Word: jazzier
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...waves, like TV," he says. "Country has become pop mainstream. It has lost rawness and vitality." Ely looks back to some of the men who put those qualities there in the first place. Jimmie Rodgers; Bob Wills, the king of western swing, who opened up country to newer, jazzier rhythms; Hank Williams, "who gave the music heart-stabbing bite." And Buddy Holly. When Ely, now 34, was growing...
...effect was just what the Crosby sound needed. In earlier work he sang with much jazzier effects. An artist in search of a personal style, he listened hard to Al Jolson, Mildred Bailey and Louis Armstrong. Finally Bing developed that mellifluous tone, a mere phrase of which causes millions of Americans to imagine the gold of the day meeting the blue of the night. Here was the voice that has sold more records than any other on earth save that of Elvis...
Died. Tim Buckley, 28, folk balladeer of the late '60s; of an apparent heart attack; in his Santa Monica, Calif., home. Buckley's sensitive lyrics (Goodbye and Hello) and ragged, mother-me looks earned him adulation beginning with his first album in 1966, but his shift to jazzier, more experimental forms cut sharply into his popularity and income...
Detroit's move into the low-price field has come belatedly and grudgingly. Saddled with higher labor costs than their foreign competitors, U.S. automakers enjoy a far greater unit profit on bigger, jazzier cars than they could hope to on European-style ones. In order to make a go of it with low-priced cars, they must be certain that the volume is there. The upswing in import sales, which will account for a $2 billion chunk of business this year, has convinced them that...
...mustaches. At Ealing Corp., a learning-systems and optics company in Cambridge, Mass., President Paul D. Grindle thinks nothing of going to work wearing shimmering green slacks with a red silk shirt, welcomes similar flamboyance in his employees. "The mini-er the better," he says. "People seem snappier, jazzier and zippier when dressed in mod styles...