Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati Conservatory on a scholarship. At Cincinnati he noticed less gifted students picking up $5 a night for appearances with dance bands. The money, Al decided, lay outside the long-haired classics, and with the aid of Harry James and Roy Eldridge records, he turned himself into a jazz musician. Still, he had to eke out a living as salesman for an exterminating company...
...cause of the uproar was a seismic new dance called La Pachanga-Caribbean slang for "wild party." Historians are able to date the dance with some exactness. In December 1959, a young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor...
...descendants of the heretical Albigenses who took refuge in the town in the 13th and 14th centuries. His father, a stolid leader of the local Alpine Club, was an enameler of watch faces. His mother, who died last year at 100, trained her oldest son, Albert, to be a musician, and told Charles Edouard: "You will be a genius...
...station's timing could not have been better-or worse-in airing the show. The verdict had been handed down on Feb. 23, but the television version of their deliberations was beamed the day before Melvin Davis Rees Jr., 32, a Hyattsville, Md., dance band musician, was to appear for sentencing for the crime that could bring him life imprisonment. Appearing before Judge Roszel C. Thomsen, Rees's lawyers argued that the telecast had portrayed the jurors as discussing issues not raised in the trial, including the question of Rees's sanity. "We do not know...
...danger in formal training for a jazz musician is that he will become rigidly bound by it, and be afraid to try things. But this is not inevitable. Most men pick and choose from what they have learned formally...