Word: whiteman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine had its eye on an anniversary coming up next month; it will be a quarter century since Duke Ellington moved into Harlem's high-kicking Cotton Club with a ten-man band and began to beat out jungle-style rhythms. Those were the days when Paul Whiteman's "symphonic jazz" was the rage and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue had just staggered
...little relief from all these pressures was the arrival in Cambridge of Paul Whiteman, straight from a successful European tour. "American jazz," declared Whiteman, "has taken Europe by storm." Admiral Byrd, conqueror of the South Pole, told an enthusiastic audience that airplanes were the hope of the future...
...place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains his definitive version of Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose of "symphonic" dross...
...Rinker), 48, blues-moaning jazz singer, whose trademark was Rockin' Chair; of a heart ailment; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Half Coeur d'Alêne Indian, she got her start at 17, plugging tunes in a Seattle store for $10 a week, became a radio star with Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1929-34), made records, which have since become collector's items, with most of the leading jazzmen of her day (including ex-Husband Red Norvo...
Replying to the criticism that the prohibition of anything stronger than punch was destroying interest in the college dances. Whiteman declared that "if we need liquor to sustain the college system then we had better abandon the college system...