Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned the listener into a performer is a sometime jazz drummer named Irving Kratka, who ten years ago launched a small record company that prospered briefly in the early LP boom. When business started to wane. Kratka recalled Columbia's earlier, unsuccessful "Add-a-Part" series on 78-r.p.m. disks, decided that the added convenience of LPs might make the idea work. At first, Music Minus One recorded chiefly classical releases, began to rake in the profits when it added jazz. It omits every instrument in the orchestra but the harp, often makes a single piece of music available...
Growing out of the Dixieland revival in the mid '50s, the trad jazz boom has soared in the past year. A dozen new clubs are formed each week, new bands constantly spring up, trad numbers are all over the British hit parade, and even the stately BBC has begun to show its hips: a new TV series began last month, called The Trad Fad. With a clear and poundingly straightforward beat that avoids the more intricate mathematics of modern jazz, trad centers in such items as Tiger Rag and Cushion Foot Stomp, but often goes absolutely daft with kick...
...Trumpeter Bob Wallis. 27, gave up a career as a marine engineer to lead his Storyville Jazzmen into the trad boom, dressed in Stetsons and cutaway jackets and looking like the fallout from a Buttermilk Sky. Most trad jazz goes back only 35 years or so. but the Storyville septet has a bestselling version of Mozart's Alia Turca...
...Paul's Church was built in Aspen, 60 miles across the mountains, when Aspen was a booming mine town instead of the ski-and-culture resort it is today. In 1908, after the boom's collapse had emptied it, the church was moved to Marble, which was having a boom of its own. St. Paul's belonged to the Episcopalians, but after Marble's once famous quarries*closed down, in 1941, the Episcopal Church stopped using it, and other denominations - Roman Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, United Brethren, Dutch Reformed, Mor mons - worshiped there from time...
...Labman. On the strength of the bicycle boom, Honda set up the Honda Motor Co. with capital of only $2,778, and five years later began to produce motorcycles. Today Honda Motor Co. is capitalized at $25 million, employs 6,000 workers in its three plants on Japan's main island of Honshu. The Honda family controls 15% of the company's stock, the firm's employees hold another 30%, and the remaining 55% is publicly held...