Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 2 a.m. in the Palm Room at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. For four hours various jazz musicians, drifting in from the hotspots, had been showing a roomful of bigwig musicians and assorted guests that jazz is serious. At the moment a hot guitarist, academically introduced as a "demonstrator of social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler...
Only commercial station in the country that devotes 80% of its broadcasting day to classical music, WQXR needed some such catalyst as a mad night" at the Waldorf before it could go the whole way in recognizing jazz...
...eyes, he has worked around to hot music slowly. Ten years ago he founded the Chamber Music Society, which first got chamber music on the air. Lately he has been doing a series of programs on American composers, and WQXR has broadcast "salon swing." For the serious plunge into jazz (tentative date: January) he plans a single program series in which he will use recordings of classic and modern jazz...
Other featured performers who pick up a frequent spot of extra cash include Chandu Shad, "Magician and shadow man," a Sophomore handwriting analyst, several musicians, and a twelve-piece jazz band. Thomas F. Bartlett '44, a traveller who has spanned over 100,000 miles as seaman and stevedore, is well-prepared to talk on "Sea Trail Blazing of War Zone Voyages," and many other equally able lecturers are on call for any kind of occasion...
Sprung from the fertile brains of the officers of the CRIMSON Radio Network one evening last spring when they were hunting for all original new program, the Harvard Association of Song Writers has been responsible for a juicy flowering of lyrics and jazz scores among the undergraduates...