Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author (I use the word advisedly) of the article "The Weed" (TIME, July 19), a subtitle to your Music (?) column, arbitrarily dumps jazz musicians into two categories. He gives us the hopheads, the drunkards and, unfortunately for the future growth of American jazz music, no middle road...
...shut your eyes you would bet she was a man. But last week's audiences at Manhattan's Downtown Cafe Society lad their eyes open. They heard a sinewy young Negro woman play the solid, unpretentious, flesh-&-bone kind of jazz piano that is expected from such vigorous Negro masters as James P. Johnson. Serene, reticent, sloe-eyed Mary Lou Williams was not selling a pretty face, or a ow decolletage, or tricksy swinging of Bach or Chopin. She was playing blues, stomps and boogie-woogie in the native Afro-American way-an art in which...
...Chicago's Grand Terrace, Kansas City's Lone Star and Los Angeles' Paramount theater. And while the band backed up Mary Lou, she backed up the band. She wrote most of its arrangements, and many of them (Roll 'em, Froggy Bottom, etc.) are classics among jazz players. One week she got down 15 scores and, all told, she provided the Clouds of Joy with 200. With them she has made dozens of Decca records...
Boston, as we have been howling for the past few weeks, is a jazz desert. Art Hodes is undoubtedly good, but Lawrence remains inaccessible except for the hardiest hikers and most jazz-starved enthusiasts. And the commendable plans of a group of Lowell House Freshmen to import bands for series of Saturday afternoon jam sessions are destined to be stillborn unless an angel appears suddenly...
Because of its non-habit-forming character, doctors have recently been experimenting with the drug as an aid in curing opium addiction. In the world of hot jazz, marijuana's relatively benign effects are attested by long experience. Lushes often die young from cirrhosis of the liver or apoplexy, often spend their final days in delirium tremens. But vipers frequently live on to enjoy old age. In You Rascal You, a viper addresses an imaginary lush : "I'll be standing on the corner high when they bring your body...