Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear case of the same sort of show biz is another new work in the Jeffrey repertory, Alvin Ailey's The Mingus Dancers, based on a grouping of ponderously orchestrated pieces by fabled Jazz Bassist Charlie Mingus. The work is an odd mixture of five abstractly modern sections and four stagey "vaudeville" routines, some comic, some gloomily Brechtian in flavor. They include a morose parade of grinning soldiers in clownlike, whiteface makeup, a lady from Spain heel-clacking through a campy flamenco, a pair of policemen mock-dueling with nightsticks. The vaudevilles have no discernible relationship to the abstract...
...whose baby had been crying, cried herself when she heard. But the celebration continued. George Jackson had been in the joint for five years when Watts burned in '65. He became five years further removed from here by the time he died. George Jackson was dead, but tonight was Jazz Night, and Miles Davis would be playing...
...should add that the changes at WHRB will not be all that radical. We want to develop a more balanced schedule, which would include classical, folk, rock and jazz. In our efforts to find a better schedule, we have gotten a great deal of support from everyone at the station, including what the Crimson has labled the "conservative bloc." Charles Perkins '74 Station Manager WHRB
Program director Michael Gruber '72 earlier this week revised the previous programming, giving rock and jazz more air time at the expense of classical. But Tuesday night the administrative board of the station overruled Gruber, suspending those changes...
Recently the traditional predominance of classical music on WHRB has eroded. And with the election last week of Charles Perkins '73 to the position of station manager, and Gruber as program director, the rock and jazz departments began to assert their majority numbers...