Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodman is 67 years old. He made his name playing clarinet and leading a big band in 1935, adding a contagious beat to the style of big band jazz and making it a rage. Goodman was among the first to send recordings to the top of the national hit charts when they became an institution in the '30s. The King of Swing still plays foot-stomping music with smoothness and style. His old fans have not forgotten him, and his name has not been lost on later generations...
...guitarist, Cal Collins, jazzed in and out of the bass-line. A few heads in the audience nodded. Then pianist John Bunch took it alone for a little while, his hands roaming the keyboard like dancing spiders. The audience listened. Bunch stopped and drummer Connie Kay toyed with the beat. A few heads started bobbing. Then Kay stopped and all four jumped in. Heath plucked a bass line, Collins picked around it, Bunch's spiders danced on top, and Kay drove it along. More heads bobbed. Knees started bouncing up and down. The conversational woman behind us started tapping both...
...time Buddy Tate brought in his alto sax and Warren Vache his trumpet, the audience was flowing with the beat. The last two fleshed out the beat and sailed it out into the hall. The sextet did not trifle with its tunes. Each man handled his instrument like a fifth limb and together they wove the beat into a spell. But the show was still Benny Goodman's, and they called intermission early to bring him on for the second part...
...network journalists on-camera has nearly doubled, to 25. While Barbara Walters was making headlines with her $1 million-a-year contract at ABC, three women moved into newsreading jobs. NBC assigned two women to cover Capitol Hill, and ABC and NBC put women on the prestigious White House beat...
...date, he has never taken a vacation longer than a weekend. And. of course, he will always have his college. Right now, Jones is building a new house a mile away from his present residence on campus. He jokes that his faculty friends are planning "to beat a path to my door for dinner." If they don't, "Prez" will certainly beat one back to Grambling...