Word: waller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bless the Child," while Jay Flash Riley--with the help of some wildly funny ad-libbing--immortalizes an unexpected aspect of religious revivalist meetings. With the exception of the songs specifically composed for Bubbling Brown Sugar, the caliber of music is the highest, and includes many Fats Waller and Duke Ellington standards...
...ambitious new generation of white, mostly Democratic, Southern politicians swiftly spotted and responded to the signs of change. That generation came into full flower in the early '70s, with election of a remarkable group of progressive Governors: Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, Florida's Reubin Askew, Mississippi's William Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...
...much so that a new Jazz Age has dawned again in America. Record manufacturers have a boomlet on their hands. In the next year 20 labels will spin out more than 350 reissues alone, in addition to new jazz. The buyers are clamoring for Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, as well as Keith Jarrett and George Benson. Jazz disks that once were counted hot numbers if they sold 20,000 copies now find a market for 200,000 or more. There is scarcely a major college campus that does not offer a jazz course...
...Swiss Account, Waller...
...performance was led adroitly by the veteran conductor Leonard de Paur, who first gained fame in the 1940s as leader of the De Paur Infantry Chorus. The women-Dramatic Soprano Juanita Waller (Aurore) of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mezzo Barbara Conrad (Clothilde) of Pittsburg, Texas-provided most of the vocal excitement. Waller has a pearl-luscious voice, and her time along the European operatic trail (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Naples) has obviously been well spent. Conrad, that rare operatic find, a truly sexy mezzo, scored her biggest success to date last spring singing Carmen at the Houston Spring Opera Festival...