Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suzanne Davis, the operations manager for TIME's news service, was asleep in her New Orleans hotel room last week when the exuberant strains of a jazz band broke the 5 a.m. calm. The music came from a courtyard beneath her window that ABC's Good Morning America was using during the Republican Convention. Though Davis had arranged housing for the TIME staffers who attended the event, she had not been warned that her own hotel would become a predawn television set. "At least," she says wryly, "they were playing a snappy tune...
...Pleasure Club, a black burial society whose members traditionally paraded on Mardi Gras in blackface, wearing grass skirts and tossing coconuts to the crowd. A week before Mardi Gras, I watched cheerfully drunk white longshoremen boogie down the street for hours in women's clothing behind a black jazz band, in what they called a practice parade of their Carnival marching society -- as if any of that took any practice. I talked to light-complected, Catholic, French-named blacks who said that the Zulu Parade was what you might expect of the darker, Protestant blacks they still occasionally referred...
...would have liked to have stayed," said Jay Hoffman, one of the owners of the club which features performances by well-known Jazz artists." But sometimes things work out for a reason. Now we can go and look for a permanent building." He added that the club had already begun negotiations for another space near its present location...
...said. "The zoning in Cambridge is really strict. You have to make sure you stay in an area where old licenses are still valid. I don't think we'll have any trouble changing locations, but the laws are making it difficult for places of culture and liquor, like jazz bars, to stay open...
Scali said he did not think the 1369 Jazz Club would have any problems arranging to transfer its license