Word: jazzed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...
...your attitude that is doing so much to prevent people from realizing that jazz has real musical value. You want to think that hot jazz fans are immoral alcoholics, taking those reefers out of their mouths just long enough to take another slug of gin. It makes a much better story, no doubt. . . . When you print material on jazz, you should carefully consider whether or not you are unconsciously slanting it toward what the public (that foul-minded public) wants to hear...
...greatest jazzman of them all, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, was back on Broadway. The word spread, the devotees gathered. But jazz purists who went prospecting for his golden trumpet notes had to pan out a lot of wet gravel...
...from Waif. Louis is from New Orleans where, as he puts it, "jazz and I got bora together" (in 1900). When he was 13 he fired his mother's .38 revolver at a New Year's Eve celebration and was sent to a Negro waifs' home. There he learned to play the cornet, and soon was leading an orphans' band through the streets to raise funds for the orphanage (he still sends his old horns to them). In Storyville, New Orleans' red light district, where he hung out, he learned the tricks...
...teacher who got his first national popularity at 66, after ten years as an obscure laborer in the Louisiana rice fields (TIME, Nov. 5), dropped in to see him last week. Bunk now plays in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Casino dance hall, with the kind of small New Orleans jazz band that Louis abandoned years ago. Bunk still reveres his pupil. Says he: "Don't expect me to play like my boy Louis, 'cause when Louis does up I does down...