Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike earlier College jazz programs, which usually featured a single name artist backed by student players, Leverett's concert brings half a dozen professional jazzmen to fill in the background music...
Leverett House plays host to the first University-wide jazz concert since before the war tomorrow, when a group of jazzmen topped by trombonist J. C. Higgen-botham breaks loose in the Dining Hall at 3 o'clock. The concert is sponsored by the House Committee in an effort to stimulate College interest in jazz and to round out Leverett's weekend entertainment program, which includes a formal dinner and dance Saturday evening. Some of the East's better known jazz artists will be featured...
Steve Connolly of the Savoy is giving Higgenbotham time off from the Boston music place in order to encourage a jazz revival at Harvard. Should Sunday's concert indicate a real College following for such entertainment, Leverett will plan similar programs next year...
...from a Philadelphia hotel, jumped into a car and headed for New York. A federal narcotics agent whom she had nearly run over fired several shots after the speeding car. In her hotel room, officers found 1½ grains of heroin. Two weeks later, sobbing the blues for sure, Jazz Singer Billie Holiday was on her way to do a year and a day at the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson...
...glimpse of Producer Ken Murray and a couple of other human beings), settles down to its real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film are 200-odd birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway and 42nd Street...