Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who has spent time and money learning about jazz soon finds that even his best friends can't stand the music he has grown to love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded...
...popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
...asked yourself that before, and the answer isn't far away. You, who have chased jazz through dives you would never ordinarily looked at twice, who have chased jazz through dingy little second stores and haggled over the price of a beat-up Louie Hot Five, who have chased jazz from record store to record store after a cutout Goodman Trio, you have your experience to answer...
Then big things happened. NBC-Blue signed Dinah as jive-diva on its Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street program. She became the darling of le jazz hot. Then Eddie Cantor hired her. She recorded Yes, My Darling Daughter, which sold half a million. A year later she started her own show. Now a minor Big Business (her earnings this year will run about $115,000), Dinah is handled by a board of five...
However, since Navy equipment does not provide for the necessities of a jazz band, they would be "very grateful" to any student who would be willing to lend them any of the following essentials: two trumpets, trombone, guitar, tenor sax, set of drums. These should be left at A-31 Massachusetts Hall before 13 o'clock, they say, admitting that even professionals must practice...