Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past year and a half, Clarinetist Shaw has gone through his third marriage and divorce (to & from Cinemactress Lana Turner) and returned to music. Impatient, inquisitive, he brooded over the idea of a big band with which he could play concert jazz. The band he led last week represents a compromise. Among its 32 pieces are 15 strings, which play straight for Shaw's featured hot soloists-best-known: Negro Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Paige, Saxophonist Les Robinson, Trumpeter Max Kaminsky, Drummer Dave Tough...
...only purpose in writing this is to give Brunies the recognition he so rightly deserves, as this musician is held in high esteem by critics, musicians and hot jazz collectors the world over...
Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta...
...fresh, strong, enthusiastic, unprepared, badly trained U.S., which turned the tide of World War I, the new press preparation was ominous. To the youth of Germany the probability of the U.S. fighting against them was a blow; for the youth of Germany-which cannot dance, hear good jazz, use cosmetics, which must work, fight and bear children-still thinks of the U.S. as a land of plenty, the land of skyscrapers and Artie Shaw and Clark Gable...
...Jersey State Court of Pardons last week paroled a lifer, Negro Clinton Brewer, because during 19 years in jail he had become a musician. He had written Stampede in G Minor, a jazz tune which sold well on an Okeh record; stood to get an orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie...