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Bandleader Artie Shaw had tried feeding long-hair music to shorthair audiences (in Manhattan's Bop City-TIME, April 25) and wound up, at least figuratively, "with egg on my face." But he had learned a lot: "Let's face it, I was being pretty rigid...
...last month it was announced that Louis Armstrong would play a three-week stand at Bop City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...
...time she got through Caravan, everyone knew Mary Lou was feeling all right. She had always relied more on her piano than her personality, and this time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...
Singer Sarah Vaughan, the "Bop" girl, was at the Chez Maurice; Roger Dann, "the young Maurice Chevalier," was at the Gayety vaudeville house, where Stripteaser Lili St. Cyr had just finished a four-week run. Besides the Gayety, there were strippers at the Roxy, Rockhead's Paradise and the Café St. Michel...
...band, one of the first to play bop (two of his musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker), ended in failure. He gave it up when a booking agent, "one of those guys with the whip," jumped the band from Los Angeles to Baltimore. From there on, he went it alone...