Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first man to pay public homage to the late, great jazz pianist, Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, who died last week (see p. 70) was just the man to do it. He was Fat's great friend and prime pianistic inspiration, James Price Johnson. Genial, blue-black Jimmie worked out on a Steinway at one of Guitarist Eddie Condon's rousing jazz concerts in Manhattan's Town Hall, played a medley of Fats Waller's tunes including Honeysuckle Rose, Clothesline Ballet, Ain't Misbehavin'. He played them the way Fats would have wanted them played...
...Jimmie' Johnson's place in jazz history does not depend on Fats Waller. Back in the early '205, when Jimmie made countless pianola rolls for the old Q.R.S. company, his powerful perforations were idolized by the most genuine, undiluted barrelhouse pianists and their admirers. Today he is regarded among them generally as the noblest professor of them...
Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know...
Continuing its series of Sunday afternoon jazz concerts at the Copley Square Hotel's Hopscotch Room, the Harvard Jazz Club will present Frankie Newton. Al Morgan, and Joe Brown this Sunday at 3 o'clock. Newton was heard at two previous jam sessions last summar, and has been leading his band, including letter Young and Eddie Barefield, at various places in New York since then...
...often brushed off a new Duke record only to have it grow on me, and the same may happen to "New World a Comin," but I think that as a whole the piece is out of line as a jazz composition and not at all satisfactory from any other standard. In particular, I could not take the piano interludes and clarinet cadenza--which had nothing to do with jazz and appeared to have nothing to do with the rest of the composition...