Word: hepness
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Interviewing the Count at 9 o'clock will be hep-cat Charlie Miller, who, when presented with a stereotyped interview-script made out by Basie's press agent, scoffed, "Heck, man, I don't need this stuff; I make my own conversation...
Except for an occasional nightclub outing with Dixie, he spends his evenings at home with the family telling the boys bedtime stories in Crosbyesque slang. One night Little Red Riding Hood finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
...last six years I've been on the road and the radio with my dance band and that way you keep pretty well in touch with the public's taste. We hope that as a result our music will be especially hep. Take that "Go Away Blues" in the first act. That's a legitimate boog tone with five lyrics: and it's a very comfortable eight boater. You watch the audience tonight. I think you'll see that they really...
...Cellist Alan Shulman, who does the arrangements and has written two original pieces for the group (High Voltage, Mood in Question), and his brother Sylvan, a violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...
...strutted up and down the stage, the king of Hi-de-ho. Cab Calloway soon got over two thousand hands "booging it" in time and later yielded to demands for his "Minnie the Moocher" and a few minutes of "Hep talk...