Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sixty drawings, prints and collages that comprise the exhibit are organized around four themes: "The Wild West," "The Metropolis," "Social and Political Critique," and "Popular Culture: Jazz, Dance, and Film." The images depicted run the gamut from reverence to condemnation of an American culture viewed with ambivalence...
...prints and drawings of Charlie Chaplin, jazz musicians and dancers, because of their lack of message or commentary, fall flat when contrasted to the powerful images and criticism that make the rest of the exhibit interesting. The "Popular Culture" pieces only detract from the otherwise cohesive display...
Students say they are planning to reopen the nightclub in Cabot House sometime in mid-March. The club--which could also host events at other locations besides Cabot--would feature student jazz, folk and rock bands Thursday and Friday nights every other week, said club organizer Joel L. Kurtzberg...
KENNY DAVERN: I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Musicmasters). If tone, swing and dexterity are the prime criteria for jazz clarinet playing, color Kenny Davern a virtuoso. Hot (Royal Garden Blues) or cool (My Melancholy Baby), Davern gives a dazzling performance that shows why he's such a standout among the post-Goodman generation...
...anthem hall of fame after his bluesy Latin interpretation at the 1968 World Series in Detroit, ending the song with "Oh, yeah." RCA Records pressed a single of it the next day. After that, performers strained to put their personal stamp on the anthem: Lou Rawls (languorous jazz), Aretha Franklin (Motown), Al Hirt (Dixieland) and Frank Sinatra (moody lounge lizard). The prize for the most ear-bending version goes to Jimi Hendrix's screeching finale at Woodstock...