Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto, Calif., finally ended up as a booking agent for a small jazz band in Las Cruces, N. Mex. There he wrote a phony $600 check and landed in jail...
...Soho hipsters who swelter and suffocate for it in the Cat's Whisker, the Côte d'Azur or The Two I's, skiffle is brand-new; to jazz critics and non-skiffling professional musicians, it is old-"a bastardized, commercialized form of the real thing," said one critic, "watered down to suit the sickly orange-juice tastes of musical illiterates...
...Orleans to Limehouse. No one seems to know exactly how skiffle got its name, but according to some jazz buffs, it appeared under that name at the rent parties held in Chicago in the '205. Dan Burley, oldtime Chicago jazz pianist, says the simple, two-beat blues was first played by groups of Negro teen-agers too poor to pay the fare into Chicago's hot jazz spots. "It was the product of the Depression, the fusion of gospel shouts, spirituals and time spent in hole-in-the-wall joints where you ate chili and got a bellyache...
...Head, in a "modern" style, the Dunces sacrifice much of the originals' flavor for the more effects of radical chords, which may be interesting but which sound like an experimental tour de force. They get in too deep with Early Autumn, a jazz ballad taken from Burn's Summer Sequence. The difficult solo, however, is handled with skill and restraint by Gurton, who has surprising control of his voice and his music...
...likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known in the U.S. as the "Jazz Mass...