Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the guests watched the Bruins defeat the Blackhawks at one end of the penthouse. Tommy Sancton '71 played New Orleans jazz on his clarinet at the other. In between, other guests drank beer and wine and talked about the good old days in Mass Hall...
...quartet called the Grease Band, Cocker had the habit of taking light rock, such as softer ditties by the Beatles, and giving it the heavy treatment. Now Joe has a large new group (36 friends known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen). It can back him up in anything from jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when to let a phrase die with a low, sad whimper...
...German, Grass is a nonconformist in more important ways. His country reveres specialization. Grass has exuberantly sprawled out as minor poet, polemical dramatist, artist, sculptor and jazz musician. He has persistently made fun of the Establishment and the past. In the matter of language, he is a total revolutionary. Too often in Germany, culture has suggested lofty abstractions and an aristocratic style. Grass has always liked to stand the German language on its head and shake it. The result is Rabelaisian horselaughs, horrifying images and earthy sights, smells and sounds that make his visions of yesterday as immediate...
WITH spirituals, the blues, jazz and all its offshoots, blacks created the basis for American popular music. The list of famous black performers reads like a musical honor roll: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles make hardly a beginning. Despite the success of Motown, the black-owned Detroit record company (the Supremes, the Temptations), black musicians have yet to win a proportionate share of credit or cash. Symptomatic statistics: from 1960 to 1970, of the twelve popular soloists or groups receiving ten or more gold records (signifying sales of $1 million or one million records), only...
...rural South as well as standard English. The 1920s produced the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, when Negro poetry began to turn from the classic Eng lish lyric verse of Countee Cullen to the rhythmic, blues-style poetry of Langston Hughes. Later, came Pulitzer Prize-winning Gwendolyn Brooks, Jazz Poet Ted Joans and Margaret Walker, whom some call the mother of the black poets of the '60s. These new poets began to look on themselves not as Negro but as black. Writing primarily for a black audience, they turned their eyes toward Africa and a new-found reverence...