Word: jazzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STARK -- Jazz Dance Workshop; Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Production, One More Time; HSA Go-Go Dancer; Comstock Social Chairman; Senior Class Secretary; Bureau of Study Counsel Tutor; Major: Applied Mathematics...
...first with an uncle's band, later with his own outfit. Many of the dates were at what he calls "dancin' and fightin' clubs," and he prudently trained himself to perform anything that a customer might request, whether it was Avalon or Tumbling Tumbleweeds or a jazz tune like Easy...
Harlem's overwhelming musical impact on the jazz age is conveyed by a room where pictures of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens, while loudspeakers boom their music...
...from Jazz. Brown learned the value of creative interaction early on: he grew up playing trumpets in small touring jazz bands. Although little known outside avant-garde circles, he was awarded the W. Alton Jones Chair of Composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore this year. In Europe, he ranks as one of the most influential American composers, and is admired by such leading musicians as France's Pierre Boulez, Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen and Italy's Bruno Maderna. Available Forms II, which is Brown's most ambitious work, was performed...
King of Wings. At Manhattan's West Boondock, tor example, miniskirted waitresses ply the tables while a jazz combo plays softly in the background; there is a wine list, and Diners' Club or Carte Blanche cards are honored. The Player's Choice, a restaurant on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip that claims to be "strictly soul," is jammed to the rafters each night with customers-90% of them white- dining with apparent gusto on such soul specialties as barbecued ribs and yams. Melvin's, a soul-food place in the heart of Boston's department...