Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passing to other matters, I find a new volume, the "Jazz Record Book," on the market, and have duly and avidly snapped it up. The authors, all learned authorities on jazz lore, analyze over a thousand representative records, most of them available today, and include to boot a short history of Jazz, which seems to have been compressed from "Jazzmen," which appeared a couple of years ago. Obviously an ambitions book like this cries out for more attention than this little squib can give, and it will get it next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years...
...Iturbi has been in the U.S. since 1929, has worked hard to get into big-league conducting (Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Eastman Rochester Symphony). One of his stunts has been to conduct from the keyboard, while playing a Liszt or Beethoven concerto. He enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says...
Contributions from New York University, Wisconsin, and the University of Chicago, as well as other colleges, will be presented in the forthcoming issue. An article on the myth of American jazz, "The Persistence of Folk" will also be included...
...Beech, is no ordinary plant. Started a year ago by ex-union business agent William S. Jack, 53, it already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria...
...entertainment, there are fortunately a few names which rarely disappoint. Everyone raves about Duke Ellington, and his bandwagon is one on which I have long been riding. Duke has abandoned the overwrought orchestrations he was writing a few years ago, and has reverted to arrangements more in the jazz idiom, with wider opportunities for his soloists. Last week he turned out Five O'clock Drag and Clementine, two original riff numbers arranged in the Ellington tradition of unexpected effects and frequent dissonance's, particularly in the brass section. Clementine is not the "Oh My Darling" ditty, but just another Ellington...