Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country. And no matter how pleasant Deoley Wilson at the Mayfair and Arthur Fielder at the Pops may make "As Time Goes By," they don't play jazz...
...Calloway is more a matter of taste-a haberdashing showman who is bound to worry the discriminating by tearing the passions of jazz to tatters. Lena Horne sings with high lavender virtuosity, and audiences will divide on whether she is truly elegant or merely too refined. Katherine Dunham's pretentious ballet troupe is also likely to split the vote...
Reference your column "Jazz, Etc." on page 6 of the July 6 SERVICE NEWS, suggest you investigate the Hofbran in Lawrence, Mass. I understand Art Hodes is there with a small band, personnel unknown. S/Sgt. George M. Avakian...
...newly arrived jazz-lover, whether V-12 or civilian, might as well resign himself right now. Boston just isn't the jazz hub of the universe. The best jazz that can be found a present is the series of Sunday afternoon jam sessions at the Ken, on the corner of Tremont and Warrenton Streets, just beyond the Hotel Bradford. Last Sunday the Ken featured Pete Brown and the Jones Brothers, a local trio with an overdoes of vibraharp, with Cecil Scott's house band in the background. The same group will probably be there next Sunday. It's not particularly...
...Francisco, Harry Bridges, fiery, Australian-born longshoremen's union leader, was pleased to announce that under his auspices fellow jazz addicts could now regularly hear the resurrected, 63-year-old New Orleans trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson and other barrelhouse veterans who played with him at a San Francisco jazz concert in May (TIME, May 24). Time: every Sunday afternoon. Place: the C.I.O. hall. Admission: six bits and a membership card in the Hot Jazz Society. Said Bridges: "That Bunk is an American institution...