1945 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.
1948 Down Beat 19 May 14: The final chorus is git and block chords and knocked-out a that.at gitbox, n.
1948 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.
1949 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
1950 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.
1955 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
1958 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
1958 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.
1959 Down Beat 30 Apr. 11: This was revelatory for Pres, who usually limited his answers to ‘bells’ or ‘ding dong’.at bells!, excl.
1961 Down Beat 2 Mar. 43: He’s been playing this way 15 years, and he’s got his own thing going.at thing, n.
1962 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.
1962 Down Beat 16 Aug. 26: The gaiety and sly humor that one looks for in a true ‘tickler.’.at tickler, n.
1963 Down Beat 9 May 15: Oscar Brown Jr. really had those lyrics covered.at have it covered (v.) under covered, adj.