Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is the first of a series of articles on Boston Jazz, its past, present, and prospects...
Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Johnny recalled the informal atmosphere at the weekly Sunday afternoon jam sessions, where one could walk around with a drink in had sans the bother of officials attempting to enforce Boston's Sunday liquor laws. Everyone in jazz, even those in service stationed nearby, was sure to drop in at the Ken. PeeWee the Great came in one Sunday and stayed for a few weeks. Three or four Pepsi's flavored by the smoky atmosphere were sufficient to send Mr. Russell to dreamland, so the drummer invested in a small bell which gave with resonance when tapped by a drum...
History of Jazz: The "Solid" South (Capitol Records, 10 sides). Vol. I of a new firm's ambitious four-part survey of American jazz. With the exception of Leadbelly, whose piano, guitar and vocalizing are invulnerable, the rest is mostly men of the '40s trying to play the way the jazzmen did in the '20s. Performance: fair...
Negro authors generally, says Ebony, "are hitting pay dirt," and the royalties of onetime Communist Richard (Native Son, Black Boy) Wright (pictured with his white wife) "make a pretty fat bankroll." Ebony prints Gjon Mill's excellent shots of mixed jam sessions to show how jazz promotes good feeling between whites & blacks, reminds its readers of unpleasantness only with a picture story on Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles...