Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past two weeks, Previn was planning two new jazz albums and an album of chamber music; he was also rehearsing Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations for a concert with the Los Angeles Symphony, discussing the scores for three new pictures, writing an arrangement for Ella Fitzgerald of a song he has written (called Yes), and rehearsing (in New York City) for an appearance with Benny Goodman on TV's Swing into Spring. In Hollywood he barely had time to drop in at the Pantages Theater on his thirtieth birthday to collect a glittering memento of his most...
...vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor of a bunch of auto buffs at an antique-car rally...
...inspiration for the trio's verbal jazz comes from Lyricist Hendricks, who nearly ten years ago heard a version of Moody's Mood for Love in which lyrics had been dubbed in for a saxophone solo. Hendricks (now 37) and Boston Jazz Veteran (41) Dave Lambert experimented with instrumental-styled vocal writing for several years, eventually teamed up with London-born Annie Ross. The three of them now sing 30 songs, many of them Basie classics, e.g., Avenue C, It's Sand, Man-heavily flavored with jazz argot...
...trio now has two briskly selling albums, plus as many nightclub engagements as it can handle (including a Las Vegas offer that may go to $3,000 a week). A columnist suffering from typewriter fatigue recently, tagged the trio the Gilbert & Sullivans of Jazz. A more apt title might be the James Joyces of Jive...
Another Year. Once a week Hamlett presides at an informal evening meeting that can eventually turn into either a jazz séance or a bull session. He has led his youngsters off on hamburger picnics, taught them U.S. dance steps, set them to collecting stamps and writing to pen pals in America. Now and then he rents a bus and carts the young Berbers off to fabled Fez, 50 miles to the North, to hear an American singer or lecturer who is passing through. Not long ago he ordered a shipment of hardball equipment, then gloomily canceled the order...