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Jazz Talk and Word Games in a 1950s Digest
A discussion of hip slang and jazz discourse from a Doubleday book preview titled The Jazz Titans. It covers terms like cool and insane, traces leaders from Count Basie to Dizzy Gillespie, and critiques youth jargon as lazy wordplay. It also includes a literacy fund note and a sociological contrast piece on a world population snapshot.
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Doubleday
Count Basie
Jimmy Blanton
Gigi Gryce
Dizzy Gillespie
Cool Cats