Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informal jazz concert, free to all, will be presented by the Summer School next Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Union...
...Jazz Quintet will be making its first public appearance under the auspices of the Ben Shore Orchestras, one of the major college band organizations...
...result was a low-key blend of strings and muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...
...clarinetists have managed to make their instruments speak in a style that falls somewhere between the solid fundamentals of swing and the freest flights of progressive jazz. Their methods are similar: play a basic melody in the old style and elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...
...were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three." With this beginning, Billie Holiday, a singer who broke the hearts of a generation of jazz lovers, sets out to reveal what lies behind the blues−or at least her blues. Before she is through, she has lined out some bitter truths about being a Negro in the U.S. and some that are not too sweet about being a narcotics addict...