... be not safe for the 1925 workplace! Seriously, keep those jazz-babies coming!
20's sensibilities I'm very surprised to see ... be a good time to read up on the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald, anyone? - Dave]
Fashion? What in the ...
... us alone?" The clubs closed, the strippers exited with the jazz musicians. Skyscrapers and offices took over and now it's like the neon ... teacher. On occasion she would bring her 10 inch LP jazz recordings for us to listen to. More than once she reminded us that before ...
... nicer passenger boats. Lot of the groundwork for early jazz got laid down on those boats.
Cost of a steamboat trip I imagine ... still out there. And those riverboats where the sounds of jazz were first heard? They were primarily excursion boats, just like today.
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... fortunate he had been to make such a good living playing jazz. The only time I saw him erupt was when he heard that the New York Jazz Museum (on whose board we both served) was not paying less fortunate ...
... Publicity photo c. 1935 for my great-great uncle's sweet jazz band, Walter Davison and His Louisville Loons. Walter, the big Irishman at left, fell in love with jazz sometime in the teens when he was managing a player piano company, for ...
... Jimmy the Jazzer Jimmy Durante was a member of an early jazz group called The Original New Orleans Jazz Band in 1918-1919. He was the only non-New Orleanian in the group.
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... show business career and where he developed his love for jazz ensembles.
Later in life he switched from the saxophone to clarinet ... with clowns he plays gigs with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
I also heard he is a fair to middling playwright, actor and ...