Word: dixielanders
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...chorus line of 36 barelegged beauties on skates swirled in synchronized precision over the ice rink in Indianapolis' State Fairgrounds Coliseum. They wore sequined leotards and yellow-feathered headdresses, and they dipped and swooped together to the ricky-tick tempo of an 18-piece band playing Dixieland. Fireworks sparked near the roof girders, and a family-trade crowd of 4,320 oohed and aahed. This was the finale of the Holiday on Ice show's first night in Indianapolis-a Mardi Gras production number...
...meeting of Thelonious Monk, a musical revolutionary, and the Dixieland clarinetist Pee Wee Russell was a flop. There is little enough in common between them, and Monk was uncompromising. It was Russell who had to do the adjusting, and in the process his watery tones lost whatever vitality they might have otherwise had. The concert closed with the 21-piece Stan Kenton orchestra...
Duke Ellington is generally regarded as one of the two or three greatest figures in the history of jazz. He showed why he deserves his reputation Saturday night. None of the usual labels apply to the Duke. He doesn't play Dixieland, he doesn't play bop; he plays a brand of music which is his own, and which has survived decades of fads. Although he uses techniques which have gone out of style, such as the wa-wa trumpet mute, Ellington never sounds dated. It is not so much that he has changed with the times; the times...
...suddenly, people started to take Cassius seriously. Boxing had been a bore for years-ever since the retirement of Rocky Marciano, a real, hairy-chested puncher. The mobsters and their stable of dull pugs were driving the fans away. But here was Cassius, young, handsome, as brassy as a Dixieland band. He raced around like a candidate for mayor in every city he hit, appearing on radio, TV, grabbing headlines by the handful with his talk about how "great-real great" he was. "The only ones I send away," he grinned, "are those guys from the little radio stations-they...
...Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself no longer. He produced his own saxophone and ended the evening noodling away at various Dixieland selections while Buddy Bohn supplied the obbligato. Bohn invited Bhumibol to renounce his throne and hit the road too. Bhumibol paid Buddy's passage to Hong Kong instead...