And over all the American jazz music boomed and whanged its syncopation.
He played Gimme Love, whose jazz measures are stolen from Mendelssohn's Spring Song.
On the music racks of violinists who had meant to be Elmans or Kreislers were sheets entitled Jazz Baby Fox Trot.
That is what I wanted to ask you," replied Jane, swirling her scarf over her shoulders to tame down a frolicsome little breeze that danced to the jazz music stealing in the cloak room.
The indescribable jazz music was see-sawing in and out of harmony, and if there were anything actually shy on the score it was more than plentifully supplied by the "ukes," mandolins and banjos of the visiting college boys.
There are the girls slamming doors in the first jazz number," said Sally.
And these students knew that score in jazz perfectly.
There's to be a special Jazz band to-night, I hear, and I simply can't keep away.
Well, isn't this better than a road-house reeking of food and flies and made hideous by a Jazz band?
The light from the Country Club streamed across his feet, and the jangle of the Jazz band broke into his thoughts.
They can't talk about anything but the movies and jazz dancing and clothes.
Besides, they put the latest jazz record on their little talking machine, which helped substitute for a decent meal.
On the strength of that I'll jazz that sketch all up, bluey and red-purple and jade-green.
His stare at the leader as the jazz selection came to an end.
The Woman: "Jazz stockings are the latest thing, dear.
Can't we run up a few men and some jazz and stuff on the telephone for to-night?
Minga stepped inside and slipped on the phonograph a record of Honolulu Jazz and to this brassy whistling clangor the couples clinched, and young, long, canvas-shoed, thin legs stepped about in one of the curious walking dances of the time.
Illustration: This is the wreath presented by the Ford-Darney Orchestra in memory of Lieutenant Jimmy Europe, leader of the famousJazz band which won its laurels with the 369th Infantry in France.
Europe was the leader of the famous Jazz band which won its laurels with the 369th Infantry in France.
Evelyn banging out the opening measures of the "elegant jazz piece.
He informed her that the jazzmusic she had strummed was simply "glorious" and that he regretted he knew very little popular stuff.
Why, there ain't any more real jazz in your crowd of cow-hands than there is in an old man's home.
It was just at this moment, when the jazz band was breaking into its most beguiling number, that Quin's eyes and the girl's eyes met in a glance of mutual desire.
Mr. Chester not only assisted him with his mathematics, but insisted upon taking him to hear good music, in the vain effort to reclaim an ear hopelessly attuned to jazz and rag-time.
You see, I've got a date for a little jazz with Dave up at the Pole, and I'd like him to know I'm planning to keep the appointment.
Then, with the jazz band playing "Star Spangled Banner," the submarine sank and the homeward journey was begun.
If the boy had known under what strange conditions this particular jazz performance would be given, he might have felt queer sensations creeping up his spinal column.
Hours later, drunk with the jazz and the liquor, the visitor went blissfully to sleep inside George's mind when his host went to bed.
He was allowing himself to identify too closely with this mortal, with his appreciation of such diverse pursuits as jazz and fishing.
Jazz poured out of the speaker and the man beat out the time with his heels and toes.
But the traveler was experiencing the excited memories of a dixieland jazz band in his new host's mind, and he knew he'd be hearing these fantastically wonderful new sounds at first hand as soon as George got back to his turntable.
Goes to the Cabaret ΒΆ The fat person will wiggle his toes, tap his fingers, swing his fork and nod his head by the hour with a rumbling jazz orchestra.
They like ragtime, jazz and music with a swing to it.
In High River, where the old cow-puncher ideal of hitting up the dust in the wild and woolly manner has given way to the rule of jazz dances and bright frocks, he mounted the train and steamed off to Calgary.
Give us a little jazz and Laurie and I'll dance awhile.
Music is the language of the soul; jazz is its profanity.
They have power enough tojazz the earth and throw the planets out of step, but they make no sound.
The Helmsea Mess Jazz Band had been a noteworthy improvisation, and the Birds had been Chummy Smith's special department.
Underneath the quaver and whine of the jazz they beat the time, they make the tuneless rhythm.
The silence of a ritual--faces stiffened, eyes rolling--a rigid embrace of men and women creeping cunningly among the revolving colors and the whiplike rhythms of the jazz band.
The caricature of savagery that danced to the caricature of music from the jazz bands.
Under the revolving colors of the floodlight and the hammering, whinnying music of the jazz band they became again the mask of Dionysus--the ancient satanical mask which nature slips over her head when in quest of diversion.
These blasted tribal ceremonies need a cabaret attachment to jazzthem up.
The Wildcat surrendered to his racing legs and galloped a panic jazz to the exit of the alley before his common-sense reacted.
It would get him off, too, with the second degree, only that, when his own story shows him as guilty as hell, he keeps pulling the innocent stuff to beat a jazz band.
And she thinks that learning the millinery at three-fifty per is all jazzand cat-step," Gussie declared, grandly.
The hard briskness of the phonograph contented them; their store of jazz records made them feel wealthy and cultured; and all they knew of creating music was the nice adjustment of a bamboo needle.
I'd rather listen to a good jazz band any time than to some piece by Beethoven that hasn't any more tune to it than a bunch of fighting cats, and you couldn't whistle it to save your life!
We'd both be poor, we'd be in the poorhouse, if I didn't jazzhim up!
Why don't you drop in and jazz it up a little, just for a change?
Babbitt was to be heard sonorously agreeing with the once-hated Miss Minnie Sonntag that persons who let a night go by without dancing to jazz music were crabs, pikers, and poor fish; and he roared "You bet!
Well, of course, I go to lots of these highbrow concerts, but I do like a good jazz orchestra, right up on its toes, with the fellow that plays the bass fiddle spinning it around and beating it up with the bow.
His wife Louetta, young Louetta who loved jazz in music and in clothes and laughter, was at her wildest.
And this she did while the Ford executed a little jazz rhythm of its own outside.
I was pianist in the best jazz orchestra in Bordeaux," March told her.
The Original Dixie Land Jazz Band has arrived in London," says an evening paper.
