Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...define the term. If you want to be fancy and throw in references to "collective improvisation rhythmically integrated," you're a better man than I am. However, I think it's safe to say that at a jam session you're liable to hear a much finer brand of jazz music than you would anywhere else. In the first place, the whole thing is completely informal. A few musicians get together and do their best to play what they think is good jazz music. And they generally have the right idea, often inspired by no end of liquid refreshment. Then...
...past month or so, a young newspaperman by the name of Art Walsh has been running Sunday afternoon sessions at the Crown Hotel in Providence. Most of the musicians who play there are local boys, who, although they're unknown outside of Providence, are going places in a hurry. Jazz artists just can't be as good as some of these boys and stay unknown long. Other musicians are beginning to hear about them already. For example, Will Bradley dropped in last Sunday and was tremendously impressed with the music. Then, of course, there are always one or two guests...
...great Negro singer with a questionable past, will be featured at a dance at Cantabridgia Hall tonight. This is a swell opportunity to hear Bobby in an atmosphere more congenial to him than what the Versailles has to offer... DECCA has just released an album entitled "Gems of Jazz." It consists of a number of records made in this country several years ago for release in England. Consequently, most of them will be quite welcome to collectors now. Included in the album are two of Mildred Bailey's best couplings: Honeysuckle Rose and Willow Tree, Squeeze Me and Downhearted Blues...
...exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "He sets up quite regular rhythmic patterns and then answers them in a kind of sudden, surprising syncopation. It is the nearest visual approach to hot jazz...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Joe Sullivan will be in Providence Sunday. He's one of the great pianists that brought jazz out of Chicago in the twenties. A composer as well, Joe has created such tunes as Little Rock Gateway and Gin Mill Blues. . . . DECCA has issued an album of "white Jazz," consisting chiefly of small band jobs done several years ago, and featuring pretty nearly every white musician worth listening to. Among the offerings are Panama by Jimmy McPartland, Jazz Me Blues by the Bob Crosby Bob Cats, Swingin' on the Famous Door by the Delta Four...