Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eager adolescents jampacked Paris' gilded, rococo Opera House. Before the curtain went up, they dutifully pored over the program notes on "le jazz hot" which the Air Forces Band was going to play. But what they really came to hear was the band's shy, Detroit-born, 24-year-old Sergeant Johnny Desmond. He has been spreading havoc among European bobby-soxers since he first sang over BBC, five months...
...unconditional surrender: "Nobody in Europe had ever heard of that, there are always conditions there have to be conditions, life in Europe is conditional. [The Europeans] are just fascinated and find it very original and the meaning of it does not really penetrate, it is a new form of jazz, unconditional surrender...
...milestone in jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town...
...year 1914 way down yonder in New Orleans Sid Bechet, still in short pants, broke into music, playing clarinet in the Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
Artie Shaw, grand-opera-tempered jazz maestro, who once called his jazz fans "morons," gave up all hope for U.S. jazz: "[It] is a dying duck that needs artificial respiration. All this shrieking, screaming and swooning will kill jazz...