Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austin kids first heard New Orleans jazz when a copy of the Friars Society Orchestra "Tin Roof Blues" found its way into the juke box at the Poodle Dog, which was the local version of McBride's without the beer...
...program notes were issued at the brief concert of November 9, 1927, but if you've heard a McKenzie-Condon record you know it was jazz, and the boys didn't give a damn who found out. It was direct and to the point--strictly six men ganging up on a flock of instruments in a fight to the finish...
However, for jazz with the stops out, this crowd gets my vote every time, except maybe when you spin a 1923 King Oliver or a 1925 Armstrong plater on your turntable. Which is as good a way as any to alienate your landlord, unless he, too, longs for the days when the New Orleans-in-Chicago Soicety of Upper State Street held regular meetings with the Cook County Choral Conclave and Jubilee Singers, better known as the Chicago Rhythm Kings...
Among the fringier gents of the "give it hell" school of Chicago jazz is Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with...
...George Avaklan, who is one of the country's leading jazz critics and the man who produced so many good records for Columbia and Decca that even he hasn't got 'em all, enjoys nothing better than reminiscing about the old days in Chicago. He freely admits that during those old days he was in New York and somewhat unaware of the joys of gin, Jazz, and allied pursuits; but then Gibbons never met the Caesars, and at least George knows the Chicago boys as their mothers never did. This is the first of what's tending to become...