Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risk of being called a blankety-blank purist, I have changed the name of this column from "Swing" to "Jazz." As one of my many belated acts, I hope to remove the stigma of a name which has, of late, become thoroughly unfitting to the contents...
Brewing in the realm of dim possibility is a series of six epochal jazz concerts, under the title of "Cavalcade of Jazz." When and where and how, nobody knows, but one of the biggest agencies in the country is handling the affair, and after the success of the Ellington and Kirby concerts, such a grandiose idea may bear solid fruit...
Each concert will be devoted to a special type of jazz, and will be headed by a "master" of that style. Eddie Conlon is handling Chicago, Sidney Bechet New Orleans, Mary Lou Williams Kansas City Meade Lux Lewis boogie, and Art Hodes barrelhouse and blues...
Born in Tyler, Tex., Dooley Wilson trouped at the age of eight with Western medicine shows and circuses. Some time between 1910 and 1914 he went to Manhattan, where he sang with the late James Reese Europe's historic Negro jazz band, which was a feature of the A.E.F. during World War I. When Jim Europe was stabbed to death by his drummer after the war, Dooley Wilson formed his own band abroad, toured from Paris to Casablanca and Port Said...
...most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date...