Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms. He has the flashing eyes and the bearing of a highly bred Arab prince; his manners and speech are those of a young Englishman...
...fall he will present a concert show on Broadway starring himself and his wife and including no calypso at all. "Dancing," he says in his soft West Indian voice, "is something I have to do." He intends to continue choreography, perhaps attempt to compose to some U.S. jazz music. "But first I will have to knock all the Hollywood and Broadway out of the dancers' heads; in the United States only the pelvis is sexy; that will have...
When the band struck up the jazz classic Muskrat Ramble over Los Angeles' KTTV, Lyricist Ray Gilbert winced to hear his own words replaced by others: "You're gonna love this coffee, man oh man ..." Last week Gilbert sued for $300,000 from the sponsor (Hills Brothers Coffee), the ad agency (N. W. Ayer), and his own music publisher (George Simon), who explained that he had sold the singing-commercial rights to the music -minus the lyrics-for $500. Gilbert charged that the jingle had injured his reputation "by reducing him in the eyes of the music profession...
...Surprise" Symphony is so called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a British Columbia album, the symphony contains several surprises not in Haydn's score, including snatches from old-style Chicago jazz records, an ocarina solo and a septet of bottles-five hot-water and two beer...
...only a few times all evening-as in a charming duet, Flotsam and Jetsam, or some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives Kitt for cat. But the show's plotless proceedings have little episodic lift, the score is unexciting and the dancing dated, and Eddie...