Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help is practically around the corner. I mean the one at Huntington and Exeter, where the Copley Square Hotel is. Plans are virtually completed to bring in Charlie Vinal's Rhythm Kings to the old Hop Scotch Room on a weekend basis...
...this?" but a little card on the table explains "You are listening to dixieland jazz. . . This is the music of gay New Orleans, of Buddy Bolden and king Oliver, of Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. . . . Only at the Dixieland Room of the Copley Square Hotel can Bostonians hear such half-forgotten jazz classics as "Muskrat Ramble." 'Jazz Me Blues,' Ballin' the Jack,' 'Come Back Sweet Papa,' or 'That Da Da Strain'." On the other side will be included a note to the effect that...
Jimmie recalls endless gin, playing variations on Tea for Two for days on end, jamming at Harlem's Rhythm Club with youthful Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, writing a bale of tunes for Broadway producers. He was one of the first jazzmen to go on the air. ("In those days we never got paid-just pats on the back and promises. . . .") By the end of the '203, Jimmie's health had more holes than a piano roll, and he was ready for what he calls his "stormy days...
...Cinemactor Rooney is comically slapped around by cowboys and horses until he learns his lesson, saves the college from folding by staging a coeducational rodeo, wins the dean's niece (Judy Garland), and escorts her through a western omelet of dance routines to the strains of I Got Rhythm...
...Bakiff" is a fascinating study which perhaps belongs rightfully in the same general category as Stravinsky's, Shostakovich's and even Ravel's "modern" compositions--superimposed, or course, on a steady dance rhythm. Going further afield, the excerpts from the "Brown" section of the much-discussed "Black, Brown, and Beige" were most promising, and I'd like more than ever to hear the entire work...