Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take cooking. It's just like jazz; no matter how good the ingredients are, it's how they're put together that counts." The speaker drove home his point with the help of a persistent, snappily manicured forefinger while overhead towered a big-busted swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave...
...Jolson Story. People who never heard-or never cared for-the Jazz Singer himself love this big, noisy, colorful entertainment (TIME...
...mauvais, but Louis-il est formidable!" After listening to records by Armstrong, the Duke and Tommy Dorsey, he got together in 1935 with a hot fiddler named Stephane Grapelly, organized the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (three guitars, a violin and bass). Their records of U.S. jazz classics (Dinah; Lady, Be Good; My Melancholy Baby) are collectors' items. Most guitars are strummed, but Django developed a one-finger picking style because his left hand was badly burned in a fire and became useless for chords...
...beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word for it. Jazz was that raggedy music they used to play about 1920. Nowadays, jazz must be classified according to who's playing it. I call Reinhardt's playing Django music. He's one of those musicians who is unable to play...
...real meat of Bal Nègre in its elaborate ritual dances and act-long, story-crammed ballets. More casual observers may find these somewhat arty, and cotton much more to Bal Nègre's gay, stylish folk dances-and to its spoof of the ragtime and jazz cavortings of not-so-tropical climes...