Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wall tables eddies through the room, the band is likely to swing with a pile-driver beat into some old favorites-Big Mamou or Shake It and Break It. The style, as raw and jolting as a shot of bootleg rye, offers the last authentic taste of the music that once helped make New Orleans the world's jazz capital...
...decade ago: the neighborhood dance hall. Like Happy Landing, the only other survivor, Luthjen's employs middle-aged jazzmen-the youngsters have turned to rock 'n' roll-and attracts middle-aged customers, who turn up loyally week after week to listen and shuffle to the music they danced to a generation ago. To preserve that music in its raw state, Folkways set up recording equipment in New Orleans, issued an album titled Music of the Dance Halls. The recorded sound is muddy and the selections are uneven, but at its best the album offers a fascinating sample...
...Baker, the supple emigre from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement," but Paris Mes Amours, her new revue at the Olympia Music Hall, promises to pack them in as long as Paris has the price...
...Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition, spelling, mythology, music, poetry and chess. Tommy also reads books usually offered to 13-year-olds...
...Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An earnest effort to show that even though the network dropped the Voice of Firestone, it can still put on an exceedingly pleasant pop concert. With Metropolitan Baritone Theodor Uppman, Soprano Elaine Malbin, Pianist Earl Wild, Broadway Songstress Jacquelyn McKeever and Comedienne Alice Ghostley...