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[US] Metronome Aug. 16: Eddie was playing the kind of banjo I wanted, but I got him to lean that ‘gitter box’.
at box, n.1
[US] Metronome Aug. 16: Eddie was playing the kind of banjo I wanted, but I got him to learn that ‘gitter box’.
at gitbox, n.
[US] Metronome Aug. 16: The blues those spades put in my ear was great stuff.
at spade, n.
[US] Metronome May 28: As a soft fiddle-sax combo, it clicks.
at combo, n.2
[US] Metronome Feb. 61: box: piano.
at box, n.1
[US] Metronome Mar. 30: Once again I’d like to rise up in arms against the ‘unseen horde’ of ickies who under the guise of posing as musicians and ‘heppers’ persist in burdening us readers.
at icky, n.
[US] Metronome Apr. 55: That Zutie drummer-man is really a killer!
at killer, n.
[US] Metronome Aug. 7: In my opinion, a great many readers of Met are the rankest sort of ickies.
at rank, adj.1
[US] Metronome Mar. 31: Don’t miss the sax figures on the last chorus of Bridge.
at sax, n.
[US] Metronome Mar. 31: It’s the wonder that Victor is issuing so many sides by his band.
at side, n.
[US] Metronome Mar. 40: Catch those lyrics in Don Redman’s Auld Lang Syne!
at catch, v.1
[US] Metronome Nov. 24: The jury was completely longhair, however.
at longhaired, adj.
[US] Metronome Jan. 32: He might not have the chops he used to have, but his ideas are always fine.
at chops, n.1
[US] Metronome July 22: Lord Buckley [...] addresses this album of classics in bop talk to Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin’ Daddies.
at finger-popping, adj.
[US] Metronome 74 17: This was not the clarinet of Brahms or Mozart. This was that same agony-pipe, which [...] wails its way into the most exciting of all symphonic expressions of the jazz idiom.
at agony pipe (n.) under agony, n.
[US] Metronome Apr. 32: The arrangements by Clayton are effortless and elegant — he has always been a boss arranger.
at boss, adj.
[US] Metronome Feb. 20: This ingenuous belief that Louis Armstrong can smile away the egregious clinkers in our foreign policy is akin to having Frank Sinatra do a policy paper on Algeria.
at clinker, n.7
[US] Metronome Feb. 30: I am one of those who got turned off a couple of years ago when Brookmeyer started recording albums that sounded like trumped-up dixieland.
at turned off, adj.2
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