Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago Jazz King Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong was gravely ill in a Manhattan hospital, fighting an apparently losing battle for his life. Now the gravel-throated singer and trumpeter has told newsmen: "My playing and singing's O.K. and I feel pretty good." To prove it, he took up his trumpet, blasted into What a Wonderful World, and announced he planned to go back to work. Said Satchmo: "That's what life's all about...
Though the predominantly white colleges seem to have taken over the teaching of jazz, I believe that future jazz musicians will come from such colleges as Hampton or Fisk...
Intrigued by overexposure to the airline's familiar radio and TV ad, Balanchine commissioned Jazz Composer Roger Kellaway to write a score based on its musical theme. Then he set out to design what might be called a dance-ode to an airline terminal. Between takeoff and landing (complete with last-minute baggage scramble) there is a series of typically flowing Balanchine duets for three couples, vaguely identified as young marrieds, two hippies and a brace of space-age jet-setters. By far the best is an earthy, bluesy number for Frank Ohman and German-born Karin von Aroldingen...
Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.Mus., jazz musician...
...ride them someday," and the other a derivative "Brown Sugar." And you get lots of live performances, but frankly the cloying, infatuated photography renders even these tedious after three or four songs; the Maysles seemed to have realized this, and Shelter's nadir comes when they try to jazz up their presentation of "Love in Vain" with rapturous slow-motion andYard,' with its hallowed dormitories that once housed some of our nation's great literary, philosophic and scientific minds." I found the use of the past tense particularly interesting...