Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damn proud of his boys-the Filipinos in the engine room were sticking without a murmur, not even asking questions. Pokerfaced deckhands buckled on automatics and bolo knives. An hour later, saved by darkness, the deckhands "were strumming a guitar and ukulele, singing their version of American jazz tunes, vintage...
...know that I ever exactly lost faith in him, because it takes quite a lot to destory those first impressions. You see, it was from the Goodman band of lo! these six or seven years ago that so many of us took our first course in jazz appreciation. And for many of those who admired him then he has remained a sort of demi-god, even though his band has never matched its pristine achiechements of the Music goes 'round and 'round era when benny was beginning to be called the Swingmaster. We have wailed at his romantic tenors...
Some of us have remarked within the past couple of years how his clarinet playing seemed to have deteriorated, that it his lacked the verve and snap and inventiveness of yore. not only in his commercial products of popular airs, but in his too infrequent jazz records, his solos have been adversely affected by his full-dress symphony performances, for the cold, pure classical clarinet tone Mozart wanted sounds cold and pure when transferred to jazz, where tone can express so much...
Equally as satisfying is it to evoke a spark of awakened interest by playing a good jazz record for someone with a well-developed Philistine scorn who wonders how the Harvard Crimson can publish ten or twelve inches on "Swing" every week. Only last week I detected signs of just such a conversion after playing some records of instrumental blues for someone who had not suspected that that word "Jazz" could embrace music of such a high quality...
...excitement every collector knows at finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which an acquaintance with jazz...