Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money anyway. Says Rich Schwagerl, a conservatory student who plays jazz in a Boston marimba-vibraphone duo: "We're having a good time, making enough to cover expenses -gas, a few sodas-and catching a few rays." Moreover, says his partner, Richard Sprince, "good-looking babes come up and admire our musicianship...
...with almost a quarter of a million people last week as the New York Philharmonic exploded into John Philip Sousa and giant skyrockets burst above the band shell. A festival is Chicago Secretary Janice Simpson puzzling over whether she should go hear Lonnie Listen Smith at the Miller beer Jazz Stage or Muddy Waters at the Olympia beer Blues Stage, playing at almost the same time at ChicagoFest, where more than 500,000 trooped to the city's old brick and metal Navy Pier last week...
...found she could catch them both on different nights.) It may be tourists getting so caught up in the music at the ethnic dances of the Texas Folklife Festival that they jump onstage with the costumed dancers. Or Jazz Vibraphonist Gary Burton performing in Boston's Copley Square during one of the seven concerts a day scattered across the city by Summerthing...
Georges Bonnemaison, a sportswriter and jazz critic for the Toulouse paper Dépêche du Midi, and his wife Régine venture into Central Park. Apparently expecting the tranquillity of Paris' Luxembourg Gardens, they confront instead bongo drums, tape decks, roller skaters, family picnics and baseball games. "Trap décontracté," says Mme. Bonnemaison, disgusted. Too relaxed. "Everyone does just what he wants!" New York is an interesting place to visit, but although they are amazed to find people actually living there, obviously it is impossible. Mixed reviews, thumbs waggle...
...past Hospital Row and comes into Inman Square, a miniature and somewhat rundown Harvard Square featuring the Guru Meher Baba Information Center and the In Square Men's Baba Information Center and the In Square Men's Bar (to which women are also welcome), Legal Seafood and the 1369 Jazz Club. Outside of Inman Square, Cambridge St. bolts straight into East Cambridge, the Portuguese/Italian working class section of Cambridge...