Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis obediently wandered the streets of New York, sketching what he saw. He learned to love the rattling, ironwork kaleidoscope of city life, the eye-catching colors of chain-store fronts, gasoline pumps and taxicabs; the bright blinking of electric signs, and the hot beat and glare of Negro jazz. John Sloan, one of the Philadelphia Press artists, chose Davis' early work for the magazine The Masses, the bible...
...tall and feathery words, an ecstatic esthete in the New Republic called it "New York's most important musical event of several decades." The music of Bunk Johnson was not as good as all that, but by last week it had become Manhattan's undiscovered hot jazz sensation of the year...
...Street, in the saloons above Canal Street, and in the band wagons that rode around town with the slidehorns hanging out over the tailgate. He went barnstorming for as little as $5 a week and tips. Twelve years ago Bunk lost his teeth and gave up playing. A Pittsburgh jazz fan found him, a toothless stooped laborer in the rice fields at New Iberia, La., got him some false teeth and raised money for a horn (TIME, May 24, 1943). Said the New York Herald Tribune's highbrow critic Virgil Thomson: "[Bunk] is the greatest master of blues...
...brand new eight piece outfit fronted by ex-G.I. tenorman Jackie Fields. Jackie will be remembered by the ancients for his work with Newton's old band, which also featured Vic Dickenson and Arthur Herbert. The group is still rough and the style is more jump than jazz, but nevertheless Fields' musical product is far more pleasing than the senile, sterile harmonics of nearly every other night club band in this bailiwick of the Irish and Beacon Hill Puritans...
...Upon all too rare occasions a gal named Shirley Mhore sits in on vocals and makes you forget all about people named Lena Horne or Billie Holliday. The grapevine has it that in a few weeks Shirley will go on the payroll. That would really be a break for jazz in Boston...