Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jazz musician Billy Tipton never gave his Social Security number to his booking agent. He never went swimming with his three adopted sons. Though he became seriously ill, he never visited a doctor. Last week, four days after Tipton, 74, died from a bleeding ulcer in Spokane, a funeral director told one of the musician's sons the reason for his odd behavior: Tipton was a woman...
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here...
...four Literature and Arts B courses which were lotteried, "Jazz," "Rembrandt," "Monuments of Japan" and "Modern Art and Abstraction," numbered about 1200 students after the lotteries were held...
Perhaps the most remarkable--and most ironic--lottery of this shopping, period was the one held for Lit. and Arts B-71, "Jazz," which continued this semester's trend of overcrowded Literature and Arts B courses. More than 1000 students, or one-seventh of the student body, showed up for the first meeting of "Jazz," a course that was actually a departmental offering, Music 30, last year...
Although Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone limited the enrollment in "Jazz" to 400, he gave preference to juniors and seniors, which is the only sensible way to run a lottery. But the fact that students swarmed to a slightly modified version of an introductory level departmental course reflects badly on the Core as a whole. It indicates that Core courses are not as different "by design" as Core officials had hoped they would...