Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very character of syncopation altered. Ragtime molted; Jazz, that Klaxon-throated Phoenix, rose from the ashes of untold night-club cigarets; the Blues crept on sly haunches out of the red-light alleys of Memphis, goose-fleshed the U.S. with the Macabre, demoniac plainsong of generations of junketing cats...
PROCESSIONAL-The last week of this peculiar experiment in expressionism. Murder, hunger and rape set to a strange jazz rhythm...
...stage is not utterly overcome yet, however," continued Miss Cowl "In this age of Jazz-parties, it is an excellent commentary upon our country that such a play as 'Romeo and Juliet' may have such a reception as I can vouch for. But it is a rare thing, that reception. And circumstances are making these successes fewer and fewer...
...jazz orchestra led by a hockey goal who plays the violin. Charles G. Dawes had better look into this...
...great resonance, was peculiarly suited to the radio. Her singing was rebroadcasted to all the British stations and was heard by enthusiasts on the Continent. Many vainly hoped that the U. S. coastal stations would pick up the tremoring wave lengths, as they did those of a jazz concert at the Hotel Savoy, London, a few days later...