Word: bandstand
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...rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn. And Rex himself clambered halfway onto the bandstand to hear him better. As George Frazier of the Herald would say, it was "jazz all over the place...
...first Tribune, 15 on the second, grew to be a massive, silver-haired Buddha of first nights. For more than a quarter-century, he waged an acid campaign for maturity and subtlety on the stage-and in the audience. He developed a prose style as ornate as a Victorian bandstand, used it for the elaborate puncturing of the phony or the inane...
...specimens, probably the first thing he'll tell corded since 1931. Why, after all, it you is that no good 'Jazz has been rejust goes without saying. These were the days when the jonky-tonks were so filed with smoke that you had to cut your way to the bandstand with a lawnmower and the plane was out of tune and all the keys were busted except two but oh boy, was old Clubfoot Moe inspired and inviolate and sensitive that night, J, of course) and wouldn't play for just because he loved Jazz (with a capital money, after...
Outdoor rallies were rained out, with a lone student showing up for the traditional meeting at the Parkman bandstand in Boston Common...
...Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...