Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonable instrument, is not required, but is practically obligatory, if only for playing over written exercises. Further, a knowledge of harmony is valuable for anybody entering the field. The staff is interested enough in modern music to give ample encouragement to any student whose interest lies in that direction (jazz players excepted...
...down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson's hoarse, good-humored style of putting over a song as acceptable to cinemaddicts now as it was eight years ago when he used it to launch an era of enter tainment in the first talkie ever made, The Jazz Singer? Best songs: I Love to Singa, You're the Cure for What Ails Me by Jolson, and My, How This Country's Changed by the Yacht Club Boys...
...stage the Brown Man shows the White Man how his jazz-age amusement should be done. Louis Armstrong, the King of Swing, sounds too much as if he had a sore throat, but he is amply redeemed by his orchestra. And the rest of the sepia troupe, notably the Mills Brothers, are most exhilarating indeed. Up and away to the Metropolitan; the show this week is first-rate stuff...
Around the central theme of mistaken identities at a gay house party much merriment develops as the characters become more and more involved. Lightening the tension are such numbers as "Play Some Music" which is, in the words of the directors, "a cavalcade of jazz summarizing all types of songs and musical instruments in pantomime with orchestral accompaniment...
Josephine Baker is a St. Louis wash woman's daughter who stepped out of a Negro burlesque show into a life of adulation and luxury in Paris during the booming 1920's. In sex appeal to jaded Europeans of the jazz-loving type, a Negro wench always has a head start. The particular tawny tint of tall and stringy Josephine Baker's bare skin stirred French pulses. But to Manhattan theatre-goers last week she was just a slightly buck-toothed young Negro woman whose fig ure might be matched in any night club show, whose dancing...