Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular hours of newspaper work soon got on Cugat's nerves. That was in 1928 when Paul Whiteman was still King of Jazz. No jazzman, Cugat realized that he could not compete with Afro-Saxons on their own ground. So he bravely cultivated a little Afro-Latin plot of his own. With a rumba orchestra of six, he opened at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove...
...called an "associate," is known only by his first name as soon as he gets on the payroll. There are no time clocks and no docking for tardiness. The associates talk and smoke whenever they like, paste Petty girls on their machines if the curves inspire them, get popular jazz over the loudspeaker system, drink free coffee or nibble free candy bars. To top it off Host Jack hands everyone vitamin pills and anti-cold tablets daily, gives free medical and dental care, hands out modest bonuses with calendar-like regularity...
...result, obviously, was impeccable musicianship. You could quarrel with Mildred's vocals on the grounds that you didn't like singers or that her voice wasn't as rich as Bessie Smith's, but if you had any feeling for jazz you couldn't quarrel with the music she produced...
...hasn't Mildred recorded of late? Blame it on her integrity. She'd signed a contract with Decca largely on the strength of her two best-selling Gems of Jazz reissues, made years before for English Parlophone. She'd sung four perennial jazz numbers: "Willow Tree," "Honey-suckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Downhearted Blues." Only Decca now wanted her to sing the latest. Mildred as usual wanted to make her own choices. In an up-and-coming singer it might be foolishness, but in an artist who has been on top for over ten years, who has developed...
Knowing full well that this suggestion may never be read by the powers-that-be, I think that one of the networks should give Mildred an exclusive fifteen minute sustaining program, preferably with Teddy Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...