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[US] Down Beat 15 Feb. 1: Building bands is getting to be a habit with Freddie Slack. He broke up his last few after booking hassels but is currently planning another.
at hassle, n.
[US] Down Beat 1 Dec. 10: We ran down three new instrumentals.
at run down, v.
[US] Down Beat 19 May 14: The final chorus is git and block chords and knocked-out a that.
at gitbox, n.
[US] Down Beat 28 July 4: insane: only the musical literati are addicted to (and permitted to use) this word [...] Applied only when the subject is ‘too gone’ for ‘crazy’ description.
at insane, adj.
[US] Down Beat 28 Jan. 6: Another ‘booted’ character on WJLB’s assembly line of jockeys is Phil McClain who spins an all-night record show.
at booted, adj.1
[US] Down Beat 17 Nov. n.p.: Another femme singer, who has been in trouble before, walked out [...] because her chauffeur was picked up with heroin capsules.
at femme, adj.
[US] Down Beat 17 Nov. n.p.: One of the five top tenor sax stars has flipped.
at flip, v.4
[US] Down Beat 11 Feb. 16-S: That was Frog — Ben Webster! My man!
at my man! under my man, n.
[US] Down Beat 5 Oct. 51: I don’t know who the singer is, ’cause I’m not down with all the singers now.
at down with under down, adv.2
[US] Down Beat 31 Oct. 17: What is funky? Oh, a sort of low-down blues feeling.
at funky, adj.3
[US] Down Beat 24 July 14: While it lasted it helped musicians who weren’t working because they could keep up their chops.
at chops, n.1
[US] Down Beat 6 Feb. 31: The trumpet section includes [...] all the guys with — to use the hip vernacular — they’re saying ‘fangs’ now instead of chops.
at fang, n.
[US] Down Beat 30 Apr. 11: This was revelatory for Pres, who usually limited his answers to ‘bells’ or ‘ding dong’.
at bells!, excl.
[US] Down Beat 30 Mar. 17: Just like Kai Winding’s four ’bones and rhythm.
at bone, n.9
[US] Down Beat 2 Mar. 43: He’s been playing this way 15 years, and he’s got his own thing going.
at thing, n.
[US] Down Beat 27 Sept. 41: He’s got a lotta chops, but he played way too long.
at chops, n.1
[US] Down Beat 8 Nov. 38: It sounded like they were all striving to create and get away from the standard things, but it didn’t really happen.
at happen, v.
[US] Down Beat 13 Sept. 37: A guy playing a horn has [...] gotta get in there.
at in there, adj.
[US] Down Beat 16 Aug. 26: The gaiety and sly humor that one looks for in a true ‘tickler.’.
at tickler, n.
[US] Down Beat 9 May 15: Oscar Brown Jr. really had those lyrics covered.
at have it covered (v.) under covered, adj.
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