Word: cab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real "hot" jazz will be shown as coming from Negro performers like mad Buddy Bolden-free-lance trumpeters, saxophonists and trombone players who started the hot jazz cult which today has such heroes as Cab Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good...
...Richard Le Gallience and Frank Harvis and his marvelous talk, G. R. S. Rarmsworth starting the "Daily Mail", and always Grant Atlen, young Richards uncle by marriage. There were rather milarious parties given by the brothers zangwill from one of which a large crowd returned in a hansom cab. Will Rothensiein on the roof and Phill May doing a great deal about driving the horse. And there was a group of literary men who gathered at the Crown Cub. The book ends at the beginning of Grant Richards' so distinguished career as a publisher. "Being twenty-four", he remarks...
...Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left knee, motor-deafness that lasted an hour...
...crowd of kids from sixteen to twenty than I would before a crowd of middle aged folks. That's the truth. The younger generation are saying alas and alack with Mozart and the rest. They want something lively, and sentimental. Some time ago I toured the South with Cab Calloway--we played before crowds of these southern debutantes. They almost wont crazy over the hot stuff. Why, after the dances they used to crowd around us to get our autographs, and honestly, there was always more of a group around Cab, even in the South, than there was around...
...Durham, N. C. tobacco warehouse, a dance where Manhattan Negro Cab Calloway and his Negro band were playing for a Negro dance, was crashed by several hundred jazz-crazy Negroes. Calloway told his men to stop playing, pack up their instruments. The mob threatened to gang them if they did not play again. Police escorted Calloway & band out while Negroes jigged to no music for two hours...