Word: jazzman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of Jazzman Benny Goodman, with whom he plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...
Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...