Word: jazzes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Righteous Jazz Band--Methuen Memorial Music Hall...
...Gertrude Stein and Scott Fitzgerald who christened the period. The hackneyed phrases "lost generation" and "The Jazz Age" still seem very real and important to Americans--the despair and romance of American letters in the '20s and early '30s continues to fascinate. Americans have eagerly poured over biographies of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and the like. Of the man who went so far toward establishing the reputation of these writers, however, little was known save scraps of stories and legends. Now, Scott Berg's biography goes far toward illuminating the life of Maxwell Perkins, an editor for Scribner...
Perkins found in Fitzgerald a man whose writing captured the spirit of The Jazz Age--even though Perkins was a little skeptical of all those flappers--in Hemingway someone who lived the exciting kind of life that Perkins so admired, and in Wolfe a man who had come to a strong, profound understanding of America and its people...
...Chicago came up with Hot Streets, an album destined to take its place as one of the better Chicago albums in a twelve-record pantheon of truly amazing consistency. Every Chicago album has gone platinum and deservedly so--the group is seriously committed to producing high-quality, enervating, harmonious jazz-rock (heavy on the rock); and Hot Streets is a fine album in that tradition...
...Boston Jazz Quartet--1369 Jazz Club...