Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jazz, Harvardians like Eddie Duchin, the Casa Loma orchestra, and Cab Calloway. Ellington is a classic here: people come in and buy his records of two years ago. Such men as Reisman and Lombardo no longer sell as they used...
...blizzardy afternoon ten years ago Paul Whiteman asked New York music critics to listen to an "experiment in modern American music." The critics expected nothing but jazz which they thought had no business in a formal concert hall. But Whiteman had a surprise in store. He played George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and the critics forgot their prejudices. As a result Gershwin started writing for symphony orchestras. Symphonic jazz became epidemic and ''experimental" concerts a Whiteman specialty...
...expression of happiness. They slouched, two pairs walking slowly side by side, chained together at the wrists, the odd man lurching along alone, around and around the small roped-off circle before the spectators. Around and around they went, slowly, slowly, sometimes to raucous noise from a jazz orchestra, sometimes only to an inner rhythm of their own, around and around, slowly, slowly. The members of the audience kept close watch on those five faces, haggard with six months fatigue, indisputably young but drawn and lined beyond the power of rice powder and rouge to conceal; the audience watched...
...style with my band, or at least have a little individuality," Rogers explained. "There's lets of room for improvement." Operettas on the stage, and musical comedies on the screen are still, in the actor's estimation, the types of music most liked by the public. He agreed that jazz was leaning towards the classics...
...other Soviet bigwig to say anything, scurried around Moscow buttonholing Russians at random on the streets, reported that most of them beamingly commented "Ochen horosho!" ("Very fine!"). In the big Moscow hotels, the National and the Metropole, tourists who were dancing to the Russian idea of U. S. jazz when the news came in cried "Whoopee!", ordered more vodka and Soviet champagne...