Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...
...several months now, the Crimson Network has featured short programs of jazz piano by two undergraduates, Art Hyman and Rupe Wright. Some of you have undoubtedly heard them at one time or another, and I hope you liked their work as much as I do. For although they're both far from being consummate jazz pianists, Art and Rupe are way ahead of the average college swing musician when it comes to improvisation--which after all is one of the prime requisites of good jazz. Both of these boys, I'm glad to say, will go out of their...
What's important about these boys, it seems to me, is the fact that they're giving Harvardmen a pretty good education in piano jazz. Their work is not a puerile brand of music which can be quickly dismissed, and at the same time it's sufficiently simple to arouse the interest of the tyro. Finally, it's been a very good build-up for what's going to happen tonight on the Network. Earl Hines will be down there from 7:30 to 8:00 (prior to doing a one-nighter at Paul Revere Hall). The "Father," who will...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. The Freshman Jubilee Committee showed excellent taste in choosing Bobby Byrne's orchestra for the brawl on May 23. This band is one of those rare groups which can play swing and sweet equally well. Besides, Bobby himself is one of the best white jazz trombonists in the game, and his technique on that instrument ranks with that of Jack Teagarden and Tommy Dorsey. Vocalist Dorothy Claire you've heard to good advantage with Glenn Miller. You'll see her to better advantage at the Jubilee...
...house, an interest perhaps inherited from his many Russian forebears. When they want more lengthy relaxation. Mother and Father and the two boys move to their camp in Canada where Father forgets his vertical and horizontal mobility long enough to be a compleat angler. He despairs of modern jazz, movies, radio, advertising, and has a high unconcern for the press. He is above all criticism, good or bad, from a world whose culture and civilization are degenerate. He has an enormous and un-selfconscious ego concerning the immortality of his works, but won't budge form the assertion that none...