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...week. And every cent of it had been hard-earned. Like Walter Winchell and the late Damon Runyon, Robbins had almost singlehanded created his own "language," and built his audience by teaching it to them (see box). He started with a few scattered scat idioms picked up from jazzmen, rapidly invented new ones on principles of alliteration, assonance and (occasionally) metaphor...
...after graduation, Hoagy wrote Stardust, and was in. Now, after 47 years with hot music, Hoagy is beginning to cool off. Says he: "Looks to me like jazz is dying out. Nothing new coming down the groove. Same old construction. Everything built on the same old blues chords." Most jazzmen, he thinks, have lost the spirit epitomized by a colored piano player, who once told him: "Never play anything that ain't right. You may not make any money but you'll never get hostile with yourself...
...achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse who walks like a man, Dave Tough. This made over two beat artist has probably played in more widely divergent groups than any two other jazzmen, having run the gamut between Condon and Spivak...
Special programs for the week have been announced by the Crimson Network. On the classical side, Symphonia will present a first broadcast Boston performance tonight of Purcell's "Dide and Aeneas"; while the jazzmen will conduct a technical battle tonight and Friday, with an exponent of four-boat style holding this evening and a two-beat man on Friday...
...Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys of his alto in an exceptionally adept but rather confusing manner. The member of his unit, a remarkably happy looking and youthful bunch compared with most jaded jazzmen, were largely recruited from Benny Carter's and Lionel Hampton's outfits some months ago in New York. They have recorded several items on the Gotham label none of which equal their personal performances...