Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street in the afternoon, and in the early evening as the sun set on the bay the soft odors of won-ton soup drifting up through the air vents. Crazy! But take my advice, and give up the Oriental bit, and go domestic. Contemplation, inward communion, and all that jazz is all right, but all I got was anemic from eating too much rice...
...Prodigy Van Cliburn, 24, wowed a packed throng in Kansas City, caused a scattering of academic shudders with his theories of musicianship ("If a performer has to sacrifice something, he should sacrifice the notes rather than the inspiration"), allowed that he had time to cultivate some home-grown corn: "Jazz is a kind of form, not difficult, that helps make the evaluation of classical music even higher. I play it myself to relax...
...daughter of a Detroit druggist, Barbara Dane tried "to sing opera, oratorios and all that jazz" when she was just out of high school, "but I felt it just didn't fit me." Meanwhile she had mastered a few folk songs, and because "nobody else in town knew them," she soon found herself strumming and humming for the glory of organized labor: "I must have sung on every picket line the U.A.W. threw up." Even after she moved to the jazzy West Coast, she stuck to her guns, occasionally found some unique ammunition. Item: a girl...
...name in the same breath as Blues Singer Smith's. She has the same spine-grabbing talent of "bending" a note-hitting her target, then turning on the power as she slides a quarter tone above or below. After Barbara appeared with Louis Armstrong at the Pasadena Jazz Festival last month, the master called an agent cross-continent and gave his own estimate: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser...
...Stars of Jazz (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lizzie Miles at 63 can still belt them into submission with a few strokes, and Joe Yukl's sextet is in attendance to perform a gentler kind of operation on Royal Garden Bines and Basin Street Blues...