Word: hipster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hipster - one who is in the know
TIME, March 25, made some rather misleading statements regarding "Bebop" music, Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, "Slim" Gaillard, and modern jazz in general. The impression you gave was that all lovers of hot jazz are zoot-suited marijuana-smoking characters who stay up till the wee hours of the morning saying: "Zoot! You're as mellow as a cello, 'gator, let's have some mellow-rooney jive...
...definitely not overheated jazz with dirty lyrics and doubletalk. It is a word for ultra-modern jazz, such as "Dizzy" Gillespie and others play. . . . The type of music played by Hipster Gibson, Slim Gaillard and others of that type is not really...
Today the bigwig of be-bop is a scat named Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, who in moments of supreme pianistic ecstasy throws his feet on the keyboard. No. 2 man is Bulee ("Slim") Gaillard, a skyscraping, zooty Negro guitarist. Gibson & Gaillard have recorded such hep numbers as Cement Mixer, which has sold more than 20,000 discs in Los Angeles alone; Yop Rock Heresay, Dreisix Cents and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? Sample lyrics...
Angelenos young & old promptly loosed a flurry of brickbats or bouquets, according to their convictions. Slim and The Hipster were unruffled. The Los Angeles nightclub where the two play was more crowded than ever with teen-agers anxious to be bebopped; Gaillard got an invitation to play on Bing Crosby's radio program. Said The Hipster: "I do shows at high schools every week. . . . They don't seem to think there is anything degenerative about...