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the ARChive of Contemporary Music HOLIDAY record + cd sale 2015

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the ARChive of Contemporary Music HOLIDAY record + cd sale 2015

WHAT
The ARChive of Contemporary Music’s Holiday Record & CD SALE.

WHY

To help support the ARChive : a not-for-profit music library with over 2.6 million sound recordings – America’s largest and BEST popular music collection.

WHERE

At our ground floor office, Lower Manhattan : 54 White St. 3 short blocks south of Canal, between Broadway & Church St in Tribeca. Take the #1 train to Franklin, or any train to Canal.

WHEN
Saturday, DEC 5 – Sunday, DEC 20 Everyday 11 am. to 6 pm

Admission is free! New recordings added daily. Over 50,000 items for sale LARGEST SALE EVER _ SO BIG WE ARE RUNNING FOR TWO WHOLE WEEKS!

CDs are NEW donations from record companies and collectors, NOT returns or defects! 20,000 CDs this year • MANY Out-of-Print! Hundreds @ 2 for $1.00
Mostly pop + rock recordings. Collectible LPs are priced below book/online value. NEW & HOT CDs start @ $3 OUR CDS ARE CHEAPER THAN DOWNLOADING!

CHILLY WINTER specials – The most mint and sealed LPs we’ve ever offered
PLUS –Incredible selection of Jazz – all formats • original vintage 60s psychedelic posters from the Gande Ballroom in Detroit • RARE Fillmore East programs • Picture Discs • audio equipment • Vintage Rock + music magazines • MOST Classical LPs are 2 for $1.00
• videos + DVDs • Amazing shelves of Jazz Book •

For the dis-en-vinyled – our Astroturf Yard Sale section of vintage kitchen wares and clothing!!! COCKTAIL PARTY – ARChive Members are invited to a cocktail party Thursday, DEC 3.

Members shop before the general public. JOIN or call for info: 212-226-6967. Generous party donors : Two Boots Pizza. Wine from City Winery

All served by Kenny our bartender + raconteur de-luxe

ABOUT US – ARC is a not-for-profit archive, library and research center. We collect, preserve and provide information on popular music from 1950 to the present. Partnering with The Internet Archive, ARC is dedicated to saving copies of all popular music recordings worldwide.

Board of Advisors : David Bowie, Jellybean Benitez, Jonathan Demme, Graig Kallman,
Youssou N’Dour, Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, Fred Schneider, Martin Scorsese, Paul Simon, Mike Stoller. ———————————————————————————————————————–

ARChive of Contemporary Music • 54 White Street, Tribeca / NY, 10013

tel : (212) 226-6967 e-mail : info@arcmusic.org Our WEBSITE is at : www.arcmusic.org Learn about ARC + see catalogs + galleries for hundreds of thousands of unusual and useful images + data ———————————————————————————————————————– SUPPORT LOWER MANHATTAN! LINK – Post – tweet our SALE >>> http://bit.ly/1nv6ssR

——————————————————————————————————–

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the ARChive of Contemporary Music HOLIDAY record + cd sale 2015

http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/

the ARChive of Contemporary Music HOLIDAY record + cd sale 2015

WHAT
The ARChive of Contemporary Music’s Holiday Record & CD SALE.

WHY

To help support the ARChive : a not-for-profit music library with over 2.6 million sound recordings – America’s largest and BEST popular music collection.

WHERE

At our ground floor office, Lower Manhattan : 54 White St. 3 short blocks south of Canal, between Broadway & Church St in Tribeca. Take the #1 train to Franklin, or any train to Canal.

WHEN
Saturday, DEC 5 – Sunday, DEC 20 Everyday 11 am. to 6 pm

Admission is free! New recordings added daily. Over 50,000 items for sale LARGEST SALE EVER _ SO BIG WE ARE RUNNING FOR TWO WHOLE WEEKS!

CDs are NEW donations from record companies and collectors, NOT returns or defects! 20,000 CDs this year • MANY Out-of-Print! Hundreds @ 2 for $1.00
Mostly pop + rock recordings. Collectible LPs are priced below book/online value. NEW & HOT CDs start @ $3 OUR CDS ARE CHEAPER THAN DOWNLOADING!

CHILLY WINTER specials – The most mint and sealed LPs we’ve ever offered
PLUS –Incredible selection of Jazz – all formats • original vintage 60s psychedelic posters from the Gande Ballroom in Detroit • RARE Fillmore East programs • Picture Discs • audio equipment • Vintage Rock + music magazines • MOST Classical LPs are 2 for $1.00
• videos + DVDs • Amazing shelves of Jazz Book •

For the dis-en-vinyled – our Astroturf Yard Sale section of vintage kitchen wares and clothing!!! COCKTAIL PARTY – ARChive Members are invited to a cocktail party Thursday, DEC 3.

Members shop before the general public. JOIN or call for info: 212-226-6967. Generous party donors : Two Boots Pizza. Wine from City Winery

All served by Kenny our bartender + raconteur de-luxe

ABOUT US – ARC is a not-for-profit archive, library and research center. We collect, preserve and provide information on popular music from 1950 to the present. Partnering with The Internet Archive, ARC is dedicated to saving copies of all popular music recordings worldwide.

Board of Advisors : David Bowie, Jellybean Benitez, Jonathan Demme, Graig Kallman,
Youssou N’Dour, Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, Fred Schneider, Martin Scorsese, Paul Simon, Mike Stoller. ———————————————————————————————————————–

ARChive of Contemporary Music • 54 White Street, Tribeca / NY, 10013

tel : (212) 226-6967 e-mail : info@arcmusic.org Our WEBSITE is at : www.arcmusic.org Learn about ARC + see catalogs + galleries for hundreds of thousands of unusual and useful images + data ———————————————————————————————————————– SUPPORT LOWER MANHATTAN! LINK – Post – tweet our SALE >>> http://bit.ly/1nv6ssR

——————————————————————————————————–

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the ARChive of Contemporary Music HOLIDAY record + cd sale 2015

http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/

the ARChive of Contemporary Music HOLIDAY record + cd sale 2015

WHAT
The ARChive of Contemporary Music’s Holiday Record & CD SALE.

WHY

To help support the ARChive : a not-for-profit music library with over 2.6 million sound recordings – America’s largest and BEST popular music collection.

WHERE

At our ground floor office, Lower Manhattan : 54 White St. 3 short blocks south of Canal, between Broadway & Church St in Tribeca. Take the #1 train to Franklin, or any train to Canal.

WHEN
Saturday, DEC 5 – Sunday, DEC 20 Everyday 11 am. to 6 pm

Admission is free! New recordings added daily. Over 50,000 items for sale LARGEST SALE EVER _ SO BIG WE ARE RUNNING FOR TWO WHOLE WEEKS!

CDs are NEW donations from record companies and collectors, NOT returns or defects! 20,000 CDs this year • MANY Out-of-Print! Hundreds @ 2 for $1.00
Mostly pop + rock recordings. Collectible LPs are priced below book/online value. NEW & HOT CDs start @ $3 OUR CDS ARE CHEAPER THAN DOWNLOADING!

CHILLY WINTER specials – The most mint and sealed LPs we’ve ever offered
PLUS –Incredible selection of Jazz – all formats • original vintage 60s psychedelic posters from the Gande Ballroom in Detroit • RARE Fillmore East programs • Picture Discs • audio equipment • Vintage Rock + music magazines • MOST Classical LPs are 2 for $1.00
• videos + DVDs • Amazing shelves of Jazz Book •

For the dis-en-vinyled – our Astroturf Yard Sale section of vintage kitchen wares and clothing!!! COCKTAIL PARTY – ARChive Members are invited to a cocktail party Thursday, DEC 3.

Members shop before the general public. JOIN or call for info: 212-226-6967. Generous party donors : Two Boots Pizza. Wine from City Winery

All served by Kenny our bartender + raconteur de-luxe

ABOUT US – ARC is a not-for-profit archive, library and research center. We collect, preserve and provide information on popular music from 1950 to the present. Partnering with The Internet Archive, ARC is dedicated to saving copies of all popular music recordings worldwide.

Board of Advisors : David Bowie, Jellybean Benitez, Jonathan Demme, Graig Kallman,
Youssou N’Dour, Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, Fred Schneider, Martin Scorsese, Paul Simon, Mike Stoller. ———————————————————————————————————————–

ARChive of Contemporary Music • 54 White Street, Tribeca / NY, 10013

tel : (212) 226-6967 e-mail : info@arcmusic.org Our WEBSITE is at : www.arcmusic.org Learn about ARC + see catalogs + galleries for hundreds of thousands of unusual and useful images + data ———————————————————————————————————————– SUPPORT LOWER MANHATTAN! LINK – Post – tweet our SALE >>> http://bit.ly/1nv6ssR

——————————————————————————————————–

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Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/music/robert-craft-stravinsky-adviser-and-steward-dies-at-92.html?_r=0

** Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92
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By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 14, 2015

Robert Craft, standing, working on the score of a musical play, “The Flood,” with its composer, Igor Stravinsky, in 1962. Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Robert Craft, an orchestral conductor, scholar and writer who was called an elegant Boswell by his supporters and a calculating Svengali by his detractors for his long professional association with Igor Stravinsky (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/igor_stravinsky/index.html?inline=nyt-per) , died on Tuesday at his home in Gulf Stream, Fla. He was 92.

His wife, Alva, confirmed his death.

Mr. Craft spent nearly a quarter-century as Stravinsky’s amanuensis, rehearsal conductor, musical adviser, globe-trotting traveling companion and surrogate son. After Stravinsky’s death in 1971, at 88, he was a writer, lecturer, conductor, public intellectual and keeper of the Stravinskian flame.

He was the author of many books about Stravinsky; the co-author of a series of book-length dialogues with him, including “Conversations With Igor Stravinsky” (1959), “Memories and Commentaries” (1960) and “Retrospectives and Conclusion” (1969); and the editor of several volumes of Stravinsky’s correspondence.

As a conductor, Mr. Craft led some of the world’s foremost orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic of London.

He conducted the United States premieres of Stravinsky’s choral piece “Threni” in 1959 and Alban Berg’s opera “Lulu” in 1963, and the world premiere of Edgard Varèse’s vocal work “Nocturnal” in 1961. Mr. Craft’s recording of the complete works of Anton Webern remains widely admired.

Reviews of Mr. Craft’s conducting were divided, however. While some critics praised his impeccable fidelity to composers’ scores as brilliant, others condemned the resulting interpretations as stiff and bloodless.

But he was almost uniformly lauded for his profound knowledge of music and his vast general erudition: His published essays, many of which originated in The New York Review of Books, encompassed music, art, dance, film and television. He was also commended for his work as a vigorous champion not only of 20th-century compositions but also of little-known early music.
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Writing in The New York Times in 1999, the composer David Schiff said that Mr. Craft, “along with Leonard Bernstein and John Cage, has been one of the main shapers of American musical taste in the second half of the 20th century.”

Mr. Craft was admired by many in the classical music world for giving renewed artistic vigor to Stravinsky — who was long esteemed as one of the world’s foremost composers, but whose powers appeared to be waning when the two men joined forces in 1948.

Mr. Craft in 1988 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Frans Schellekens/Redferns

He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg. The technique, also known as serialism, entails using all 12 notes of the Western chromatic scale in rigidly equal proportion throughout a composition.

Many of Stravinsky’s celebrated later compositions are written in this style. Among them are the ballet “Agon” (1957) and “Abraham and Isaac” (1964), a sacred work for baritone and chamber orchestra, both given their world premieres by Mr. Craft.

“Without me Stravinsky would not have taken the path he did,” Mr. Craft wrote in his 1993 biography, “Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.”

But his collaboration with Stravinsky could engender public discord. Toward the end of Stravinsky’s life, when the composer had become too infirm, or too uninterested, to produce much work, Mr. Craft, his critics charged, was regularly serving as his literary, and even musical, puppeteer.

Robert Lawson Craft was born on Oct. 20, 1923, in Kingston, N.Y. A sensitive, intellectual boy who played the trumpet, he was sent away at 11 to military school, an experience he later said he deplored. His studies at the Juilliard School (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/juilliard_school/index.html?inline=nyt-org) were interrupted by World War II, when he was drafted into the Army Medical Corps.

As Mr. Craft recounted in his memoir “An Improbable Life” (2002), he found the brutality of basic training unendurable, attempted suicide and later went AWOL. Deemed unfit for service, he was honorably discharged.

He returned to Juilliard, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in composition and conducting; he also studied at Columbia, Tanglewood (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tanglewood_music_festival/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and privately with the conductor Pierre Monteux. Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, he founded the Chamber Art Society, a New York ensemble devoted to performing contemporary music, including that of Stravinsky.

In 1947, Mr. Craft wrote a letter to Stravinsky that would set the course of his professional life. Wanting to conduct the composer’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” but unable to find a score, he wrote to ask if he might borrow one. Stravinsky, who was just then working on a new version of the piece, replied that he would like to conduct its premiere at Mr. Craft’s concert the next year. Nonplused, Mr. Craft assented.

The two men met for the first time in 1948, and before long Mr. Craft had moved into Stravinsky’s Los Angeles home. By all accounts beloved by the composer and his second, wife, Vera, Mr. Craft remained a member of the household for the next 23 years.

Much of Mr. Craft’s writing about Stravinsky was well received. Discussing his book “Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948-1971” in The New Republic in 1972, the composer Ned Rorem called him “the most readable and intelligent living writer on music.”

But over time, accusations began to percolate that several books attributed jointly to Mr. Craft and Stravinsky, and billed as dialogues between them, were more Craft than Stravinsky. Some detractors also asserted that Mr. Craft, who was not a trained historian, had let factual errors creep into his biographical writings about the composer.

In 1972, a front-page article in The New York Times reported on allegations in a forthcoming memoir by Lillian Libman (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/26/arts/lillian-libman-80-manager-and-agent-of-many-performers.html) , a former personal assistant to Stravinsky.

In her book, “And Music at the Close,” published later that year, Ms. Libman contended that Mr. Craft was responsible for at least some of the lines attributed to Stravinsky in their published dialogues. (Stravinsky, whose first language was Russian, had uncertain English; Mr. Craft had no Russian.)

She also maintained that two recordings billed as conducted or “supervised” by Stravinsky had actually been conducted by Mr. Craft.

In a related article in the same issue of The Times, Mr. Craft said of Stravinsky: “He had opinions, and I took them down. Not the wording, of course. Stravinsky spoke and I put the words together. I don’t say they were his words.” He also acknowledged having conducted in Stravinsky’s stead on one recording.

Mr. Craft was again the subject of highly public accusations in 2006, with the publication of a biography, “Stravinsky. The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971,” by the musicologist Stephen Walsh. Mr. Walsh wrote that Mr. Craft’s work was “riddled with bias, error, supposition and falsehood.”

In a letter to The Times Book Review, which had quoted that description in its appraisal of Mr. Walsh’s book, Mr. Craft responded, “I maintain that these terms apply more aptly to Walsh’s work.”

Mr. Craft came to renewed attention in 2013, after he published an essay in The Times of London Literary Supplement asserting that Stravinsky had been bisexual. His argument, which he said was based on a close reading of the composer’s letters, met with skepticism from a number of prominent musicologists.

Shortly after Stravinsky’s death, Mr. Craft married the composer’s longtime nurse, Rita Christiansen, though the marriage did not endure. His survivors include a son from that marriage, Alexander; a sister, Phyllis Crawford; his second wife, the former Alva Celauro Minoff, a singer and actress; two stepchildren, Edward Minoff and Melissa Minoff; and four grandchildren.

Among Mr. Craft’s other books are the essay collections “Prejudices in Disguise” (1974), “Current Convictions” (1977) and “Small Craft Advisories” (1989); “Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers” (2000); and, with Vera Stravinsky, “Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents” (1978).

His recordings also include works by Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez and Paul Hindemith.

Mr. Craft, who also had a home in Manhattan, was alert throughout his career to accusations that as a young unknown, he had exploited Stravinsky. If anything, he told The New York Times in 1972, it was quite the other way round.

“Stravinsky saw what I could do for him,” he said. “He even exploited me to some extent. He was a complex man.” Mr. Craft continued:

“Was I an influence on him? Of course I was. I introduced him to certain music he otherwise might not have heard. But if he didn’t want me, he would have thrown me out.”

On Friday, Alva Craft said that she hoped to have her husband buried at San Michele, the cemetery island in Venice. Mr. Craft had bought a plot for himself there long ago, after Stravinsky was interred on the island.

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Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/music/robert-craft-stravinsky-adviser-and-steward-dies-at-92.html?_r=0

** Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92
————————————————————

By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 14, 2015

Robert Craft, standing, working on the score of a musical play, “The Flood,” with its composer, Igor Stravinsky, in 1962. Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Robert Craft, an orchestral conductor, scholar and writer who was called an elegant Boswell by his supporters and a calculating Svengali by his detractors for his long professional association with Igor Stravinsky (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/igor_stravinsky/index.html?inline=nyt-per) , died on Tuesday at his home in Gulf Stream, Fla. He was 92.

His wife, Alva, confirmed his death.

Mr. Craft spent nearly a quarter-century as Stravinsky’s amanuensis, rehearsal conductor, musical adviser, globe-trotting traveling companion and surrogate son. After Stravinsky’s death in 1971, at 88, he was a writer, lecturer, conductor, public intellectual and keeper of the Stravinskian flame.

He was the author of many books about Stravinsky; the co-author of a series of book-length dialogues with him, including “Conversations With Igor Stravinsky” (1959), “Memories and Commentaries” (1960) and “Retrospectives and Conclusion” (1969); and the editor of several volumes of Stravinsky’s correspondence.

As a conductor, Mr. Craft led some of the world’s foremost orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic of London.

He conducted the United States premieres of Stravinsky’s choral piece “Threni” in 1959 and Alban Berg’s opera “Lulu” in 1963, and the world premiere of Edgard Varèse’s vocal work “Nocturnal” in 1961. Mr. Craft’s recording of the complete works of Anton Webern remains widely admired.

Reviews of Mr. Craft’s conducting were divided, however. While some critics praised his impeccable fidelity to composers’ scores as brilliant, others condemned the resulting interpretations as stiff and bloodless.

But he was almost uniformly lauded for his profound knowledge of music and his vast general erudition: His published essays, many of which originated in The New York Review of Books, encompassed music, art, dance, film and television. He was also commended for his work as a vigorous champion not only of 20th-century compositions but also of little-known early music.
Continue reading the main story

Writing in The New York Times in 1999, the composer David Schiff said that Mr. Craft, “along with Leonard Bernstein and John Cage, has been one of the main shapers of American musical taste in the second half of the 20th century.”

Mr. Craft was admired by many in the classical music world for giving renewed artistic vigor to Stravinsky — who was long esteemed as one of the world’s foremost composers, but whose powers appeared to be waning when the two men joined forces in 1948.

Mr. Craft in 1988 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Frans Schellekens/Redferns

He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg. The technique, also known as serialism, entails using all 12 notes of the Western chromatic scale in rigidly equal proportion throughout a composition.

Many of Stravinsky’s celebrated later compositions are written in this style. Among them are the ballet “Agon” (1957) and “Abraham and Isaac” (1964), a sacred work for baritone and chamber orchestra, both given their world premieres by Mr. Craft.

“Without me Stravinsky would not have taken the path he did,” Mr. Craft wrote in his 1993 biography, “Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.”

But his collaboration with Stravinsky could engender public discord. Toward the end of Stravinsky’s life, when the composer had become too infirm, or too uninterested, to produce much work, Mr. Craft, his critics charged, was regularly serving as his literary, and even musical, puppeteer.

Robert Lawson Craft was born on Oct. 20, 1923, in Kingston, N.Y. A sensitive, intellectual boy who played the trumpet, he was sent away at 11 to military school, an experience he later said he deplored. His studies at the Juilliard School (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/juilliard_school/index.html?inline=nyt-org) were interrupted by World War II, when he was drafted into the Army Medical Corps.

As Mr. Craft recounted in his memoir “An Improbable Life” (2002), he found the brutality of basic training unendurable, attempted suicide and later went AWOL. Deemed unfit for service, he was honorably discharged.

He returned to Juilliard, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in composition and conducting; he also studied at Columbia, Tanglewood (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tanglewood_music_festival/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and privately with the conductor Pierre Monteux. Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, he founded the Chamber Art Society, a New York ensemble devoted to performing contemporary music, including that of Stravinsky.

In 1947, Mr. Craft wrote a letter to Stravinsky that would set the course of his professional life. Wanting to conduct the composer’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” but unable to find a score, he wrote to ask if he might borrow one. Stravinsky, who was just then working on a new version of the piece, replied that he would like to conduct its premiere at Mr. Craft’s concert the next year. Nonplused, Mr. Craft assented.

The two men met for the first time in 1948, and before long Mr. Craft had moved into Stravinsky’s Los Angeles home. By all accounts beloved by the composer and his second, wife, Vera, Mr. Craft remained a member of the household for the next 23 years.

Much of Mr. Craft’s writing about Stravinsky was well received. Discussing his book “Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948-1971” in The New Republic in 1972, the composer Ned Rorem called him “the most readable and intelligent living writer on music.”

But over time, accusations began to percolate that several books attributed jointly to Mr. Craft and Stravinsky, and billed as dialogues between them, were more Craft than Stravinsky. Some detractors also asserted that Mr. Craft, who was not a trained historian, had let factual errors creep into his biographical writings about the composer.

In 1972, a front-page article in The New York Times reported on allegations in a forthcoming memoir by Lillian Libman (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/26/arts/lillian-libman-80-manager-and-agent-of-many-performers.html) , a former personal assistant to Stravinsky.

In her book, “And Music at the Close,” published later that year, Ms. Libman contended that Mr. Craft was responsible for at least some of the lines attributed to Stravinsky in their published dialogues. (Stravinsky, whose first language was Russian, had uncertain English; Mr. Craft had no Russian.)

She also maintained that two recordings billed as conducted or “supervised” by Stravinsky had actually been conducted by Mr. Craft.

In a related article in the same issue of The Times, Mr. Craft said of Stravinsky: “He had opinions, and I took them down. Not the wording, of course. Stravinsky spoke and I put the words together. I don’t say they were his words.” He also acknowledged having conducted in Stravinsky’s stead on one recording.

Mr. Craft was again the subject of highly public accusations in 2006, with the publication of a biography, “Stravinsky. The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971,” by the musicologist Stephen Walsh. Mr. Walsh wrote that Mr. Craft’s work was “riddled with bias, error, supposition and falsehood.”

In a letter to The Times Book Review, which had quoted that description in its appraisal of Mr. Walsh’s book, Mr. Craft responded, “I maintain that these terms apply more aptly to Walsh’s work.”

Mr. Craft came to renewed attention in 2013, after he published an essay in The Times of London Literary Supplement asserting that Stravinsky had been bisexual. His argument, which he said was based on a close reading of the composer’s letters, met with skepticism from a number of prominent musicologists.

Shortly after Stravinsky’s death, Mr. Craft married the composer’s longtime nurse, Rita Christiansen, though the marriage did not endure. His survivors include a son from that marriage, Alexander; a sister, Phyllis Crawford; his second wife, the former Alva Celauro Minoff, a singer and actress; two stepchildren, Edward Minoff and Melissa Minoff; and four grandchildren.

Among Mr. Craft’s other books are the essay collections “Prejudices in Disguise” (1974), “Current Convictions” (1977) and “Small Craft Advisories” (1989); “Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers” (2000); and, with Vera Stravinsky, “Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents” (1978).

His recordings also include works by Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez and Paul Hindemith.

Mr. Craft, who also had a home in Manhattan, was alert throughout his career to accusations that as a young unknown, he had exploited Stravinsky. If anything, he told The New York Times in 1972, it was quite the other way round.

“Stravinsky saw what I could do for him,” he said. “He even exploited me to some extent. He was a complex man.” Mr. Craft continued:

“Was I an influence on him? Of course I was. I introduced him to certain music he otherwise might not have heard. But if he didn’t want me, he would have thrown me out.”

On Friday, Alva Craft said that she hoped to have her husband buried at San Michele, the cemetery island in Venice. Mr. Craft had bought a plot for himself there long ago, after Stravinsky was interred on the island.

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Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 – The New York Times

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By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 14, 2015

Robert Craft, standing, working on the score of a musical play, “The Flood,” with its composer, Igor Stravinsky, in 1962. Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Robert Craft, an orchestral conductor, scholar and writer who was called an elegant Boswell by his supporters and a calculating Svengali by his detractors for his long professional association with Igor Stravinsky (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/igor_stravinsky/index.html?inline=nyt-per) , died on Tuesday at his home in Gulf Stream, Fla. He was 92.

His wife, Alva, confirmed his death.

Mr. Craft spent nearly a quarter-century as Stravinsky’s amanuensis, rehearsal conductor, musical adviser, globe-trotting traveling companion and surrogate son. After Stravinsky’s death in 1971, at 88, he was a writer, lecturer, conductor, public intellectual and keeper of the Stravinskian flame.

He was the author of many books about Stravinsky; the co-author of a series of book-length dialogues with him, including “Conversations With Igor Stravinsky” (1959), “Memories and Commentaries” (1960) and “Retrospectives and Conclusion” (1969); and the editor of several volumes of Stravinsky’s correspondence.

As a conductor, Mr. Craft led some of the world’s foremost orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic of London.

He conducted the United States premieres of Stravinsky’s choral piece “Threni” in 1959 and Alban Berg’s opera “Lulu” in 1963, and the world premiere of Edgard Varèse’s vocal work “Nocturnal” in 1961. Mr. Craft’s recording of the complete works of Anton Webern remains widely admired.

Reviews of Mr. Craft’s conducting were divided, however. While some critics praised his impeccable fidelity to composers’ scores as brilliant, others condemned the resulting interpretations as stiff and bloodless.

But he was almost uniformly lauded for his profound knowledge of music and his vast general erudition: His published essays, many of which originated in The New York Review of Books, encompassed music, art, dance, film and television. He was also commended for his work as a vigorous champion not only of 20th-century compositions but also of little-known early music.
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Writing in The New York Times in 1999, the composer David Schiff said that Mr. Craft, “along with Leonard Bernstein and John Cage, has been one of the main shapers of American musical taste in the second half of the 20th century.”

Mr. Craft was admired by many in the classical music world for giving renewed artistic vigor to Stravinsky — who was long esteemed as one of the world’s foremost composers, but whose powers appeared to be waning when the two men joined forces in 1948.

Mr. Craft in 1988 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Frans Schellekens/Redferns

He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg. The technique, also known as serialism, entails using all 12 notes of the Western chromatic scale in rigidly equal proportion throughout a composition.

Many of Stravinsky’s celebrated later compositions are written in this style. Among them are the ballet “Agon” (1957) and “Abraham and Isaac” (1964), a sacred work for baritone and chamber orchestra, both given their world premieres by Mr. Craft.

“Without me Stravinsky would not have taken the path he did,” Mr. Craft wrote in his 1993 biography, “Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.”

But his collaboration with Stravinsky could engender public discord. Toward the end of Stravinsky’s life, when the composer had become too infirm, or too uninterested, to produce much work, Mr. Craft, his critics charged, was regularly serving as his literary, and even musical, puppeteer.

Robert Lawson Craft was born on Oct. 20, 1923, in Kingston, N.Y. A sensitive, intellectual boy who played the trumpet, he was sent away at 11 to military school, an experience he later said he deplored. His studies at the Juilliard School (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/juilliard_school/index.html?inline=nyt-org) were interrupted by World War II, when he was drafted into the Army Medical Corps.

As Mr. Craft recounted in his memoir “An Improbable Life” (2002), he found the brutality of basic training unendurable, attempted suicide and later went AWOL. Deemed unfit for service, he was honorably discharged.

He returned to Juilliard, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in composition and conducting; he also studied at Columbia, Tanglewood (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tanglewood_music_festival/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and privately with the conductor Pierre Monteux. Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, he founded the Chamber Art Society, a New York ensemble devoted to performing contemporary music, including that of Stravinsky.

In 1947, Mr. Craft wrote a letter to Stravinsky that would set the course of his professional life. Wanting to conduct the composer’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” but unable to find a score, he wrote to ask if he might borrow one. Stravinsky, who was just then working on a new version of the piece, replied that he would like to conduct its premiere at Mr. Craft’s concert the next year. Nonplused, Mr. Craft assented.

The two men met for the first time in 1948, and before long Mr. Craft had moved into Stravinsky’s Los Angeles home. By all accounts beloved by the composer and his second, wife, Vera, Mr. Craft remained a member of the household for the next 23 years.

Much of Mr. Craft’s writing about Stravinsky was well received. Discussing his book “Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948-1971” in The New Republic in 1972, the composer Ned Rorem called him “the most readable and intelligent living writer on music.”

But over time, accusations began to percolate that several books attributed jointly to Mr. Craft and Stravinsky, and billed as dialogues between them, were more Craft than Stravinsky. Some detractors also asserted that Mr. Craft, who was not a trained historian, had let factual errors creep into his biographical writings about the composer.

In 1972, a front-page article in The New York Times reported on allegations in a forthcoming memoir by Lillian Libman (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/26/arts/lillian-libman-80-manager-and-agent-of-many-performers.html) , a former personal assistant to Stravinsky.

In her book, “And Music at the Close,” published later that year, Ms. Libman contended that Mr. Craft was responsible for at least some of the lines attributed to Stravinsky in their published dialogues. (Stravinsky, whose first language was Russian, had uncertain English; Mr. Craft had no Russian.)

She also maintained that two recordings billed as conducted or “supervised” by Stravinsky had actually been conducted by Mr. Craft.

In a related article in the same issue of The Times, Mr. Craft said of Stravinsky: “He had opinions, and I took them down. Not the wording, of course. Stravinsky spoke and I put the words together. I don’t say they were his words.” He also acknowledged having conducted in Stravinsky’s stead on one recording.

Mr. Craft was again the subject of highly public accusations in 2006, with the publication of a biography, “Stravinsky. The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971,” by the musicologist Stephen Walsh. Mr. Walsh wrote that Mr. Craft’s work was “riddled with bias, error, supposition and falsehood.”

In a letter to The Times Book Review, which had quoted that description in its appraisal of Mr. Walsh’s book, Mr. Craft responded, “I maintain that these terms apply more aptly to Walsh’s work.”

Mr. Craft came to renewed attention in 2013, after he published an essay in The Times of London Literary Supplement asserting that Stravinsky had been bisexual. His argument, which he said was based on a close reading of the composer’s letters, met with skepticism from a number of prominent musicologists.

Shortly after Stravinsky’s death, Mr. Craft married the composer’s longtime nurse, Rita Christiansen, though the marriage did not endure. His survivors include a son from that marriage, Alexander; a sister, Phyllis Crawford; his second wife, the former Alva Celauro Minoff, a singer and actress; two stepchildren, Edward Minoff and Melissa Minoff; and four grandchildren.

Among Mr. Craft’s other books are the essay collections “Prejudices in Disguise” (1974), “Current Convictions” (1977) and “Small Craft Advisories” (1989); “Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers” (2000); and, with Vera Stravinsky, “Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents” (1978).

His recordings also include works by Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez and Paul Hindemith.

Mr. Craft, who also had a home in Manhattan, was alert throughout his career to accusations that as a young unknown, he had exploited Stravinsky. If anything, he told The New York Times in 1972, it was quite the other way round.

“Stravinsky saw what I could do for him,” he said. “He even exploited me to some extent. He was a complex man.” Mr. Craft continued:

“Was I an influence on him? Of course I was. I introduced him to certain music he otherwise might not have heard. But if he didn’t want me, he would have thrown me out.”

On Friday, Alva Craft said that she hoped to have her husband buried at San Michele, the cemetery island in Venice. Mr. Craft had bought a plot for himself there long ago, after Stravinsky was interred on the island.

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Bix Beiderbecke fans target a 2017 opening for museum : Go

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After 25 years of dreaming and several stops and starts, plans for the Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive Collection were unveiled Tuesday at its future home in the River Music Experience, Davenport.

“We have worked for a long, long time to get to this point,” Bix museum board president Howard Braren, Rock Island, said at a news conference.

The museum and archives would occupy 1,500 of the 15,000 square feet on the lower level of the RME, the Redstone Building at 2nd and Main streets in the former Petersen Harned Von Maur department store.

Construction for the facility to honor the Davenport native (1903-1931) and jazz pioneer would likely begin in about a year, Braren said, with a target date of opening in 2017, in time for the jazz festival that bears the Bix name.

Cost for the museum build-out ($150,000), design and fabrication ($375,000) and acquisition of Bix material ($100,000) totals $625,000, Braren said, with a lead gift of $100,000 already committed by the Bechtel Charitable Trusts.

Nine members of the museum board have pledged an additional $68,000, Braren said. A $250,000 endowment also is planned.

Two sets of Beiderbecke items and memorabilia were recently purchased, he added, and will be sifted through by Bix historians beginning this weekend at the Putnam Museum, Davenport.

The Putnam has long been the home of Bix cornet, as well as the Beiderbecke family piano, both of which will be requested for loan to the new facility, Braren said.

Braren said the Putnam, which at one time had been considered as a home for a Bix museum, is instead using the space for traveling exhibits.

Bix material was purchased from two collections, Braren said. One was from musician and jazz historian Scott Black and includes 40 boxes of material from Phil and Linda Evans; Phil Evans wrote two books about Bix based on the collection.

Braren said the local Bix coalition had to outbid European collectors.

“This material belongs in Davenport and not somewhere in England,” he said.

Another collection was purchased from Elizabeth Beiderbecke-Hart from Springfield, Ill., Bix’s grand-niece, and includes love letters to his girlfriend and correspondence with his family.

“They’ll tear your heart out when you read some of them,” said Gerri Bowers, Davenport, an author and the Bix board member historian.

The letters show Bix as “family oriented,” Braren said, “not a person with drinking problems and the like” as the musician is sometimes portrayed.

The museum also would feature the only piano Bix had reportedly ever purchased, which was in the New York apartment where he died; listening stations for Bix-era music; a timeline of Beiderbecke’s life and career; and a re-creation of Eddie Condon’s nightclub in New York, a frequent Bix haunt.

Braren said that by 2017, Viking River Cruises would begin tours of the Mississippi River with stops in Davenport that would attract European and Asian travelers — some of the same audience that most enjoys Beiderbecke’s classic jazz.

“Bix is a worldwide jazz music phenomenon,” said Braren, a Beiderbecke relative and retired fundraising consultant. “His music is more recognized in Europe than it is in the United States.”

The Bix board, Braren said, will work closely with the RME and the Quad-City Convention and Visitors Bureau with the project.

“It’s just a natural here,” said Deb Sandry Powers, chief executive officer of the RME.

Powers said the lower level of the RME has included storage as well as administrative offices and West Music classrooms. The storage would be consolidated to bring in the Bix area.

The lower level would be referred to as the “Roots Cellar,” and the remaining space would include several new attractions.

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** Bix Beiderbecke fans target a 2017 opening for museum : Go&Do: Entertainment in the Quad-Cities
————————————————————

After 25 years of dreaming and several stops and starts, plans for the Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive Collection were unveiled Tuesday at its future home in the River Music Experience, Davenport.

“We have worked for a long, long time to get to this point,” Bix museum board president Howard Braren, Rock Island, said at a news conference.

The museum and archives would occupy 1,500 of the 15,000 square feet on the lower level of the RME, the Redstone Building at 2nd and Main streets in the former Petersen Harned Von Maur department store.

Construction for the facility to honor the Davenport native (1903-1931) and jazz pioneer would likely begin in about a year, Braren said, with a target date of opening in 2017, in time for the jazz festival that bears the Bix name.

Cost for the museum build-out ($150,000), design and fabrication ($375,000) and acquisition of Bix material ($100,000) totals $625,000, Braren said, with a lead gift of $100,000 already committed by the Bechtel Charitable Trusts.

Nine members of the museum board have pledged an additional $68,000, Braren said. A $250,000 endowment also is planned.

Two sets of Beiderbecke items and memorabilia were recently purchased, he added, and will be sifted through by Bix historians beginning this weekend at the Putnam Museum, Davenport.

The Putnam has long been the home of Bix cornet, as well as the Beiderbecke family piano, both of which will be requested for loan to the new facility, Braren said.

Braren said the Putnam, which at one time had been considered as a home for a Bix museum, is instead using the space for traveling exhibits.

Bix material was purchased from two collections, Braren said. One was from musician and jazz historian Scott Black and includes 40 boxes of material from Phil and Linda Evans; Phil Evans wrote two books about Bix based on the collection.

Braren said the local Bix coalition had to outbid European collectors.

“This material belongs in Davenport and not somewhere in England,” he said.

Another collection was purchased from Elizabeth Beiderbecke-Hart from Springfield, Ill., Bix’s grand-niece, and includes love letters to his girlfriend and correspondence with his family.

“They’ll tear your heart out when you read some of them,” said Gerri Bowers, Davenport, an author and the Bix board member historian.

The letters show Bix as “family oriented,” Braren said, “not a person with drinking problems and the like” as the musician is sometimes portrayed.

The museum also would feature the only piano Bix had reportedly ever purchased, which was in the New York apartment where he died; listening stations for Bix-era music; a timeline of Beiderbecke’s life and career; and a re-creation of Eddie Condon’s nightclub in New York, a frequent Bix haunt.

Braren said that by 2017, Viking River Cruises would begin tours of the Mississippi River with stops in Davenport that would attract European and Asian travelers — some of the same audience that most enjoys Beiderbecke’s classic jazz.

“Bix is a worldwide jazz music phenomenon,” said Braren, a Beiderbecke relative and retired fundraising consultant. “His music is more recognized in Europe than it is in the United States.”

The Bix board, Braren said, will work closely with the RME and the Quad-City Convention and Visitors Bureau with the project.

“It’s just a natural here,” said Deb Sandry Powers, chief executive officer of the RME.

Powers said the lower level of the RME has included storage as well as administrative offices and West Music classrooms. The storage would be consolidated to bring in the Bix area.

The lower level would be referred to as the “Roots Cellar,” and the remaining space would include several new attractions.

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After 25 years of dreaming and several stops and starts, plans for the Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive Collection were unveiled Tuesday at its future home in the River Music Experience, Davenport.

“We have worked for a long, long time to get to this point,” Bix museum board president Howard Braren, Rock Island, said at a news conference.

The museum and archives would occupy 1,500 of the 15,000 square feet on the lower level of the RME, the Redstone Building at 2nd and Main streets in the former Petersen Harned Von Maur department store.

Construction for the facility to honor the Davenport native (1903-1931) and jazz pioneer would likely begin in about a year, Braren said, with a target date of opening in 2017, in time for the jazz festival that bears the Bix name.

Cost for the museum build-out ($150,000), design and fabrication ($375,000) and acquisition of Bix material ($100,000) totals $625,000, Braren said, with a lead gift of $100,000 already committed by the Bechtel Charitable Trusts.

Nine members of the museum board have pledged an additional $68,000, Braren said. A $250,000 endowment also is planned.

Two sets of Beiderbecke items and memorabilia were recently purchased, he added, and will be sifted through by Bix historians beginning this weekend at the Putnam Museum, Davenport.

The Putnam has long been the home of Bix cornet, as well as the Beiderbecke family piano, both of which will be requested for loan to the new facility, Braren said.

Braren said the Putnam, which at one time had been considered as a home for a Bix museum, is instead using the space for traveling exhibits.

Bix material was purchased from two collections, Braren said. One was from musician and jazz historian Scott Black and includes 40 boxes of material from Phil and Linda Evans; Phil Evans wrote two books about Bix based on the collection.

Braren said the local Bix coalition had to outbid European collectors.

“This material belongs in Davenport and not somewhere in England,” he said.

Another collection was purchased from Elizabeth Beiderbecke-Hart from Springfield, Ill., Bix’s grand-niece, and includes love letters to his girlfriend and correspondence with his family.

“They’ll tear your heart out when you read some of them,” said Gerri Bowers, Davenport, an author and the Bix board member historian.

The letters show Bix as “family oriented,” Braren said, “not a person with drinking problems and the like” as the musician is sometimes portrayed.

The museum also would feature the only piano Bix had reportedly ever purchased, which was in the New York apartment where he died; listening stations for Bix-era music; a timeline of Beiderbecke’s life and career; and a re-creation of Eddie Condon’s nightclub in New York, a frequent Bix haunt.

Braren said that by 2017, Viking River Cruises would begin tours of the Mississippi River with stops in Davenport that would attract European and Asian travelers — some of the same audience that most enjoys Beiderbecke’s classic jazz.

“Bix is a worldwide jazz music phenomenon,” said Braren, a Beiderbecke relative and retired fundraising consultant. “His music is more recognized in Europe than it is in the United States.”

The Bix board, Braren said, will work closely with the RME and the Quad-City Convention and Visitors Bureau with the project.

“It’s just a natural here,” said Deb Sandry Powers, chief executive officer of the RME.

Powers said the lower level of the RME has included storage as well as administrative offices and West Music classrooms. The storage would be consolidated to bring in the Bix area.

The lower level would be referred to as the “Roots Cellar,” and the remaining space would include several new attractions.

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Guitarist Ronnie Singer live in New York, early 1950s

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Ronnie Singer (ca. 1929 – ca. 1953) was a Chicagoan bebop guitarist. He played with great jazz players like saxophonists Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Red Rodney, guitarist Jimmy Gourley, pianist Lou Levy, drummer Al Levitt, etc. He moved to New York in the late forties / early fifties to play with clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw. Heroin addict, he eventually committed suicide with his wife by asphixia in a gas oven. Here are the sole known jazz recordings of this incredible cat with an unidentified quintet – a great trumpeter (Don Joseph, Don Fagerquist?) and a steady piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Tunes are Vincent Youmans’s Tea For Two, James F. Hanley’s (Back Home Again In) Indiana and Ford Dabney’s Shine. A copy of the tapes belonged to the late great bebop guitarist Jimmy Gourley (from Saint Louis, Missouri), contemporary and friend of Ronnie Singer, who considered him as his greatest influence, ahead Jimmy Raney and Charlie
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Update (23/02/11): The tapes have been lowered by a semitone, they were playing too fast during numerizing.
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Ronnie Singer (ca. 1929 – ca. 1953) was a Chicagoan bebop guitarist. He played with great jazz players like saxophonists Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Red Rodney, guitarist Jimmy Gourley, pianist Lou Levy, drummer Al Levitt, etc. He moved to New York in the late forties / early fifties to play with clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw. Heroin addict, he eventually committed suicide with his wife by asphixia in a gas oven. Here are the sole known jazz recordings of this incredible cat with an unidentified quintet – a great trumpeter (Don Joseph, Don Fagerquist?) and a steady piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Tunes are Vincent Youmans’s Tea For Two, James F. Hanley’s (Back Home Again In) Indiana and Ford Dabney’s Shine. A copy of the tapes belonged to the late great bebop guitarist Jimmy Gourley (from Saint Louis, Missouri), contemporary and friend of Ronnie Singer, who considered him as his greatest influence, ahead Jimmy Raney and Charlie
Christian.
Update (23/02/11): The tapes have been lowered by a semitone, they were playing too fast during numerizing.
The sound is more confortable, the timbre closer to reality; and the tunes are now in logical keys:
Tea For Two in G, Indiana in F and Shine in Eb.
More on this subject, with pictures, music transcriptions, etc. (french & english):
ronniesinger.blogspot.com (http://ronniesinger.blogspot.com/)

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Ronnie Singer (ca. 1929 – ca. 1953) was a Chicagoan bebop guitarist. He played with great jazz players like saxophonists Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Red Rodney, guitarist Jimmy Gourley, pianist Lou Levy, drummer Al Levitt, etc. He moved to New York in the late forties / early fifties to play with clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw. Heroin addict, he eventually committed suicide with his wife by asphixia in a gas oven. Here are the sole known jazz recordings of this incredible cat with an unidentified quintet – a great trumpeter (Don Joseph, Don Fagerquist?) and a steady piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Tunes are Vincent Youmans’s Tea For Two, James F. Hanley’s (Back Home Again In) Indiana and Ford Dabney’s Shine. A copy of the tapes belonged to the late great bebop guitarist Jimmy Gourley (from Saint Louis, Missouri), contemporary and friend of Ronnie Singer, who considered him as his greatest influence, ahead Jimmy Raney and Charlie
Christian.
Update (23/02/11): The tapes have been lowered by a semitone, they were playing too fast during numerizing.
The sound is more confortable, the timbre closer to reality; and the tunes are now in logical keys:
Tea For Two in G, Indiana in F and Shine in Eb.
More on this subject, with pictures, music transcriptions, etc. (french & english):
ronniesinger.blogspot.com (http://ronniesinger.blogspot.com/)

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Jazzmeia Horn Wins Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition – The New York Times

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By NATE CHINEN (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-chinen/)

NOVEMBER 16, 2015 9:11 AM

The winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition is Jazzmeia Horn (http://theartistryofjazzhorn.com/) . Originally from Dallas, Ms. Horn, 23, is a singer with a smart, steadfast connection to the jazz-vocal tradition, as defined by predecessors like Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan. Since moving to New York in 2009 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, she has been a regular presence on the club scene, often with her band, the Artistry of Jazz Horn.

Ms. Horn won the competition on Sunday night, in a gala concert at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, which also featured a tribute to the producer Quincy Jones, this year’s recipient of the Thelonious Monk Institute’s Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award. Among the featured artists were several of the competition’s judges — Patti Austin, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Freddy Cole — and a past vocal winner, Gretchen Parlato.

The Monk Competition, which changes its instrumental focus from year to year, is widely recognized as the most prestigious of its kind for jazz, and an important boost to young careers. The last time the competition spotlighted singers (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/arts/music/06thelonius.html) , in 2010, the winner was Cécile McLorin Salvant, a relative unknown who has since become one of the most acclaimed artists in her field.

Ms. Horn sealed her win with performances of the jazz standards “Moanin’” and “Detour Ahead,” backed by a house rhythm section of Reggie Thomas on piano, Rodney Whitaker on bass and Carl Allen on drums. The competition runners-up, culled from a pool of 11 semifinalists, were Veronica Swift of Charlottesville, Va., and Vuyolwethu Sotashe of Mthatha, South Africa.

Two years ago Ms. Horn won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition (https://youtu.be/PDupapEJQGA) , in Newark. As the winner of the Monk Competition she will receive a $25,000 music scholarship and a recording contract with the Concord Music Group.

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Jazzmeia Horn Wins Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition – The New York Times

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By NATE CHINEN (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-chinen/)

NOVEMBER 16, 2015 9:11 AM

The winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition is Jazzmeia Horn (http://theartistryofjazzhorn.com/) . Originally from Dallas, Ms. Horn, 23, is a singer with a smart, steadfast connection to the jazz-vocal tradition, as defined by predecessors like Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan. Since moving to New York in 2009 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, she has been a regular presence on the club scene, often with her band, the Artistry of Jazz Horn.

Ms. Horn won the competition on Sunday night, in a gala concert at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, which also featured a tribute to the producer Quincy Jones, this year’s recipient of the Thelonious Monk Institute’s Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award. Among the featured artists were several of the competition’s judges — Patti Austin, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Freddy Cole — and a past vocal winner, Gretchen Parlato.

The Monk Competition, which changes its instrumental focus from year to year, is widely recognized as the most prestigious of its kind for jazz, and an important boost to young careers. The last time the competition spotlighted singers (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/arts/music/06thelonius.html) , in 2010, the winner was Cécile McLorin Salvant, a relative unknown who has since become one of the most acclaimed artists in her field.

Ms. Horn sealed her win with performances of the jazz standards “Moanin’” and “Detour Ahead,” backed by a house rhythm section of Reggie Thomas on piano, Rodney Whitaker on bass and Carl Allen on drums. The competition runners-up, culled from a pool of 11 semifinalists, were Veronica Swift of Charlottesville, Va., and Vuyolwethu Sotashe of Mthatha, South Africa.

Two years ago Ms. Horn won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition (https://youtu.be/PDupapEJQGA) , in Newark. As the winner of the Monk Competition she will receive a $25,000 music scholarship and a recording contract with the Concord Music Group.

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** Jazzmeia Horn Wins Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition
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By NATE CHINEN (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-chinen/)

NOVEMBER 16, 2015 9:11 AM

The winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition is Jazzmeia Horn (http://theartistryofjazzhorn.com/) . Originally from Dallas, Ms. Horn, 23, is a singer with a smart, steadfast connection to the jazz-vocal tradition, as defined by predecessors like Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan. Since moving to New York in 2009 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, she has been a regular presence on the club scene, often with her band, the Artistry of Jazz Horn.

Ms. Horn won the competition on Sunday night, in a gala concert at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, which also featured a tribute to the producer Quincy Jones, this year’s recipient of the Thelonious Monk Institute’s Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award. Among the featured artists were several of the competition’s judges — Patti Austin, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Freddy Cole — and a past vocal winner, Gretchen Parlato.

The Monk Competition, which changes its instrumental focus from year to year, is widely recognized as the most prestigious of its kind for jazz, and an important boost to young careers. The last time the competition spotlighted singers (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/arts/music/06thelonius.html) , in 2010, the winner was Cécile McLorin Salvant, a relative unknown who has since become one of the most acclaimed artists in her field.

Ms. Horn sealed her win with performances of the jazz standards “Moanin’” and “Detour Ahead,” backed by a house rhythm section of Reggie Thomas on piano, Rodney Whitaker on bass and Carl Allen on drums. The competition runners-up, culled from a pool of 11 semifinalists, were Veronica Swift of Charlottesville, Va., and Vuyolwethu Sotashe of Mthatha, South Africa.

Two years ago Ms. Horn won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition (https://youtu.be/PDupapEJQGA) , in Newark. As the winner of the Monk Competition she will receive a $25,000 music scholarship and a recording contract with the Concord Music Group.

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Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band.

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band. — David Brooks

Like many musicians, Jack Costanzo lights up when he recalls his first musical epiphany.

Never mind that the legendary percussionist, long known by fans and fellow performers alike as “Mr. Bongo,” experienced that epiphany when he was barely a teenager in the mid-1930s.

What is most notable about this longtime San Diego resident isn’t how vivid his memory is now. Nor is it the fact he has collaborated with everyone from Nat “King” Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and Elvis Presley to Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand and Marlon Brando, who became one of Costanzo’s good friends.

Rather, it’s the fact that – at 96 – he is preparing for his next concert. It will be his first headlining appearance in three years, although he has shared stages here in the interim with such top jazz artists as saxophonist Charles McPherson and trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos.

“I never smoked, I never did drugs, and that helped me be a healthy person,” said Costanzo, who performs Friday at Dizzy’s in Pacific Beach with the Bi-National Mambo Orchestra (ticket information appears below). “When you’re playing congas and bongos, it’s enough exercise for anybody.”

Remarkably spry, and with his dashing good looks barely touched by the passing of time, Costanzo all but bounded across his study and music room to greet a visiting reporter and photographer for a recent interview.

“Do whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t cost me money!” he quipped.

For the next few hours, Costanzo vividly discussed his movie-worthy career, which saw him introduce the bongos to jazz and to Hollywood. He apologized periodically for not remembering each specific detail, although his sense of recall would be impressive in someone 30 years his junior. Even when a name eludes him, he is usually able to pinpoint the exact years of his career highlights with impressive accuracy.

“Jack is amazing,” said Dizzy’s honcho Chuck Perrin. “Even when he comes to a show, just to attend, he has the energy of someone who is 19 or 20. He’s one of a kind.”

Those sentiments are shared by Castellanos, who performed on Costanzo’s two most recent albums and toured with him, and by Steve Kader, the talent buyer for the Adams Avenue Street Fair and La Mesa’s soon-to-open The Platform at Depot Springs Beer Company.

“Jack is really an inspiration and a hero to all us musicians,” Castellanos said. “He put the bongos on the map and is the bridge between Latin-jazz and jazz. The fact that he’s 96, and still doing it, is unbelievable. He gives 200 percent every time he gets on the bandstand.”

“We are lucky to have him,” said Kader, who worked behind the scenes on Costanzo’s two most recent albums of new music, 2001’s “Back From Havana” and 2002’s “Scorchin’ the Skins.”

“There are not that many true music icons still around. Like Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and Chuck Berry, Jack represents the last of an era. ”

Bongo pioneer

Costanzo lives on a hill in Lakeside with his girlfriend, whom he met here in 1983. He is likely the only living musician whose credits range from Charlie Parker, Yma Sumac and former San Diegan Patti Page to Mexican “Space-Age Bachelor Pad” music pioneer Esquivel, jazz-funk band The Greyboy Allstars and film giant Orson Welles (whose classic 1958 film, “Touch of Evil,” features Costanzo on its soundtrack).

During the several decades he spent in Hollywood, Costanzo was also hired to teach movie stars how to play bongos and congas. His many celebrated students included Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Rita Moreno, Van Johnson and James Dean.

“Well, I wouldn’t say I taught James Dean,” he said with a chuckle. “He only came for two lessons and really wasn’t well suited for it.”

A key instrument in Latin music, the bongos were virtually unknown in the United States when Costanzo was born in Chicago on Sept. 24, 1922. His first passion was dancing, and he did so avidly with his girlfriend, Marda Saxon, who later became the first of his four wives. In their late teens, they toured the Midwest as the pre-mambo Latin dance team of Costanzo & Marda.

When he was about 14, Coztanzo heard a visiting band from Puerto Rico perform at the Merry Gardens Ballroom, a popular dance spot in the Windy City. For one song, the group’s drummer switched to bongos — two wooden hand drums, which are cradled between the knees to play. Costanzo was instantly mesmerized.

“My eyes came out of my head!” he recalled.

Since there was nowhere in Chicago or the nation to buy bongos at the time, the enthusiastic teenager made his own. He used butter bins and a large drum head, which he cut down to size. Since there was no one to take lessons from, Costanzo is entirely self-taught on the bongos.

“I had to learn on my own, which is good, because I developed my own style,” he noted. “It seemed like it came natural. I listened to a lot of music. (Noted Spanish bandleader) Xavier Cugat was big. And, many years later, he hired me.”

In fact, even before his musical epiphany with the bongos, Costanzo was already drawn to the drums. to paraphrase a classic songs of the times, he had rhythm, he had music, he had silverware.

“The way I started to play is, my mother had cold crème jars, and I’d loosen the lids, get a knife and spoon, and hit them like drums.”

Why? What drew him to drumming?

Costanzo shrugged.

“I don’t know,” he said. “It just came to me, and I did it. My mother wasn’t too happy; I just made noise!”

Costanzo enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He was stationed in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific, where he worked in aviation ordnance. Upon his discharge in 1945, he moved to Los Angeles and became a dance instructor at the plush Beverly Hills Hotel.

“I hated it! I did not like being a dance teacher, at all,” he said.

He soon started working with various Latin music acts, including singer Bobby Ramos, the group Lecuona Cuban Boys, pianist René Touzet and future TV star Desi Arnaz. His big break came in 1947, when celebrated big band leader Stan Kenton lured Costanzo away from Touzet.

“A lot of Latin musicians were not happy Stan hired me, but there were no other bongo players then in L.A.,” he said. His public profile grew almost instantly, thanks to such key recordings with Kenton as “Bongo Riff,” “The Peanut Vendor” and “Abstraction.”

“At the time, when you joined Stan’s band, in six weeks you were a star,” Costanzo said, beaming. “Later in 1947, the Kenton band did a concert in Philadelphia. The next day, we were all waiting for the train, and I heard a voice call out: ‘Hey, Mr. Bongo!’ I’ve used that ever since. It was (celebrated jazz critic) Leonard Feather who called me ‘Mr. Bongo.’ ”

In demand

Costanzo also excelled on the larger conga drums. The demand for his nimble percussive touch was so great that Nat “King” Cole put an ad in Down Beat magazine, stating that he wanted to hire Costanzo. Another musician, pretending to be the budding Mr. Bongo, took the job.

The ruse was soon uncovered when Costanzo’s brother, Marty, went to hear Cole and asked if the singer/pianist had made contact yet with his in-demand sibling. Costanzo’s eyes dance with delight as, nearly 70 years later, he re-enacts that conversation.

“Nat told Marty: ‘I hired him.’ And Marty said: ‘That’s not Jack!’ ”

Costanzo’s career soared even higher in the 1950s and ’60s, when he was being paid double and triple the going Musician’s Union standard rate for recording sessions. He was especially favored by singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, who — like Brando — became a friend.

“I knew (Sinatra’s second wife) Ava Gardner before he did,” said Costanzo, whose own second wife and periodic musical partner, Gerry Woo, was a Playboy Bunny. He has been married four times and has four children.

Costanzo’s debut album as a bandleader, “Afro Cuban Jazz North-of-the-Border,” came out in 1955. His 1957 album, “Mr. Bongo,” was the first of a half dozen or so to feature his stage moniker. a Good number of his albusm have been reissued on CD.

In 1965, Costanzo was cast in the Presley movie “Harum Scarum.” He blushed when asked whether he or Presley was the bigger ladies man.

“That’s not fair,” Costanzo said, “because it would sound like braggadocio if I answered. But I don’t think I had the access Elvis had.”

A few years after making his acclaimed comeback albums in 2001 and 2002, Costanzo hit the road with his band. They performed at major jazz festivals in the U.S. and abroad. The fact that Costanzo was already in his eighties was not lost on his band members, some of who were at least 50 years younger than him.

“Jack is an amazing role model,” said trumpeter Castellanos. “We played the Toronto Jazz Festival, and I remember how tired we all were when we got there. Not Jack. He was so full of energy and life, saying: ‘Come on! Let’s go! We’re representing San Diego!’ It’s remarkable to still see him doing what he’s done, and what he does. He’s a true leader.”

Has Mr. Bongo ever contemplated writing his autobiography?

“I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to, and my answer is always no,” Costanzo said. “They’re not interested in me doing a book, unless I tell stories (about various stars). They want to know secret things, and I’m not interested in doing that.”

Costanzo has tried to retire from music at least twice, but the lure of drumming — and applause — keeps drawing him back.

“Sure, I’m aware of the audience’s response; you wouldn’t be a big ham if you weren’t!” he said. “I’ve had a nice life. I don’t know when God will call me, but I’ve had a nice life.”

Bonus Q&A with Mr. Bongo

We asked Jack Costanzo to reminisce about some of his famous friends and collaborators. here’s what he had to say about…

Stan Kenton: “He was a pioneer. His music was not soft; it was screaming!”

Nat “King” Cole: “A gentleman, and a gentle man. He was a great performer, just sitting at the piano by himself.”

Ava Gardner: “She was very nice and down to earth. I knew Betty Grable, too.”

Marlon Brando: “Marlon was a dear friend, and someone who always supported a worthy (political or social) cause. I never gave him a lesson. He played very well as a non-professional musician. When I did ‘Guys and Dolls’ with Marlon, we did a lot of stuff during the breaks and played a lot of music together.”

The pioneers of bebop: “I played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, but my favorite was Bud Powell. How come? Because he complimented me when we were done playing, that’s how come! He shook my hand, and said: ‘Finally, a bongo and conga player who can play jazz’!”

Jack Costanzo & The Bi-National Mambo Orchestra, under the direction of Bill Caballero

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Where: Dizzy’s (inside the San Diego Jet Ski Center), 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, Pacific Beach

Tickets: $20; $15 (students)

Phone: (858) 270-7467

Online:dizzysjazz.com (http://dizzysjazz.com/)

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By George Varga (http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/staff/george-varga/) | 12:35 p.m. Nov. 14, 2015

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band.

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band. — David Brooks

Like many musicians, Jack Costanzo lights up when he recalls his first musical epiphany.

Never mind that the legendary percussionist, long known by fans and fellow performers alike as “Mr. Bongo,” experienced that epiphany when he was barely a teenager in the mid-1930s.

What is most notable about this longtime San Diego resident isn’t how vivid his memory is now. Nor is it the fact he has collaborated with everyone from Nat “King” Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and Elvis Presley to Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand and Marlon Brando, who became one of Costanzo’s good friends.

Rather, it’s the fact that – at 96 – he is preparing for his next concert. It will be his first headlining appearance in three years, although he has shared stages here in the interim with such top jazz artists as saxophonist Charles McPherson and trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos.

“I never smoked, I never did drugs, and that helped me be a healthy person,” said Costanzo, who performs Friday at Dizzy’s in Pacific Beach with the Bi-National Mambo Orchestra (ticket information appears below). “When you’re playing congas and bongos, it’s enough exercise for anybody.”

Remarkably spry, and with his dashing good looks barely touched by the passing of time, Costanzo all but bounded across his study and music room to greet a visiting reporter and photographer for a recent interview.

“Do whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t cost me money!” he quipped.

For the next few hours, Costanzo vividly discussed his movie-worthy career, which saw him introduce the bongos to jazz and to Hollywood. He apologized periodically for not remembering each specific detail, although his sense of recall would be impressive in someone 30 years his junior. Even when a name eludes him, he is usually able to pinpoint the exact years of his career highlights with impressive accuracy.

“Jack is amazing,” said Dizzy’s honcho Chuck Perrin. “Even when he comes to a show, just to attend, he has the energy of someone who is 19 or 20. He’s one of a kind.”

Those sentiments are shared by Castellanos, who performed on Costanzo’s two most recent albums and toured with him, and by Steve Kader, the talent buyer for the Adams Avenue Street Fair and La Mesa’s soon-to-open The Platform at Depot Springs Beer Company.

“Jack is really an inspiration and a hero to all us musicians,” Castellanos said. “He put the bongos on the map and is the bridge between Latin-jazz and jazz. The fact that he’s 96, and still doing it, is unbelievable. He gives 200 percent every time he gets on the bandstand.”

“We are lucky to have him,” said Kader, who worked behind the scenes on Costanzo’s two most recent albums of new music, 2001’s “Back From Havana” and 2002’s “Scorchin’ the Skins.”

“There are not that many true music icons still around. Like Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and Chuck Berry, Jack represents the last of an era. ”

Bongo pioneer

Costanzo lives on a hill in Lakeside with his girlfriend, whom he met here in 1983. He is likely the only living musician whose credits range from Charlie Parker, Yma Sumac and former San Diegan Patti Page to Mexican “Space-Age Bachelor Pad” music pioneer Esquivel, jazz-funk band The Greyboy Allstars and film giant Orson Welles (whose classic 1958 film, “Touch of Evil,” features Costanzo on its soundtrack).

During the several decades he spent in Hollywood, Costanzo was also hired to teach movie stars how to play bongos and congas. His many celebrated students included Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Rita Moreno, Van Johnson and James Dean.

“Well, I wouldn’t say I taught James Dean,” he said with a chuckle. “He only came for two lessons and really wasn’t well suited for it.”

A key instrument in Latin music, the bongos were virtually unknown in the United States when Costanzo was born in Chicago on Sept. 24, 1922. His first passion was dancing, and he did so avidly with his girlfriend, Marda Saxon, who later became the first of his four wives. In their late teens, they toured the Midwest as the pre-mambo Latin dance team of Costanzo & Marda.

When he was about 14, Coztanzo heard a visiting band from Puerto Rico perform at the Merry Gardens Ballroom, a popular dance spot in the Windy City. For one song, the group’s drummer switched to bongos — two wooden hand drums, which are cradled between the knees to play. Costanzo was instantly mesmerized.

“My eyes came out of my head!” he recalled.

Since there was nowhere in Chicago or the nation to buy bongos at the time, the enthusiastic teenager made his own. He used butter bins and a large drum head, which he cut down to size. Since there was no one to take lessons from, Costanzo is entirely self-taught on the bongos.

“I had to learn on my own, which is good, because I developed my own style,” he noted. “It seemed like it came natural. I listened to a lot of music. (Noted Spanish bandleader) Xavier Cugat was big. And, many years later, he hired me.”

In fact, even before his musical epiphany with the bongos, Costanzo was already drawn to the drums. to paraphrase a classic songs of the times, he had rhythm, he had music, he had silverware.

“The way I started to play is, my mother had cold crème jars, and I’d loosen the lids, get a knife and spoon, and hit them like drums.”

Why? What drew him to drumming?

Costanzo shrugged.

“I don’t know,” he said. “It just came to me, and I did it. My mother wasn’t too happy; I just made noise!”

Costanzo enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He was stationed in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific, where he worked in aviation ordnance. Upon his discharge in 1945, he moved to Los Angeles and became a dance instructor at the plush Beverly Hills Hotel.

“I hated it! I did not like being a dance teacher, at all,” he said.

He soon started working with various Latin music acts, including singer Bobby Ramos, the group Lecuona Cuban Boys, pianist René Touzet and future TV star Desi Arnaz. His big break came in 1947, when celebrated big band leader Stan Kenton lured Costanzo away from Touzet.

“A lot of Latin musicians were not happy Stan hired me, but there were no other bongo players then in L.A.,” he said. His public profile grew almost instantly, thanks to such key recordings with Kenton as “Bongo Riff,” “The Peanut Vendor” and “Abstraction.”

“At the time, when you joined Stan’s band, in six weeks you were a star,” Costanzo said, beaming. “Later in 1947, the Kenton band did a concert in Philadelphia. The next day, we were all waiting for the train, and I heard a voice call out: ‘Hey, Mr. Bongo!’ I’ve used that ever since. It was (celebrated jazz critic) Leonard Feather who called me ‘Mr. Bongo.’ ”

In demand

Costanzo also excelled on the larger conga drums. The demand for his nimble percussive touch was so great that Nat “King” Cole put an ad in Down Beat magazine, stating that he wanted to hire Costanzo. Another musician, pretending to be the budding Mr. Bongo, took the job.

The ruse was soon uncovered when Costanzo’s brother, Marty, went to hear Cole and asked if the singer/pianist had made contact yet with his in-demand sibling. Costanzo’s eyes dance with delight as, nearly 70 years later, he re-enacts that conversation.

“Nat told Marty: ‘I hired him.’ And Marty said: ‘That’s not Jack!’ ”

Costanzo’s career soared even higher in the 1950s and ’60s, when he was being paid double and triple the going Musician’s Union standard rate for recording sessions. He was especially favored by singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, who — like Brando — became a friend.

“I knew (Sinatra’s second wife) Ava Gardner before he did,” said Costanzo, whose own second wife and periodic musical partner, Gerry Woo, was a Playboy Bunny. He has been married four times and has four children.

Costanzo’s debut album as a bandleader, “Afro Cuban Jazz North-of-the-Border,” came out in 1955. His 1957 album, “Mr. Bongo,” was the first of a half dozen or so to feature his stage moniker. a Good number of his albusm have been reissued on CD.

In 1965, Costanzo was cast in the Presley movie “Harum Scarum.” He blushed when asked whether he or Presley was the bigger ladies man.

“That’s not fair,” Costanzo said, “because it would sound like braggadocio if I answered. But I don’t think I had the access Elvis had.”

A few years after making his acclaimed comeback albums in 2001 and 2002, Costanzo hit the road with his band. They performed at major jazz festivals in the U.S. and abroad. The fact that Costanzo was already in his eighties was not lost on his band members, some of who were at least 50 years younger than him.

“Jack is an amazing role model,” said trumpeter Castellanos. “We played the Toronto Jazz Festival, and I remember how tired we all were when we got there. Not Jack. He was so full of energy and life, saying: ‘Come on! Let’s go! We’re representing San Diego!’ It’s remarkable to still see him doing what he’s done, and what he does. He’s a true leader.”

Has Mr. Bongo ever contemplated writing his autobiography?

“I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to, and my answer is always no,” Costanzo said. “They’re not interested in me doing a book, unless I tell stories (about various stars). They want to know secret things, and I’m not interested in doing that.”

Costanzo has tried to retire from music at least twice, but the lure of drumming — and applause — keeps drawing him back.

“Sure, I’m aware of the audience’s response; you wouldn’t be a big ham if you weren’t!” he said. “I’ve had a nice life. I don’t know when God will call me, but I’ve had a nice life.”

Bonus Q&A with Mr. Bongo

We asked Jack Costanzo to reminisce about some of his famous friends and collaborators. here’s what he had to say about…

Stan Kenton: “He was a pioneer. His music was not soft; it was screaming!”

Nat “King” Cole: “A gentleman, and a gentle man. He was a great performer, just sitting at the piano by himself.”

Ava Gardner: “She was very nice and down to earth. I knew Betty Grable, too.”

Marlon Brando: “Marlon was a dear friend, and someone who always supported a worthy (political or social) cause. I never gave him a lesson. He played very well as a non-professional musician. When I did ‘Guys and Dolls’ with Marlon, we did a lot of stuff during the breaks and played a lot of music together.”

The pioneers of bebop: “I played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, but my favorite was Bud Powell. How come? Because he complimented me when we were done playing, that’s how come! He shook my hand, and said: ‘Finally, a bongo and conga player who can play jazz’!”

Jack Costanzo & The Bi-National Mambo Orchestra, under the direction of Bill Caballero

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Where: Dizzy’s (inside the San Diego Jet Ski Center), 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, Pacific Beach

Tickets: $20; $15 (students)

Phone: (858) 270-7467

Online:dizzysjazz.com (http://dizzysjazz.com/)

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By George Varga (http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/staff/george-varga/) | 12:35 p.m. Nov. 14, 2015

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band.

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band. — David Brooks

Like many musicians, Jack Costanzo lights up when he recalls his first musical epiphany.

Never mind that the legendary percussionist, long known by fans and fellow performers alike as “Mr. Bongo,” experienced that epiphany when he was barely a teenager in the mid-1930s.

What is most notable about this longtime San Diego resident isn’t how vivid his memory is now. Nor is it the fact he has collaborated with everyone from Nat “King” Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and Elvis Presley to Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand and Marlon Brando, who became one of Costanzo’s good friends.

Rather, it’s the fact that – at 96 – he is preparing for his next concert. It will be his first headlining appearance in three years, although he has shared stages here in the interim with such top jazz artists as saxophonist Charles McPherson and trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos.

“I never smoked, I never did drugs, and that helped me be a healthy person,” said Costanzo, who performs Friday at Dizzy’s in Pacific Beach with the Bi-National Mambo Orchestra (ticket information appears below). “When you’re playing congas and bongos, it’s enough exercise for anybody.”

Remarkably spry, and with his dashing good looks barely touched by the passing of time, Costanzo all but bounded across his study and music room to greet a visiting reporter and photographer for a recent interview.

“Do whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t cost me money!” he quipped.

For the next few hours, Costanzo vividly discussed his movie-worthy career, which saw him introduce the bongos to jazz and to Hollywood. He apologized periodically for not remembering each specific detail, although his sense of recall would be impressive in someone 30 years his junior. Even when a name eludes him, he is usually able to pinpoint the exact years of his career highlights with impressive accuracy.

“Jack is amazing,” said Dizzy’s honcho Chuck Perrin. “Even when he comes to a show, just to attend, he has the energy of someone who is 19 or 20. He’s one of a kind.”

Those sentiments are shared by Castellanos, who performed on Costanzo’s two most recent albums and toured with him, and by Steve Kader, the talent buyer for the Adams Avenue Street Fair and La Mesa’s soon-to-open The Platform at Depot Springs Beer Company.

“Jack is really an inspiration and a hero to all us musicians,” Castellanos said. “He put the bongos on the map and is the bridge between Latin-jazz and jazz. The fact that he’s 96, and still doing it, is unbelievable. He gives 200 percent every time he gets on the bandstand.”

“We are lucky to have him,” said Kader, who worked behind the scenes on Costanzo’s two most recent albums of new music, 2001’s “Back From Havana” and 2002’s “Scorchin’ the Skins.”

“There are not that many true music icons still around. Like Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and Chuck Berry, Jack represents the last of an era. ”

Bongo pioneer

Costanzo lives on a hill in Lakeside with his girlfriend, whom he met here in 1983. He is likely the only living musician whose credits range from Charlie Parker, Yma Sumac and former San Diegan Patti Page to Mexican “Space-Age Bachelor Pad” music pioneer Esquivel, jazz-funk band The Greyboy Allstars and film giant Orson Welles (whose classic 1958 film, “Touch of Evil,” features Costanzo on its soundtrack).

During the several decades he spent in Hollywood, Costanzo was also hired to teach movie stars how to play bongos and congas. His many celebrated students included Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Rita Moreno, Van Johnson and James Dean.

“Well, I wouldn’t say I taught James Dean,” he said with a chuckle. “He only came for two lessons and really wasn’t well suited for it.”

A key instrument in Latin music, the bongos were virtually unknown in the United States when Costanzo was born in Chicago on Sept. 24, 1922. His first passion was dancing, and he did so avidly with his girlfriend, Marda Saxon, who later became the first of his four wives. In their late teens, they toured the Midwest as the pre-mambo Latin dance team of Costanzo & Marda.

When he was about 14, Coztanzo heard a visiting band from Puerto Rico perform at the Merry Gardens Ballroom, a popular dance spot in the Windy City. For one song, the group’s drummer switched to bongos — two wooden hand drums, which are cradled between the knees to play. Costanzo was instantly mesmerized.

“My eyes came out of my head!” he recalled.

Since there was nowhere in Chicago or the nation to buy bongos at the time, the enthusiastic teenager made his own. He used butter bins and a large drum head, which he cut down to size. Since there was no one to take lessons from, Costanzo is entirely self-taught on the bongos.

“I had to learn on my own, which is good, because I developed my own style,” he noted. “It seemed like it came natural. I listened to a lot of music. (Noted Spanish bandleader) Xavier Cugat was big. And, many years later, he hired me.”

In fact, even before his musical epiphany with the bongos, Costanzo was already drawn to the drums. to paraphrase a classic songs of the times, he had rhythm, he had music, he had silverware.

“The way I started to play is, my mother had cold crème jars, and I’d loosen the lids, get a knife and spoon, and hit them like drums.”

Why? What drew him to drumming?

Costanzo shrugged.

“I don’t know,” he said. “It just came to me, and I did it. My mother wasn’t too happy; I just made noise!”

Costanzo enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He was stationed in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific, where he worked in aviation ordnance. Upon his discharge in 1945, he moved to Los Angeles and became a dance instructor at the plush Beverly Hills Hotel.

“I hated it! I did not like being a dance teacher, at all,” he said.

He soon started working with various Latin music acts, including singer Bobby Ramos, the group Lecuona Cuban Boys, pianist René Touzet and future TV star Desi Arnaz. His big break came in 1947, when celebrated big band leader Stan Kenton lured Costanzo away from Touzet.

“A lot of Latin musicians were not happy Stan hired me, but there were no other bongo players then in L.A.,” he said. His public profile grew almost instantly, thanks to such key recordings with Kenton as “Bongo Riff,” “The Peanut Vendor” and “Abstraction.”

“At the time, when you joined Stan’s band, in six weeks you were a star,” Costanzo said, beaming. “Later in 1947, the Kenton band did a concert in Philadelphia. The next day, we were all waiting for the train, and I heard a voice call out: ‘Hey, Mr. Bongo!’ I’ve used that ever since. It was (celebrated jazz critic) Leonard Feather who called me ‘Mr. Bongo.’ ”

In demand

Costanzo also excelled on the larger conga drums. The demand for his nimble percussive touch was so great that Nat “King” Cole put an ad in Down Beat magazine, stating that he wanted to hire Costanzo. Another musician, pretending to be the budding Mr. Bongo, took the job.

The ruse was soon uncovered when Costanzo’s brother, Marty, went to hear Cole and asked if the singer/pianist had made contact yet with his in-demand sibling. Costanzo’s eyes dance with delight as, nearly 70 years later, he re-enacts that conversation.

“Nat told Marty: ‘I hired him.’ And Marty said: ‘That’s not Jack!’ ”

Costanzo’s career soared even higher in the 1950s and ’60s, when he was being paid double and triple the going Musician’s Union standard rate for recording sessions. He was especially favored by singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, who — like Brando — became a friend.

“I knew (Sinatra’s second wife) Ava Gardner before he did,” said Costanzo, whose own second wife and periodic musical partner, Gerry Woo, was a Playboy Bunny. He has been married four times and has four children.

Costanzo’s debut album as a bandleader, “Afro Cuban Jazz North-of-the-Border,” came out in 1955. His 1957 album, “Mr. Bongo,” was the first of a half dozen or so to feature his stage moniker. a Good number of his albusm have been reissued on CD.

In 1965, Costanzo was cast in the Presley movie “Harum Scarum.” He blushed when asked whether he or Presley was the bigger ladies man.

“That’s not fair,” Costanzo said, “because it would sound like braggadocio if I answered. But I don’t think I had the access Elvis had.”

A few years after making his acclaimed comeback albums in 2001 and 2002, Costanzo hit the road with his band. They performed at major jazz festivals in the U.S. and abroad. The fact that Costanzo was already in his eighties was not lost on his band members, some of who were at least 50 years younger than him.

“Jack is an amazing role model,” said trumpeter Castellanos. “We played the Toronto Jazz Festival, and I remember how tired we all were when we got there. Not Jack. He was so full of energy and life, saying: ‘Come on! Let’s go! We’re representing San Diego!’ It’s remarkable to still see him doing what he’s done, and what he does. He’s a true leader.”

Has Mr. Bongo ever contemplated writing his autobiography?

“I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to, and my answer is always no,” Costanzo said. “They’re not interested in me doing a book, unless I tell stories (about various stars). They want to know secret things, and I’m not interested in doing that.”

Costanzo has tried to retire from music at least twice, but the lure of drumming — and applause — keeps drawing him back.

“Sure, I’m aware of the audience’s response; you wouldn’t be a big ham if you weren’t!” he said. “I’ve had a nice life. I don’t know when God will call me, but I’ve had a nice life.”

Bonus Q&A with Mr. Bongo

We asked Jack Costanzo to reminisce about some of his famous friends and collaborators. here’s what he had to say about…

Stan Kenton: “He was a pioneer. His music was not soft; it was screaming!”

Nat “King” Cole: “A gentleman, and a gentle man. He was a great performer, just sitting at the piano by himself.”

Ava Gardner: “She was very nice and down to earth. I knew Betty Grable, too.”

Marlon Brando: “Marlon was a dear friend, and someone who always supported a worthy (political or social) cause. I never gave him a lesson. He played very well as a non-professional musician. When I did ‘Guys and Dolls’ with Marlon, we did a lot of stuff during the breaks and played a lot of music together.”

The pioneers of bebop: “I played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, but my favorite was Bud Powell. How come? Because he complimented me when we were done playing, that’s how come! He shook my hand, and said: ‘Finally, a bongo and conga player who can play jazz’!”

Jack Costanzo & The Bi-National Mambo Orchestra, under the direction of Bill Caballero

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Where: Dizzy’s (inside the San Diego Jet Ski Center), 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, Pacific Beach

Tickets: $20; $15 (students)

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By George Varga (http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/staff/george-varga/) | 12:35 p.m. Nov. 14, 2015

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band.

Above: Percussionist Jack Costanzo with his bongo drums at his Lakeside home. Below: In Costanzo’s office hangs a picture of him with Nat “King” Cole taken in the late 1940s when Costanzo was part of King’s band. — David Brooks

Like many musicians, Jack Costanzo lights up when he recalls his first musical epiphany.

Never mind that the legendary percussionist, long known by fans and fellow performers alike as “Mr. Bongo,” experienced that epiphany when he was barely a teenager in the mid-1930s.

What is most notable about this longtime San Diego resident isn’t how vivid his memory is now. Nor is it the fact he has collaborated with everyone from Nat “King” Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and Elvis Presley to Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand and Marlon Brando, who became one of Costanzo’s good friends.

Rather, it’s the fact that – at 96 – he is preparing for his next concert. It will be his first headlining appearance in three years, although he has shared stages here in the interim with such top jazz artists as saxophonist Charles McPherson and trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos.

“I never smoked, I never did drugs, and that helped me be a healthy person,” said Costanzo, who performs Friday at Dizzy’s in Pacific Beach with the Bi-National Mambo Orchestra (ticket information appears below). “When you’re playing congas and bongos, it’s enough exercise for anybody.”

Remarkably spry, and with his dashing good looks barely touched by the passing of time, Costanzo all but bounded across his study and music room to greet a visiting reporter and photographer for a recent interview.

“Do whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t cost me money!” he quipped.

For the next few hours, Costanzo vividly discussed his movie-worthy career, which saw him introduce the bongos to jazz and to Hollywood. He apologized periodically for not remembering each specific detail, although his sense of recall would be impressive in someone 30 years his junior. Even when a name eludes him, he is usually able to pinpoint the exact years of his career highlights with impressive accuracy.

“Jack is amazing,” said Dizzy’s honcho Chuck Perrin. “Even when he comes to a show, just to attend, he has the energy of someone who is 19 or 20. He’s one of a kind.”

Those sentiments are shared by Castellanos, who performed on Costanzo’s two most recent albums and toured with him, and by Steve Kader, the talent buyer for the Adams Avenue Street Fair and La Mesa’s soon-to-open The Platform at Depot Springs Beer Company.

“Jack is really an inspiration and a hero to all us musicians,” Castellanos said. “He put the bongos on the map and is the bridge between Latin-jazz and jazz. The fact that he’s 96, and still doing it, is unbelievable. He gives 200 percent every time he gets on the bandstand.”

“We are lucky to have him,” said Kader, who worked behind the scenes on Costanzo’s two most recent albums of new music, 2001’s “Back From Havana” and 2002’s “Scorchin’ the Skins.”

“There are not that many true music icons still around. Like Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and Chuck Berry, Jack represents the last of an era. ”

Bongo pioneer

Costanzo lives on a hill in Lakeside with his girlfriend, whom he met here in 1983. He is likely the only living musician whose credits range from Charlie Parker, Yma Sumac and former San Diegan Patti Page to Mexican “Space-Age Bachelor Pad” music pioneer Esquivel, jazz-funk band The Greyboy Allstars and film giant Orson Welles (whose classic 1958 film, “Touch of Evil,” features Costanzo on its soundtrack).

During the several decades he spent in Hollywood, Costanzo was also hired to teach movie stars how to play bongos and congas. His many celebrated students included Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Rita Moreno, Van Johnson and James Dean.

“Well, I wouldn’t say I taught James Dean,” he said with a chuckle. “He only came for two lessons and really wasn’t well suited for it.”

A key instrument in Latin music, the bongos were virtually unknown in the United States when Costanzo was born in Chicago on Sept. 24, 1922. His first passion was dancing, and he did so avidly with his girlfriend, Marda Saxon, who later became the first of his four wives. In their late teens, they toured the Midwest as the pre-mambo Latin dance team of Costanzo & Marda.

When he was about 14, Coztanzo heard a visiting band from Puerto Rico perform at the Merry Gardens Ballroom, a popular dance spot in the Windy City. For one song, the group’s drummer switched to bongos — two wooden hand drums, which are cradled between the knees to play. Costanzo was instantly mesmerized.

“My eyes came out of my head!” he recalled.

Since there was nowhere in Chicago or the nation to buy bongos at the time, the enthusiastic teenager made his own. He used butter bins and a large drum head, which he cut down to size. Since there was no one to take lessons from, Costanzo is entirely self-taught on the bongos.

“I had to learn on my own, which is good, because I developed my own style,” he noted. “It seemed like it came natural. I listened to a lot of music. (Noted Spanish bandleader) Xavier Cugat was big. And, many years later, he hired me.”

In fact, even before his musical epiphany with the bongos, Costanzo was already drawn to the drums. to paraphrase a classic songs of the times, he had rhythm, he had music, he had silverware.

“The way I started to play is, my mother had cold crème jars, and I’d loosen the lids, get a knife and spoon, and hit them like drums.”

Why? What drew him to drumming?

Costanzo shrugged.

“I don’t know,” he said. “It just came to me, and I did it. My mother wasn’t too happy; I just made noise!”

Costanzo enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He was stationed in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific, where he worked in aviation ordnance. Upon his discharge in 1945, he moved to Los Angeles and became a dance instructor at the plush Beverly Hills Hotel.

“I hated it! I did not like being a dance teacher, at all,” he said.

He soon started working with various Latin music acts, including singer Bobby Ramos, the group Lecuona Cuban Boys, pianist René Touzet and future TV star Desi Arnaz. His big break came in 1947, when celebrated big band leader Stan Kenton lured Costanzo away from Touzet.

“A lot of Latin musicians were not happy Stan hired me, but there were no other bongo players then in L.A.,” he said. His public profile grew almost instantly, thanks to such key recordings with Kenton as “Bongo Riff,” “The Peanut Vendor” and “Abstraction.”

“At the time, when you joined Stan’s band, in six weeks you were a star,” Costanzo said, beaming. “Later in 1947, the Kenton band did a concert in Philadelphia. The next day, we were all waiting for the train, and I heard a voice call out: ‘Hey, Mr. Bongo!’ I’ve used that ever since. It was (celebrated jazz critic) Leonard Feather who called me ‘Mr. Bongo.’ ”

In demand

Costanzo also excelled on the larger conga drums. The demand for his nimble percussive touch was so great that Nat “King” Cole put an ad in Down Beat magazine, stating that he wanted to hire Costanzo. Another musician, pretending to be the budding Mr. Bongo, took the job.

The ruse was soon uncovered when Costanzo’s brother, Marty, went to hear Cole and asked if the singer/pianist had made contact yet with his in-demand sibling. Costanzo’s eyes dance with delight as, nearly 70 years later, he re-enacts that conversation.

“Nat told Marty: ‘I hired him.’ And Marty said: ‘That’s not Jack!’ ”

Costanzo’s career soared even higher in the 1950s and ’60s, when he was being paid double and triple the going Musician’s Union standard rate for recording sessions. He was especially favored by singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, who — like Brando — became a friend.

“I knew (Sinatra’s second wife) Ava Gardner before he did,” said Costanzo, whose own second wife and periodic musical partner, Gerry Woo, was a Playboy Bunny. He has been married four times and has four children.

Costanzo’s debut album as a bandleader, “Afro Cuban Jazz North-of-the-Border,” came out in 1955. His 1957 album, “Mr. Bongo,” was the first of a half dozen or so to feature his stage moniker. a Good number of his albusm have been reissued on CD.

In 1965, Costanzo was cast in the Presley movie “Harum Scarum.” He blushed when asked whether he or Presley was the bigger ladies man.

“That’s not fair,” Costanzo said, “because it would sound like braggadocio if I answered. But I don’t think I had the access Elvis had.”

A few years after making his acclaimed comeback albums in 2001 and 2002, Costanzo hit the road with his band. They performed at major jazz festivals in the U.S. and abroad. The fact that Costanzo was already in his eighties was not lost on his band members, some of who were at least 50 years younger than him.

“Jack is an amazing role model,” said trumpeter Castellanos. “We played the Toronto Jazz Festival, and I remember how tired we all were when we got there. Not Jack. He was so full of energy and life, saying: ‘Come on! Let’s go! We’re representing San Diego!’ It’s remarkable to still see him doing what he’s done, and what he does. He’s a true leader.”

Has Mr. Bongo ever contemplated writing his autobiography?

“I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to, and my answer is always no,” Costanzo said. “They’re not interested in me doing a book, unless I tell stories (about various stars). They want to know secret things, and I’m not interested in doing that.”

Costanzo has tried to retire from music at least twice, but the lure of drumming — and applause — keeps drawing him back.

“Sure, I’m aware of the audience’s response; you wouldn’t be a big ham if you weren’t!” he said. “I’ve had a nice life. I don’t know when God will call me, but I’ve had a nice life.”

Bonus Q&A with Mr. Bongo

We asked Jack Costanzo to reminisce about some of his famous friends and collaborators. here’s what he had to say about…

Stan Kenton: “He was a pioneer. His music was not soft; it was screaming!”

Nat “King” Cole: “A gentleman, and a gentle man. He was a great performer, just sitting at the piano by himself.”

Ava Gardner: “She was very nice and down to earth. I knew Betty Grable, too.”

Marlon Brando: “Marlon was a dear friend, and someone who always supported a worthy (political or social) cause. I never gave him a lesson. He played very well as a non-professional musician. When I did ‘Guys and Dolls’ with Marlon, we did a lot of stuff during the breaks and played a lot of music together.”

The pioneers of bebop: “I played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, but my favorite was Bud Powell. How come? Because he complimented me when we were done playing, that’s how come! He shook my hand, and said: ‘Finally, a bongo and conga player who can play jazz’!”

Jack Costanzo & The Bi-National Mambo Orchestra, under the direction of Bill Caballero

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Where: Dizzy’s (inside the San Diego Jet Ski Center), 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, Pacific Beach

Tickets: $20; $15 (students)

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Online:dizzysjazz.com (http://dizzysjazz.com/)

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If the array of fresh faces in these images surprises you, well, it shouldn’t. Jazz has always been a young person’s game. Two of the greatest innovators in the history of jazz, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, were both in their mid-20s when they made their breakthroughs, the ones that changed the music for all time. And most sidemen in the Big Band era were college-age.

So, what makes jazz—which is hot, hot, hot these days and nights—so different in the second decade of its second century? Once again, young musicians (whether first exposed via YouTube or one of the myriad high-school programs that have sprouted across the land like clover) are taking the lead and flocking to jazz. But now they’re doing so in a way that’s linked to the genre’s 100-year history and, at the same time, completely unique to the current generation.
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With a nod to this youth movement, we’ve defined the start of the contemporary era as 1981, when Wynton Marsalis—the 21st-century ambassador of jazz—recorded his eponymous first album. And every musician pictured on these pages was, in fact, born in or after that auspicious year. (This explains the absence of various thirtysomething standouts, such as Edmar Castañeda, Alexis Cole, Jamie Cullum, Robert Glasper, Mary Halvorson, Hiromi, Derrick Hodge, José James, Irvin Mayfield, Gretchen Parlato, Jenny Scheinman, Marcus Strickland, Sachal Vasandani, Warren Wolf, and Miguel Zenón, among others. Anat Cohen and Jason Moran—both utterly remarkable—just hit 40.) The tempo has even picked up. In the months since these photos were taken (as the 36 virtuosos captured here have zigged and zagged through New York en route to far-flung concert dates), there has been a parade of other young talents who have come to our attention (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/jazz-youth-quake)
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It is important to note that both the music itself and the ways in which it’s being heard are much more open-ended than ever before. In the 1980s, when Marsalis ignited the hard-bop revival and what we now call the “Young Lions” era, it seemed like nearly every promising novice was playing as if he were auditioning for Miles Davis or John Coltrane. Thirty years later, things are much less predictable: you walk into a club in, say, Austin or Portland, or any of the dozens of venues that are currently hopping in New York City, and a 25-year-old might be playing music that reflects the absorbed influence of Monk, Stockhausen, or Django Reinhardt. Their styles and shadings come from jazz’s countless offshoots and from every continent.

The traditional music industry has been in free fall for the entire careers of these younger players. A generation ago, in contrast, emerging artists did everything they could to be noticed by producer Bruce Lundvall (who passed away in May) or manager Mary Ann Topper; between them they helped launch the careers of Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and many of their peers. In the Spotify-Beats-MP3 age, the boundaries are almost nonexistent, and the musicians are less dependent on the approval of such gatekeepers. In addition, the current decade has been much more of a live-music scene than any other time since World War I. Where tours used to coalesce around a new album, now, in the day of the download, physical CDs are primarily a “merch” item to sell at shows.

The overall result has been overwhelmingly positive: today, musicians, rather than following trends, have increased leeway to be themselves and can work, literally, without temporal or geographical limits. Contemporary jazzmen and -women are free to create in whatever style they want (and a stylish crowd they are), whether an existing format—from Jazz Age-inspired “hot jazz” to hip-hop-infused hybrids, to world jazz, which interacts with disparate rhythms and forms from around the globe—or a mode entirely of their own invention. When asked what distinguishes jazz from other music out there, virtually everyone included in this portfolio answered, “Freedom.” Insists Sam Friend, a 27-year-old New Orleans-based composer and bandleader (whose father, it so happens, is a V.F. editor): “The idea of jazz being ‘niche’ is just a phase. Jazz started out as pop—music for the many, not just the few. And judging by the energy and size of the jazz crowds today, who’s to say we can’t make
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* MARK SELIGER (http://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/mark-seliger)

If the array of fresh faces in these images surprises you, well, it shouldn’t. Jazz has always been a young person’s game. Two of the greatest innovators in the history of jazz, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, were both in their mid-20s when they made their breakthroughs, the ones that changed the music for all time. And most sidemen in the Big Band era were college-age.

So, what makes jazz—which is hot, hot, hot these days and nights—so different in the second decade of its second century? Once again, young musicians (whether first exposed via YouTube or one of the myriad high-school programs that have sprouted across the land like clover) are taking the lead and flocking to jazz. But now they’re doing so in a way that’s linked to the genre’s 100-year history and, at the same time, completely unique to the current generation.
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With a nod to this youth movement, we’ve defined the start of the contemporary era as 1981, when Wynton Marsalis—the 21st-century ambassador of jazz—recorded his eponymous first album. And every musician pictured on these pages was, in fact, born in or after that auspicious year. (This explains the absence of various thirtysomething standouts, such as Edmar Castañeda, Alexis Cole, Jamie Cullum, Robert Glasper, Mary Halvorson, Hiromi, Derrick Hodge, José James, Irvin Mayfield, Gretchen Parlato, Jenny Scheinman, Marcus Strickland, Sachal Vasandani, Warren Wolf, and Miguel Zenón, among others. Anat Cohen and Jason Moran—both utterly remarkable—just hit 40.) The tempo has even picked up. In the months since these photos were taken (as the 36 virtuosos captured here have zigged and zagged through New York en route to far-flung concert dates), there has been a parade of other young talents who have come to our attention (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/jazz-youth-quake)
.

It is important to note that both the music itself and the ways in which it’s being heard are much more open-ended than ever before. In the 1980s, when Marsalis ignited the hard-bop revival and what we now call the “Young Lions” era, it seemed like nearly every promising novice was playing as if he were auditioning for Miles Davis or John Coltrane. Thirty years later, things are much less predictable: you walk into a club in, say, Austin or Portland, or any of the dozens of venues that are currently hopping in New York City, and a 25-year-old might be playing music that reflects the absorbed influence of Monk, Stockhausen, or Django Reinhardt. Their styles and shadings come from jazz’s countless offshoots and from every continent.

The traditional music industry has been in free fall for the entire careers of these younger players. A generation ago, in contrast, emerging artists did everything they could to be noticed by producer Bruce Lundvall (who passed away in May) or manager Mary Ann Topper; between them they helped launch the careers of Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and many of their peers. In the Spotify-Beats-MP3 age, the boundaries are almost nonexistent, and the musicians are less dependent on the approval of such gatekeepers. In addition, the current decade has been much more of a live-music scene than any other time since World War I. Where tours used to coalesce around a new album, now, in the day of the download, physical CDs are primarily a “merch” item to sell at shows.

The overall result has been overwhelmingly positive: today, musicians, rather than following trends, have increased leeway to be themselves and can work, literally, without temporal or geographical limits. Contemporary jazzmen and -women are free to create in whatever style they want (and a stylish crowd they are), whether an existing format—from Jazz Age-inspired “hot jazz” to hip-hop-infused hybrids, to world jazz, which interacts with disparate rhythms and forms from around the globe—or a mode entirely of their own invention. When asked what distinguishes jazz from other music out there, virtually everyone included in this portfolio answered, “Freedom.” Insists Sam Friend, a 27-year-old New Orleans-based composer and bandleader (whose father, it so happens, is a V.F. editor): “The idea of jazz being ‘niche’ is just a phase. Jazz started out as pop—music for the many, not just the few. And judging by the energy and size of the jazz crowds today, who’s to say we can’t make
it pop again?”

Related: See Even More Young Jazz Musicians on the Upswing (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/jazz-youth-quake)

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* WILL FRIEDWALD (http://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/will-friedwald)

PHOTOGRAPHS BY
* MARK SELIGER (http://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/mark-seliger)

If the array of fresh faces in these images surprises you, well, it shouldn’t. Jazz has always been a young person’s game. Two of the greatest innovators in the history of jazz, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, were both in their mid-20s when they made their breakthroughs, the ones that changed the music for all time. And most sidemen in the Big Band era were college-age.

So, what makes jazz—which is hot, hot, hot these days and nights—so different in the second decade of its second century? Once again, young musicians (whether first exposed via YouTube or one of the myriad high-school programs that have sprouted across the land like clover) are taking the lead and flocking to jazz. But now they’re doing so in a way that’s linked to the genre’s 100-year history and, at the same time, completely unique to the current generation.
https://w1.buysub.com/loc/VYF/ATGFailsafe

With a nod to this youth movement, we’ve defined the start of the contemporary era as 1981, when Wynton Marsalis—the 21st-century ambassador of jazz—recorded his eponymous first album. And every musician pictured on these pages was, in fact, born in or after that auspicious year. (This explains the absence of various thirtysomething standouts, such as Edmar Castañeda, Alexis Cole, Jamie Cullum, Robert Glasper, Mary Halvorson, Hiromi, Derrick Hodge, José James, Irvin Mayfield, Gretchen Parlato, Jenny Scheinman, Marcus Strickland, Sachal Vasandani, Warren Wolf, and Miguel Zenón, among others. Anat Cohen and Jason Moran—both utterly remarkable—just hit 40.) The tempo has even picked up. In the months since these photos were taken (as the 36 virtuosos captured here have zigged and zagged through New York en route to far-flung concert dates), there has been a parade of other young talents who have come to our attention (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/jazz-youth-quake)
.

It is important to note that both the music itself and the ways in which it’s being heard are much more open-ended than ever before. In the 1980s, when Marsalis ignited the hard-bop revival and what we now call the “Young Lions” era, it seemed like nearly every promising novice was playing as if he were auditioning for Miles Davis or John Coltrane. Thirty years later, things are much less predictable: you walk into a club in, say, Austin or Portland, or any of the dozens of venues that are currently hopping in New York City, and a 25-year-old might be playing music that reflects the absorbed influence of Monk, Stockhausen, or Django Reinhardt. Their styles and shadings come from jazz’s countless offshoots and from every continent.

The traditional music industry has been in free fall for the entire careers of these younger players. A generation ago, in contrast, emerging artists did everything they could to be noticed by producer Bruce Lundvall (who passed away in May) or manager Mary Ann Topper; between them they helped launch the careers of Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and many of their peers. In the Spotify-Beats-MP3 age, the boundaries are almost nonexistent, and the musicians are less dependent on the approval of such gatekeepers. In addition, the current decade has been much more of a live-music scene than any other time since World War I. Where tours used to coalesce around a new album, now, in the day of the download, physical CDs are primarily a “merch” item to sell at shows.

The overall result has been overwhelmingly positive: today, musicians, rather than following trends, have increased leeway to be themselves and can work, literally, without temporal or geographical limits. Contemporary jazzmen and -women are free to create in whatever style they want (and a stylish crowd they are), whether an existing format—from Jazz Age-inspired “hot jazz” to hip-hop-infused hybrids, to world jazz, which interacts with disparate rhythms and forms from around the globe—or a mode entirely of their own invention. When asked what distinguishes jazz from other music out there, virtually everyone included in this portfolio answered, “Freedom.” Insists Sam Friend, a 27-year-old New Orleans-based composer and bandleader (whose father, it so happens, is a V.F. editor): “The idea of jazz being ‘niche’ is just a phase. Jazz started out as pop—music for the many, not just the few. And judging by the energy and size of the jazz crowds today, who’s to say we can’t make
it pop again?”

Related: See Even More Young Jazz Musicians on the Upswing (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/jazz-youth-quake)

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Who, or what, was the Big Butter And Egg Man

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Who, or what, was the Big Butter And Egg Man in Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five recording?
If you did not see the item on our Facebook page, you can read the article here:
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With best wishes,
Ian
Sandy Brown Jazz
Now she wants…a butter an egg man
From way out in the west
She wants somebody…who’s workin’ all day
So she’s got money…when she wants to play
Given the innuendo in some song titles at the time when Big Butter And Egg Manwas written by Percy Venable in 1926, you could be forgiven for thinking that it referred to the man’s physical attributes. No so. The ‘Big Butter And Egg Man’ is the ‘Big Spender’. So there is irony here as at the time of writing, dairy farmers in the UK are protesting that they are unable to produce milk for the price they are School Milk being paid for it. I guess few of them are going to nightclubs and splashing the cash.
There was a time when dairy famers, particularly in America, were clearly well-off, but there was also a time when young children in the UK had free milk at school every morning in a glass ‘milk bottle’ a third of a pint in size. They would drink the milk through a straw during morning break and on cold winter mornings, warm it up first on the large, school cast-iron radiators. Those were days when the milk was whole fat and would have a creamy band at the top (‘top-of-the-milk’) that was a ‘treat’ on breakfast cereals. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished free school milk in 1970. Times change.
Wikipedia tells us that record producer Percy Venable wrote Big Butter And Egg Man specifically for Louis Armstrong and singer May Alix. Apparently Earl Hines claimed that Alix would often tease young Louis during performances – he was quite shy and had a crush on May. There were times when Louis, looking at May, would forget the lyrics and the band would shout “Hold it, Louis! Hold it.”
Here’s Louis and the Hot Five playing and singing the number with May Alix.

James Lincoln Ciller, Louis’ biographer, says of Louis’ solo: “The most important aspect of this solo, and indeed of Armstrong’s playing on the record as a whole, is the air of easy grace with which he carries the melody. He is utterly confident, utterly sure what he has to say is important and will be listened to.”
In her book Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night Clubs (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Texas_Guinan_queen_of_the_night_clubs.html?id=fR9aAAAAMAAJ) , Louise Berliner refers to a big butter-and-egg man. Describing the El Fey Club she writes:
One night a man with a slow mid-western drawl came in and cheerfully began dispensing fifty-dollar bills to all the dancers. He bought everyone in the house a drink and made no fuss when he got the bill. Thrilled by this rare phenomenon, Tex decided that her guest needed a proper introduction….
“Folks, here’s a live one, a buyer, a good guy, a sport of the old school, encourage him.” ……
“What’s your name?” asked Tex.
“Nix on the name,” said the unknown.
“What’s your racket, then?” queried the hostess.
“I’m a big man in dairy produce,” he muttered.
“That’s applesauce to this mob. I’ll send you right in,” and Tex shouted,
“He’s a big butter and egg man.”
Night after night, the big spender came in and ran up large bills. Everyone soon knew him as the big butter-and-egg man, and the expression quickly spread throughout New York……..
In 1929, Brian Foy directed a film Queen Of the Night Clubs that told the story of a legendary bar hostess and silent film actress with Texas Guinan playing “Texas Malone”, a character thought to be based upon Guinan herself. George Raft was a friend of Guinan and this was his first film. The movie has since been lost and no copies are thought to be available. Nevertheless we do have a video clip of Texas Guinan talking:

and short, curtailed video clip of the trailer for the movie:

Now pretty clothes…they’ll never be mine
But what she told me the other day
I hope she don’t change her mind
Wiktionary describes the Big Butter and Egg Man as ‘a prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up’ and quotes a passage from Mezz Mezzrow’s book Really the Blues: ‘He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.’
Big spenders in nightclubs are interesting in that they are clearly welcomed for their money but seen as suckers by the girls (as Texas Guinan pronounced quite clearly). This is reflected again in the show Sweet Charity and the number written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields:
The minute you walked in the joint,
I could see you were a man of distinction,
A real big spender.
Good-lookin’, so refined,
Say, wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point.
I don’t pop my cork for ev’ry guy I see.
Hey! Big Spender,
Spend a little time with me.
The Dorothy Fields website says: ‘Big Spender shows us these jaded ladies go through the motions of pretending to be turned on by and interested in the sorry losers who show up as their prospective clients …’. Even so, it makes a great showstopper in Bob Fosse’s film of Sweet Charity:

Now she wants…a butter an egg man
A great big butter and egg man
From way down south
Which brings us to a couple of other jazz interpretations of Big Butter And Egg Man. The number is usually seen as a ‘traditional jazz’ standard, but watch this video of Wynton Marsalis playing it:

As one correspondent says: ‘There’s no law that says this song has to be at a certain tempo. That’s why jazz is all about feeling. One night you might want to play it at a moderate tempo, the next night you might want to slow it down to a ballad tempo. As long as it swings it doesn’t matter.’
Now try this version by Scott Hamilton and Rossano Sportiello videoed at an Arbor Records recording session in 2010:

There are fine solos by both the saxophonist and pianist. The number appears on the album Midnight At Nola’s Penthouse (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Midnight-Penthouse-Hamilton-Rossano-Sportiello/dp/B0046E5HEA) released in 2011. The text about the album says: ‘…there is also good humour in this album, with unexpected choices like Come Back to Sorrento (a salute to Sportiello’s Italian heritage?) and Big Butter And Egg Man (which ends with one of Rossano’s cheeky postscripts).’
From 1926 to now. In some places, big spending dairy farmers have disappeared, but it seems like some of the best traditional jazz numbers have a life of their own.

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Who, or what, was the Big Butter And Egg Man

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Who, or what, was the Big Butter And Egg Man in Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five recording?
If you did not see the item on our Facebook page, you can read the article here:
http://www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/TracksUnwrapped/BigButterAndEggMan.html

With best wishes,
Ian
Sandy Brown Jazz
Now she wants…a butter an egg man
From way out in the west
She wants somebody…who’s workin’ all day
So she’s got money…when she wants to play
Given the innuendo in some song titles at the time when Big Butter And Egg Manwas written by Percy Venable in 1926, you could be forgiven for thinking that it referred to the man’s physical attributes. No so. The ‘Big Butter And Egg Man’ is the ‘Big Spender’. So there is irony here as at the time of writing, dairy farmers in the UK are protesting that they are unable to produce milk for the price they are School Milk being paid for it. I guess few of them are going to nightclubs and splashing the cash.
There was a time when dairy famers, particularly in America, were clearly well-off, but there was also a time when young children in the UK had free milk at school every morning in a glass ‘milk bottle’ a third of a pint in size. They would drink the milk through a straw during morning break and on cold winter mornings, warm it up first on the large, school cast-iron radiators. Those were days when the milk was whole fat and would have a creamy band at the top (‘top-of-the-milk’) that was a ‘treat’ on breakfast cereals. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished free school milk in 1970. Times change.
Wikipedia tells us that record producer Percy Venable wrote Big Butter And Egg Man specifically for Louis Armstrong and singer May Alix. Apparently Earl Hines claimed that Alix would often tease young Louis during performances – he was quite shy and had a crush on May. There were times when Louis, looking at May, would forget the lyrics and the band would shout “Hold it, Louis! Hold it.”
Here’s Louis and the Hot Five playing and singing the number with May Alix.

James Lincoln Ciller, Louis’ biographer, says of Louis’ solo: “The most important aspect of this solo, and indeed of Armstrong’s playing on the record as a whole, is the air of easy grace with which he carries the melody. He is utterly confident, utterly sure what he has to say is important and will be listened to.”
In her book Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night Clubs (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Texas_Guinan_queen_of_the_night_clubs.html?id=fR9aAAAAMAAJ) , Louise Berliner refers to a big butter-and-egg man. Describing the El Fey Club she writes:
One night a man with a slow mid-western drawl came in and cheerfully began dispensing fifty-dollar bills to all the dancers. He bought everyone in the house a drink and made no fuss when he got the bill. Thrilled by this rare phenomenon, Tex decided that her guest needed a proper introduction….
“Folks, here’s a live one, a buyer, a good guy, a sport of the old school, encourage him.” ……
“What’s your name?” asked Tex.
“Nix on the name,” said the unknown.
“What’s your racket, then?” queried the hostess.
“I’m a big man in dairy produce,” he muttered.
“That’s applesauce to this mob. I’ll send you right in,” and Tex shouted,
“He’s a big butter and egg man.”
Night after night, the big spender came in and ran up large bills. Everyone soon knew him as the big butter-and-egg man, and the expression quickly spread throughout New York……..
In 1929, Brian Foy directed a film Queen Of the Night Clubs that told the story of a legendary bar hostess and silent film actress with Texas Guinan playing “Texas Malone”, a character thought to be based upon Guinan herself. George Raft was a friend of Guinan and this was his first film. The movie has since been lost and no copies are thought to be available. Nevertheless we do have a video clip of Texas Guinan talking:

and short, curtailed video clip of the trailer for the movie:

Now pretty clothes…they’ll never be mine
But what she told me the other day
I hope she don’t change her mind
Wiktionary describes the Big Butter and Egg Man as ‘a prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up’ and quotes a passage from Mezz Mezzrow’s book Really the Blues: ‘He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.’
Big spenders in nightclubs are interesting in that they are clearly welcomed for their money but seen as suckers by the girls (as Texas Guinan pronounced quite clearly). This is reflected again in the show Sweet Charity and the number written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields:
The minute you walked in the joint,
I could see you were a man of distinction,
A real big spender.
Good-lookin’, so refined,
Say, wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point.
I don’t pop my cork for ev’ry guy I see.
Hey! Big Spender,
Spend a little time with me.
The Dorothy Fields website says: ‘Big Spender shows us these jaded ladies go through the motions of pretending to be turned on by and interested in the sorry losers who show up as their prospective clients …’. Even so, it makes a great showstopper in Bob Fosse’s film of Sweet Charity:

Now she wants…a butter an egg man
A great big butter and egg man
From way down south
Which brings us to a couple of other jazz interpretations of Big Butter And Egg Man. The number is usually seen as a ‘traditional jazz’ standard, but watch this video of Wynton Marsalis playing it:

As one correspondent says: ‘There’s no law that says this song has to be at a certain tempo. That’s why jazz is all about feeling. One night you might want to play it at a moderate tempo, the next night you might want to slow it down to a ballad tempo. As long as it swings it doesn’t matter.’
Now try this version by Scott Hamilton and Rossano Sportiello videoed at an Arbor Records recording session in 2010:

There are fine solos by both the saxophonist and pianist. The number appears on the album Midnight At Nola’s Penthouse (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Midnight-Penthouse-Hamilton-Rossano-Sportiello/dp/B0046E5HEA) released in 2011. The text about the album says: ‘…there is also good humour in this album, with unexpected choices like Come Back to Sorrento (a salute to Sportiello’s Italian heritage?) and Big Butter And Egg Man (which ends with one of Rossano’s cheeky postscripts).’
From 1926 to now. In some places, big spending dairy farmers have disappeared, but it seems like some of the best traditional jazz numbers have a life of their own.

Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services T: 845-986-1677 E-Mail: j (mailto:jazzpromo@earthlink.net) im@jazzpromoservices.com (mailto:jim@jazzpromoservices.com)
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Who, or what, was the Big Butter And Egg Man

http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/
Who, or what, was the Big Butter And Egg Man in Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five recording?
If you did not see the item on our Facebook page, you can read the article here:
http://www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/TracksUnwrapped/BigButterAndEggMan.html

With best wishes,
Ian
Sandy Brown Jazz
Now she wants…a butter an egg man
From way out in the west
She wants somebody…who’s workin’ all day
So she’s got money…when she wants to play
Given the innuendo in some song titles at the time when Big Butter And Egg Manwas written by Percy Venable in 1926, you could be forgiven for thinking that it referred to the man’s physical attributes. No so. The ‘Big Butter And Egg Man’ is the ‘Big Spender’. So there is irony here as at the time of writing, dairy farmers in the UK are protesting that they are unable to produce milk for the price they are School Milk being paid for it. I guess few of them are going to nightclubs and splashing the cash.
There was a time when dairy famers, particularly in America, were clearly well-off, but there was also a time when young children in the UK had free milk at school every morning in a glass ‘milk bottle’ a third of a pint in size. They would drink the milk through a straw during morning break and on cold winter mornings, warm it up first on the large, school cast-iron radiators. Those were days when the milk was whole fat and would have a creamy band at the top (‘top-of-the-milk’) that was a ‘treat’ on breakfast cereals. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished free school milk in 1970. Times change.
Wikipedia tells us that record producer Percy Venable wrote Big Butter And Egg Man specifically for Louis Armstrong and singer May Alix. Apparently Earl Hines claimed that Alix would often tease young Louis during performances – he was quite shy and had a crush on May. There were times when Louis, looking at May, would forget the lyrics and the band would shout “Hold it, Louis! Hold it.”
Here’s Louis and the Hot Five playing and singing the number with May Alix.

James Lincoln Ciller, Louis’ biographer, says of Louis’ solo: “The most important aspect of this solo, and indeed of Armstrong’s playing on the record as a whole, is the air of easy grace with which he carries the melody. He is utterly confident, utterly sure what he has to say is important and will be listened to.”
In her book Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night Clubs (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Texas_Guinan_queen_of_the_night_clubs.html?id=fR9aAAAAMAAJ) , Louise Berliner refers to a big butter-and-egg man. Describing the El Fey Club she writes:
One night a man with a slow mid-western drawl came in and cheerfully began dispensing fifty-dollar bills to all the dancers. He bought everyone in the house a drink and made no fuss when he got the bill. Thrilled by this rare phenomenon, Tex decided that her guest needed a proper introduction….
“Folks, here’s a live one, a buyer, a good guy, a sport of the old school, encourage him.” ……
“What’s your name?” asked Tex.
“Nix on the name,” said the unknown.
“What’s your racket, then?” queried the hostess.
“I’m a big man in dairy produce,” he muttered.
“That’s applesauce to this mob. I’ll send you right in,” and Tex shouted,
“He’s a big butter and egg man.”
Night after night, the big spender came in and ran up large bills. Everyone soon knew him as the big butter-and-egg man, and the expression quickly spread throughout New York……..
In 1929, Brian Foy directed a film Queen Of the Night Clubs that told the story of a legendary bar hostess and silent film actress with Texas Guinan playing “Texas Malone”, a character thought to be based upon Guinan herself. George Raft was a friend of Guinan and this was his first film. The movie has since been lost and no copies are thought to be available. Nevertheless we do have a video clip of Texas Guinan talking:

and short, curtailed video clip of the trailer for the movie:

Now pretty clothes…they’ll never be mine
But what she told me the other day
I hope she don’t change her mind
Wiktionary describes the Big Butter and Egg Man as ‘a prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up’ and quotes a passage from Mezz Mezzrow’s book Really the Blues: ‘He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.’
Big spenders in nightclubs are interesting in that they are clearly welcomed for their money but seen as suckers by the girls (as Texas Guinan pronounced quite clearly). This is reflected again in the show Sweet Charity and the number written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields:
The minute you walked in the joint,
I could see you were a man of distinction,
A real big spender.
Good-lookin’, so refined,
Say, wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point.
I don’t pop my cork for ev’ry guy I see.
Hey! Big Spender,
Spend a little time with me.
The Dorothy Fields website says: ‘Big Spender shows us these jaded ladies go through the motions of pretending to be turned on by and interested in the sorry losers who show up as their prospective clients …’. Even so, it makes a great showstopper in Bob Fosse’s film of Sweet Charity:

Now she wants…a butter an egg man
A great big butter and egg man
From way down south
Which brings us to a couple of other jazz interpretations of Big Butter And Egg Man. The number is usually seen as a ‘traditional jazz’ standard, but watch this video of Wynton Marsalis playing it:

As one correspondent says: ‘There’s no law that says this song has to be at a certain tempo. That’s why jazz is all about feeling. One night you might want to play it at a moderate tempo, the next night you might want to slow it down to a ballad tempo. As long as it swings it doesn’t matter.’
Now try this version by Scott Hamilton and Rossano Sportiello videoed at an Arbor Records recording session in 2010:

There are fine solos by both the saxophonist and pianist. The number appears on the album Midnight At Nola’s Penthouse (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Midnight-Penthouse-Hamilton-Rossano-Sportiello/dp/B0046E5HEA) released in 2011. The text about the album says: ‘…there is also good humour in this album, with unexpected choices like Come Back to Sorrento (a salute to Sportiello’s Italian heritage?) and Big Butter And Egg Man (which ends with one of Rossano’s cheeky postscripts).’
From 1926 to now. In some places, big spending dairy farmers have disappeared, but it seems like some of the best traditional jazz numbers have a life of their own.

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Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 – The New York Times

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** Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93
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By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

Gene Norman, around 1950, with Kitty Kallen, the big band singer, tying his necktie. Gene Lester/Getty Images

Gene Norman, a music promoter, nightclub owner and record producer who helped bring some of the most renowned jazz artists of midcentury to the West Coast and, through his independent record label, to the world, died on Nov. 2 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.

His son, Neil, confirmed the death.

Mr. Norman, who began his professional life as a disc jockey and was for more than half a century an influential presence on the American jazz scene, was perhaps best known for founding the label GNP Crescendo (http://gnpcrescendo.com/wp/) , begun in 1954 and still in business. (Its initials stand for “Gene Norman Presents”; Crescendo was the name of the nightclub Mr. Norman opened in Los Angeles the same year.)

Artists recorded by GNP over the years include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach, George Shearing and Art Tatum, as well as the bluesmen Jack Dupree and Memphis Slim; the garage-rock band the Seeds; Bing Crosby, Dick Dale and Tito Puente; the Creole accordionist Queen Ida, who won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) for her 1982 recording on the label, “Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band on Tour”; and even Orson Welles, who released a spoken-word album, “I Know What It Is to Be Young (But You Don’t Know What It Is to Be Old).”

More recently, GNP has also been known for releasing television and motion picture soundtracks, with a particular emphasis on science fiction.

Mr. Norman was born Eugene Nabatoff in Brooklyn on Jan. 30, 1922, and as a youth became enthralled by visits to New York’s jazz clubs. After studying at the University of Michigan, he graduated at 18 from the University of Wisconsin.

Changing his surname at the start of his broadcasting career, he worked as a disc jockey in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles in the 1940s.

There he plied his trade at a series of radio stations, among them KLAC and KFWB, giving particular airplay to jazz. He began producing live concerts on local stages — including those of the Shrine Auditorium and the Hollywood Bowl — featuring artists like Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner and Peggy Lee. He also hosted jazz programs on local television.

At the Crescendo, which he opened on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Norman presented musicians including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Johnny Mathis and Herb Alpert. He also booked some of the era’s foremost comedians, among them Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman, Mort Sahl, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles and Woody Allen. Mr. Norman sold the club in the 1960s.

Mr. Norman’s wife, June Bright, a fashion model and actress, died in 1975. Besides his son, Neil, the current president of GNP Crescendo, his survivors include a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

As passionate as Mr. Norman was about jazz, he had a good ear for other genres, as his catalog makes plain. Sometimes he had a good ear in spite of himself, as when he signed an easy listening-country-polka ensemble called the Mom and Dads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiklL2aLy9I) on the strength of the fact that they had sold tens of thousands of records for a Canadian label.

“They were this group from Spokane, Wash., who played very, very square versions of standards,” Neil Norman told Variety last year. “They made Lawrence Welk look like Pink Floyd.”

He continued: “My father took them on without even hearing them. When he finally listened to their records, he said, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ But they sold millions for us.”

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Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 – The New York Times

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** Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93
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By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

Gene Norman, around 1950, with Kitty Kallen, the big band singer, tying his necktie. Gene Lester/Getty Images

Gene Norman, a music promoter, nightclub owner and record producer who helped bring some of the most renowned jazz artists of midcentury to the West Coast and, through his independent record label, to the world, died on Nov. 2 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.

His son, Neil, confirmed the death.

Mr. Norman, who began his professional life as a disc jockey and was for more than half a century an influential presence on the American jazz scene, was perhaps best known for founding the label GNP Crescendo (http://gnpcrescendo.com/wp/) , begun in 1954 and still in business. (Its initials stand for “Gene Norman Presents”; Crescendo was the name of the nightclub Mr. Norman opened in Los Angeles the same year.)

Artists recorded by GNP over the years include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach, George Shearing and Art Tatum, as well as the bluesmen Jack Dupree and Memphis Slim; the garage-rock band the Seeds; Bing Crosby, Dick Dale and Tito Puente; the Creole accordionist Queen Ida, who won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) for her 1982 recording on the label, “Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band on Tour”; and even Orson Welles, who released a spoken-word album, “I Know What It Is to Be Young (But You Don’t Know What It Is to Be Old).”

More recently, GNP has also been known for releasing television and motion picture soundtracks, with a particular emphasis on science fiction.

Mr. Norman was born Eugene Nabatoff in Brooklyn on Jan. 30, 1922, and as a youth became enthralled by visits to New York’s jazz clubs. After studying at the University of Michigan, he graduated at 18 from the University of Wisconsin.

Changing his surname at the start of his broadcasting career, he worked as a disc jockey in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles in the 1940s.

There he plied his trade at a series of radio stations, among them KLAC and KFWB, giving particular airplay to jazz. He began producing live concerts on local stages — including those of the Shrine Auditorium and the Hollywood Bowl — featuring artists like Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner and Peggy Lee. He also hosted jazz programs on local television.

At the Crescendo, which he opened on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Norman presented musicians including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Johnny Mathis and Herb Alpert. He also booked some of the era’s foremost comedians, among them Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman, Mort Sahl, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles and Woody Allen. Mr. Norman sold the club in the 1960s.

Mr. Norman’s wife, June Bright, a fashion model and actress, died in 1975. Besides his son, Neil, the current president of GNP Crescendo, his survivors include a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

As passionate as Mr. Norman was about jazz, he had a good ear for other genres, as his catalog makes plain. Sometimes he had a good ear in spite of himself, as when he signed an easy listening-country-polka ensemble called the Mom and Dads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiklL2aLy9I) on the strength of the fact that they had sold tens of thousands of records for a Canadian label.

“They were this group from Spokane, Wash., who played very, very square versions of standards,” Neil Norman told Variety last year. “They made Lawrence Welk look like Pink Floyd.”

He continued: “My father took them on without even hearing them. When he finally listened to their records, he said, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ But they sold millions for us.”

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Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 – The New York Times

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** Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93
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By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

Gene Norman, around 1950, with Kitty Kallen, the big band singer, tying his necktie. Gene Lester/Getty Images

Gene Norman, a music promoter, nightclub owner and record producer who helped bring some of the most renowned jazz artists of midcentury to the West Coast and, through his independent record label, to the world, died on Nov. 2 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.

His son, Neil, confirmed the death.

Mr. Norman, who began his professional life as a disc jockey and was for more than half a century an influential presence on the American jazz scene, was perhaps best known for founding the label GNP Crescendo (http://gnpcrescendo.com/wp/) , begun in 1954 and still in business. (Its initials stand for “Gene Norman Presents”; Crescendo was the name of the nightclub Mr. Norman opened in Los Angeles the same year.)

Artists recorded by GNP over the years include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach, George Shearing and Art Tatum, as well as the bluesmen Jack Dupree and Memphis Slim; the garage-rock band the Seeds; Bing Crosby, Dick Dale and Tito Puente; the Creole accordionist Queen Ida, who won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) for her 1982 recording on the label, “Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band on Tour”; and even Orson Welles, who released a spoken-word album, “I Know What It Is to Be Young (But You Don’t Know What It Is to Be Old).”

More recently, GNP has also been known for releasing television and motion picture soundtracks, with a particular emphasis on science fiction.

Mr. Norman was born Eugene Nabatoff in Brooklyn on Jan. 30, 1922, and as a youth became enthralled by visits to New York’s jazz clubs. After studying at the University of Michigan, he graduated at 18 from the University of Wisconsin.

Changing his surname at the start of his broadcasting career, he worked as a disc jockey in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles in the 1940s.

There he plied his trade at a series of radio stations, among them KLAC and KFWB, giving particular airplay to jazz. He began producing live concerts on local stages — including those of the Shrine Auditorium and the Hollywood Bowl — featuring artists like Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner and Peggy Lee. He also hosted jazz programs on local television.

At the Crescendo, which he opened on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Norman presented musicians including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Johnny Mathis and Herb Alpert. He also booked some of the era’s foremost comedians, among them Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman, Mort Sahl, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles and Woody Allen. Mr. Norman sold the club in the 1960s.

Mr. Norman’s wife, June Bright, a fashion model and actress, died in 1975. Besides his son, Neil, the current president of GNP Crescendo, his survivors include a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

As passionate as Mr. Norman was about jazz, he had a good ear for other genres, as his catalog makes plain. Sometimes he had a good ear in spite of himself, as when he signed an easy listening-country-polka ensemble called the Mom and Dads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiklL2aLy9I) on the strength of the fact that they had sold tens of thousands of records for a Canadian label.

“They were this group from Spokane, Wash., who played very, very square versions of standards,” Neil Norman told Variety last year. “They made Lawrence Welk look like Pink Floyd.”

He continued: “My father took them on without even hearing them. When he finally listened to their records, he said, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ But they sold millions for us.”

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Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 – The New York Times

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** Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93
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By MARGALIT FOX (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

Gene Norman, around 1950, with Kitty Kallen, the big band singer, tying his necktie. Gene Lester/Getty Images

Gene Norman, a music promoter, nightclub owner and record producer who helped bring some of the most renowned jazz artists of midcentury to the West Coast and, through his independent record label, to the world, died on Nov. 2 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.

His son, Neil, confirmed the death.

Mr. Norman, who began his professional life as a disc jockey and was for more than half a century an influential presence on the American jazz scene, was perhaps best known for founding the label GNP Crescendo (http://gnpcrescendo.com/wp/) , begun in 1954 and still in business. (Its initials stand for “Gene Norman Presents”; Crescendo was the name of the nightclub Mr. Norman opened in Los Angeles the same year.)

Artists recorded by GNP over the years include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach, George Shearing and Art Tatum, as well as the bluesmen Jack Dupree and Memphis Slim; the garage-rock band the Seeds; Bing Crosby, Dick Dale and Tito Puente; the Creole accordionist Queen Ida, who won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) for her 1982 recording on the label, “Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band on Tour”; and even Orson Welles, who released a spoken-word album, “I Know What It Is to Be Young (But You Don’t Know What It Is to Be Old).”

More recently, GNP has also been known for releasing television and motion picture soundtracks, with a particular emphasis on science fiction.

Mr. Norman was born Eugene Nabatoff in Brooklyn on Jan. 30, 1922, and as a youth became enthralled by visits to New York’s jazz clubs. After studying at the University of Michigan, he graduated at 18 from the University of Wisconsin.

Changing his surname at the start of his broadcasting career, he worked as a disc jockey in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles in the 1940s.

There he plied his trade at a series of radio stations, among them KLAC and KFWB, giving particular airplay to jazz. He began producing live concerts on local stages — including those of the Shrine Auditorium and the Hollywood Bowl — featuring artists like Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner and Peggy Lee. He also hosted jazz programs on local television.

At the Crescendo, which he opened on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Norman presented musicians including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Johnny Mathis and Herb Alpert. He also booked some of the era’s foremost comedians, among them Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman, Mort Sahl, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles and Woody Allen. Mr. Norman sold the club in the 1960s.

Mr. Norman’s wife, June Bright, a fashion model and actress, died in 1975. Besides his son, Neil, the current president of GNP Crescendo, his survivors include a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.

As passionate as Mr. Norman was about jazz, he had a good ear for other genres, as his catalog makes plain. Sometimes he had a good ear in spite of himself, as when he signed an easy listening-country-polka ensemble called the Mom and Dads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiklL2aLy9I) on the strength of the fact that they had sold tens of thousands of records for a Canadian label.

“They were this group from Spokane, Wash., who played very, very square versions of standards,” Neil Norman told Variety last year. “They made Lawrence Welk look like Pink Floyd.”

He continued: “My father took them on without even hearing them. When he finally listened to their records, he said, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ But they sold millions for us.”

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Sketching to the Music – The New York Times

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** Sketching to the Music
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By COREY KILGANNON (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/corey_kilgannon/index.html)

Jonathan Glass and his sketch pad are a regular pair at New York City’s myriad jazz clubs. Christopher Lee for The New York Times

Just before the first set at Birdland (http://www.birdlandjazz.com/) , the jazz club on West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Jonathan Glass, 42, settled into a front row table and pulled out pens, his inkwell and his large sketch pad.

As the bassist Ron Carter (http://roncarter.net/JazzMaster/) and his bandmates tuned up and patrons chatted over drinks and dinner, Mr. Glass waited.

“I only start when the music starts,” said Mr. Glass, who for more than a decade has been a regular in New York City jazz clubs, drawing the musicians onstage. “The drawing is in real time, like the music. The music helps the drawing flow.”

Mr. Glass visits the clubs several times a week and has done hundreds of bandstand renderings. He has captured some of the biggest names in jazz, with a swirling, frenetic style that seems to borrow from the improvisational energy of the musicians.

When the set ends, he finishes, and then he approaches the musicians and asks them to sign the drawing, sometimes with the ink not fully dry.

Later, he makes prints of the drawings and gets copies to the musicians to show his appreciation for the chance to draw them.

“You have to ingratiate yourself in some way,” said Mr. Glass, who has exhibited his work at several clubs.

On this recent night at Birdland, he arrived early and handed Mr. Carter a print from a previous performance. Mr. Carter found it cumbersome to handle.

“He’s a little prickly tonight,” said Mr. Glass, who was exercising care not to smudge any ink on the white tablecloths.

“Gianni hates it when I get messy,” he said, referring to Birdland’s owner, Gianni Valenti, who was not pleased when Mr. Glass once marred a tablecloth.

Later, Mr. Valenti laughed and said he appreciated Mr. Glass’s contribution to the art form, but not at the expense of his tablecloths. Neither can he always accommodate Mr. Glass’s standing request for his own table directly in front of the bandstand.

Mr. Glass, who lives on East 53rd Street, said he almost always pays his own way but is hardly a big spender. He works for modest pay as a security guard at an office building on Houston Street.

This night would very likely set him back about $70, his earnings from a full shift. Mr. Valenti sat him off to the side, where the view was largely blocked by music stands.

Mr. Glass said that growing up in Pleasantville, N.Y., in Westchester County, he was an avid baseball autograph seeker, and he still recalls being spurned by both Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. This helped prepare him for the mixed reactions he gets from musicians.

Mr. Glass said he studied fine arts and illustration in college and was advised by a teacher to use his drawing skills “as your license to experience the world.” So he settled in New York City and began drawing rock and jazz musicians at concerts, including Paul Simon, Pete Townshend and Van Morrison.

He stopped drawing during his late 20s and wound up seeking treatment for depression, which included art therapy. Mr. Glass resumed drawing jazz artists, including the likes of Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and Jackie McLean, he said.

Mr. Glass’s favorite clubs to draw in are the Jazz Gallery, the Jazz Standard and Zinc Bar, where they often waive the door fee.

He has become well known on the jazz scene by musicians, club owners and staff, and fans, said Rob Duguay (http://robduguay.com/biography) , a jazz bassist who called Mr. Glass’s collection of sketches “quite literally a New York City who’s who collection of concerts.”

Mr. Glass, he said, has been “contributing to the music’s history, much more than just saving ticket stubs over the years.”

Mr. Duguay said that when he worked as a maitre d’ at the Jazz Standard on East 27th Street, Mr. Glass would often show up “literally paying his last dollar to see these musicians and sketch them.”

Mr. Duguay said he would often waive the door charge or allow Mr. Glass to stay for extra sets, telling him, after years of patronage, “Dude, you’re one of us.”

But sometimes nearby patrons object, Mr. Glass said, like the woman rocking to the music at Preservation Hall in New Orleans who knocked into his pad and then, when he complained to her, shook her hair on the page, smudging his wet ink. There was also the woman at a Keith Jarrett concert who objected to the scratching of his pen, he said.

Musicians sometimes comment from the bandstand, he said, including the saxophonist Lee Konitz, who asked Mr. Glass in front of the audience, “You’re not going to draw me, are you?”

Later, Mr. Konitz stopped mid-solo and said, “How’s it going, Picasso?”

Mr. Glass said the saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (http://www.ravicoltrane.com/) , a frequent sketch subject, agreed to perform at an opening for Mr. Glass’s drawings at Zinc Bar in 2013.

“When a prominent musician once called me an exhibitionist, Ravi defended me and said that musicians who appreciate art can understand the importance of what you’re doing,” Mr. Glass said.

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Sketching to the Music – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/nyregion/new-york-city-jazz-sketch-artist.html?emc=edit_tnt_20151113

** Sketching to the Music
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By COREY KILGANNON (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/corey_kilgannon/index.html)

Jonathan Glass and his sketch pad are a regular pair at New York City’s myriad jazz clubs. Christopher Lee for The New York Times

Just before the first set at Birdland (http://www.birdlandjazz.com/) , the jazz club on West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Jonathan Glass, 42, settled into a front row table and pulled out pens, his inkwell and his large sketch pad.

As the bassist Ron Carter (http://roncarter.net/JazzMaster/) and his bandmates tuned up and patrons chatted over drinks and dinner, Mr. Glass waited.

“I only start when the music starts,” said Mr. Glass, who for more than a decade has been a regular in New York City jazz clubs, drawing the musicians onstage. “The drawing is in real time, like the music. The music helps the drawing flow.”

Mr. Glass visits the clubs several times a week and has done hundreds of bandstand renderings. He has captured some of the biggest names in jazz, with a swirling, frenetic style that seems to borrow from the improvisational energy of the musicians.

When the set ends, he finishes, and then he approaches the musicians and asks them to sign the drawing, sometimes with the ink not fully dry.

Later, he makes prints of the drawings and gets copies to the musicians to show his appreciation for the chance to draw them.

“You have to ingratiate yourself in some way,” said Mr. Glass, who has exhibited his work at several clubs.

On this recent night at Birdland, he arrived early and handed Mr. Carter a print from a previous performance. Mr. Carter found it cumbersome to handle.

“He’s a little prickly tonight,” said Mr. Glass, who was exercising care not to smudge any ink on the white tablecloths.

“Gianni hates it when I get messy,” he said, referring to Birdland’s owner, Gianni Valenti, who was not pleased when Mr. Glass once marred a tablecloth.

Later, Mr. Valenti laughed and said he appreciated Mr. Glass’s contribution to the art form, but not at the expense of his tablecloths. Neither can he always accommodate Mr. Glass’s standing request for his own table directly in front of the bandstand.

Mr. Glass, who lives on East 53rd Street, said he almost always pays his own way but is hardly a big spender. He works for modest pay as a security guard at an office building on Houston Street.

This night would very likely set him back about $70, his earnings from a full shift. Mr. Valenti sat him off to the side, where the view was largely blocked by music stands.

Mr. Glass said that growing up in Pleasantville, N.Y., in Westchester County, he was an avid baseball autograph seeker, and he still recalls being spurned by both Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. This helped prepare him for the mixed reactions he gets from musicians.

Mr. Glass said he studied fine arts and illustration in college and was advised by a teacher to use his drawing skills “as your license to experience the world.” So he settled in New York City and began drawing rock and jazz musicians at concerts, including Paul Simon, Pete Townshend and Van Morrison.

He stopped drawing during his late 20s and wound up seeking treatment for depression, which included art therapy. Mr. Glass resumed drawing jazz artists, including the likes of Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and Jackie McLean, he said.

Mr. Glass’s favorite clubs to draw in are the Jazz Gallery, the Jazz Standard and Zinc Bar, where they often waive the door fee.

He has become well known on the jazz scene by musicians, club owners and staff, and fans, said Rob Duguay (http://robduguay.com/biography) , a jazz bassist who called Mr. Glass’s collection of sketches “quite literally a New York City who’s who collection of concerts.”

Mr. Glass, he said, has been “contributing to the music’s history, much more than just saving ticket stubs over the years.”

Mr. Duguay said that when he worked as a maitre d’ at the Jazz Standard on East 27th Street, Mr. Glass would often show up “literally paying his last dollar to see these musicians and sketch them.”

Mr. Duguay said he would often waive the door charge or allow Mr. Glass to stay for extra sets, telling him, after years of patronage, “Dude, you’re one of us.”

But sometimes nearby patrons object, Mr. Glass said, like the woman rocking to the music at Preservation Hall in New Orleans who knocked into his pad and then, when he complained to her, shook her hair on the page, smudging his wet ink. There was also the woman at a Keith Jarrett concert who objected to the scratching of his pen, he said.

Musicians sometimes comment from the bandstand, he said, including the saxophonist Lee Konitz, who asked Mr. Glass in front of the audience, “You’re not going to draw me, are you?”

Later, Mr. Konitz stopped mid-solo and said, “How’s it going, Picasso?”

Mr. Glass said the saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (http://www.ravicoltrane.com/) , a frequent sketch subject, agreed to perform at an opening for Mr. Glass’s drawings at Zinc Bar in 2013.

“When a prominent musician once called me an exhibitionist, Ravi defended me and said that musicians who appreciate art can understand the importance of what you’re doing,” Mr. Glass said.

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Sketching to the Music – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/nyregion/new-york-city-jazz-sketch-artist.html?emc=edit_tnt_20151113

** Sketching to the Music
————————————————————

By COREY KILGANNON (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/corey_kilgannon/index.html)

Jonathan Glass and his sketch pad are a regular pair at New York City’s myriad jazz clubs. Christopher Lee for The New York Times

Just before the first set at Birdland (http://www.birdlandjazz.com/) , the jazz club on West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Jonathan Glass, 42, settled into a front row table and pulled out pens, his inkwell and his large sketch pad.

As the bassist Ron Carter (http://roncarter.net/JazzMaster/) and his bandmates tuned up and patrons chatted over drinks and dinner, Mr. Glass waited.

“I only start when the music starts,” said Mr. Glass, who for more than a decade has been a regular in New York City jazz clubs, drawing the musicians onstage. “The drawing is in real time, like the music. The music helps the drawing flow.”

Mr. Glass visits the clubs several times a week and has done hundreds of bandstand renderings. He has captured some of the biggest names in jazz, with a swirling, frenetic style that seems to borrow from the improvisational energy of the musicians.

When the set ends, he finishes, and then he approaches the musicians and asks them to sign the drawing, sometimes with the ink not fully dry.

Later, he makes prints of the drawings and gets copies to the musicians to show his appreciation for the chance to draw them.

“You have to ingratiate yourself in some way,” said Mr. Glass, who has exhibited his work at several clubs.

On this recent night at Birdland, he arrived early and handed Mr. Carter a print from a previous performance. Mr. Carter found it cumbersome to handle.

“He’s a little prickly tonight,” said Mr. Glass, who was exercising care not to smudge any ink on the white tablecloths.

“Gianni hates it when I get messy,” he said, referring to Birdland’s owner, Gianni Valenti, who was not pleased when Mr. Glass once marred a tablecloth.

Later, Mr. Valenti laughed and said he appreciated Mr. Glass’s contribution to the art form, but not at the expense of his tablecloths. Neither can he always accommodate Mr. Glass’s standing request for his own table directly in front of the bandstand.

Mr. Glass, who lives on East 53rd Street, said he almost always pays his own way but is hardly a big spender. He works for modest pay as a security guard at an office building on Houston Street.

This night would very likely set him back about $70, his earnings from a full shift. Mr. Valenti sat him off to the side, where the view was largely blocked by music stands.

Mr. Glass said that growing up in Pleasantville, N.Y., in Westchester County, he was an avid baseball autograph seeker, and he still recalls being spurned by both Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. This helped prepare him for the mixed reactions he gets from musicians.

Mr. Glass said he studied fine arts and illustration in college and was advised by a teacher to use his drawing skills “as your license to experience the world.” So he settled in New York City and began drawing rock and jazz musicians at concerts, including Paul Simon, Pete Townshend and Van Morrison.

He stopped drawing during his late 20s and wound up seeking treatment for depression, which included art therapy. Mr. Glass resumed drawing jazz artists, including the likes of Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and Jackie McLean, he said.

Mr. Glass’s favorite clubs to draw in are the Jazz Gallery, the Jazz Standard and Zinc Bar, where they often waive the door fee.

He has become well known on the jazz scene by musicians, club owners and staff, and fans, said Rob Duguay (http://robduguay.com/biography) , a jazz bassist who called Mr. Glass’s collection of sketches “quite literally a New York City who’s who collection of concerts.”

Mr. Glass, he said, has been “contributing to the music’s history, much more than just saving ticket stubs over the years.”

Mr. Duguay said that when he worked as a maitre d’ at the Jazz Standard on East 27th Street, Mr. Glass would often show up “literally paying his last dollar to see these musicians and sketch them.”

Mr. Duguay said he would often waive the door charge or allow Mr. Glass to stay for extra sets, telling him, after years of patronage, “Dude, you’re one of us.”

But sometimes nearby patrons object, Mr. Glass said, like the woman rocking to the music at Preservation Hall in New Orleans who knocked into his pad and then, when he complained to her, shook her hair on the page, smudging his wet ink. There was also the woman at a Keith Jarrett concert who objected to the scratching of his pen, he said.

Musicians sometimes comment from the bandstand, he said, including the saxophonist Lee Konitz, who asked Mr. Glass in front of the audience, “You’re not going to draw me, are you?”

Later, Mr. Konitz stopped mid-solo and said, “How’s it going, Picasso?”

Mr. Glass said the saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (http://www.ravicoltrane.com/) , a frequent sketch subject, agreed to perform at an opening for Mr. Glass’s drawings at Zinc Bar in 2013.

“When a prominent musician once called me an exhibitionist, Ravi defended me and said that musicians who appreciate art can understand the importance of what you’re doing,” Mr. Glass said.

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Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path – The New York Times

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The below article from last Sunday’s NY Times caught my eye.

I remember that Mingus had a residency there:

Poster from my personal archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/broadway-central-hotels-heyday-before-a-fatal-collapse.html

By the late 1960s, it had become one of the city’s largest welfare hotels. Six theaters, called the Mercer Arts Center, were built inside in hopes of perking up the place, and it was renamed the University Hotel, but it had severe structural problems.

** Broadway Central Hotel’s Heyday Before a Fatal Collapse
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The Broadway Central Hotel on the day it collapsed in 1973. Larry C. Morris/The New York Times
Q. I vaguely remember the fatal collapse of a welfare hotel around 1973. Can you tell me about the hotel?

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A. The collapse of the former Broadway Central Hotel on Aug. 3, 1973, which killed four people, marked the ignominious end to one of New York real estate’s steepest riches-to-rags stories.
Born in the Gilded Age and crumbling to rubble amid the city’s fiscal crisis, the hotel, between West Third and Bond Streets, was the site of some spectacular moments and some spectacularly sordid ones.
The eight-story, 400-room hotel (https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/the-collapse-of-the-broadway-central-hotel/) , one of the largest in the world at the time, opened in 1870 as the Grand Central Hotel, with three grand dining rooms and elegant trappings. It didn’t take long for its most scandalous moment to occur: On Jan. 6, 1872, James Fisk Jr., a playboy financier who had helped milk the Erie Railroad into bankruptcy, was shot to death on the hotel’s staircase by Edward Stiles Stokes, his former partner. The two men had fought in a bitter lawsuit, and Mr. Stokes had fallen in love with Mr. Fisk’s mistress, Josie Mansfield.
Perhaps the hotel’s finest hour was on Feb. 2, 1876, when the representatives of eight professional baseball clubs assembled there for the official formation of the National League.
The scene was recreated 49 years later at the hotel, for the beginning of the league’s Golden Jubilee. The league also held a 75th-anniversary party at the hotel in 1951, when Ty Cobb, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Tris Speaker, George Sisler, Pie Traynor and Cy Young were among the Hall of Famers who posed for a photograph.
The hotel was the scene of many weddings, and a few murders and suicides. As the years passed, it went through a series of owners and financial difficulties. By the late 1960s, it had become one of the city’s largest welfare hotels. Six theaters, called the Mercer Arts Center, were built inside in hopes of perking up the place, and it was renamed the University Hotel, but it had severe structural problems.
In 1973, on the day of the collapse (http://gvshp.org/blog/2014/05/22/when-a-hotel-collapsed-onto-broadway/) , preliminary rumbles led to the evacuation of more than 300 residents before the walls buckled in two sections on Broadway.
Housing for New York University law students was later built on the site.

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Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path – The New York Times

http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/
The below article from last Sunday’s NY Times caught my eye.

I remember that Mingus had a residency there:

Poster from my personal archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/broadway-central-hotels-heyday-before-a-fatal-collapse.html

By the late 1960s, it had become one of the city’s largest welfare hotels. Six theaters, called the Mercer Arts Center, were built inside in hopes of perking up the place, and it was renamed the University Hotel, but it had severe structural problems.

** Broadway Central Hotel’s Heyday Before a Fatal Collapse
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The Broadway Central Hotel on the day it collapsed in 1973. Larry C. Morris/The New York Times
Q. I vaguely remember the fatal collapse of a welfare hotel around 1973. Can you tell me about the hotel?

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** Cyrus Vance Has $808 Million to Give AwayNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/cyrus-vance-has-dollar-808-million-to-give-away.html)
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** Libraries in New York and Seattle Area Staging a Battle of the SortersNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/new-york-public-library-seattle-book-sorting-system.html)
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** Big City: Development, de Blasio-StyleNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/development-de-blasio-style.html)
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** Neighborhood Joint: A Brooklyn Bakery Appeals to Observant Jews and Pizza Fans NOV. 4, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/isaacs-bake-shop-appeals-to-observant-jews-and-pizza-fans.html)
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** Neighborhood Joint: O’Hara’s, Ground Zero Pub Where Memories Are a Badge of HonorOCT. 28, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/nyregion/oharas-ground-zero-pub-where-memories-are-a-badge-of-honor.html)
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** At the Table: Seeking Truffles, and Wanting More, at Il Tartufo in ManhattanNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/seeking-truffles-and-wanting-more-at-il-tartufo-in-manhattan.html)
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A. The collapse of the former Broadway Central Hotel on Aug. 3, 1973, which killed four people, marked the ignominious end to one of New York real estate’s steepest riches-to-rags stories.
Born in the Gilded Age and crumbling to rubble amid the city’s fiscal crisis, the hotel, between West Third and Bond Streets, was the site of some spectacular moments and some spectacularly sordid ones.
The eight-story, 400-room hotel (https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/the-collapse-of-the-broadway-central-hotel/) , one of the largest in the world at the time, opened in 1870 as the Grand Central Hotel, with three grand dining rooms and elegant trappings. It didn’t take long for its most scandalous moment to occur: On Jan. 6, 1872, James Fisk Jr., a playboy financier who had helped milk the Erie Railroad into bankruptcy, was shot to death on the hotel’s staircase by Edward Stiles Stokes, his former partner. The two men had fought in a bitter lawsuit, and Mr. Stokes had fallen in love with Mr. Fisk’s mistress, Josie Mansfield.
Perhaps the hotel’s finest hour was on Feb. 2, 1876, when the representatives of eight professional baseball clubs assembled there for the official formation of the National League.
The scene was recreated 49 years later at the hotel, for the beginning of the league’s Golden Jubilee. The league also held a 75th-anniversary party at the hotel in 1951, when Ty Cobb, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Tris Speaker, George Sisler, Pie Traynor and Cy Young were among the Hall of Famers who posed for a photograph.
The hotel was the scene of many weddings, and a few murders and suicides. As the years passed, it went through a series of owners and financial difficulties. By the late 1960s, it had become one of the city’s largest welfare hotels. Six theaters, called the Mercer Arts Center, were built inside in hopes of perking up the place, and it was renamed the University Hotel, but it had severe structural problems.
In 1973, on the day of the collapse (http://gvshp.org/blog/2014/05/22/when-a-hotel-collapsed-onto-broadway/) , preliminary rumbles led to the evacuation of more than 300 residents before the walls buckled in two sections on Broadway.
Housing for New York University law students was later built on the site.

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Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path – The New York Times

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The below article from last Sunday’s NY Times caught my eye.

I remember that Mingus had a residency there:

Poster from my personal archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/broadway-central-hotels-heyday-before-a-fatal-collapse.html

By the late 1960s, it had become one of the city’s largest welfare hotels. Six theaters, called the Mercer Arts Center, were built inside in hopes of perking up the place, and it was renamed the University Hotel, but it had severe structural problems.

** Broadway Central Hotel’s Heyday Before a Fatal Collapse
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The Broadway Central Hotel on the day it collapsed in 1973. Larry C. Morris/The New York Times
Q. I vaguely remember the fatal collapse of a welfare hotel around 1973. Can you tell me about the hotel?

** Related Coverage
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** Cyrus Vance Has $808 Million to Give AwayNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/cyrus-vance-has-dollar-808-million-to-give-away.html)
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** Libraries in New York and Seattle Area Staging a Battle of the SortersNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/new-york-public-library-seattle-book-sorting-system.html)
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** Big City: Development, de Blasio-StyleNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/development-de-blasio-style.html)
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** Neighborhood Joint: A Brooklyn Bakery Appeals to Observant Jews and Pizza Fans NOV. 4, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/isaacs-bake-shop-appeals-to-observant-jews-and-pizza-fans.html)
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** Neighborhood Joint: O’Hara’s, Ground Zero Pub Where Memories Are a Badge of HonorOCT. 28, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/nyregion/oharas-ground-zero-pub-where-memories-are-a-badge-of-honor.html)
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** At the Table: Seeking Truffles, and Wanting More, at Il Tartufo in ManhattanNOV. 6, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/seeking-truffles-and-wanting-more-at-il-tartufo-in-manhattan.html)
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A. The collapse of the former Broadway Central Hotel on Aug. 3, 1973, which killed four people, marked the ignominious end to one of New York real estate’s steepest riches-to-rags stories.
Born in the Gilded Age and crumbling to rubble amid the city’s fiscal crisis, the hotel, between West Third and Bond Streets, was the site of some spectacular moments and some spectacularly sordid ones.
The eight-story, 400-room hotel (https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/the-collapse-of-the-broadway-central-hotel/) , one of the largest in the world at the time, opened in 1870 as the Grand Central Hotel, with three grand dining rooms and elegant trappings. It didn’t take long for its most scandalous moment to occur: On Jan. 6, 1872, James Fisk Jr., a playboy financier who had helped milk the Erie Railroad into bankruptcy, was shot to death on the hotel’s staircase by Edward Stiles Stokes, his former partner. The two men had fought in a bitter lawsuit, and Mr. Stokes had fallen in love with Mr. Fisk’s mistress, Josie Mansfield.
Perhaps the hotel’s finest hour was on Feb. 2, 1876, when the representatives of eight professional baseball clubs assembled there for the official formation of the National League.
The scene was recreated 49 years later at the hotel, for the beginning of the league’s Golden Jubilee. The league also held a 75th-anniversary party at the hotel in 1951, when Ty Cobb, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Tris Speaker, George Sisler, Pie Traynor and Cy Young were among the Hall of Famers who posed for a photograph.
The hotel was the scene of many weddings, and a few murders and suicides. As the years passed, it went through a series of owners and financial difficulties. By the late 1960s, it had become one of the city’s largest welfare hotels. Six theaters, called the Mercer Arts Center, were built inside in hopes of perking up the place, and it was renamed the University Hotel, but it had severe structural problems.
In 1973, on the day of the collapse (http://gvshp.org/blog/2014/05/22/when-a-hotel-collapsed-onto-broadway/) , preliminary rumbles led to the evacuation of more than 300 residents before the walls buckled in two sections on Broadway.
Housing for New York University law students was later built on the site.

Jim Eigo
Jazz Promo Services
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Warwick, NY 10990-3363
Ph: 845-986-1677 / Fax: 845-986-1699
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Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/arts/music/roswell-rudd-in-a-celebratory-mood-reflects-on-his-winding-path.html?emc=edit_tnt_20151113

** Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path
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By NATE CHINEN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/nate_chinen/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

The trombonist Roswell Rudd. Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times

KERHONKSON, N.Y. — Roswell Rudd, the genially intrepid jazz trombonist, has lately found himself recalling a memory from his childhood. It’s a composite blur of the rambling jam sessions his father was fond of hosting in their house, first in western Connecticut and then in upstate New York, during the years after World War II.

“It was a spontaneous thing,” Mr. Rudd said recently at his own rustic home here, in the Shawangunk Mountains. “Suddenly a clarinet player shows up. Then a guy’s playing piano. My father’s on the drums over there. People start dancing, you hear laughter bursting out, and all kinds of conversation. That sound is what is still in me, and it seems to be inexhaustible.”

It makes sense that a convivial, collective, open-ended musical exchange would feel formative for Mr. Rudd, who forged his reputation in the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s. Since re-emerging from obscurity near the turn of this century, he has enjoyed a far-ranging renaissance, working not only with old partners like the saxophonist Archie Shepp but also Mongolian throat singers, Malian griots (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/arts/world-music-review-when-cultures-sounds-don-t-match-but-echo.html) and Afro-Caribbean folk artists. The soulful blare of Mr. Rudd’s horn, coupled with his boundless curiosity, has made him into a sort of good-will ambassador, despite the distinctly unconventional arc of his career.

“He never really played a lot of gigs as a leader, never had a breakthrough record,” said the slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein. “Something about his sound just reaches people.”

Mr. Rudd will turn 80 on Tuesday, and he’s celebrating with an eclectic program on Sunday afternoon at Le Poisson Rouge (http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/the-wizard-of-roz-november-15th-2015/) . Puckishly titled “The Wizard of Roz,” the concert will incorporate a few of Mr. Rudd’s close collaborators, like the singer-songwriter Heather Masse, with whom he has an album due out in February.

The lineup also includes the irrepressible Cajun band BeauSoleil; the alt-cabaret singer-composer Ethan Lipton; and Trombone Tribe Tribute, featuring Steve Swell, Deborah Weisz and others. Some on the bill, like Mr. Bernstein and the jazz vocalist Fay Victor, appeared on Mr. Rudd’s most recent album, “Trombone for Lovers,” which he released on Sunnyside in 2013, around the time he began receiving treatment for prostate cancer.

Mr. Rudd, who has a shock of white hair and an agreeably thoughtful demeanor, lives in Kerhonkson with his partner, Verna Gillis, an ethnomusicologist, manager and promoter. Their house’s artful clutter (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/travel/escapes/23away.html) attests to far-flung mutual interests: a grand piano in the living room sits near an African drum and a vintage jukebox, and paintings crowd the walls. (Just outside is a sculpture park devoted to the work of Ms. Gillis’s husband, Bradford Graves, who died in 1998.)

Sitting on a couch under the gaze of two Haitian carnival masks, Mr. Rudd reflected on a musical path that took him from the staunchest jazz traditionalism to the height of revolutionary fervor. “When I got to New York City in the late-50s, and people were talking about collective improvisation,” he said, “I only knew how it related to Dixieland.”

Part of the lore around Mr. Rudd is that he adapted the growly, gutbucket syntax of early-jazz trombonists to the new vistas of free improvisation. As a student at Yale, he played in a popular Dixieland band called Eli’s Chosen Six. (He memorably reunited with the group (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/arts/music/a-little-nostalgia-and-a-lot-of-unruly-trombone.html) for a 70th-birthday concert.) After arriving in New York, he modernized his harmonic approach partly through an apprenticeship with Herbie Nichols, a maverick pianist and composer.

Mr. Rudd’s subsequent role in the avant-garde is hard to overstate. He was a member of the New York Art Quartet, one of the greatest free-jazz ensembles of the ’60s. He worked closely with the pianist Cecil Taylor and the saxophonist Steve Lacy. He was prominently featured on landmark albums like Mr. Shepp’s “Four for Trane”; the self-titled debut album by the Liberation Music Orchestra, led by the bassist Charlie Haden; and “New York Eye and Ear Control,” with the saxophonist Albert Ayler and the trumpeter Don Cherry.

At the same time, beginning in the mid-60s, Mr. Rudd worked for the folklorist Alan Lomax, assisting in his “Cantometrics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantometrics) ” project at Columbia University. The job entailed listening to countless hours of field recordings from around the world, and coding them through a series of quantitative metrics. “It certainly opened me up,” Mr. Rudd said. “I heard all kinds of material in those recordings that I also heard in the people I was improvising with.”

Still, Mr. Rudd said, “it was a challenge developing an audience to a point where you could go out and actually work on a regular basis.” In 1976 he began teaching music at the University of Maine. After several years he found his way back to upstate New York, joining a show band at a Catskills resort. The jazz critic Francis Davis tracked him down there in the early ’90s, ruefully pronouncing him “unforgettable but apparently forgotten.”

But the situation began to change, especially after Mr. Rudd teamed up with Ms. Gillis, who had worked prominently with world music. She connected him with the Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté, and their resulting collaboration yielded an excellent 2002 album, “MALIcool.” A few years later, Mr. Rudd released “Blue Mongol” with the Mongolian Buryat Band. It was followed in 2007 by “El Espírito Jíbaro,” with the Puerto Rican cuatro master Yomo Toro. Some of these new associations began with informal sessions in the living room here.

“I have to keep going back to the weekend party sound in the house,” Mr. Rudd said, and it’s likely he’ll apply the same ideal to Sunday’s program. “I’ve got to blend in, at some point, with everybody,” he said. “And I will. There’s no way that you could hold me back.”

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Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/arts/music/roswell-rudd-in-a-celebratory-mood-reflects-on-his-winding-path.html?emc=edit_tnt_20151113

** Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path
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By NATE CHINEN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/nate_chinen/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

The trombonist Roswell Rudd. Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times

KERHONKSON, N.Y. — Roswell Rudd, the genially intrepid jazz trombonist, has lately found himself recalling a memory from his childhood. It’s a composite blur of the rambling jam sessions his father was fond of hosting in their house, first in western Connecticut and then in upstate New York, during the years after World War II.

“It was a spontaneous thing,” Mr. Rudd said recently at his own rustic home here, in the Shawangunk Mountains. “Suddenly a clarinet player shows up. Then a guy’s playing piano. My father’s on the drums over there. People start dancing, you hear laughter bursting out, and all kinds of conversation. That sound is what is still in me, and it seems to be inexhaustible.”

It makes sense that a convivial, collective, open-ended musical exchange would feel formative for Mr. Rudd, who forged his reputation in the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s. Since re-emerging from obscurity near the turn of this century, he has enjoyed a far-ranging renaissance, working not only with old partners like the saxophonist Archie Shepp but also Mongolian throat singers, Malian griots (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/arts/world-music-review-when-cultures-sounds-don-t-match-but-echo.html) and Afro-Caribbean folk artists. The soulful blare of Mr. Rudd’s horn, coupled with his boundless curiosity, has made him into a sort of good-will ambassador, despite the distinctly unconventional arc of his career.

“He never really played a lot of gigs as a leader, never had a breakthrough record,” said the slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein. “Something about his sound just reaches people.”

Mr. Rudd will turn 80 on Tuesday, and he’s celebrating with an eclectic program on Sunday afternoon at Le Poisson Rouge (http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/the-wizard-of-roz-november-15th-2015/) . Puckishly titled “The Wizard of Roz,” the concert will incorporate a few of Mr. Rudd’s close collaborators, like the singer-songwriter Heather Masse, with whom he has an album due out in February.

The lineup also includes the irrepressible Cajun band BeauSoleil; the alt-cabaret singer-composer Ethan Lipton; and Trombone Tribe Tribute, featuring Steve Swell, Deborah Weisz and others. Some on the bill, like Mr. Bernstein and the jazz vocalist Fay Victor, appeared on Mr. Rudd’s most recent album, “Trombone for Lovers,” which he released on Sunnyside in 2013, around the time he began receiving treatment for prostate cancer.

Mr. Rudd, who has a shock of white hair and an agreeably thoughtful demeanor, lives in Kerhonkson with his partner, Verna Gillis, an ethnomusicologist, manager and promoter. Their house’s artful clutter (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/travel/escapes/23away.html) attests to far-flung mutual interests: a grand piano in the living room sits near an African drum and a vintage jukebox, and paintings crowd the walls. (Just outside is a sculpture park devoted to the work of Ms. Gillis’s husband, Bradford Graves, who died in 1998.)

Sitting on a couch under the gaze of two Haitian carnival masks, Mr. Rudd reflected on a musical path that took him from the staunchest jazz traditionalism to the height of revolutionary fervor. “When I got to New York City in the late-50s, and people were talking about collective improvisation,” he said, “I only knew how it related to Dixieland.”

Part of the lore around Mr. Rudd is that he adapted the growly, gutbucket syntax of early-jazz trombonists to the new vistas of free improvisation. As a student at Yale, he played in a popular Dixieland band called Eli’s Chosen Six. (He memorably reunited with the group (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/arts/music/a-little-nostalgia-and-a-lot-of-unruly-trombone.html) for a 70th-birthday concert.) After arriving in New York, he modernized his harmonic approach partly through an apprenticeship with Herbie Nichols, a maverick pianist and composer.

Mr. Rudd’s subsequent role in the avant-garde is hard to overstate. He was a member of the New York Art Quartet, one of the greatest free-jazz ensembles of the ’60s. He worked closely with the pianist Cecil Taylor and the saxophonist Steve Lacy. He was prominently featured on landmark albums like Mr. Shepp’s “Four for Trane”; the self-titled debut album by the Liberation Music Orchestra, led by the bassist Charlie Haden; and “New York Eye and Ear Control,” with the saxophonist Albert Ayler and the trumpeter Don Cherry.

At the same time, beginning in the mid-60s, Mr. Rudd worked for the folklorist Alan Lomax, assisting in his “Cantometrics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantometrics) ” project at Columbia University. The job entailed listening to countless hours of field recordings from around the world, and coding them through a series of quantitative metrics. “It certainly opened me up,” Mr. Rudd said. “I heard all kinds of material in those recordings that I also heard in the people I was improvising with.”

Still, Mr. Rudd said, “it was a challenge developing an audience to a point where you could go out and actually work on a regular basis.” In 1976 he began teaching music at the University of Maine. After several years he found his way back to upstate New York, joining a show band at a Catskills resort. The jazz critic Francis Davis tracked him down there in the early ’90s, ruefully pronouncing him “unforgettable but apparently forgotten.”

But the situation began to change, especially after Mr. Rudd teamed up with Ms. Gillis, who had worked prominently with world music. She connected him with the Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté, and their resulting collaboration yielded an excellent 2002 album, “MALIcool.” A few years later, Mr. Rudd released “Blue Mongol” with the Mongolian Buryat Band. It was followed in 2007 by “El Espírito Jíbaro,” with the Puerto Rican cuatro master Yomo Toro. Some of these new associations began with informal sessions in the living room here.

“I have to keep going back to the weekend party sound in the house,” Mr. Rudd said, and it’s likely he’ll apply the same ideal to Sunday’s program. “I’ve got to blend in, at some point, with everybody,” he said. “And I will. There’s no way that you could hold me back.”

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Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path – The New York Times

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By NATE CHINEN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/nate_chinen/index.html) NOV. 13, 2015

The trombonist Roswell Rudd. Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times

KERHONKSON, N.Y. — Roswell Rudd, the genially intrepid jazz trombonist, has lately found himself recalling a memory from his childhood. It’s a composite blur of the rambling jam sessions his father was fond of hosting in their house, first in western Connecticut and then in upstate New York, during the years after World War II.

“It was a spontaneous thing,” Mr. Rudd said recently at his own rustic home here, in the Shawangunk Mountains. “Suddenly a clarinet player shows up. Then a guy’s playing piano. My father’s on the drums over there. People start dancing, you hear laughter bursting out, and all kinds of conversation. That sound is what is still in me, and it seems to be inexhaustible.”

It makes sense that a convivial, collective, open-ended musical exchange would feel formative for Mr. Rudd, who forged his reputation in the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s. Since re-emerging from obscurity near the turn of this century, he has enjoyed a far-ranging renaissance, working not only with old partners like the saxophonist Archie Shepp but also Mongolian throat singers, Malian griots (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/arts/world-music-review-when-cultures-sounds-don-t-match-but-echo.html) and Afro-Caribbean folk artists. The soulful blare of Mr. Rudd’s horn, coupled with his boundless curiosity, has made him into a sort of good-will ambassador, despite the distinctly unconventional arc of his career.

“He never really played a lot of gigs as a leader, never had a breakthrough record,” said the slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein. “Something about his sound just reaches people.”

Mr. Rudd will turn 80 on Tuesday, and he’s celebrating with an eclectic program on Sunday afternoon at Le Poisson Rouge (http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/the-wizard-of-roz-november-15th-2015/) . Puckishly titled “The Wizard of Roz,” the concert will incorporate a few of Mr. Rudd’s close collaborators, like the singer-songwriter Heather Masse, with whom he has an album due out in February.

The lineup also includes the irrepressible Cajun band BeauSoleil; the alt-cabaret singer-composer Ethan Lipton; and Trombone Tribe Tribute, featuring Steve Swell, Deborah Weisz and others. Some on the bill, like Mr. Bernstein and the jazz vocalist Fay Victor, appeared on Mr. Rudd’s most recent album, “Trombone for Lovers,” which he released on Sunnyside in 2013, around the time he began receiving treatment for prostate cancer.

Mr. Rudd, who has a shock of white hair and an agreeably thoughtful demeanor, lives in Kerhonkson with his partner, Verna Gillis, an ethnomusicologist, manager and promoter. Their house’s artful clutter (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/travel/escapes/23away.html) attests to far-flung mutual interests: a grand piano in the living room sits near an African drum and a vintage jukebox, and paintings crowd the walls. (Just outside is a sculpture park devoted to the work of Ms. Gillis’s husband, Bradford Graves, who died in 1998.)

Sitting on a couch under the gaze of two Haitian carnival masks, Mr. Rudd reflected on a musical path that took him from the staunchest jazz traditionalism to the height of revolutionary fervor. “When I got to New York City in the late-50s, and people were talking about collective improvisation,” he said, “I only knew how it related to Dixieland.”

Part of the lore around Mr. Rudd is that he adapted the growly, gutbucket syntax of early-jazz trombonists to the new vistas of free improvisation. As a student at Yale, he played in a popular Dixieland band called Eli’s Chosen Six. (He memorably reunited with the group (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/arts/music/a-little-nostalgia-and-a-lot-of-unruly-trombone.html) for a 70th-birthday concert.) After arriving in New York, he modernized his harmonic approach partly through an apprenticeship with Herbie Nichols, a maverick pianist and composer.

Mr. Rudd’s subsequent role in the avant-garde is hard to overstate. He was a member of the New York Art Quartet, one of the greatest free-jazz ensembles of the ’60s. He worked closely with the pianist Cecil Taylor and the saxophonist Steve Lacy. He was prominently featured on landmark albums like Mr. Shepp’s “Four for Trane”; the self-titled debut album by the Liberation Music Orchestra, led by the bassist Charlie Haden; and “New York Eye and Ear Control,” with the saxophonist Albert Ayler and the trumpeter Don Cherry.

At the same time, beginning in the mid-60s, Mr. Rudd worked for the folklorist Alan Lomax, assisting in his “Cantometrics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantometrics) ” project at Columbia University. The job entailed listening to countless hours of field recordings from around the world, and coding them through a series of quantitative metrics. “It certainly opened me up,” Mr. Rudd said. “I heard all kinds of material in those recordings that I also heard in the people I was improvising with.”

Still, Mr. Rudd said, “it was a challenge developing an audience to a point where you could go out and actually work on a regular basis.” In 1976 he began teaching music at the University of Maine. After several years he found his way back to upstate New York, joining a show band at a Catskills resort. The jazz critic Francis Davis tracked him down there in the early ’90s, ruefully pronouncing him “unforgettable but apparently forgotten.”

But the situation began to change, especially after Mr. Rudd teamed up with Ms. Gillis, who had worked prominently with world music. She connected him with the Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté, and their resulting collaboration yielded an excellent 2002 album, “MALIcool.” A few years later, Mr. Rudd released “Blue Mongol” with the Mongolian Buryat Band. It was followed in 2007 by “El Espírito Jíbaro,” with the Puerto Rican cuatro master Yomo Toro. Some of these new associations began with informal sessions in the living room here.

“I have to keep going back to the weekend party sound in the house,” Mr. Rudd said, and it’s likely he’ll apply the same ideal to Sunday’s program. “I’ve got to blend in, at some point, with everybody,” he said. “And I will. There’s no way that you could hold me back.”

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