Word: mortons
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...born, but there is no doubt that its first identifiable players -- like the legendary trumpeter Buddy Bolden -- appeared in the dance halls, honky-tonks and bordellos of New Orleans around the turn of the century. In the hands of such men as King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet, the story goes, the music thrived until the closing of the red-light district in 1917 sent many of the Crescent City's best players up the Mississippi in search of work. There they gave birth to the brash, vibrant Chicago sound, which helped lay the groundwork...
...Morton Downey Jr. The acerbic talk-show host claimed he was attacked in a San Francisco men's room by Nazi skinheads, who chopped off some of his hair and scrawled a swastika across his face. Skeptical officials made no arrests...
...professor with an IQ estimated at 180. He had been an invaluable political asset, rescuing Bush's faltering campaign by masterminding a victory in the New Hampshire primary. But he lacked any experience in the clannish world of Washington and was so relentlessly abrasive that one wag dubbed him "Morton Downey Jr. with a Ph.D." The smart money gave him at most a year...
JAZZ PIANO (Smithsonian Collection). A four-CD (six-LP) compendium of outstanding keyboard artists recorded between 1924 and 1978. Virtually every American jazz pianist of note -- 42 in all, ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Keith Jarret -- is represented in these 68 solo tracks. As if a gold mine of great music were not enough, the scholarly notes by Dick Katz, Martin Williams and Francis Davis make this a must-have for serious jazz aficionados...
...particulars vary from city to city, the tricks of the trade are fairly constant. Sources must be cultivated, glamorous friends coddled, and, of course, press agents heeded as they relentlessly push tips. Certain restaurants are musts. In Los Angeles it's Le Dome or the Ivy for lunch, Morton's or Spago for dinner. In Chicago the image- conscious can be found at the Establishment-oriented Pump Room or the more hip Eccentric, partly owned by Oprah. In New York City the Russian Tea Room is best for the show-business throng, Elaine's for the print glitterati, Le Cirque...