Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buff can also swing a benefit. To Hollywood stars and moneymen, it seemed presumptuous to ask $250 a ticket just to go to the movies, but they paid it for Buff's benefit premiere of Cleopatra...
...reason jazz is not salable," says Mann, "is because the musicians and audiences stopped enjoying themselves. People used to swing and be happy in a club Now they must come out emotionally destroyed. We play simple, enjoyable music. My audience doesn't know it's supposed to be something they shouldn't like. It's not jazz and it's not authentic ethnic; it's a crossbreed, a third thing...
...piled-up paperwork. "We now have a tendency to make a trip for a two-day meeting that we would have put off before," says Lear Siegler Vice President John J. Burke. At Bell & Howell, six ranking officers will use the ordinarily dead week after Christmas for a jet swing to pep meetings in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, returning to Chicago in time for New Year's with their families. Many travelers never glimpse the city in which they have been set down, holding their meetings either in airport conference rooms or in the motels that ring...
Belting it out are a group of rugged country cousins to the College Swing types that used to save the varsity show in Hollywood musicals of yore. These kids swing in an unfinished Moscow suburb called Cheremushki, "where skies are blue, and dreams come true," and where an empty flat gets heat in the summertime. "Don't worry, in the winter it'll be cold," quips Boris, a lumpish, curly-topped blaster on the construction crew. With everyone's dream swaddled in Red tape, and keys to the new flats hard to come by, Boris waltzes around...
...compositions and he wrote the music for two of the Jazz Dance Workshop's four sequences. Tschudin showed himself to be a skillful, full-handed pianist, but his music lacked real emotional impact. His quintet played pleasant, solid jazz when its members felt themselves able to swing freely. But they couldn't stay together when they played from sheet music; the pieces of paper diverted their attention from each other...