Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution Hall, owned by the deeply dignified Daughters of the American Revolution, was getting more exclusive all the time. When famed Jazzman Eddie Condon tried to book his band into the hall, the manager threw up his hands in horror. Wrote he: "One of our restrictions prevents us playing jazz bands . . . because of the type of audience which attends .and which in some cases may be very destructive...
...Brooklyn home of Novelist Sholem (The Nazarene) Asch, jazz was forbidden because it was bordello music; cowboy ballads were allowed. One of his three sons, Moe (for Moses) Asch, 40, has become the nation's No. 1 recorder of out-of-the-way jazz, cowboy music and such exotic items as Paris street noises during the liberation, and little-heard Russian operas...
Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...
Asch, whose studio is a cluttered room in Manhattan's drab WFVD building, has almost a fear of hits, and he brushes off commercial jazz as if it were an unmentionable disease. Unlike most record companies, which have lavished their scarce shellac on surefire songs, Asch frequently stops making an album just when it is selling well, so he can put out something else-which may or may not sell. He has put out about 40 albums in the past three years, hopes to issue another 40 this year...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...