Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jazz Club will present its ninth concert of the season at Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 P.M., featuring the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, with Brad Gowans, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Edwards, Tony "Spargo" Sbarbaro and Teddy Roy. Edwards and Sbarbaro were charter members of the group that made jazz history over a quarter-century ago. Gowans, who organized the present group and Hackett are well known to followers of dixieland jazz for their work with various small bands in New York Boston and Chicago...
Fletcher Henderson, jazz-band leader, will take time off from his current engagement at Boston's Tic-Toc to appear over. Harvard's Crimson Network this evening at 8 o'clock. Henderson, with a newly-recruited, colored and white band, has been touring the country, and recently caused a furore in the South because of the band's racial equality...
Today, the flute has a few master exponents. Among those who do not belong to the Flute Club are Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming...
...Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...
Died. Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, 39, famed jazz pianist and composer (TIME, Aug. 9); of bronchopneumonia; in Kansas City. A Harlem pastor's son, portly, powerful, 2/o-lb. Fats Waller wrote such jazz classics as Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', My Fate Is in Your Hands, I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'. He once defined swing (for a serious young woman): "Lady...