Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riff tune is a number usually played at a moderately fast tempo, and built around phrases that have been standard in jazz music for years. These tunes generally find their origin in the blues, where improvised melodies are often adaptable to orchestration. For instance, a little detective work will show you that In The Mood, a typical riff tune, is merely an arranged version of an old blues number called Tar Paper Stomp, recorded four or five years ago on Decca by Wingy Mannone. Some of our most popular novelty songs have been riff tunes, and have included Hold Tight...
Members of the Program Board are William E. Braden '41, Paul Jaretski '42, and Robert Moevs '42, Music; Charles Miller '41, and Henry Munroe '43, Jazz; and Charles S. Borden '43, News...
Classical music, jazz and CRIMSON news will be mainstays of the program, along with a new five minute introductory feature which will tell what is happening in Boston that evening...
...Jazz-the real McCoy-has been defined as "collective improvisation." The Pentecostal gift of tongues is most likely to descend on jazz musicians when they are not hampered by printed notes. Improvisatory rituals, or jam sessions, are seldom open to the public. They take place in recording studios, or in musicians' homes. In Chicago, where U. S. jazz flowered in its second* great period, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. Then Union Boss Jimmy Petrillo, unable to see why a musician should play overtime for nothing, put his heavy foot down. In Manhattan...
Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...