Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of the new Council of the Union (House of Representatives) and Council of Nationalities (Senate), delegates from rustic farms downed scorching vodka and wolved caviar with delegates from thundering factories. Hot jazz blared and later the springs of many a de luxe hotel bed groaned under the hulks of exhausted peasants...
Fearing that the recent pictures in the Collegiate Digest may have added to the misapprehension which, it seems, jazz cannot escape, we hope that you may be able to print this explanation...
...have nothing to do with phrases like "hot harmony," "killer-diller" or "swing." We call it jazz...
Utilizing jazz rhythm, the work calls for a great deal of variety of percussion instruments, and for its melodic passages, three saxophones and a Hawaiian guitar...
...oeuvre to solider stuff. To the surprise of conductor and orchestra. the staid audience stomped, clapped and howled its approval. Within the next three years approximately 500 performances of the work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands more by every conceivable combination of instruments, from jazz bands to harmonica ensembles. Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths gaped incredulously as this symphonic work began to outsell their own best sellers. U. S. lowbrows who had never heard of shy, hermit-like French Impressionist Maurice Ravel sang, hummed, whistled and danced to his Bolero...