Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamburg, where some 25,000 of her fellow Jews died in the last two years of Hitler's war. In the cold drizzle of a wintry Sunday morning last week, some 1,500 young Germans journeyed out to Belsen to lay flowers on her grave. A Hamburg jazz club emptied its cash box so that 80 members could charter a bus; another 300 young people pedaled on bikes to the camp. "We older people," said a government official, "have had the Jews on our consciences ever since the war, and now our children are inheriting that guilt...
Several of America's top jazzmen will form a jazz combo Friday night to play for an informal dance in the Union. Milt Hinton, Buck Clayton, Urbie Green, Jo Jones, Coleman Hawkins, and Osie Johnson will take part...
...jazz concert in the Yard Saturday afternoon will provide entertainment preceding the Compton Cup Regatta...
King Radio. Already complaints are heard that U.S. calypso with its own topical allusions (e.g., "Don't blame Elvis for wiggling his pelvis," and "Happy Ireland has this to say: De Valera is here to stay") is corrupting a fine old tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...
...result is an infinitely complex music which bears some slight resemblance to modern jazz and Schoenberg's twelve-tone system. The wonder to Westerners is that the ancient music of India is also the nation's most popular music. It has caught on so rapidly during the last decade that Shankar and other top artists (who get up to $2,000 a performance) have no difficulty drawing crowds of 40,000 to open-air music festivals...