Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this light, your quotation of Louis Armstrong's famous reply to the man who asked him to define [New Orleans] jazz, "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know," appears as a beautiful and proper non-Aristotelian rebuke to an asker of Aristotelian nonsense-question. What is jazz, indeed...
...Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
...Harvard men will compete for dates with three Radcliffe girls in front of a studio audience as part of a WHRV sponsored "Casanova Calling" contest in Fogg Museum at 9 p.m. tonight. The audience will also hear the "Crimson Stompers" play Dixieland jazz...
...group intends to form an orchestra, a jazz band, and a choral group, and hopes to make music practice rooms available in the Union. The club also plans to enlarge the Union record collection in the music room and pipe dinner music into the dining hall during evening meals...
...first time, the 'tabloid' ballet called "Tiger Lily" stuck out in my mind as being particularly good, but the other night it seemed more like the usual type of jazz-ballet which is part of every Broadway show these days. It is certainly one of the most interesting, and dramatic in its narrative content, but Valerie Bettis, its star dancer, does much better work in the less-spectacular "Haunted Heart" dance...