Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Song Is Born (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) may not be entirely satisfactory to either hep cats or squares. Jazz addicts will want to take the picture home with them, to listen again & again to the jam sessions of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. To those who are mystified by popular music, these names will add up to much noise and little sense. A Song is designed as a starring vehicle for Danny Kaye, but he is almost drowned out in the blare...
...Goldwyn production Ball of Fire, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. In the original, a group of scholars writing an encyclopedia learned about slang from Nightclub Queen Stanwyck. In A Song Is Born, the scholars are writing a history of music, fill in the chapter on jazz from "live" studies...
...hired him, he demanded 2,700 florins a night (about $230)-twice as much as any other conductor. Nightly, he was seen at cafés-a, scowling giant (6 ft. 6 in.) who shouted at waiters, flirted with young women, or just sat in a corner, thumping out jazz on the café piano...
...those who like their jazz pure, an airing of Bob Wilbur's New Orlcans artists direct from their den in Boston's Club Savey will be a weekly feature...
Reading period witnesses the appearance of the orgies, the time when Networkers successively play hours of Beethoven, Brahms, Gilbert, and Sullivan, hillbilly songs, and jazz until the drop exhausted on the eve of examination period...