Word: jazzman
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...waltz, then several French and English foxtrots. The young workers, most of whom were hearing jazz for the first time, were exhilarated but confused. Then Tsfasman called for "Ho Hum," popular three years ago in the U. S. When it was finished the audience cried for an encore. Jazzman Tsfasman had all but won his case. He ended with a rumba...
Married. Paul Whiteman, 41, bandmaster; and Margaret Livingston, 29, cinemactress; at Morrison, Colo. Jazzman Whiteman, who upon his divorce from wife No. 3, Dancer Vanda Hoff, declared: "Marriage is for the middle class, not for artists" (TIME, Feb. 9), posed with wife No. 4 beside a wedding gift-a pensive, plebeian...
...foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong's Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra. Embraceable You and / Got Rhythm (Victor...
Coincidentally last week there rose at Covent Garden a ghost of another description. Seats had been taken out of the auditorium. Jazzman Herman Darewski (composer of "Whispering," "K-K-Katy") was playing for a ball, when suddenly he noticed his drummer drop his sticks, stare goggle-eyed into space. Darewski turned and saw (he said) an apparition of Wagner's Siegfried, helmeted and armed, stalking over the heads of the dancers. Darewski collapsed in a chair. Dancers flocked around him, said they could see nothing. But the incident gave rise to much whispering. It has long been rumored that...
...himself fine points of technique by aping Saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft on the phonograph. Thence his nickname, bestowed by mates at the University of Maine. He transferred to Yale, worked his way through (including coonskin coat) by playing at dances. In 1927 he started his career as a full-fledged jazzman. In May he married but this is suppressed in his autobiography, perhaps because the marriage was annulled after three months, perhaps because a professional love-crooner publicizes better as an untrammeled soul. Just one of his current contracts (Fleischmann Yeast) is for well over a thousand a week (one hour...