Word: calypso
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...telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers a vast additional library of musical lore from West Indies calypso to Ghana folk tales...
...audiences' delight, he occasionally switched from Dixieland to the "high life," calypso-like melodies much favored in Africa, which Armstrong calls "the home country." Said he: "These cats are solid." Accra Municipal Council Chairman E. C. Quaye greeted Armstrong by pouring a pint of Scotch whisky on the ground as a libation to the gods, and chanted: "Akwaaba [welcome]." Satchmo's answer: "Yeah!" Then, in turn, he poured a fifth of Scotch on the ground, lamented: "I don't know what they say, but I'm sure it's going down the wrong...
...like her hero, most readers will succumb to Author Tracy's finest creation: nubile Candida Firebrace, a velvet-eyed Calypso shouter whose hymn to the Christ Child runs...
American jazz was first imported in the 1920s, and became "enemy music" to Japan's generals in World War II. Western music came back deafeningly in the U.S. occupation. In the years since, Japanese fans have staggered through the big-band beat, calypso, rockabilly and other crazes. Beginning last year, modern jazz, progressive and otherwise, has taken over the joints. At last count, Japan has some 3,000 union-registered jazz musicians noodling away at the out sounds of such current favorites as Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. They have even picked up the lingo, and added...
...light blue humor. To help their predominantly collegiate and post-collegiate audiences identify with them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close-cropped hair and a deceptive Social Studies i-A loo, they strum guitars and banjos, foam like dentifrice, tumble onto nightclub stages as if the M.C. had caught them in the middle of their own private party...