Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selections are uneven, but at its best the album offers a fascinating sample of some fine, forgotten talents (including Billie and Dee Dee Pierce) and an evocation of the smoky nights when the splintery little dance halls used to shiver to the oldtime barrelhouse love laments: "Ah got mah big fat momma/Mah li'l skinny momma, too/Yes, mah li'l skinny momma/She knows just what...
Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass (Metrojazz). On one side of this disk, Tenor Saxophonist Rollins silhouettes his dry, spare sax sound against a textured curtain of trumpets and trombones, with striking effect in such numbers as Who Cares? and Far Out East. On the other side, backed only by bass and drums, he noodles his way through a series of willowy inventions (on Manhattan, Body and Soul) as continuously surprising as a meandering country road...
...seemed a lost cause when General Abdul Karim Kassem swept to power last summer. Never one to give up easily, Gropius last January flew to Baghdad himself with plans and models, found, to his relief, that Premier Kassem was enthusiastic.* Kassem's only cavil: the university was not big enough. Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students...
...Hotel the foreign-born element in his chorus line is the spice of the show ("People enjoy talking to them"). So last month Minsky* took off on a recruiting trip to Europe, returned last week with a report that was part showbusinesslike, part sociological. Said he: "Europe is one big striptease. Hamburg looks like 52nd Street in the wild days; Paris is one strip joint after another...
...whether it was what they went through in the war, or what, but they aren't what they ought to be." Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there's no taste to their numbers. They just strip. All those great big girls lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn...