Word: gaillarde
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...Orleans youth was in the grip of something called Voutian, a way of life given to the world by a jazz musician named Slim Gaillard. Its practitioners called themselves Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks...
Duel Control. In Paris, Jean d'Asparbes and Rene Gaillard dueled ferociously for 15 minutes, finally appeared to cut each other's arms, later confessed that the blood oozing from their wounds was ketchup applied by face-saving seconds...
TIME, March 25, made some rather misleading statements regarding "Bebop" music, Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, "Slim" Gaillard, and modern jazz in general. The impression you gave was that all lovers of hot jazz are zoot-suited marijuana-smoking characters who stay up till the wee hours of the morning saying: "Zoot! You're as mellow as a cello, 'gator, let's have some mellow-rooney jive...
...definitely not overheated jazz with dirty lyrics and doubletalk. It is a word for ultra-modern jazz, such as "Dizzy" Gillespie and others play. . . . The type of music played by Hipster Gibson, Slim Gaillard and others of that type is not really...
Angelenos young & old promptly loosed a flurry of brickbats or bouquets, according to their convictions. Slim and The Hipster were unruffled. The Los Angeles nightclub where the two play was more crowded than ever with teen-agers anxious to be bebopped; Gaillard got an invitation to play on Bing Crosby's radio program. Said The Hipster: "I do shows at high schools every week. . . . They don't seem to think there is anything degenerative about...