Word: dixieland
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...other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...
...years the Metropole featured a mid-Victorian atmosphere, with small crystal chandeliers dangling from its stucco ceiling, and a Gay Nineties revue on its narrow platform. When febrile '54 lost interest, the café took a flyer on jazz, tentatively signed Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland & Co. Since then, the Metropole has parlayed its music and saloonlike atmosphere into one of Manhattan's most successful jazz slots. The clientele is as mixed as a parade crowd: servicemen, college kids, tourists, jazz fans, a few unattached girls, and some times such celebrities as Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska and Crooner Eddie Fisher...
...fall the other nations' contributions. London Broil is the title given a fine series of moods (S'Wonderfid, April in Paris), in a style only as old as yesterday, by Johnny Dankworth's and Jack Parnell's big bands. There is also some happy, unspoiled Dixieland by Freddy Randall's gang (Carolina in the Morning). The Angel series bows to Paris in an album called Le Jazz Hot, with the late Guitarist Django Reinhardt. It then picks up a newer style in Jonah Wails. Jonah...
...Court follows the advice of Southern spokesmen, it will grant at least a five or ten year "period of adjustment" to Dixieland schools before pressing integration. The U.S. Solicitor General has suggested flexibility of less sweeping import; he would give the Federal District Courts wide discretion in enforcing de-segregation in what they deemed the shortest practical time. In striking contrast to these arguments, however, the able attorneys for the NAACP have spoken vigorously for a Supreme Court decree that would proclaim "immediate integration of all Southern schools." The massive evidence of sociology that has engulfed the Court...
This year Capp is back. Other professional entertainers are nightclub singer Karter, the Jazz Workshop Quintet, and Buell Neidlinger's Dixieland band. In addition, the Smoker will present the Wellesley Widows and several freshman acts, including the Doozipaars, Freshman Glee Club soloist Frederick Brozer, folk-singers William D. Chapple, Michael C. Kenin, and Richard H. Zaffron, and the mimics...