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...Birdland has gone off the cool," says Owner Oscar Goodstein, in the simple pursuit of "good nightclub entertainment." Since modern jazz no longer makes many pretenses about being entertaining to the foot stompers, Birdland is now proudly presenting such audience winners as Dodo Green, DeeDee Ford, the Allegros and the Jive Bombers. The new acts have a "visual" appeal, Goodstein says, that brings some new cheer into the room. As for their music, it is mainly of the clang-clang-clang-baby school, played with the thumping beat of a garbage can rolling down a flight of stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Audience Is Shrinking | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...early '50s, when bop ruled the night on 52nd Street and Broadway. The club was christened in honor of Charlie "Bird" Parker, and its stars have been mainly his musical descendants. Now Miles Davis is no longer welcome, and neither is Thelonious Monk or John Coltrane; their music, Goodstein thinks, has become too involuted and personal to please Birdland's current customers. The new regime is lively and loud, but it seems as anomalous as presenting harmonica players at the Philharmonic; the old hipsters come to the door, look on in sad disbelief, then wander away. For jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Audience Is Shrinking | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Girls--Ann Gibson, Rosalind Kelsey, Sue Birnie, Margaret Cook, Mildred Gill, Ruth Seltz, Jeanne Goodstein, Fay Goell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG AND DANCE TO FEATURE DRAMATIC CLUB PERFORMANCE | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

...Count's lawyer, Mr. Goodstein, made the following statement to the press: "Count Salm has neither required, sought nor obtained financial aid and he is not indebted to anybody on any account. He is quite able to pay his own way and has shown in court proceedings that he was and is about to support his wife [the onetime Millicent Rogers] and child [Peter] and to provide a suitable home for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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