All that jazz: remembering my grandfather and John Wayne

[A Lark Ascending]

Interesting if rather sad article:

All that jazz: remembering my grandfather and John Wayne

Had to smile at this:

"On his return from Germany, Ray fulfilled his dream of buying a jazz club. Despite breaking his leg in two places, he loved to dance."

Can't image sentence two would follow on automatically from sentence one today. 

 

[Big Beat Steve]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

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"On his return from Germany, Ray fulfilled his dream of buying a jazz club. Despite breaking his leg in two places, he loved to dance."

Can't image sentence two would follow on automatically from sentence one today. 

 

Maybe what she meant to say was "Despite HAVING BROKEN his leg in two places .... "(during the war or wherever ...)

Further on down in the text there are a few instances that seem to indicate a lack of proofreading too ...

 

But an interesting, down-to-earth story indeed. I wonder how many families lived through situations of "missed opportunities" like this ...

 

[A Lark Ascending]

1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said:

Maybe what she meant to say was "Despite HAVING BROKEN his leg in two places .... "(during the war or wherever ...)

Further on down in the text there are a few instances that seem to indicate a lack of proofreading too ...

 

But an interesting, down-to-earth story indeed. I wonder how many families lived through situations of "missed opportunities" like this ...

 

It wasn't the syntax that made me smile. It was the idea that he enjoyed dancing so the natural thing to do was start a jazz club! 

[Big Beat Steve]

Not so sure about small-town (or medium-sized town) U.S.A. in the early 50s. Local dancing bands (including big bands) still did have a loyal audience there that kept the clubs going for occasional visits by the big names. 

Of course that's quite different today. But maybe it's not even quite as unthinkable today as it was one or the other decade ago. I think the pendulum swings a LITTLE bit back here and there. Unless you lump only "far-out jazz" into the jazz category.

[crisp]

In the UK it seems to be the law that if a newspaper article is about jazz the headline has to be "All That Jazz".

[A Lark Ascending]

8 hours ago, crisp said:

In the UK it seems to be the law that if a newspaper article is about jazz the headline has to be "All That Jazz".

For a while it was replaced by 'Nice!'. 

[crisp]

That's how -- by law -- you finish a preview of a jazz TV or radio show.