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...ORLEANS still has a good number of organization--"benevolent societies"--which give brass band funerals to their departed brothers. The Olmypia Brass Band is one of the last marching jazz bands remaining in the city. Most of its members are aging black jazzmen who have played in the city's back streets, dives, honky tonks, and dance halls since the early part of this century. The brass band tradition in New Orleans goes back further than the lives of these men. Funerals and parades just like this one had been going on long before the turn of the century, possibly...
These are hard times for music audiences that want to see as well as hear a lively show. Jazzmen turn their backs to the house and noodle obscurely. Rock groups shamble around the bandstand in rummage-sale outfits, sometimes acknowledging their listeners' presence only with obscenities. And as for the avantgarde, how much stage presence can an electronic synthesizer have...
...truck-hauled float known as the Jazzmobile swings noisily through New York City, offering two-hour concerts in front of neighborhood community centers. Now in its fourth year, the Jazzmobile features first-rate jazzmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson), sometimes attracts 3,000 listeners at a time. It is an independent offshoot of the Harlem Cultural Council, and private firms, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., pay most...
Apparently he did, for soon he was sitting in with top jazzmen in Greenwich Village. He was only 18 when Benny Goodman offered him a job in 1941. Powell says: "I did him the courtesy of accepting." Goodman remembers it a little differently: "He auditioned for me in a cubicle at my manager's office. He was so scared that I had to ask a secretary to help me decide whether he was any good-I couldn't tell." Anyway, that is the way that most people who know his name remember Powell-as a vital, imaginative soloist...
Instead, setting a life pattern, he drifted between such random diversions as studying Serbo-Croatian and founding a record company to preserve the music of early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...