Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the Republicans need, according to Jazz Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, is a campaign song. Collaborating with Elizabeth Firestone, daughter of Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone, Hampton has whipped up a 32-bar opus called We Need Nixon. Its conclusion: "In him and God we place our trust. Our man is Nixon, he's right on! Fixin' a better world for all of us." During performances with the Hampton Jazz Inner Circle, the composer passes out singles of his new ditty while the boys play Hampton specialties. What happens when Democrats disapprove of his offering? "Oh," says Hampton...
Died. Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow, 72, who, after learning to play jazz in a Pontiac, Ill., prison, became one of the most influential white clarinetists of the '30s and '40s; in Paris. Dealing in New Orleans blues, and in marijuana by the pound, Mezzrow became a familiar figure to jazz fans from New York City to the Chicago nightclubs of Al Capone. In 1937 he created one of the first racially mixed bands in the U.S. Though he was a popular performer, Mezzrow's life-style was out of tune with his times, and after a two-year...
...essential spirit of HooDoo is called Jes Grew. It slips into New Or leans and spreads across the country like a science-fiction plague. It is the jazz in the Jazz Age. Even Warren G. Harding is reported locked in the Lincoln Bedroom listening to The Whole World Is Jazz Crazy. Ranged against Jes Grew are the forces of the Wallflower Order (read those who do not dance...
Black English retained some African words that later entered into Standard English (examples: goober, jazz and banjo). More important, Dillard found that Black English arranged English words according to a syntax resembling that of West African languages. Black English does not require a distinction between present and past tenses, for example, but it does require a differentiation between continuous and momentary action. Thus, Dillard notes, if a black says of a laborer, "He workin' when de boss come in," he means that the man worked only when the boss was present. On the other hand, if he says...
...completely on technique. The amorphousness of the instrumentation helps to stress the voice, while simultaneously evoking a journey, which is what the song is about. Van employed the same style in the making of Astral Weeks, combining personal, somewhat complex writing with instrumentation and arranging that echoed the cool jazz of the early fifties...