Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billion Dollar Baby" purports to be a musical about the fabulous twenties. As a cynical ballyhoo of all that is shallow in the Jazz Age, it contains some outstanding ballet by Jerome Robbins, danced by Joan McCracken, some interesting if not catchy music by Morton Gould, and a negligible book. But it treats neither the twenties nor the audience the way they should be treated...
...bought musical instruments for his kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer resorts. Later, in Chicago, the jazz mecca of the bootleg era, the Royal Canadians were interrupted one night by a gangland machinegun battle. Lombardo reassured radio listeners: "That . . . was our drummer...
Clarinetist George Lewis, 45, who stops the show with long cadenzas that few contemporary jazz clarinetists could match, has been working as a longshoreman in New Orleans about five days a month- when the coffee boats come in. Trombonist Jim Robinson, 53, a crack tailgate man (he calls it "cellar-playing") worked in a New Orleans shipyard during the war. His last job: picking up nuts & bolts. Drummer Warren ("Baby") Dodds, a New Orleans alumnus, played drums for 20 years in Chicago, helped teach such top drummers as Gene Krupa, George Wettling, Ray Bauduc, Dave Tough, and quit steady work...
...pieces, along with an occasional unfortunate stab at such contemporary favorites as Bell Bottom Trousers. If the audience-or the band itself-likes a number, Bunk plays it again, sometimes a third time, each version entirely different. Bunk calls their style of playing ragtime ("they call it jazz, swing, they change the name. It's ragtime...
Last week the two white jazz aficionados who brought Bunk to Manhattan (and have barely broken even on their investment) rented the hall for six weeks. Bunk signed a recording contract with Decca. Bunk Johnson, at 65, was apparently about to discover that there was money in his music-whatever the longhairs wanted to call...