Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the gangplank the Tommies dragged kicking, screaming, spitting men & women. As one soldier felled a refugee a call went out for doctors. Throughout, the loudspeaker kept relaying jazz music. One selection: Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week. Aboard the trains to Poppendorf Camp, refugees crowded around the windows, crying...
Hoagy Carmichael led the cheering when Old Satchelmouth, his steak-thick lips parted in a grin, stepped on the stand with some of the greatest names in jazz behind him-Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Trombonist Jack Teagarden and Drummer Sid Catlett. Out in the smoke, waiting for the first golden notes, were half the big noises of U.S. sweet & swing-Johnny Mercer, Woody Herman, Abe Lyman, Benny Goodman (see PEOPLE...
Louis didn't let them down. When he swung into I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, they heard the old, pure, easy phrasing and big, clear, ranging tone that had made Louis King of Jazz. Murmured sentimental, teary-eyed Jazzman Jess Stacy: "I can't tell you how happy this makes...
...Take them re-bop* boys. They're great technicians. Mistakes-that's all re-bop is. Man, you've gotta be a technician to know when you make 'em. . . . New York and 52nd Street-that's what messed up jazz. Them cats play too much music -a whole lot of notes, weird notes. . . . That don't mean nothing. . . . You've got to carry a melody...
...according to Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh): "Healthy jazz distorted into frantic rhythms, fantastic harmonic non sequiturs, a psychosomatic heterophony...