Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked at a desolate Long Island shanty with an enormous receiving aerial and a posse of NBC monitors inside widdling their dials. But only a BBC voice and some foggy images made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...
...months, soft-spoken Record-Spinner Shepherd fired off occasional jazz salvos 4½ hours a night, seven nights a week, for Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
...studious, tireless executive, Fred Kappel first went to work for the Bell System in 1924 as a $25-a-week groundman fresh out of the University of Minnesota, where he helped pay his way by drumming in a jazz band. Kappel soon ran the gamut of line-crew jobs from splicer to circuit tester, by 1934 was a full-fledged engineer in the Nebraska-South Dakota area. He did so well there that he was called into Northwestern Bell's headquarters at Omaha, where he was promoted to vice president in 1942. Seven years later he was shifted again...
Very, Very Villegas (Columbia). Argentine Concert Pianist Enrique Villegas. whose gears shifted to jazz a long time ago when he first heard Duke Ellington, ripples through some fine old tunes in a style that should put his listeners in high. Into his giggly musical hopper Pianist Villegas topples everything from burlesque to Bartok, turns out some unique...
...Jazz came to Don Elliott through Pianist George Shearing, one of his idols. He wangled a chance to try out his vibes with the Shearing combo, remained with the group for 15 months. Followed a period of rough jazz training, during which he engaged in nightly "battles of vibes" with a cool-minded colleague named Terry Gibbs. He played with the Benny Goodman Sextet, eventually formed his own quartet. Elliott has no fewer than seven iT.P.s on the market, with three more coming soon, for he plays with an ingratiating style that appeals to jazz lovers without frightening record executives...