Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team that is tackling this job for you is headed by Editor Wilder Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...
There to a symphony orchestra which rehearses downstairs, a jazz band that makes life miserable one flight up. The undergraduate Student Council has its offices there; so does the local draft board. Service may not yet be cradle to grave, but it is well...
...prices, gaudy floor shows and influx of sidewalk trade; but the swish East Side clubs are going almost as strong. Variety reports that headwaiters, disguised in overcoats, stand outside two East Side clubs, being choosy about the guests. The Village is booming also. Only the smoke-filled, low-ceiled jazz spots that sprang up while Manhattan had swing fever are (save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya...
Duke Ellington, genius of American jazz, comes to Harvard again tonight, when he appears in a Crimson Network interview at 11 o'clock. The great Negro pianist will answer questions put by Mac Passano '46, with Eugene C. Benyas '43, CRIMSON Swing columnist, also taking part...
Part of the Network's "Jazz Man" series, the program will involve discussion of that field of music and especially the Duke's own work. Ellington was at Harvard once before, when he was interviewed on the Network last spring...