Word: dixielanders
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...Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel is reopening Friday night with Charlie Vinal's Rhythm Kings, the only dixieland jazz band in eNw England. The venture is being backed by Dick Schmidt of Milton and two Harvard servicemen who hope that Army, Navy, and Marine students stationed around the campus will drop in, if only to be helpful...
...artistic investment. Many folks around town have volunteered their services in putting the band across--John Bergen, Cambridge artist, has begun a series of cards to be placed at the tables as part of a promotional scheme aimed at people who aren't quite sure of what dixieland jazz is all about...
...Saturday nights, with a Sunday afternoon musicale a l'improvisation--beginning this Sunday with a 3-to-6 session. Informality is to be the keynote, since the first customers are expected to be friends of the musicians or folks already indoctrinated to a few of the delights of dixieland jazz. However, anyone wandering into the Copley Square will have an opportunity to find out something about the music he'll hear, because along with the informal atmosphere (musicians and listeners mixing freely and discussing the music, weather, war, and T. S. Eliot between sets) will be explanatory cards at every...
...idea. A guy who never heard jazz before meanders into the room for a drink and is assailed with 18 choruses of "Sensation Rag." Ordinarily, he might think "Ki-rist, what the hell is this?" but a little card on the table explains "You are listening to dixieland jazz. . . This is the music of gay New Orleans, of Buddy Bolden and king Oliver, of Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. . . . Only at the Dixieland Room of the Copley Square Hotel can Bostonians hear such half...
...Sunday, Monday and Always." Or you can dance to "Paper Doll" from juke joint to $1.50 cover without any trouble (aside from $.90 for a week highball). But it's the hardest thing in the world to find any place that will serve you. "Tin Roof Blues,' "Original Dixieland One Step," and "Fidgety-Feet," especially with chummy program notes...