Word: jammin
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...taking this course, mahn, you no way be jammin'. You be most unhappy, mahn, like if the sheriff set your dreadlocks on fire. The reading be too long, mahn. Every page is drier than the Sahara and longer than Bob Marley's sacred dreads...
...Jammin' the Blues (Warner) is hailed by Walter Winchell as "a new sort of camera teknik." On the Warner lot, too, people have a feeling that the picture may bring short-subjects a new lease on life...
...saxophonists swung into "Honey-suckle Rose." "Whoa-boy," yelled Fats, "the joint is jumpin'." He explained this expression by saying that it meant a Harlem night spot crammed with well-liquored joy-seekers, with a swing band jammin' it. He further explained that the Big Apple, which he is featuring on the RKO-Boston stage with his band, originated not in the South, but right in the Savoy ballroom in New York City...
...boys got ready, and went into a wild jumble of hot rhythm. A clarinet player popped up somewhere and made his instrument screech an improvised sing-song. Fats, his tremendous bulk bobbing in time, shouted hoarse encouragement to his boys. With a final, incomprehensible flourish by the saxes, the jammin' stopped. "Dose cats can take yo' socks right off yo' shoes," gasped Fats...