Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naval Reserve Lieut. Eddy Duchin, peacetime bandleader and silk-smooth jazz pianist, was made an antisub warfare officer aboard a vessel of the destroyer escort fleet. One of his jobs: analyzing the unmusical notes produced by a subdetector...
...also infiltrating into the Crimson Network. Corporal Bob Glaubor, dilettante extraordinaire of the ballet, is conducting a weekly program, Mondays at 8, on music of the dance, while your favorite SERVICE NEWS columnist (modesty forbids closer identification) gives you the inside stuff on le jazz hot every Thursday at 9. (Reefers will be distributed to the mailboxes of all vipers half an hour before each broadcast. Bring your own hypodermic--we'll provide the gin. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1906, as amended, will be in effect at all times. Time and Life please copy...
...original Mound City Blue Blowers; and, of course, Art Hodes, at the piano. College musicians are urged to sit in with the band and make the affair a real jam session. But whether or not you play, you shouldn't miss this. There hasn't been any such jazz in these parts for months...
...good news from Leverett is S/Sgt. George Avakian, famous jazz critic, writer, collector, arranger of recording dates, and contributor to this column, has made arrangements to do a series of "Jazzmen" programs every Thursday night at 9 o'clock over the Crimson Network. For the next three weeks, starting this Thursday, S/Sgt. Avakian will discuss the Chicago Jazz Album which he did for Decca three years ago, taking it session by session, and showing the development of the musicians, styles, and numbers involved. Recorded music is entirely different from live music, and with a man like George Avakian running things...
...records Waller began to sing as well as play, and in his expressive mouth the inane words of a popular song often came in for very searching satirical treatment. In 1929, in collaboration with Guitarist Eddie Condon and a small but vital ensemble, he made one of the greatest jazz records of all time: The Minor Drag and Harlem Fuss...