Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Django Reinhardt was sure everyone must have heard of him. Hadn't jazz critics like France's Hugues Panassié called him Europe's leading jazz artist and the world's greatest jazz guitarist? Django was so certain that he was famous in the U.S. that he left his guitar in France: U.S. guitar manufacturers would give him guitars and pay him for playing them. Last week, before he could go on stage in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, he had to go out and borrow a guitar...
...concert manager, for one, had never heard of Django Reinhardt, so Django's name didn't even appear on the program (a Duke Ellington jazz concert...
Norman Granz, no relation, with his horde of riffing saxophones and screaming trumpets, descends on Symphony Hall tonight for the only Boston showing of "Jazz At The Philharmonic." If you've heard the records this collection of master craftsmen have made in J. At The P. Albums numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, you know what to expect. Their music is involved, brilliant, inventive, and fast-paced to the point of bewilderment. The personnel comprises the highest, fastest, and loudest instrumentalists in the business...
Besides the above spokesmen of jazz as it will be played in 1956, Mr. Granz is bringing three men who from past performances should satisfy all but the most unreconstructed antiquarians. Green-eyed Buck Clayton has proved he can combine melody with modernism by his work on the Basic records: Royal Garden, Bugle, and Sugar Blues made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse...
...Jolson Story. People who never heard-or never cared for-the Jazz Singer himself love this big, noisy, colorful entertainment (TIME...