Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piano Playhouse (Sun. 12:30 p.m., ABC). Guests: Concert Artist Jesús María Sanroma and Jazz Pianist Teddy Wilson...
Last week, Mary Lou was still playing the same kind of exciting piano in a jammed Greenwich Village basement bistro called the Village Vanguard-even though no bigwigs of jazz happened to be around to do any picking up and kissing...
...twice-married Mary Lou was having no trouble adding more diamonds to her crown as a queen of jazz. In her spare time, she was still turning out such imaginative first-class concert arrangements as her Georgia Brown, Blue Skies and Shorty Boo for Duke Ellington (her latest: Scorpio and Lonely Moments). She had already conquered Carnegie Hall (in 1946), has since been on even more consecrated ground with concerts at Yale and Cornell...
Bach. Says Mary Lou: "You just can't teach jazz to anyone who has had ten to 15 years of classical study. There is an age limit to jazz, you know; you're not supposed to start playing it after 30." Mary Lou should know: she started at three...
...years, Manhattan's jazz magazine Metronome has polled its predominantly youthful readers on their favorite shorthair music and musicians of the year. Last June, Metronome editors got more ambitious, set out to discover the sweet-and-swing favorites of "all time." Last week, the fans' ballots were...