Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that he is not a native American is probably the main reason why Panassie has failed to get a really accurate view of the jazz picture. At the time he was formulating his conception of it, Americans were busy fawning upon any and every eminent European classical musician obtainable. But in his native Europe the bell-shaped opera sopranos, weirdly posturing conductors et al were, comparatively speaking, the honorless prophets, while the imported hot records from the New World and the American jam bands got the vivas, saluts, and heils. The European Parlophone company, with branches in almost every...
...Real Jazz, Panassie tells us hot music is a finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment...
Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations. Film debut of the greatest living musician (TIME, April...
...husband, a 72-year-old professor emeritus of economic history at Columbia. German was the language of their romance 53 years ago at the University of Berlin (when he spoke no English and she knew no Russian). For relaxation Mrs. Sim attends concerts ("I'm just a musician gone wrong") or walks briskly around the Village, blithely ignoring the traffic lights...
Buell S. Smith '49, supplementing O'Donnell's statement, said that he had contacted a musician by the name of Lennie Lewis, by long distance from Indianapolis. Lewis, said Smith, had admitted that he was "something of an unknown but up and coming," and that "Harvard publicity was worth...