Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title came out of an old burlesque theater drunk skit. Jack McVea, leader of a small West Coast Negro jazz band, had heard the skit years ago-and the phrase stuck. Last summer on a rainy day in Portland, Ore. he wrote a simple riff tune for it and later recorded it-leaving out the references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason...
Last week Richard had even made a hit out of McVea's little-known jazz band. After singing the tune for what he estimated was the 500th time, McVea said: "It's just one of those things. I might not be able to do anything like it again." But he was willing to try. He had a sequel all ready, called The Key Is in the Mailbox...
...innocent values which he conceived to be "true blue American." In Alice Adams he matched his gifts against new and younger writers who questioned those values. Winesburg, Ohio, had been published in 1919; Main Street had been published in 1920, so had This Side of Paradise. The jazz age-which was also a self-critical and troubled age-had begun. But Booth Tarkington was 51. After his young success with costume romance (Monsieur Beaucaire) and carefree playwriting abroad with Harry Leon Wilson (The Man from Home), he had gone back to Indiana in 1911, there to come to his prime...
...average English-speaking listener, the announcement sounded like just one more of New York's many foreign-language broadcasts. But to jazz cultists, the strange words signaled the best jazz-music program on the air: a thorough course in jazz literature from Bunk Johnson to Dizzy Gillespie...
...such brash trash are rewarded with a program as carefully arranged (generally by musicianly Mrs. Robbins) as a symphony orchestra's. During dinnertime, from 6:30 to 7, there is "gastric plastic"-soft, slow stuff; for the last hour the show gets hot with blues, boogie, chamber-music jazz, and jazz antiques. And at 9 p.m., when the last "fetching etching" has been sent, Robbins dreamily concludes: "This is your professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black at 18:30. So have...