Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long time, campus dons, like a lot of other folk, took the view that jazz is best learned, if at all, as it used to be: in nightclubs, in Storeyville houses, at Mammy's knee or some other low joint. It took just one book, though, Gunther Schuller's lovingly scholastic Early Jazz, published in 1968, to confirm that jazz could stand up to the same kind of penetrating musical analysis usually accorded classics like the Beethoven quartets or the Wagner Ring cycle. Lately, jazz has swung into the academies like one of the old Woody Herman Herds...
Zero Absenteeism. The Illinois festival was only the tip of a jazz iceberg. From grad to grammar school, hot jazz is becoming the most popular thing since hot lunch. Even kindergartners and children in the first three grades are tapping their toes at Berkeley's Washington Elementary School, with rhythmic help from teachers like Saxophonist Bob Houlehan. In junior highs and high schools throughout the U.S., where old-fashioned swing over rock-rhythm sections is the vogue, an estimated 16,000 jazz bands are taking over from marching bands as an intramural way of life. Says Irving Bard, music...
...case not necessarily in counterpoint, take the 1971 American College Jazz Festival, held recently on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. While 15 groups from all over the country joined in, trumpets blared through sinus-shattering amplification, making it painfully clear that the young today seem to like their jazz every bit as loud as rock. Yet it was astounding to hear one band after another mix rock, the classics, or electronic compositions into fertile jazz blends. Even Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal...
Grinspoon also mentions the role of racism in the history of marihuana repression in this country. Punitive legislation was enacted in the 1930s when most users were black, Mexican and Puerto Rican, and when marihuana use was publicly identified most strongly with black jazz musicians...
Died. Wynton Kelly, 39, jazz pianist; in Toronto. From the 1950s through the mid-'60s, Kelly was a catalytic figure in a number of groups featuring such improvisational superstars as Dizzy Gillespie,Miles Davis and the late Wes Montgomery. Kelly was credited with providing a vital blues-tinged version of the modern jazz idiom...