Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five or ten years ago when Louis Prima was still involved in the unprofitable business of playing jazz, he was no more important than any other "paesano" to the vast Italian population of this country. But just two weeks ago, when the agents of WHCN went in town to get the New Orleans-born trumpet man for their Jazz Orgy, the stage entrance was literally jammed with enthusiastic autograph seekers from Hanover Street...
...Dixieland," as played by Bob Crosby's boys and the Dorsey Clambake Seven contained a few of the ingredients, but the last thirty years have done something to the main features that distinguished the old N.O.W. men. Compare some of those ancient fossilized discs by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick ragtime mannerisms. The trumpet was considerably more limited in function, the rhythm less obviously two-beat...
...slender, blond, esthete Imbs (rhymes with rims) established the first free radio for the OWI in Cherbourg, he has been the darling of the French air waves, broadcasting as many as five shows a week throughout France. He spoke knowingly of American jive, presented France's best recorded jazz hot, got as many as 400 fan letters a week. The French liked the tone of his voice, and thought his Yankee accent charming...
...Czechs, whose love for American jazz is echoed from every kavarna (coffee house) in Prague, applauded compositions by Aaron Copland, William Schuman and Samuel Barber, but gave the loudest ovation to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with President Truman's protégé-pianist, Eugene List, as soloist (TIME, April 22). Bernstein led the orchestra through a rousing performance of his own apocalyptic Jeremiah Symphony. After concerts, Bernstein played the piano for Czech Philharmonic's conductor Rafael Kubelik and his violinist wife, updating them on the latest versions of Honky-Tonk Train and Empty...
Freddy Martin does not jazz up the classics; he waters them down, so that they are simple enough for his own treacly tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real...