Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition, there are cocktail hour music programs on Saturday during the football season. Last year the radio ran continuous 24 hour jazz orgies during reading period and rented a special wire to bring the Dartmouth football game from Hanover for the benefit of the stay at-homes in Cambridge...
Broadeasts begin Monday through Friday evenings at 7:30 o'clock and continue until 12. In addition, there are cocktail hour music programs on Saturdays during the football season. Last year the radio ran continuous 24 hour jazz orgies during reading period and rented a special wire to bring the Dartmouth football game from Hanover for the benefit of the stay-at-homes in Cambridge...
...Dick was a jazz pianist in Rio. One night his mother heard him sing. "Get lost with the piano," she advised him. So, says Dick, "I became the Beeng of Braseel." From Rio to the Milton Berle show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC) was an easy jump...
...blues with the loving and instinctive expertness of her collectors' item records of the middle '20s, when she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Earl ("Father") Hines. She had quit singing in 1930 to bring up her four kids (later there were three more). When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria...
...Chippie Hill is one of the primitives of jazz, and her performance is an earthy blending of sex and syncopation (it would take an undauntable jazzophile to tell where one began and the other ended). There isn't much Chippie won't sing or say to keep the show boiling-but she won't sing a hymn in a nightclub. "Now that's wrong. You can't play with God in a nightclub; if you do He'll put an affliction on you." Neither will she sing in church. "As long as I work...