Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sour went the notes in the love song of Louis and Elaine Lorillard, he a tobacco millionheir, they co-founders and sponsors of the splashy, noisy Newport, R.I. annual jazz festival. Filing suit for separation, blonde, pretty Elaine-who met him in Italy during World War II, when he was an Army major, she a Red Cross aide-charged that Louis had locked her out of their Manhattan cooperative apartment and packed her belongings off to a nearby hotel while she was away for a weekend...
...basic articles of faith in the beard-and-sandal set is that no woman alive sings jazz like Ella Fitzgerald. Ella it was who schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...
...four years she has been working with Impresario Granz, Ella has tripled her income (to $300,000 a year) and moved out of the jazz cellars into such brassy clubs as Manhattan's Copacabana. Does that mean she plans to stick entirely to pop songs? Not at all, says Ella. "I sing like I feel. Sometimes some of the fellas say, 'What's the matter, Ella, you goin' square?' And I tell them, 'I'm not goin' square, I'm going versatile...
...amplitude, easily capable of penetrating fire-doors, plaster walls, bathrooms and closets. And when he buys another tuner the set will achieve true stereo adulthood. "I love music, and have always been a follower of the B.S.O. And the Owens have even introduced to me the glory that is jazz...
Wilson is not alone in a feeling that Harvard should and will take the lead in any new movement having a certain intellectual character. "The West Coast experiments give modern jazz an intellectual aura, and this should rivet the Ivy Leaguer to the idea of jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...