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...leaden. At Easter, when his father, an art teacher, was packing up some of his own canvases for the annual Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, he suggested that Paul send in something too, and Paul chose Water Lane, Richmond. "Have a bash." his father said. "You've got to get used to disappointments...
...they ever turn professional," said Bandleader Stan Kenton, "I know a lot of guys who aren't going to like it." He was standing in Notre Dame's sprawling field house, where 200 cats had all but blown the roof off in the hippest college bash of them all-the second annual College Jazz Festival. When the musicians packed their instruments and headed back to their campuses last week, they left the panel of five judges- convinced that college combos these days are playing some of the finest and freshest jazz in the land...
...Navy's latest proposed stratagem is simple: a bash on the head for every gooney. But chances are this plan will never really get off the ground. First of all, it will take the Navy at least five years to purge the birds: young gooneys leave Midway shortly after birth to wander, return only at the age of five. Furthermore, back in the U.S., outraged conservationists have organized a concerted protest to Congress against the projected slaughter...
...hipster lingo, a "bash" is generally a jazz combo's one-night stand. Any bash that lasts as much as two nights is in danger of becoming a festival. Last week, under a hot July sun, jazz festivals started erupting across the land. As usual, the major hostilities started at Newport. Now in its sixth year and still the most prestigious of the lot, the Newport festival regularly attracts the royalty of the summer circuit -Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, et al.-at fees ranging up to $4,000 a package. The festival...
Author Henderson's literal translation -"Old pond:/ frog jumpin/ water-sound" -mirrors the surface picture beneath which lies Poet Bashó's elusive hidden meaning...