Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perkins said that he expected that the schedule changes--to be decided on next week--would result in "classical music not dominating so much." Classical music now takes up nearly as much time as jazz, rock, and folk music combined...
...description of the arrangement between the Mafia and the FBI, which is rather nice, there is not even much style to recommend. One or two sentences, not more, are worth prizing out of their settings to be enjoyed. "She laughed," Condon writes with a bit of the old jazz, in "three low musical tones, deliciously, like a dying sailor's memory of a whorehouse doorbell." Let the dying reader's memory be of The Manchurian Candidate...
HERBERT X. BLYDEN. He is a big man, broad-shouldered, hard features, ugly scars on his cheek and neck from a prison slashing two years ago. He is also a voracious reader of history, politics and Black Muslim philosophy, a fan of football, boxing and modern jazz. Warm and articulate to close friends, he is known as a prisoner who will "go all the way" if crossed. His hatred of prison racism runs deep...
...jazz band, and with three other boys organized an orchestra that performed two nights a week in a local movie theater. A good student, he demonstrated a flair for writing, and when he got to Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) in 1922, decided to major in English...
...Enrico started playing with his musical family professionally. England's child labor laws were-and still area considerable hindrance. "They only allow kids to be in 40 shows a year," explains his father. This spring the family brought Enrico to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and dropped the youngster like a tiny sonic bomb into the midst of America's most famous jazzmen...