Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added some rhythm he had learned growing up in the Pentecostal church, swiveled his hips, put his heart into it, and started the rock rolling. The story starts before rock'n roll became an American institution, before it splintered into hard rock, bubble gum rock, acid rock, punk rock, jazz-rock, folk-rock, and that most castrated form of rock, if it can be called rock at all--disco. By the time I got on the bus this summer there was really little left of the original rock'n roll. When Elvis first sang he was a rebel; when...
Progressive he may be, but Willie remains true to the bedrock traditions of folk, blues, jazz and country. His unusually sophisticated phrasing-now lagging behind the beat, now scooting ahead of it. twisting and rolling the melody like a champion lariat twirler-owes something to Frank Sinatra, one of his favorite singers. But his high, slightly nasal baritone retains an austere lyricism that goes back to Appalachian hills and hollows and beyond. Where much of commercial country music has only a catch in its throat, Willie's has a touch of iron in its soul...
DIED. Jack L. Warner, 86. last of the four pioneering film-producing brothers who in 1927 brought out the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer: of inflammation of the heart: in Los Angeles...
DIED. Louis Prima, 66, jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer and bandleader; after lingering in a coma for three years; in New Orleans. With his wife, Singer Keely Smith, he staged a raucous nightclub act that made the couple Las Vegas headliners until their divorce...
Actually, Harvard thrives on your basic Ivy League activities--classical music, a little jazz and film type of stuff. Whenever you get bored, go to the movies...