Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear view of the Republican Convention as a spectacle. Most of the real convention news, however, was made a mile and a half away in the hotels, where the Warren forces poured orange juice, the Taft people had iced tea and choral singing, the Stassenites produced a jazz band and cheese, and Deweyites held a fashion show...
...dismiss "bebop" so lightly [TIME, May 17]. After all, jazz is the only genuine contribution to contemporary music that America can boast of. Our jazz masters are the world's finest, which is more than I can say for our "serious" composers. Bebop is a tremendous thing-it must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul; it packs as much emotional intensity as any symphony...
...month's end, cruise ships of Canada Steamship Lines will enter the Saguenay, their rails lined with the first of the season's 250,000 tourists, mostly from the U.S. Off the frowning, forbidding, 2,000-foot cliff of Cape Eternity, the ships will slow down. Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes...
...Toscanini telecasts, with their remarkable, moving close-ups of the maestro and the orchestra, were a television milestone (TIME, March 29). But pictures of jazz bands tootling are as dull on television as they are on a movie screen. Crooners, in particular, are finding the telecamera's unwinking stare an embarrassing experience. (Notable exception: NBC's pretty Singer Kyle MacDonnell, an unknown to radio listeners, but already becoming television's No. 1 pin-up girl...
Last Monday and Tuesday the local radiomen warmed up with prolonged outbursts of jazz...