Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway's Iceland Restaurant a new, five-man band made its debut, under moon-faced Drummer Paul Whiteman Jr., 21-year-old son of the moon-faced "King of Jazz." Paul Jr.'s own billing: "The Crown Prince of Rhythm...
...there be serious study and discipline when five minutes before the end of the period, a jazz tune or a Christmas carol comes over .the loudspeaker to disturb the lesson; that is the signal for everyone to talk.. . . Bells ring, and 1,200 students rush shrieking into the halls. A clock and bells are the dictators of the schools...
...rolypoly Julia Lee. In Kansas City, where she has shouted blues for more than 30 years, she is as legendary a name to pub crawlers as Artist Thomas Hart Benton. Her black lace gowns, glistening bangs and the artificial flowers in her hair are as familiar to old-style jazz fans as the war memorial in Union Station Plaza. Visiting jazz greats, like Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Mildred Bailey and Bob Zerke, always seek her out when they hit town...
Julia's regional fame began to spread when jazz expert Dave Dexter Jr., like Julia a native of Kansas City, put two of her songs in a Capitol Records album called History of Jazz. Disc jockeys picked Julia's record out of the album and played it more than the others, so Capitol lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia...
...Herman herd" came to a stop just one year after it won the 1945 band-of-the-year poll by the jazz magazine Metronome. Last week Metronome counted up its 1946 votes and awarded its prize to a band still new to the big time: Stan Kenton's. He finished far ahead of Duke Ellington...