Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolson Story. A big, loud, colorful show, with sound track by the Jazz Singer himself (TIME...
What does Boston have to offer in the way of hot music? To be quite frank, the answer is: not much. The Copley Terrace used to give sessions under the impetus of the Boston Jazz Society, but nowadays the section of the Terrace where the hot men used to play looks like an unfinished pool room, which perhaps it is. The once jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman...
...clock last Sunday afternoon, a band of intrepid adventurers gathered together to inaugurate a new period in the colorful history of jazz at Harvard A haphazard group of instrumentalists it is no doubt they were, with two clarinetists and one clarinet, a cornet, a trombone, a piano man and a suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown...
Paul ("King of Jazz") Whiteman had a new drummer: Paul Whiteman Jr., 21, who was making his professional debut in Manhattan. Papa's judgment: "Hep, sharp and slick...
After a six-month tryout as a Warner assistant producer, Skolsky was asked if he had any picture ideas. "Yes," said Skolsky, "the life of Al Jolson." Jack Warner, not believing his ears, cried, "The life of Al Jolson? We've done that." (Warner's 1927 The Jazz Singer, starring Jolson in the first talkie, was a thinly disguised Jolson biography.) "Nobody," Warner decided, "wants to see or hear Jolson any more...