Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood; its principal gods have filled the void left by the Harlows and Gables. Any number of the pop world's scores of superstars could serve to illustrate the process. Four who exemplify its various aspects as vividly as any are Balladeer Carole King, Hard-Rocker Ian Anderson, Pop-Jazz Songstress Roberta Flack and Fey Troubadour Harry Nilsson. Not exactly household names, they nevertheless enjoy more status with the young than a Newman or a Taylor. They are more lavishly remunerated than, say, Redford or Mac-Graw. Indeed, everything about the music industry of the '70s is reminiscent of Hollywood...
England has given Noel Coward to the musical stage, the Beatles to rock and Mantovani to schmalz. But try as it might, it has not been able to make a major contribution to that indigenous American art form, jazz. Except, that is, for gin and Cleo Laine...
Wordless. Unlike the many jazz singers who grimace, snap their ringers or just plain wonder what to do with themselves during long instrumental introductions and interludes, Cleo knows precisely what is called for: she sings along with all the wordless instrumental agility of a clarinet cozying up to a sax. The man who plays sax to Cleo's clarinet is her arranger, conductor and husband, Johnny Dankworth, himself a leading British jazzman and composer...
...Yevtushenko read a New York Times article about his play Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty with the headline "An Anti-U.S. Play Is a Hit in Moscow," he saw red. Pointing out that he had toured the U.S. and admired its young people, Apollo 16, jazz and the Grand Canyon, Yevtushenko told the Times: "Neither I nor the director could ever produce an anti-American production, since genuine art cannot be anti-people." New York magazine added a footnote, gleefully noting that Yevtushenko had lunched with the editors and that "the enemy of capitalism had enlivened...
Freaks, failures but preposterously optimistic, Leo and Teddy grow to manhood trying to be like everyone else. If their early years suggest the Katzenjammer Kids, their later years are X-rated Laurel and Hardy. They booze, dream of becoming professional jazz musicians, chase and frequently catch girls. There are Leo days, Teddy days, and occasionally Leo-and-Teddy days, never thought it would be like this; I mean, siamese twins, holy Christmas," says one young virgin...