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When they are working in combos, G.I. musicians are allowed to play the kind of music they themselves prefer. Since most of them are young draftees, musically well educated and hep as any hipster, their soldier audiences are treated to a repertory of numbers and arrangements more advanced than most Stateside bands would play for fear of scaring away cash audiences. But Army audiences also get the tunes they want, though sometimes in experimental arrangements. The tunes they wanted most last week were You Belong to Me, Why Don't You Believe Me?, Dancing on the Ceiling, Wish...
...hep. But hep is no longer quite a hip word...
...jobs, soon began teaching. It was after bebop came along, in the early '40s, that Tristano's new ideas took form. He made a few recordings for Capitol; none sold more than a few thousand copies, but Lennie's name got around. Some records reached hep listeners in Europe, where he is now an advance-guard favorite...
Proceedings began with dignity, with Senators in clean tropical suits looking urbane and trading splendid compliments. But there was an occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether...
Rebel knows enough music to play the piano and sing passably, but she has had to learn or invent a whole new vocabulary while spinning records for hep soldiers. Now a saxophone is always a "goldenrod," playing a trumpet is "scraping the ceiling," drums are "kettles" and violins are "angel music." When not talking about hot & sweet records, Rebel tries to strike a fine balance between sentiment and bathos, because "our purpose isn't to make them lonesome, it's to make them happy...