Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb

[Jim Parish]

Wilson Gray wrote:
> Isn't Ferdy the guy who wrote "On The Trail," a part of the "Grand
> Canyon Suite that the Philip Morris Co. once used as its theme song,
> back in radio days? Every radio show sponsored by the PM co. had "on
> The Trail" as its theme song, IIRC.

He wrote the entire Suite. (My parents had it on LP, and I heard it quite
a lot while growing up.)

Jim Parish

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