Word: jazzmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Frankie started the present era of jazz in Boston, the greatest in Hub history. There've been regular engagements of some of the greatest living jazzmen, and first one, then two jam sessions simultaneously. Unbelievable in this day, because it happened in Boston, and all the more unbelievable because it happened when jazz is supposedly on its last legs...
Certainly the jazzmen did better by Harvard than Maxie Rosenbloom and the Pennsylvania football team. After all, it's not every college that can have a blues written about it. Not even Jimmy Rushing would want to traffic with the art of Bessie Smith and W. C. Handy trying some such lines as, "Baby, I got them lowdown Massachusetts Institute of Technology blues...
...Jazz Record Book," on the market, and have duly and avidly snapped it up. The authors, all learned authorities on jazz lore, analyze over a thousand representative records, most of them available today, and include to boot a short history of Jazz, which seems to have been compressed from "Jazzmen," which appeared a couple of years ago. Obviously an ambitions book like this cries out for more attention than this little squib can give, and it will get it next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years ago, is busy as ever around New York, what with...
...line, may have scared off many who needed to be educated gradually to an appreciation of the vital spark of the great jazz improvisers. It appealed, therefore, almost exclusively to confirmed addicts, and for them it performed a great service with its thoughtful criticisms and biographies of well-known jazzmen. To the ex-jitterbug who has tired of jive, however, its almost esoteric articles and dogmatic policy seemed too great a change from his usual musical fare. But in what it tried to do, Jazz Information succeeded, perhaps, too well for its own survival...
...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...