Word: jazzmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather slump, when 52nd Street nightclub owners looked glumly at rows of empty tables and cried the blues, Nick's joint on West Tenth Street was having what the surprised musicians themselves called a "winter week." The iron-man stunt was giving Bobby (who, like all hot jazzmen, is an authority on hard times) some memorable paydays. ABC pays him $165 a week for a 40-hour week for 20 hours of actual playing. Grace Rongetti, Nick's widow, pays better than that, complaining only when Bobby gets tied up at the studio and has to send...
Unlike earlier College jazz programs, which usually featured a single name artist backed by student players, Leverett's concert brings half a dozen professional jazzmen to fill in the background music...
Leverett House plays host to the first University-wide jazz concert since before the war tomorrow, when a group of jazzmen topped by trombonist J. C. Higgen-botham breaks loose in the Dining Hall at 3 o'clock. The concert is sponsored by the House Committee in an effort to stimulate College interest in jazz and to round out Leverett's weekend entertainment program, which includes a formal dinner and dance Saturday evening. Some of the East's better known jazz artists will be featured...
...Professional Jazzmen...
...good deal of the story, finally becomes as tedious to sit in on as any other family quarrel. Moreover, the picture is not as distinguished musically as might be expected. One thing the show does have, which most such movies lack: a feeling for the raffish professionalism of commercial jazzmen. Sample: Helen O'Connell's acid, sardonic singing of Green Eyes...