Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jazz. Harry Belafonte and Lena Home seem to be naturals for Porgy, if not for Sam Goldwyn, and their failure to do better on RCA Victor's album is chiefly due to their efforts to force a mood without really making the material into anything their own. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, on the other hand, tilt into the lyrics on a new two-LP Verve album with an infectious grace as easy as a ramble through the high cotton. The combination of Armstrong's gravel throat and Ella's honey-clear voice in Bess...
...spite of the rain and the defeat of the home team in its last game of the season, the spirits of several thousand Williams reunion-bound alumni did not suffer, since most left before the end of the third inning. The pageantry and parading (including the jazz band of '34 and a bicycle-built-for-six manned by the class of '39) failed to inspire the Williams, squad, which committed five errors and managed only six hits off the pitching of Byron Johnson...
Since Oldtime Songwriter Hughie Cannon wrote the lyrics in 1902, singers have been pleading in every form of jazz from ragtime to bop: "Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home? Bill...
...Minimus. Bill's clients, mainly young English, Australian and American couples, listen while he reminisces about how he introduced the late Sultan of Johore to the sweet mysteries of bourbon whisky, nod politely when Bill pontificates about modern pop music. Rock 'n' roll and all that jazz, he says, are "just a rehash of the old stuff, what used to be the Texas Tommy, the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear...
Died. Sidney Bechet, 62, Negro Dixieland jazz artist famed for the honeyed wail of his soprano saxophone; of cancer; in Garches, a Paris suburb. At ten Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor...