Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look back over this column, it occurs to me that I've written a press release. All I can say in defense of myself is that I'm sincerely glad that we're having such a collection of jazz musicians around here, and I hope it doesn't stop with the spring dances...
Yvette, popular song stress, who has just finished an engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, will start off the musical side of the evening's entertainment, and the Jones Brothers' colored band will provide a jazz intermission later for those who like...
...Public dancing was prohibited and U.S. jazz bands were banned from Japan...
...talent was half-blind Art Tatum, who long ago achieved a safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five drummers, nine pianists scrambling...
Gene Bertram Krupa, 32, is one of the Chicago boys who practiced jazz in the 19205, and one of the few who turned it to commercial success. His father, a Chicago alderman, sent him to a Catholic college to study for the priesthood, but within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like...