Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bessie Smith. Vanity Fair added an innocent editorial note to his article: "Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height of her career, making nearly $2,000 a week. Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania...
...Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice in 1642. The work has been reconstructed from its fragmentary original score by Ernst Krenek, best known in the U. S. for his jazz opera Jonny Spielt Anf, and as conductor of the Monteverdi work making his first visit...
...title, to "Princess Baba," Valeria Brooke, 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Rajah of Sarawak;* in London. The betrothal, which followed a whirling courtship, was opposed by Princess Baba's parents, but defended by her on the grounds that her sister. Princess Pearl, had previously married Jazz-Bandleader Harry...
Other instruments included a saxophone whose tooter was staging a sit-down strike most of the afternoon, a jazz whistle, and other unidentified instruments...
Duke's a serious fellow. Outside, a few of his boys were making a racket about something. He went out and told them to shut up. He came back resentful. He dislikes the jazz critics who write for music trade magazines. In their school of thought, the average musician is too much told what to play...