment of Ballin' the Jack to a Yugoslavian dirge, and there is even one Italian folk singer whose songs are collected in the best ethnic tradition -from peasants, workmen, and lifers in an open-air prison in Sardinia...
Boston burlesque died a painful, bawdy death on Saturday night, when the roaring of "Ballin' the Jack" brought the white certain down for the final in Scollay Square's Casino Theatre...
...version of It's a Lovely Day Today or wander placidly through Bix Beiderbecke's jazz classic, In a Mist. Then he changes his pace. As Sutton explains it, "When the crowd gets with me, I begin bearing down." Sutton, bearing down on such ragtime standards as Ballin' the Jack or Maple Leaf Rag, delivers some of the solidest gutbucket piano being pounded out today...
...king Oliver, of Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. . . . Only at the Dixieland Room of the Copley Square Hotel can Bostonians hear such half-forgotten jazz classics as "Muskrat Ramble." 'Jazz Me Blues,' Ballin' the Jack,' 'Come Back Sweet Papa,' or 'That Da Da Strain'." On the other side will be included a note to the effect that the musicians will be happy to answer questions concerning their music and earnestly request that they do not be asked to play "People Will...