Word: gutbucket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that the Russians enjoy their jazz in small groups in the privacy of their homes. They discovered only one place that approached a formal jazz club-a small cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found...
...raised his hands. Softly he blew into the instrument half-hidden between his palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There was no need. Haunting as a train whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub seemed as big as a concert stage...
...Mikado with Katisha as an opulent, raucous blues singer, and of a Los Angeles Yum-Yum yodeling "stark naked in her bath." Soon Crusader Alderley began to get reports from the U.S. (where G. & S. operas are not protected by copyright) detailing even more flagrant abominations: a "gutbucket" Mikado with a "hula-hooping" chorus, a "disgusting performance" of Patience with "Bunthorne played as a pansy...
...tale about four villagers who steal the moon from neighbors, carry it to their graves, finally lose it to St. Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such unorthodox sonorities as a chorus singing through megaphones, a shrieking oscillator, an accompaniment of organ, harmonium, piano, celesta and wind machine. This occasionally blurred performance has its strongly moving moments, but many listeners may feel that Composer Orff's moon has set before it has fairly...
Miles; Capitol). Jazz Singer Miles pours out a gutbucket of raucous sound, notable mostly for the second chorus, sung in gargled French...