Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Armstrong had forsaken the ways of Mammon and come back to jazz. Shorn of his big (19-piece), brassy, ear-splitting commercial band (TIME, April 29, 1946), he was as happy as a five-year-old with his curls cut off. Billy Berg's neon & chromium Los Angeles jazz temple wasn't big enough to hold the faithful who thronged to welcome him back...
...missions, were invaded last night by one of the strangest expeditions that ever left the Square. Equipped with washboards, a piano, and a set of drums, Peter Hewitt '48 and his "Pair of Dirty Stockings" were trying to prove to the Wellesley Institute of Foreign Students that early American jazz--New Orleans style at least--had never died...
...This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). The Kid Ory Creole Jazz Band...
Died. James Melvin ("Jimmie") Lunceford, 45, topnotch Negro bandleader famed for his skillful and studied renditions of warm to hot jazz; of coronary occlusion; in Seaside...
Before the war, he and his disciples were a carefree lot who did the Montmartre nightclubs, collected U.S. hot jazz records and the novels of William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell and John Dos Passes, lived in the dingy, Left Bank Hotel de la Louisiane. Until recently, Sartre did most of his writing at a table in the Café de Flore. Since he became a celebrity, he works in the plushier Pont-Royal bar, where only well-heeled existentialists can afford to interrupt...