Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lester Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history of jazz, Mississippi-born alumnus of the Count Basie band; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young became known as "The President" for his superiority in his field. His early influence helped...
Wayland commented that Bernstein "employs a Greek-type chorus of three radio artists to relate--rather unfavorable--the antics of a suburban couple." He added that the piece was especially well adapted to his band, since it is "a combination of modern classical work, a Broadway show, and jazz rhythmic material...
...caustic. Much of the laughter wells up around Beneatha, a girl of earnest intellectual fads. When a Nigerian boy friend introduces her to a bit of African lore, she promptly decks herself out as "the queen of the Nile," and whirls across the room to click off a jazz program ("Enough of this assimilationist junk...
...Jazz Entree...
...Jazz Steamboat