Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very sad, very sick-and again, like going to church and being very happy. We've got to do right by the blues on TV, because the blues deserve the best." At air time, Billie sat on top of a bare stool and cuddled up to an old jazz-cult favorite, Fine and Mellow ("My man don't love me, he shakes me awful mean"), and did just dandy by the blues. And, for the balance of CBS's one-hour The Sound of Jazz, the art got what it has so long deserved: a TV showcase...
...recruiters promised. Business-administration major Chamberlain is having no trouble keeping up a B average; he is dean of pledges in Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, does a little disk-jockeying on a college radio station (KUOK), and still finds time to enjoy his own 50 albums of jazz and blues recordings. In the spring Wilt turns out for track, and though he is a little too casual about his form to suit Coach Bill Easton, he has already high-jumped 6 ft. 6 in., is expected to reach 6 ft. 8 in. with ease...
...Merchant André Kostelanetz, "like a people who have discovered red and blue and green where all had been black and white before." In its musical black-and-white era, the U.S. already had great symphony orchestras, great opera, great foreign artists-and it conquered the world with its jazz. What is different today is the extraordinary breadth of the nation's music production and consumption: operas and orchestras by the hundreds, musicians by the thousands, instruments by the millions-and blowing over it all. almost defying measurement, rising above the noise even of America's engines...
...issue is given over to various meager, but undoubtedly lucrative attempts to be significant, humorous, or informative. One author describes a fictional seduction in the styles of J. D. Salinger and Sally Bingham, combined, and the results are highly predictable. There are three more or less newsy bits about jazz, Bennett College, and Jean Sheperd, a disc jockey, whose incisive wit suffers from the commercialization which Ivy gives it. A short article on Cambridge University probes an untrained needle into a host of generalization, and comes up with an interesting, but more or less meaningless analysis...
CAROL STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best...