Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long experience, bypassing tradition in favor of aggressive, hard-driving methods. Beitz alienated many an old Kruppianer with just such methods (he shocked workers by asking to be called Beitz instead of Herr Generaldirektor), earned the nickname "the American" for his breezy ways and love of jazz. But he fired up the conservative management, tightened up the firm's operations, soon had Krupp humming with new energy. "I am a circus manager," says Beitz, "and I must crack the whip. Action-action right now-is what we must have...
Jimmy Giuffre is a spare, soft-spoken Texan who distrusts the word jazz, but plays some of the best jazz to be heard these days-most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) has broken the rules; he does not believe that jazz requires any particular combination of instruments, or that it needs a strong beat, or that its heart is improvisation. To addicts weaned on driving, Basie-inspired rhythm sections, Jimmy's chamois-soft contrapuntal compositions sometimes do not sound like jazz at all. But the feeling is there-a folksy, blues-drenched feeling, timeless...
Jimmy Giuffre first played the clarinet in a Y.M.C.A. band, developed his style out of a distaste for the trancelike monotony of the big jazz rhythm section. In his 36 years he has played with a lot of big outfits-Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Garwood Van, Spade Cooley. When Giuffre got out of the Army, he enrolled at the University of Southern California, became interested in Bartok, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Prokofiev. He began to write "linear" music, in which he tried to keep the rhythm section ("It should be felt rather than heard") from conflicting with other...
...most give as their reason increasing infringement on their freedom. Best publicized example came last year, when the university barred the Rev. Alvin Kershaw from speaking at its Religious Emphasis Week (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956). The reason: Kershaw, who had won $32,000 on a quiz program as a jazz expert, had said he was going to give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman of the sociology department, resigned in protest, charging that the university "was no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which...
...undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn, he said: "Critics don't buy records-they get 'em free." He dubbed Bandleader Lawrence Welk "a musical Ed Sullivan...