Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, erstwhile leader of the jazz-famous Five Pennies, got some publicity in the rat-ridden little California town of Albany. The Mayor had called for a good extermination plan. In an attempt to pied-pipe the rats, Nichols started tooting his trumpet in the center of town, started marching toward the Bay. A few children and photographers were all that followed...
George Putnam was 19 when he told his mother that he was going into radio. Said she: "You talk all the time anyway; you might as well get paid for it. Station WDGY, in Minneapolis, took him on as announcer, jazz-record-player, occasional vocalist. He built up a sizable following of jitterbugs for his record program, White Heat, enrolled many a hepcat in his White Heat Club of America. When he moved across the river to St. Paul's station KSTP, Minneapolitans remembered him chiefly for the double talk he ad-libbed between records. It sounded something like...
...know of us," he says, "is what, you read in the newspapers. . . . All we know about you is what we learn from those big businessmen who live and grow wealthy in Argentina for 30 years without ever learning the language. Or we see your terrible movies-sex, loose women, jazz, gangsters, stupid slapstick comedy. How can you understand us, or we understand you, without effort...
Frankle Newton, Vic Dickerson, Al Morgan, and Arthur Karle were featured at the Harvard Jazz Club's fourth jam session at Dunster House last Saturday. The band was in fine fettle and the afternoon turned into one of the best sessions in the series...
...miles out of town, it takes all day to get the band down and back and you have to give them two meals. You got to have a hall or a park. You got to worry about transportation of all the instruments which are a lot more than a jazz band. You got to hire a truck. You got to insure them instruments. Then you got workmen's compensation. It's a lot of headaches...