Word: whiteman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McLellan were: the "blues," that aped the human voice; the rococo-like ragtime; the tension-relaxation principle of "swing," wonderfully illustrated by a piece called "Nobody Will Room With Me"; the small "spasm" or "skifflle" bands of home-made instruments; the staccato phrasing and polish of Bix Beiderbecke; Paul Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie...
...publicized it as the "home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted and hired the comers in the dance-band world: Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Louis Armstrong, the Dorseys and Glenn Miller, brought in such headliners as Ted Lewis, Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington...
...sleep during an attack of nausea; in Greenwich, Conn. Tommy and his elder brother, Saxophonist Jimmy, called their first band (1920) "Dorsey's Novelty Six," later razzed up the title to "Dorsey's Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped off the bandstand in a tiff over tempo, truculently hired his own band, by the time (1953) he and Jimmy were playing...
...After a riot in Asbury Park, N.J.'s Convention Hall that sent 25 vibrating teen-agers to the hospital, Mayor Roland J. Hines slapped a rock-'n'-roll ban on all city dance halls. Taking the hint, Jersey City canceled Jazzman Paul Whiteman's "Rock 'n' Roll Under the Stars" show at the 24,000-seat Roosevelt Stadium. Cried anguished Sponsor Ed Otto: "We were executed by remote control...
Hughes was warmly received until he started taking photographs and giving the tin containers for his tropic-pack film to the black children. Their parents snatched the shining tin away, fearing it was a whiteman's charm. An old man thumped Hughes's chest and cried: "You come to pay respects to Lenshina, all right. But don't come bring silver magic...