Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate phrasing which won him fame alike among "straight" players and what he calls "the other kind"-meaning lowbrow jazz musicians...
...which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...
...them." To the naked ear its shrill cacophony seems anarchistic; on repeated hearings it becomes clear that the players planned it that way. Duke Ellington, now a disc jockey, has been kind; old Satchmo Louis Armstrong, critical. The feud now raging between partisans of the New Orleans school of jazz, who enjoy their music, and the "progressives," who seem to undergo theirs, is reminiscent of 12th Century theological squabbles...
...Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to get his opinion on the whole thing...
Died. Davis ("Dave") Tough, 41, famed, pint-sized (5 ft.) jazz drummer (a "Chicago style" pioneer, he had played with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw); of a fractured skull, suffered when he fell on the street; in Newark...