Word: jazzman
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...campus rostrum for political oratory. One university, Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford, N.J., chose not to have a speaker. Instead the students called in Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, creator of bebop, and let him play his songs Ow and Groovin' High. The campus visit briefly unsettled Gillespie. Afterward the jazzman recalled with a chuckle: "I looked at my program and read, 'Commencement address: Dizzy Gillespie.' I was terrified. Everybody knows a jazz trumpeter's instrument doesn 't wake up until 10 at night." In short, as usual, through the gloom there came notes of hope, idealism...
...being laid to rest today was himself a jazzman. Albert Walters was his name. His melodic cornet was heard around town for more than half a century -and is still to be heard on such records as Albert Walters with the Society Jazz Band and West Indies Blues. Walters taught himself piano as a kid, took up the horn in 1927. He liked to say he was a carpenter by trade but a musician by choice. He appeared now and then with other traditionalists in Preservation Hall, but mostly he worked with Society Jazz. A short, stocky man, widowed several...
Saxophonist Art Pepper's fight back from junkie to jazzman...
...Ensemble is only natural for a band that seeks to use every available means of expression. Just as in the music, the Art Ensemble attains their visual goal through the highly personal contributions of the individual members; Mitchell, in the standard dungarees and open-collar shirt of the jazzman, is as much a part of the AEC tableau as is Moye in his coolie hat and war paint...
...movement of quite a different kind. Though it received the 1978 Tony Award for Best Musical, the show is really more of a revue, in which three women and two men--costumed in glittery '30s chic--perform over 30 songs either written or recorded by Fats Waller, the legendary jazzman whose talent for blues and jive helped create the sound of swing...