Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 500 hostile young people, many stoned and some flashing knives, rip up fences and storm a stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, silencing the music for nearly 40,000 listeners and causing officials to cancel a scheduled folk festival and a rock opera. The heroin death of one young man and the open drug dealing of others at a Detroit rock concert lead Michigan Governor William Milliken to demand the end of all such festivals in that state...
Rock music, like jazz, has become a permanent part of American popular culture, and millions of young people will continue to enjoy it, not quietly but inoffensively. In the meantime, however, the more spectacular rock institutions are continuing to crumble. Among the chief reasons, apart from the infestation of drugs, is the fact that musicians and promoters have grown greedy. What with high admission prices and thousands jammed into tight, inadequately equipped spaces, the kids no longer feel that the music is theirs. Too much was expected of the Woodstock dream, of its unique communion in sound...
...71st birthday, came as a tragic surprise. In March he had been so ill that it seemed unlikely he would recover. But he did, only recently announcing his return to work (TIME, July 12). His sudden death from heart failure ended a career that spanned the life of jazz. He emerged during its early days, became the first big star to shine in front of a combo. He paved the road over which virtually every jazzman of any importance would walk to fame thereafter...
...When jazz began, America had little music to call its own. There were ballads, popular and folk songs, and some symphonic music by American-born but European-oriented composers. Bubbling in the New Orleans melting pot, however, was a disreputable mix of African, Spanish, French and Protestant revivalist musical influences that would mature into a uniquely American idiom. Black music had wandered away from its African grandparents, picked up a few hymn tunes, worked in fields and on railroads, and been sung to make slavery endurable. Around 1900, in the honky-tonks and whorehouses of New Orleans, it became jazz...
Died. Louis Armstrong, 71, trumpeter, singer and world-renowned ambassador of jazz (see Music...