Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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André and his parents arrived in the U.S. ten years ago. As a conservatory student in his native Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with...
...psychological effect Mr. Kenton's music has had on his listeners and his continued record-breaking attendance marks are undeniable proofs that present progressive-minded people are eagerly looking for something fresh and invigorating in music. If Mr. Kenton's "progressive jazz" can substitute for, or even alter, the present uninteresting, uninspiring style of obsolete music, more power...
Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
...still have broadcasts of the Boston and NBC Symphony Orchestras, the Detroit Orchestra, the Orchestras of the Nation Series, and the Metropolitan Opera," he added. "But others of this kind have of late been abandoned in favor of advertisers or jazz orchestras...
...Progressive" jazzman Stan Kenton, accompanied by songstress June Christy, will expound his views on the future of jazz as an American art form tonight at 11 o'clock on WHRV. Kenton copped the current "Downbeat" and Metronome" awards as the best band of the year...