Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ones, like the Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Medtner works that had Manhattan concertgoers holding their breath last week. He had also found plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), Heifetz grins: "I've divorced that fellow Jim Hoyl" (his Tin Pan Alley alias...
...imposingly robust: on one festive occasion he and three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare little Arthur-and Mother Doyle soon fixed that by offering her son the hearty advice: "Wear flannel next your skin...
Such decentralization, Perkins said, would not only ease the jam in city residential areas but would succeed in making the current building program more than just a restoration of pre-war conditions in housing...
...small hope that they need not give up to boredom. Perhaps, he speculates, bigger & better telescopes "will show us sights that will cause a complete turnover of present ideas concerning the universe." Or perhaps electrons and protons will turn out to be not "elementary particles" but small, intricate worlds jam-packed with new and fascinating problems...
...lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...