Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano and Red Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation. His big band was helped little by a welter of panoramic views of its members, a well-intended effort by NBC to avoid a favorite TV bromide: closeup shots of musicians' tortured faces. Swing succeeded chiefly in establishing that Goodman's big-band brand of swing will...
...genre are utilized with unabashed audacity. The recitative and aria da capo turn up all over the place with genuinely satiric twists, as well as cadences which would have sent Rossini right out of the auditorium. The proceedings were further disrupted by the intrusion of a full-fledged jazz number. Mr. Perkins has an especially disarming command of dissonance, which he uses tastefully and moderately to underline the humorous aspects of the music...
Foreign films are trickling in, but none from the U.S. Gina Lollobrigida is a hot favorite. Moscow saw some nudes this year-and was shocked. Love scenes are permitted in movies, and kissing even takes place on the stage, something taboo in Stalin's day. Recordings of American jazz bring bizarre prices on the black market, as much as $100 for a single record...
...souped-up Drumbeats and Song, a compendium of vaudeville acts which somehow escaped the hook. But it's funny, thanks to the fine singing of the Shmeliov Sisters (who recorded "Rose of the Urals," last year's top song hit) and the inspired performance of Eddie Rosner's jazz band. Unfortunately, Y. and V. Gusakov, well-known dancers who starred most recently in N. Khrushchev's "New Faces of 1958," failed to live up to critics' expectations...
...South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...