Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blessings come doubly this week, from Lowell and Leverett. The good news from Lowell is that the Art Hodes band, which S/Sgt. George Avakian raved about in this column two weeks ago, will be down from the Lawrence Hofbran for an afternoon jam session in the Lowell House dining hall, Saturday, August 14, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The band's young drummer, William Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring...
General Sir Bernard Montgomery, who, back home with his cricket-captain son David, had lately made a picture of English summertime contentment, was in a jam when his Fortress ground-looped on a Sicilian airport about the size of a cricket field. Thoroughly shaken up but uninjured, the General "took it like a good sport," said his pilot...
Among jazz fans, and they seem to be plentiful on both sides of the quadrangle, the super colossal attraction is the appearance of a body of top-notch improvisers at Lowell House. Art Hodes and Mezz Mezzrow head the list of jam specialists, so don't be surprised if you see a mad dash in the direction of Lowell House right after inspection...
...efforts of the Lowell Freshmen purists are all the more commendable. They're well on their way toward obtaining the necessary angels and permission, and some Saturday soon they hope to have Art Hodes and his band, including Mezz Mesirow, down from the Lawrence Hofbrau, for an afternoon-long jam session. As Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller used to say, "Freude...
Jelly's sister: A jam...