Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's jazz fans last week were in blue heaven. After years of moaning that all their local boys had fled to the fleshpots of two coasts for fame & fortune, the jazzbos had all come home to blow...
Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...Business School lineup: assorted horns, traps and players, Dixleland jazz band; seven throats and larynx, the Millionaires; ten graduates' fraus, the Wife-en-poofs; excetras, the Baker Workshop Players...
...Ellington, 48, who settled happily into an armchair at Manhattan's WMCA last week and contemplated his possible winnings (a reported ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
...famed Jazz Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines...