Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra was showered with flowers, Associate Manager Carlos Moseley reported: "The whole hall stood and cried 'bis' in some funny way that sounded like hundreds of birds cooing." Bernstein managed to steal a few hours to visit Chopin's home and drop in at a jazz club for a jam session. The party broke up at 3 a.m., and Lenny was accompanied to his hotel in a long, gay, noisy procession that dispersed only after scores of students of both sexes kissed him farewell...
...wonderful thing about music is how it manages to filter past the most heavily soundproofed door. Though U.S. jazz as such is not officially banned in Russia, the culture commissars take pains to ridicule it as "bourgeois decadency"; concerts are nonexistent and nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and sale of U.S. jazz records is taboo. But last week two topflight U.S. Negro jazzmen just back from a month-long trip behind the Iron Curtain had news that the Russians not only know all about U.S. jazz, but play it with fervor whenever Big Brother is not looking. Jazz Pianist...
Undercover Cats. Musicians Mitchell and Ruff have the credentials to know. Both are fine classical musicians (Mitchell played with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ruff has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale) who formed a jazz duo and split their time between lectures and nightclub dates. In Russia, traveling with 30 members of the Yale Russian Chorus on an informal tour, the pair made contact with the young musicians of the Moscow Conservatory, gave an impromptu concert, and were introduced around to Russia's undercover cats...
...found that the Russians enjoy their jazz in small groups in the privacy of their homes. They discovered only one place that approached a formal jazz club-a small cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found...
...others (15 others) with slang of every vintage-words and phrases which, in the imagination of Author Shulman, ricochet along high school corridors in 1959. Dobie starts out safely enough, tells what "bugs" him, what's "a gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds...