Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish army convoy at Al Auin near the western coast of the Spanish Sahara, even tougher tribesmen were reported taking up arms against Madrid's rule. They were the towering, long-haired R'Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial borders in warlike contempt...
...version, color demanded cameras three times as bulky (and balky), and the engineers had to "paint" constantly with their control knobs to cope with changes in lighting and color temperature. Their pains reproduced some vivid ballpark atmosphere. The grass sometimes turned Kentucky blue and the shaded areas filled with indigo murk, but improved equipment averted the blind shadows that plagued the first (and only previous) color Series...
...Edward Kennedy Ellington, jazzman, composer, and beyond question one of America's topflight musicians, is a magic name to two generations of Americans. His Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, and countless other dreamy tunes have become as familiar as any other songs since Stephen Foster. As jazz composer he is beyond categorizing-there is hardly a musician in the field who has not been influenced by the Ellington style. His style contains the succinctness of concert music and the excitement of jazz. His revival comes at a time when most bandleaders who thrived in the golden...
Even accidents were turned to advantage. One day, when only half the band arrived for a recording session, a new distribution of voices was evolved on the spot to make the few sound richer. The tune was Mood Indigo, and the broad-spaced trio at the start became one of Duke's sound trademarks. Other tunes lay fallow in the band's books until somebody set words to them and they caught on, e.g., Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Any More), Concerto for Cootie (Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me). Ellington...
...Rosemary Clooney and Bandman Duke Ellington. The Duke's crew is in a lush mood, and Rosie sings her swingingest-despite the fact that she sang the lyrics on the West Coast and he played in Manhattan. Taped at her best, in such famed Ellington originals as Mood Indigo and I Got It Bad, she actually sounds like that late princess of vocalists, Ivie Anderson...