Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from the U.S. and 17 foreign lands, charged trickery on the high seas. Huffed a Jamestown publicist: "It's just as though you started playing a piano and someone else set up a jazz band next door...
Last week the Hi-Lo's brought their far-from-tattered voices to Manhattan for the first time, and proved to the jazz-wise Birdland audience that when they are not kidding, they can husk out just about the slickest sound in the current trade. "We like to sing," says Hi-Lo's Leader Gene Puerling, "almost like a string quartet...
Bull's-Eye Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar...
...names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally hit on the Hi-Lo's because their heights ranged from 5 ft. 5 in. (Burroughs) to 6 ft. 3 in. (Strasen). Three years ago they opened at Pack's nightclub in San Francisco, and from the beginning the jazz buffs recognized that here was a new sound and a good...
Chico Hamilton Quintet (Pacific Jazz). Thirteen of the dapper, low-keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...