Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French readers, Paris' Le Jazz Hot review was trying to explain the artistry of U.S. Bebopper Charlie ("Yard-bird") Parker. Excerpt...
...Trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page's "émotion authentique" blues soon had them breaking their hands for joy. Grizzled Sidney Bechet, who has been nozzling out New Orleans classics on clarinet and soprano sax since 1911, got a Toscanini's wild and respectful ovation, And when Yardbird Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar, the zazous drooled, twitched and finally screamed...
...debate on the subject was sharp. James H. Heller '49 repeated his statements of the previous meeting on the subject by stating that he was against any extension of the "dictatorship of snobbery," and drew from Edward M. Parker '49, Sergeant-at-Arms of the new club, a strong denial that the club was based on snobbery...
...response to the questions as to why the group wishes to become a final club, Parker said, "The reason we wish to become a final club is because we want to keep the men together--and all final clubs are mutually exclusive...
...officers are: President, John D. Hopkins '48: vice-president, Richard C. Pierce '50: Secretary, Charles P. Dribben '51: Treasurer, George D. Jackson '51: and Sergeant-at-Arms. Edward M. Parker...