Word: shorthair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bandleader Artie Shaw had tried feeding long-hair music to shorthair audiences (in Manhattan's Bop City-TIME, April 25) and wound up, at least figuratively, "with egg on my face." But he had learned a lot: "Let's face it, I was being pretty rigid...
...years, Manhattan's jazz magazine Metronome has polled its predominantly youthful readers on their favorite shorthair music and musicians of the year. Last June, Metronome editors got more ambitious, set out to discover the sweet-and-swing favorites of "all time." Last week, the fans' ballots were...
Yehudi Menuhin, back in Manhattan from a Latin American concert tour, recalled playing for an hour in his undershirt in broiling Trinidad, mastering some short-haired music for a concert at the Army base in San Juan. The shorthair number was St. Louis Blues. "I practiced and I got pretty good," he said. He played it on his Guarnerius instead of the Strad, because the former "had a more earthy, a more contralto quality...