Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's best day in years, from the extremely specialized view of the jazz fan, must certainly have been last Sunday. The Jazz Club had Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, and Charlie Vinal at the Copley Square Hotel in the best session, of its series, and in the evening Duke Ellington appeared at Symphony Hall. In addition to topping anything the town has heard in many months, both events were sold...
Just what he's trying to do, I don't know. His compositions and orchestrations become more and more complex, and he is turning to the so called modern school of composition, retaining, at the same time, much of the flavor and even some of the form of jazz. The result is a unique hybrid, which nonetheless comes too close to Gershwin, Grofo, and Morton Could to suit me. I want my Ellington and I want it straight...
...much damage was done at Pearl Harbor? What are Willkie's politics? What are Roosevelt's sons doing? Where is Joe Louis? Do you like Negroes? Have you seen One Hundred Men and a Girl? and Union Pacific? What is the best U.S. jazz band? What did you pay for your shoes? Are English and American the same language? Have you been to Russia before? Where? Was it not beautiful...
Bobby Hackett, the well-known cornet-player, will be featured with Ivan Wain-wright's Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...
Some of Duke Ellington's men also may play. In the past the Jazz Club has made available to Harvard jazz-lovers the music of such men as Frankie Newton and Art Hodes...