Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild Bill Davison, famed hot trumpeter, and his pianist, James P. Johnson, will come in from their current engagement at the Ken tonight to play at the Network jam session in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room at 7 o'clock...
Sunday afternoon another big jam session will be held, this time in Symphony Hall. You needn't be worried too much about the acoustics, as they have a fine public address system with plenty of mikes. In addition a screen will be erected behind the performers so that the music won't echo around the bare stage...
Last week's deadline prevented getting in the news about the jam session at the Hotel Bradford this past Sunday. (It was half good and half bad.) Assets: Coleman Hawkin's superb tenoring, the tremendous drive of Pete Brown's alto, and J. C. Higginbotham's tromboning. Debits poor acoustics which murdered the ensembles, and Red Allen's attempts to be entertaining and run the whole show. Another session will be held soon, and we promise to let you know this time...
...monster jam session at the Bradford Sunday was too often just monstrous. Considering that the affair was a daring experiment, it was by no means a disappointment. Close to a thousand people proved beyond any doubt that there is a large audience for jazz in Boston, provided, of course, that the jazz is of a well established variety...
Unlike most price-cutters, Pan Am and Panagra did not reduce rates to get more business-they already have more traffic than they can handle, practically all flights have long waiting lists. Instead they cut rates after CAB held a closed session with airline operators, broadly hinted the jam-packed U.S.-Latin American airlines were making too much money-especially in wartime. Next to get a similar hint will be U.S. domestic airlines, which hiked profits over 100% in the first nine months in contrast to a 30% decline in general corporation profits...