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By James Karst, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/user/jameskarst/posts.html)
The raw details about Louis Armstrong’s formative years (http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/our_times_the_louis_armstrong.html) as a musician are well established. As a child, the future jazz icon was sent to a local reformatory of sorts for at least the second time, and soon he joined the band of the institution, the Colored Waifs Home.
Armstrong wrote in his autobiography that “the band often got a chance to play at a private picnic or join one of the frequent parades through the streets of New Orleans covering all parts of the city, Uptown, Back o’ Town, Front o’ Town, Downtown.”
But the young musicians also played at least one venue that was more commercial in nature: the Crescent Theatre in what’s now the Central Business District. The performances there in 1913, which are not widely known to biographers of Armstrong, could be considered among his first gigs as a professional musician. They are also a stark reminder of the overt racism that pervaded all elements of New Orleans society during the Jim Crow era.
The show was “The White Slave,” a so-called racial melodrama written in 1882 by Bartley Campbell and set in the antebellum South. Campbell, who had worked in New Orleans as a young journalist before becoming a successful playwright, was institutionalized in an insane asylum several years after writing “The White Slave,” according to his 1888 obituary in The New York Times.
“The story of the drama is a simple one,” wrote The Daily Picayune in its Nov. 16, 1913, edition. “A girl grows up in an aristocratic Southern home under the belief that she is an octoroon, and falls a slave into the hands of a man who would betray her. She escapes with her lover, and after passing through many perils happiness comes at last with the knowledge that she is a free-born white woman.”
Lillian Lee Anderson was the star. Ticket prices were in line with other theaters in what was a hotly competitive market: You could see the Colored Waifs Home band for as little as 15 cents.
Armstrong is not mentioned by name in stories about the show, nor is any other member of the band. But the young African-American musicians were described as one of the highlights of the play, and the newspaper coverage suggests they were compensated for their work.
“Superintendent Agnew is making his negro band from the waif’s home earn their new uniforms at the Crescent this week. The sene-gambian music-makers are part of ‘The White Slave’ show — a big part, too,” The Daily Picayune wrote, referring to Thomas Agnew, a white man who was the leader of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. There is no mention of Peter Davis, who as the band director for the Colored Waifs Home trained a number of musicians who went on to great fame, or Capt. Joseph Jones, who operated the home with his wife, Manuella.
The press coverage of the young musicians is threadbare, but it does note that the songs they played were a mix of the old and new. There was even dancing at some of the performances.
“The negroes sang all the old familiar songs of the South, and mingled the ragtime melodies of today, responding to many encores,” The Daily Picayune wrote on Nov. 17. “Friday night there will be buck and wing dancing for money prizes.”
“This is the first I’ve heard about the Waif’s Home band playing behind a play in November 1913, and it offers fascinating insight into Armstrong’s earliest experiences as a young professional,” Ricky Riccardi, archivist at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum in New York and author of “What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years,” said in an email.
The Crescent, which was on Baronne Street near Common, was torn down in 1937. By then, Armstrong was famous worldwide for his music and had appeared in his first films. Lillian Lee Anderson seems to have faded into obscurity.
“Armstrong was at the Waifs Home for a year and a half,” Riccardi said, “and though he talked about it frequently he didn’t discuss the details of day-to-day life and the types of music he had to play. Learning about this one melodramatic production illustrates that Armstrong was already getting an education in the world of show business.”
The Daily Picayune did not publish photographs of “The White Slave” cast. But the French-language local newspaper L’Abeille printed a shot of a “scene de la plantation” in its Nov. 16, 1913, edition. It’s grainy, but in the front row, you can make out what appears to be a small group of children. Perhaps one of them is young Louis Armstrong, on stage at age 12, performing to get uniforms for his band.
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Louis Armstrong’s first gigs: Our TimesBy James Karst, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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By James Karst, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/user/jameskarst/posts.html)
The raw details about Louis Armstrong’s formative years (http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/our_times_the_louis_armstrong.html) as a musician are well established. As a child, the future jazz icon was sent to a local reformatory of sorts for at least the second time, and soon he joined the band of the institution, the Colored Waifs Home.
Armstrong wrote in his autobiography that “the band often got a chance to play at a private picnic or join one of the frequent parades through the streets of New Orleans covering all parts of the city, Uptown, Back o’ Town, Front o’ Town, Downtown.”
But the young musicians also played at least one venue that was more commercial in nature: the Crescent Theatre in what’s now the Central Business District. The performances there in 1913, which are not widely known to biographers of Armstrong, could be considered among his first gigs as a professional musician. They are also a stark reminder of the overt racism that pervaded all elements of New Orleans society during the Jim Crow era.
The show was “The White Slave,” a so-called racial melodrama written in 1882 by Bartley Campbell and set in the antebellum South. Campbell, who had worked in New Orleans as a young journalist before becoming a successful playwright, was institutionalized in an insane asylum several years after writing “The White Slave,” according to his 1888 obituary in The New York Times.
“The story of the drama is a simple one,” wrote The Daily Picayune in its Nov. 16, 1913, edition. “A girl grows up in an aristocratic Southern home under the belief that she is an octoroon, and falls a slave into the hands of a man who would betray her. She escapes with her lover, and after passing through many perils happiness comes at last with the knowledge that she is a free-born white woman.”
Lillian Lee Anderson was the star. Ticket prices were in line with other theaters in what was a hotly competitive market: You could see the Colored Waifs Home band for as little as 15 cents.
Armstrong is not mentioned by name in stories about the show, nor is any other member of the band. But the young African-American musicians were described as one of the highlights of the play, and the newspaper coverage suggests they were compensated for their work.
“Superintendent Agnew is making his negro band from the waif’s home earn their new uniforms at the Crescent this week. The sene-gambian music-makers are part of ‘The White Slave’ show — a big part, too,” The Daily Picayune wrote, referring to Thomas Agnew, a white man who was the leader of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. There is no mention of Peter Davis, who as the band director for the Colored Waifs Home trained a number of musicians who went on to great fame, or Capt. Joseph Jones, who operated the home with his wife, Manuella.
The press coverage of the young musicians is threadbare, but it does note that the songs they played were a mix of the old and new. There was even dancing at some of the performances.
“The negroes sang all the old familiar songs of the South, and mingled the ragtime melodies of today, responding to many encores,” The Daily Picayune wrote on Nov. 17. “Friday night there will be buck and wing dancing for money prizes.”
“This is the first I’ve heard about the Waif’s Home band playing behind a play in November 1913, and it offers fascinating insight into Armstrong’s earliest experiences as a young professional,” Ricky Riccardi, archivist at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum in New York and author of “What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years,” said in an email.
The Crescent, which was on Baronne Street near Common, was torn down in 1937. By then, Armstrong was famous worldwide for his music and had appeared in his first films. Lillian Lee Anderson seems to have faded into obscurity.
“Armstrong was at the Waifs Home for a year and a half,” Riccardi said, “and though he talked about it frequently he didn’t discuss the details of day-to-day life and the types of music he had to play. Learning about this one melodramatic production illustrates that Armstrong was already getting an education in the world of show business.”
The Daily Picayune did not publish photographs of “The White Slave” cast. But the French-language local newspaper L’Abeille printed a shot of a “scene de la plantation” in its Nov. 16, 1913, edition. It’s grainy, but in the front row, you can make out what appears to be a small group of children. Perhaps one of them is young Louis Armstrong, on stage at age 12, performing to get uniforms for his band.
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By James Karst, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/user/jameskarst/posts.html)
The raw details about Louis Armstrong’s formative years (http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/our_times_the_louis_armstrong.html) as a musician are well established. As a child, the future jazz icon was sent to a local reformatory of sorts for at least the second time, and soon he joined the band of the institution, the Colored Waifs Home.
Armstrong wrote in his autobiography that “the band often got a chance to play at a private picnic or join one of the frequent parades through the streets of New Orleans covering all parts of the city, Uptown, Back o’ Town, Front o’ Town, Downtown.”
But the young musicians also played at least one venue that was more commercial in nature: the Crescent Theatre in what’s now the Central Business District. The performances there in 1913, which are not widely known to biographers of Armstrong, could be considered among his first gigs as a professional musician. They are also a stark reminder of the overt racism that pervaded all elements of New Orleans society during the Jim Crow era.
The show was “The White Slave,” a so-called racial melodrama written in 1882 by Bartley Campbell and set in the antebellum South. Campbell, who had worked in New Orleans as a young journalist before becoming a successful playwright, was institutionalized in an insane asylum several years after writing “The White Slave,” according to his 1888 obituary in The New York Times.
“The story of the drama is a simple one,” wrote The Daily Picayune in its Nov. 16, 1913, edition. “A girl grows up in an aristocratic Southern home under the belief that she is an octoroon, and falls a slave into the hands of a man who would betray her. She escapes with her lover, and after passing through many perils happiness comes at last with the knowledge that she is a free-born white woman.”
Lillian Lee Anderson was the star. Ticket prices were in line with other theaters in what was a hotly competitive market: You could see the Colored Waifs Home band for as little as 15 cents.
Armstrong is not mentioned by name in stories about the show, nor is any other member of the band. But the young African-American musicians were described as one of the highlights of the play, and the newspaper coverage suggests they were compensated for their work.
“Superintendent Agnew is making his negro band from the waif’s home earn their new uniforms at the Crescent this week. The sene-gambian music-makers are part of ‘The White Slave’ show — a big part, too,” The Daily Picayune wrote, referring to Thomas Agnew, a white man who was the leader of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. There is no mention of Peter Davis, who as the band director for the Colored Waifs Home trained a number of musicians who went on to great fame, or Capt. Joseph Jones, who operated the home with his wife, Manuella.
The press coverage of the young musicians is threadbare, but it does note that the songs they played were a mix of the old and new. There was even dancing at some of the performances.
“The negroes sang all the old familiar songs of the South, and mingled the ragtime melodies of today, responding to many encores,” The Daily Picayune wrote on Nov. 17. “Friday night there will be buck and wing dancing for money prizes.”
“This is the first I’ve heard about the Waif’s Home band playing behind a play in November 1913, and it offers fascinating insight into Armstrong’s earliest experiences as a young professional,” Ricky Riccardi, archivist at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum in New York and author of “What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years,” said in an email.
The Crescent, which was on Baronne Street near Common, was torn down in 1937. By then, Armstrong was famous worldwide for his music and had appeared in his first films. Lillian Lee Anderson seems to have faded into obscurity.
“Armstrong was at the Waifs Home for a year and a half,” Riccardi said, “and though he talked about it frequently he didn’t discuss the details of day-to-day life and the types of music he had to play. Learning about this one melodramatic production illustrates that Armstrong was already getting an education in the world of show business.”
The Daily Picayune did not publish photographs of “The White Slave” cast. But the French-language local newspaper L’Abeille printed a shot of a “scene de la plantation” in its Nov. 16, 1913, edition. It’s grainy, but in the front row, you can make out what appears to be a small group of children. Perhaps one of them is young Louis Armstrong, on stage at age 12, performing to get uniforms for his band.
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Life is good when ‘Trombone Shorty’ gives horns and hope to the next generation of New Orleans musicians
By Sheila Stroup, The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/user/sstroup/posts.html)
At first, you might wonder why John Jacobs and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews would form a partnership. Jacobs, 47, is co-founder of the Life Is Good Company, best known for its T-shirts with positive messages. And Andrews, 29, is one of New Orleans best loved and most famous young jazz musicians. He has played all over the world, including the White House.
“We’ve been teaming up with other like-minded nonprofits,” Jacobs said, Monday (Oct. 5) afternoon, shortly before he talked to students at Warren Easton Charter High School. “Troy played at one of our Life Is Good festivals a while back, and he gets our message.”
[ Trombone Shorty gives Warren Easton students something to dance about (http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/10/trombone_shorty_gives_warren_e.html) ]
The message Jacobs and his brother, Bert, 50, want to share is this: We have a choice when we wake up in the morning, a way to see the world. We can focus on what’s right or on what’s wrong. And it’s a whole lot better to focus on what’s right.
“It’s really a philosophy for living a happy, fulfilled life,” Jacobs said, when we sat down to talk.
He and Bert are in the middle of a nationwide Grow the Good “giveback” tour, traveling 3,000 miles to visit more than 40 communities and to raise and distribute more than $1 million for kids in need.
“We’re in an Airstream trailer, which is a little better than a used minivan,” Jacobs said, referring to the burgundy Dodge Voyager that started them on their adventure — a journey that has lasted a quarter of a century.
He gave me the nutshell version of how they got to where they are now. (A longer one is in “Life Is Good: The Book — How to live with purpose and enjoy the ride,” (http://www.lifeisgood.com/home-pet/life-is-good-the-book-collection/life-is-good-the-book/life-is-good%3A-the-book–how-to-live-with-purpose-and-enjoy-the-ride-27887.html) published by National Geographic in September.)
Jacobs and his brother grew up outside Boston, the youngest of six children in a loving, rough-and-tumble Irish family. Their lives changed after their parents were in a life-threatening automobile accident that left their dad with a useless right hand. He managed to go back to work and provide for his family, but he turned into an angry man, prone to outbursts that made the kids feel like they were living in a pressure-cooker.
“Our mom was the glue that held us together,” Jacobs said. “She was the first powerful optimist in our life.”
She taught her children to use their imaginations and encouraged them to try new things. And every night at dinner she would make the same request of each one. She’d say “Tell me something good that happened today.”
“She was the No. 1 inspiration for Life Is Good,” Jacobs said.
When Jacobs, an English and art major, was about to finish college, he and Bert, a communications major, decided to go into business together.
“We were trying to combine art with business,” he said.
They came up with the idea of designing T-shirts and selling them on college campuses. Eventually, they bought the used minivan they named “The Enterprise,” and took out the back seats. And in 1989 they set off “to boldly go where no T-shirt guys had gone before.”
They traveled to colleges along the East Coast, knocking on dorm-room doors and hoping for sales. They lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and slept in the back of the van on top of the T-shirts.
“We were wildly unsuccessful for five years,” Jacobs said.
Of course, I had to ask how their parents felt about the brothers’ endeavor.
“We were lucky. They didn’t say, ‘When are you going to get a real job?'” Jacobs said. “They always encouraged us and wanted to know how we were doing.”
They were enjoying themselves, but by 1994 they realized their business model was lacking, and they rented a cheap apartment in Brooklyn to use as a design space, office and place to sleep. Everything changed when they dreamed up a T-shirt with three simple words on it: “Life is good.”
“We took 48 shirts to a street fair and sold them all in less than an hour,” Jacobs said. “We’d never seen anything like that.”
By 1995, they had a new name for their company and a new mission: To spread the power of optimism.
“The message is so strong and so needed, it kind of carried us forward,” he said.
‘The message is so strong and so needed, it kind of carried us forward.’ — John Jacobs on Life is Good
And 20 years later, he was in the auditorium at Warren Easton, wearing a blue T-shirt that said “Spread good vibes” and delivering that message to 200 students and faculty members.
As he paced back and forth, he told them that life isn’t easy, life isn’t perfect, but life is good. He spoke about the people who wrote emails and letters to him and his brother saying that having an optimistic view of the world helped get them through the hardest times of their lives.
“People seem to have a heightened sense of gratitude when they’re going through great adversity,” he said.
He told the students, “Do what you love, and love what you do,” and threw Frisbees into the audience printed with those words.
Then he went up on the stage with one of Warren Easton’s most famous graduates, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, to talk about the power of music to transform lives.
Andrews spoke about growing up in Treme, where music was everywhere, and about having the chance to play with great New Orleans musicians.
“I had older musicians pushing me every day. I was not being treated like a kid,” he said. “My older brother James took me to Europe when I was 7 years old.”
He explained that he started the Trombone Shorty Foundation (http://www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org/) to pass the music along to the next generation. The Trombone Shorty Academy provides music education and mentoring for musically gifted high school students, and the Fredman Music Business Institute (http://www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org/programs/business-programs/) teaches them about the business side of music.
“The music business is very hard,” he told the students on Monday.
But Andrews had mainly come to share the power of music by blowing his horn and joining Jacobs in making a presentation of six gorgeous new instruments — three trombones and three trumpets — to some lucky students in the school’s music program.
‘Trombone Shorty’, Life is Good (http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2015/10/trombone_shorty_life_is_good.html) An auditorium full of high school students at Warren Easton was treated to a presentation by John Jacobs of Life is Good, and Trombone Shorty. At the end of the presentation, the school was given musical instruments. The Life is Good Company is a $100 million lifestyle brand dedicated to spreading the power of optimism. The company donates 10 percent of its net profits to help kids in need. To date, the company has donated over $11 million, principally through Life is Good products, events and community fundraising efforts. Monday October 5, 2015.
As soon as they made the presentation “to keep the music alive and well,” the New Breed Brass Band joined Andrews on stage, and then the students raised their horns and played with Andrews and the band.
In no time, audience members were up on their feet dancing, and Jacobs joined them enthusiastically, doing his best to get his funk on. It was a lovely way to start the school week.
Afterward, when Alton Harris sat holding his new trombone with Trombone Shorty’s autograph on it, he seemed stunned.
“I’m crying on the inside,” he said. “I’ve never played with people like that before. It was so, just, up there.”
He said it felt like a dream come true. “I never thought I’d have my hands on one of his horns. It’s like Christmas,” he said.
When the auditorium was clearing out, I stopped to talk to Andrews. I told him I was in the audience when he was the guest on the NPR radio show “Wait Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me” at the Saenger Theater (http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2015/03/wait_wait_dont_tell_me_taping.html) in March, and that he was hilarious.
My favorite story was about the time his band had been arrested for making too much noise at Jackson Square when he was 10, and he told the audience, “No Lucky Dog that day.”
I asked if he really used his foot to operate the slide on his trombone when he was too small for his arm to reach all the way.
“I did,” he said, laughing. “It was hard to get it back, though. I caught a couple of charley horses doing it.”
He told me why he’s so passionate about passing on the music.
“Music is a way of life here,” he said. “It’s the heartbeat of the city.”
When he was growing up in Treme, he would ride his bike to McDonogh 15 School in the French Quarter, and his world was filled with music.
“One day I heard a jazz funeral in the morning, and then Rebirth celebrating someone’s birthday when I rode home in the afternoon,” he said.
His family lived across the street from the late Wilbert “Junkyard Dog” Arnold, longtime drummer for Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s Roadrunners.
“I remember him pulling out his drum set in front of his house,” Andrews said. “He would play on one side, and James and I would play on the other, with traffic in between.”
I told him that the late Clyde Kerr Jr. had said the same thing about his Treme neighborhood many years earlier. Andrews’ eyes lit up when I mentioned the renowned jazz trumpeter.
“Clyde Kerr Jr. was my teacher,” he said, with reverence in his voice. “He made me believe I would be a musician.”
So Andrews passes along the music to honor his teacher and all the others who have helped him along the way, like his brother, members of the Rebirth Brass Band, and Kermit Ruffins.
“Since the storm, we don’t have that whole neighborhood thing going on,” he said. “So I want to teach these young musicians what came before them and also help them move the music forward.”
The Jacobs brothers’ message of giving back and celebrating optimism resonates with him.
“Each day is a moment to appreciate,” he said. “I take life as it’s given to me every day.”
That philosophy is working well for the award-winning horn player, I thought, and for the Jacobs brothers, too.
They went from living in the back of a Dodge Voyager to owning a $100 million company that gives 10 percent of its profits to improve the lives of children in need. So far their Life Is Good Kids Foundation has doled out more than $11 million.
Their mom had the right idea when she asked them to find something good in every day. It’s something we all should try to do.
Contact Sheila Stroup at sstroup@bellsouth.net (mailto:sstroup@bellsouth.net) .
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Life is good when ‘Trombone Shorty’ gives horns and hope to the next generation of New Orleans musicians
By Sheila Stroup, The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/user/sstroup/posts.html)
At first, you might wonder why John Jacobs and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews would form a partnership. Jacobs, 47, is co-founder of the Life Is Good Company, best known for its T-shirts with positive messages. And Andrews, 29, is one of New Orleans best loved and most famous young jazz musicians. He has played all over the world, including the White House.
“We’ve been teaming up with other like-minded nonprofits,” Jacobs said, Monday (Oct. 5) afternoon, shortly before he talked to students at Warren Easton Charter High School. “Troy played at one of our Life Is Good festivals a while back, and he gets our message.”
[ Trombone Shorty gives Warren Easton students something to dance about (http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/10/trombone_shorty_gives_warren_e.html) ]
The message Jacobs and his brother, Bert, 50, want to share is this: We have a choice when we wake up in the morning, a way to see the world. We can focus on what’s right or on what’s wrong. And it’s a whole lot better to focus on what’s right.
“It’s really a philosophy for living a happy, fulfilled life,” Jacobs said, when we sat down to talk.
He and Bert are in the middle of a nationwide Grow the Good “giveback” tour, traveling 3,000 miles to visit more than 40 communities and to raise and distribute more than $1 million for kids in need.
“We’re in an Airstream trailer, which is a little better than a used minivan,” Jacobs said, referring to the burgundy Dodge Voyager that started them on their adventure — a journey that has lasted a quarter of a century.
He gave me the nutshell version of how they got to where they are now. (A longer one is in “Life Is Good: The Book — How to live with purpose and enjoy the ride,” (http://www.lifeisgood.com/home-pet/life-is-good-the-book-collection/life-is-good-the-book/life-is-good%3A-the-book–how-to-live-with-purpose-and-enjoy-the-ride-27887.html) published by National Geographic in September.)
Jacobs and his brother grew up outside Boston, the youngest of six children in a loving, rough-and-tumble Irish family. Their lives changed after their parents were in a life-threatening automobile accident that left their dad with a useless right hand. He managed to go back to work and provide for his family, but he turned into an angry man, prone to outbursts that made the kids feel like they were living in a pressure-cooker.
“Our mom was the glue that held us together,” Jacobs said. “She was the first powerful optimist in our life.”
She taught her children to use their imaginations and encouraged them to try new things. And every night at dinner she would make the same request of each one. She’d say “Tell me something good that happened today.”
“She was the No. 1 inspiration for Life Is Good,” Jacobs said.
When Jacobs, an English and art major, was about to finish college, he and Bert, a communications major, decided to go into business together.
“We were trying to combine art with business,” he said.
They came up with the idea of designing T-shirts and selling them on college campuses. Eventually, they bought the used minivan they named “The Enterprise,” and took out the back seats. And in 1989 they set off “to boldly go where no T-shirt guys had gone before.”
They traveled to colleges along the East Coast, knocking on dorm-room doors and hoping for sales. They lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and slept in the back of the van on top of the T-shirts.
“We were wildly unsuccessful for five years,” Jacobs said.
Of course, I had to ask how their parents felt about the brothers’ endeavor.
“We were lucky. They didn’t say, ‘When are you going to get a real job?'” Jacobs said. “They always encouraged us and wanted to know how we were doing.”
They were enjoying themselves, but by 1994 they realized their business model was lacking, and they rented a cheap apartment in Brooklyn to use as a design space, office and place to sleep. Everything changed when they dreamed up a T-shirt with three simple words on it: “Life is good.”
“We took 48 shirts to a street fair and sold them all in less than an hour,” Jacobs said. “We’d never seen anything like that.”
By 1995, they had a new name for their company and a new mission: To spread the power of optimism.
“The message is so strong and so needed, it kind of carried us forward,” he said.
‘The message is so strong and so needed, it kind of carried us forward.’ — John Jacobs on Life is Good
And 20 years later, he was in the auditorium at Warren Easton, wearing a blue T-shirt that said “Spread good vibes” and delivering that message to 200 students and faculty members.
As he paced back and forth, he told them that life isn’t easy, life isn’t perfect, but life is good. He spoke about the people who wrote emails and letters to him and his brother saying that having an optimistic view of the world helped get them through the hardest times of their lives.
“People seem to have a heightened sense of gratitude when they’re going through great adversity,” he said.
He told the students, “Do what you love, and love what you do,” and threw Frisbees into the audience printed with those words.
Then he went up on the stage with one of Warren Easton’s most famous graduates, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, to talk about the power of music to transform lives.
Andrews spoke about growing up in Treme, where music was everywhere, and about having the chance to play with great New Orleans musicians.
“I had older musicians pushing me every day. I was not being treated like a kid,” he said. “My older brother James took me to Europe when I was 7 years old.”
He explained that he started the Trombone Shorty Foundation (http://www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org/) to pass the music along to the next generation. The Trombone Shorty Academy provides music education and mentoring for musically gifted high school students, and the Fredman Music Business Institute (http://www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org/programs/business-programs/) teaches them about the business side of music.
“The music business is very hard,” he told the students on Monday.
But Andrews had mainly come to share the power of music by blowing his horn and joining Jacobs in making a presentation of six gorgeous new instruments — three trombones and three trumpets — to some lucky students in the school’s music program.
‘Trombone Shorty’, Life is Good (http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2015/10/trombone_shorty_life_is_good.html) An auditorium full of high school students at Warren Easton was treated to a presentation by John Jacobs of Life is Good, and Trombone Shorty. At the end of the presentation, the school was given musical instruments. The Life is Good Company is a $100 million lifestyle brand dedicated to spreading the power of optimism. The company donates 10 percent of its net profits to help kids in need. To date, the company has donated over $11 million, principally through Life is Good products, events and community fundraising efforts. Monday October 5, 2015.
As soon as they made the presentation “to keep the music alive and well,” the New Breed Brass Band joined Andrews on stage, and then the students raised their horns and played with Andrews and the band.
In no time, audience members were up on their feet dancing, and Jacobs joined them enthusiastically, doing his best to get his funk on. It was a lovely way to start the school week.
Afterward, when Alton Harris sat holding his new trombone with Trombone Shorty’s autograph on it, he seemed stunned.
“I’m crying on the inside,” he said. “I’ve never played with people like that before. It was so, just, up there.”
He said it felt like a dream come true. “I never thought I’d have my hands on one of his horns. It’s like Christmas,” he said.
When the auditorium was clearing out, I stopped to talk to Andrews. I told him I was in the audience when he was the guest on the NPR radio show “Wait Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me” at the Saenger Theater (http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2015/03/wait_wait_dont_tell_me_taping.html) in March, and that he was hilarious.
My favorite story was about the time his band had been arrested for making too much noise at Jackson Square when he was 10, and he told the audience, “No Lucky Dog that day.”
I asked if he really used his foot to operate the slide on his trombone when he was too small for his arm to reach all the way.
“I did,” he said, laughing. “It was hard to get it back, though. I caught a couple of charley horses doing it.”
He told me why he’s so passionate about passing on the music.
“Music is a way of life here,” he said. “It’s the heartbeat of the city.”
When he was growing up in Treme, he would ride his bike to McDonogh 15 School in the French Quarter, and his world was filled with music.
“One day I heard a jazz funeral in the morning, and then Rebirth celebrating someone’s birthday when I rode home in the afternoon,” he said.
His family lived across the street from the late Wilbert “Junkyard Dog” Arnold, longtime drummer for Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s Roadrunners.
“I remember him pulling out his drum set in front of his house,” Andrews said. “He would play on one side, and James and I would play on the other, with traffic in between.”
I told him that the late Clyde Kerr Jr. had said the same thing about his Treme neighborhood many years earlier. Andrews’ eyes lit up when I mentioned the renowned jazz trumpeter.
“Clyde Kerr Jr. was my teacher,” he said, with reverence in his voice. “He made me believe I would be a musician.”
So Andrews passes along the music to honor his teacher and all the others who have helped him along the way, like his brother, members of the Rebirth Brass Band, and Kermit Ruffins.
“Since the storm, we don’t have that whole neighborhood thing going on,” he said. “So I want to teach these young musicians what came before them and also help them move the music forward.”
The Jacobs brothers’ message of giving back and celebrating optimism resonates with him.
“Each day is a moment to appreciate,” he said. “I take life as it’s given to me every day.”
That philosophy is working well for the award-winning horn player, I thought, and for the Jacobs brothers, too.
They went from living in the back of a Dodge Voyager to owning a $100 million company that gives 10 percent of its profits to improve the lives of children in need. So far their Life Is Good Kids Foundation has doled out more than $11 million.
Their mom had the right idea when she asked them to find something good in every day. It’s something we all should try to do.
Contact Sheila Stroup at sstroup@bellsouth.net (mailto:sstroup@bellsouth.net) .
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Life is good when ‘Trombone Shorty’ gives horns and hope to the next generation of New Orleans musicians
By Sheila Stroup, The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/user/sstroup/posts.html)
At first, you might wonder why John Jacobs and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews would form a partnership. Jacobs, 47, is co-founder of the Life Is Good Company, best known for its T-shirts with positive messages. And Andrews, 29, is one of New Orleans best loved and most famous young jazz musicians. He has played all over the world, including the White House.
“We’ve been teaming up with other like-minded nonprofits,” Jacobs said, Monday (Oct. 5) afternoon, shortly before he talked to students at Warren Easton Charter High School. “Troy played at one of our Life Is Good festivals a while back, and he gets our message.”
[ Trombone Shorty gives Warren Easton students something to dance about (http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/10/trombone_shorty_gives_warren_e.html) ]
The message Jacobs and his brother, Bert, 50, want to share is this: We have a choice when we wake up in the morning, a way to see the world. We can focus on what’s right or on what’s wrong. And it’s a whole lot better to focus on what’s right.
“It’s really a philosophy for living a happy, fulfilled life,” Jacobs said, when we sat down to talk.
He and Bert are in the middle of a nationwide Grow the Good “giveback” tour, traveling 3,000 miles to visit more than 40 communities and to raise and distribute more than $1 million for kids in need.
“We’re in an Airstream trailer, which is a little better than a used minivan,” Jacobs said, referring to the burgundy Dodge Voyager that started them on their adventure — a journey that has lasted a quarter of a century.
He gave me the nutshell version of how they got to where they are now. (A longer one is in “Life Is Good: The Book — How to live with purpose and enjoy the ride,” (http://www.lifeisgood.com/home-pet/life-is-good-the-book-collection/life-is-good-the-book/life-is-good%3A-the-book–how-to-live-with-purpose-and-enjoy-the-ride-27887.html) published by National Geographic in September.)
Jacobs and his brother grew up outside Boston, the youngest of six children in a loving, rough-and-tumble Irish family. Their lives changed after their parents were in a life-threatening automobile accident that left their dad with a useless right hand. He managed to go back to work and provide for his family, but he turned into an angry man, prone to outbursts that made the kids feel like they were living in a pressure-cooker.
“Our mom was the glue that held us together,” Jacobs said. “She was the first powerful optimist in our life.”
She taught her children to use their imaginations and encouraged them to try new things. And every night at dinner she would make the same request of each one. She’d say “Tell me something good that happened today.”
“She was the No. 1 inspiration for Life Is Good,” Jacobs said.
When Jacobs, an English and art major, was about to finish college, he and Bert, a communications major, decided to go into business together.
“We were trying to combine art with business,” he said.
They came up with the idea of designing T-shirts and selling them on college campuses. Eventually, they bought the used minivan they named “The Enterprise,” and took out the back seats. And in 1989 they set off “to boldly go where no T-shirt guys had gone before.”
They traveled to colleges along the East Coast, knocking on dorm-room doors and hoping for sales. They lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and slept in the back of the van on top of the T-shirts.
“We were wildly unsuccessful for five years,” Jacobs said.
Of course, I had to ask how their parents felt about the brothers’ endeavor.
“We were lucky. They didn’t say, ‘When are you going to get a real job?'” Jacobs said. “They always encouraged us and wanted to know how we were doing.”
They were enjoying themselves, but by 1994 they realized their business model was lacking, and they rented a cheap apartment in Brooklyn to use as a design space, office and place to sleep. Everything changed when they dreamed up a T-shirt with three simple words on it: “Life is good.”
“We took 48 shirts to a street fair and sold them all in less than an hour,” Jacobs said. “We’d never seen anything like that.”
By 1995, they had a new name for their company and a new mission: To spread the power of optimism.
“The message is so strong and so needed, it kind of carried us forward,” he said.
‘The message is so strong and so needed, it kind of carried us forward.’ — John Jacobs on Life is Good
And 20 years later, he was in the auditorium at Warren Easton, wearing a blue T-shirt that said “Spread good vibes” and delivering that message to 200 students and faculty members.
As he paced back and forth, he told them that life isn’t easy, life isn’t perfect, but life is good. He spoke about the people who wrote emails and letters to him and his brother saying that having an optimistic view of the world helped get them through the hardest times of their lives.
“People seem to have a heightened sense of gratitude when they’re going through great adversity,” he said.
He told the students, “Do what you love, and love what you do,” and threw Frisbees into the audience printed with those words.
Then he went up on the stage with one of Warren Easton’s most famous graduates, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, to talk about the power of music to transform lives.
Andrews spoke about growing up in Treme, where music was everywhere, and about having the chance to play with great New Orleans musicians.
“I had older musicians pushing me every day. I was not being treated like a kid,” he said. “My older brother James took me to Europe when I was 7 years old.”
He explained that he started the Trombone Shorty Foundation (http://www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org/) to pass the music along to the next generation. The Trombone Shorty Academy provides music education and mentoring for musically gifted high school students, and the Fredman Music Business Institute (http://www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org/programs/business-programs/) teaches them about the business side of music.
“The music business is very hard,” he told the students on Monday.
But Andrews had mainly come to share the power of music by blowing his horn and joining Jacobs in making a presentation of six gorgeous new instruments — three trombones and three trumpets — to some lucky students in the school’s music program.
‘Trombone Shorty’, Life is Good (http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2015/10/trombone_shorty_life_is_good.html) An auditorium full of high school students at Warren Easton was treated to a presentation by John Jacobs of Life is Good, and Trombone Shorty. At the end of the presentation, the school was given musical instruments. The Life is Good Company is a $100 million lifestyle brand dedicated to spreading the power of optimism. The company donates 10 percent of its net profits to help kids in need. To date, the company has donated over $11 million, principally through Life is Good products, events and community fundraising efforts. Monday October 5, 2015.
As soon as they made the presentation “to keep the music alive and well,” the New Breed Brass Band joined Andrews on stage, and then the students raised their horns and played with Andrews and the band.
In no time, audience members were up on their feet dancing, and Jacobs joined them enthusiastically, doing his best to get his funk on. It was a lovely way to start the school week.
Afterward, when Alton Harris sat holding his new trombone with Trombone Shorty’s autograph on it, he seemed stunned.
“I’m crying on the inside,” he said. “I’ve never played with people like that before. It was so, just, up there.”
He said it felt like a dream come true. “I never thought I’d have my hands on one of his horns. It’s like Christmas,” he said.
When the auditorium was clearing out, I stopped to talk to Andrews. I told him I was in the audience when he was the guest on the NPR radio show “Wait Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me” at the Saenger Theater (http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2015/03/wait_wait_dont_tell_me_taping.html) in March, and that he was hilarious.
My favorite story was about the time his band had been arrested for making too much noise at Jackson Square when he was 10, and he told the audience, “No Lucky Dog that day.”
I asked if he really used his foot to operate the slide on his trombone when he was too small for his arm to reach all the way.
“I did,” he said, laughing. “It was hard to get it back, though. I caught a couple of charley horses doing it.”
He told me why he’s so passionate about passing on the music.
“Music is a way of life here,” he said. “It’s the heartbeat of the city.”
When he was growing up in Treme, he would ride his bike to McDonogh 15 School in the French Quarter, and his world was filled with music.
“One day I heard a jazz funeral in the morning, and then Rebirth celebrating someone’s birthday when I rode home in the afternoon,” he said.
His family lived across the street from the late Wilbert “Junkyard Dog” Arnold, longtime drummer for Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s Roadrunners.
“I remember him pulling out his drum set in front of his house,” Andrews said. “He would play on one side, and James and I would play on the other, with traffic in between.”
I told him that the late Clyde Kerr Jr. had said the same thing about his Treme neighborhood many years earlier. Andrews’ eyes lit up when I mentioned the renowned jazz trumpeter.
“Clyde Kerr Jr. was my teacher,” he said, with reverence in his voice. “He made me believe I would be a musician.”
So Andrews passes along the music to honor his teacher and all the others who have helped him along the way, like his brother, members of the Rebirth Brass Band, and Kermit Ruffins.
“Since the storm, we don’t have that whole neighborhood thing going on,” he said. “So I want to teach these young musicians what came before them and also help them move the music forward.”
The Jacobs brothers’ message of giving back and celebrating optimism resonates with him.
“Each day is a moment to appreciate,” he said. “I take life as it’s given to me every day.”
That philosophy is working well for the award-winning horn player, I thought, and for the Jacobs brothers, too.
They went from living in the back of a Dodge Voyager to owning a $100 million company that gives 10 percent of its profits to improve the lives of children in need. So far their Life Is Good Kids Foundation has doled out more than $11 million.
Their mom had the right idea when she asked them to find something good in every day. It’s something we all should try to do.
Contact Sheila Stroup at sstroup@bellsouth.net (mailto:sstroup@bellsouth.net) .
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BY HOWARD COHEN
Larry Rosen, already renowned in the music industry for co-founding the contemporary jazz label GRP with musician Dave Grusin, was already into his 60s when the business as he knew it went to hell. The biz was absconded by those young’uns with their free Napster downloads. The looming rise of Apple’s iTunes Store would soon turn CDs — a format Rosen pushed on wary record labels in the early-’80s — into shiny coasters to set their beer koozies.
So what’s an older music man to do? Defy, defy, defy. Rosen, who lived part-time on Fisher Island, had made millions and altered the sound of Miami with his popular Jazz Roots series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts by defying expectations his entire life.
Rosen, who died Friday at his home in New Jersey at 75 from brain cancer, embraced change and technology. He sold GRP for some $60 million in 1990, and launched N2K, an early online music site in the mid-’90s. He quipped in a 2011 Miami Herald article, “That’s something for a drummer from the Bronx whose mother didn’t want him to be a musician.”
Even rocker David Bowie, known for his trailblazing, approached Rosen, the jazz man, in 1996, to pick his brain on how best to sell his single Telling Lies. Bowie’s major label, Virgin, wouldn’t allow the star to release the track digitally without a parent album to promote.
“Technology is going in one direction, consumers are going in that direction and you are a total ass if you are trying to stop it. But that’s what they tried to do. And you can see what happened: they killed themselves,” Rosen told Miami freelance writer and jazz critic Fernando Gonzalez, a former Herald pop music critic, for a 2009 feature in the International Review of Music blog.
Rosen sold GRP, the contemporary jazz label he co-founded with musician Dave Grusin in 1982, to MCA (now Universal) for some $60 million in 1990.
“You won’t stop technology or progress. It’s that simple.”
Then there’s Miami. Failed jazz clubs, one after the other. This isn’t New York City’s 52nd Street.
But Rosen, who produced and engineered music for his GRP artists, which included contemporary jazz artists like Patti Austin, Spyro Gyra, the Rippingtons, Diane Schuur and Arturo Sandoval, defied prevailing logic. He saw major possibilities for jazz at the Arsht on Biscayne Boulevard.
In 2008, he debuted his Jazz Roots series at the venue. That first season, Rosen presented Dave Brubeck, Paquito D’Rivera, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea and others. To expose the culture to youth, Rosen and the Arsht saw to it that high school students were brought into the center to interact with musicians and learn from Rosen. About 150 Miami-Dade Schools students still attend each Miami concert.
For his contributions to South Florida’s cultural community — and beyond, John Richard, president and CEO of the Arsht, considers Rosen a towering figure in popular culture and a close friend.
“He was a giant in the field and brought that talent to Miami late in his career. The Jazz Roots program collaboration with the Arsht Center was just a stunning accomplishment …a brilliant stroke of genius,” Richard said. “He did this with love and passion for the genre of jazz and the musicians that performed. He approached it with incredible excitement, enthusiasm, tireless energy … and made it a key point that the Miami audience would continue to support jazz long into the future.”
For Rosen, who defied his parents when they tried to push him into a conventional career, like a doctor or lawyer, and for the adult who later defied the major labels who wanted to cling to 12-inch vinyl rather than the 5-inch digital compact disc, Rosen marched to his own inner muse.
That’s something for a drummer from the Bronx whose mother didn’t want him to be a musician.
Larry Rosen, on selling GRP, the label he co-founded, for $60 million, in a 2011 Miami Herald story.
“If you look at musical movements in America they’ve all come from some city that´s going through some social change: think New Orleans, think New York City, obviously; or Chicago and the blues; Kansas City at a certain time, Nashville of course, Los Angeles, San Francisco during the ’60s. I think the next place is Miami. I totally believe this is where the next music in the United States is going to be formulated,” he told the International Review of Music.
“Mr. Rosen made an important contribution to the cultural scene of Miami. Jazz lives in a difficult space between its artistic possibilities and the demands of the marketplace. That’s a tough balance to achieve. Mr Rosen’s knowledge of the music, his experience as a musician, producer and entrepreneur was key for putting jazz front and center at one of our most important venues and making it part of the conversation in Miami culture,” said Gonzalez.
Rosen, born May 25, 1940, in New York City, just knew. Miami had the ingredients — the ethnic potpourri, the growing art scene, investors with deep pockets, the right venue, and curiosity. Rosen figured out how to make the pieces work together.
In 2011, Rosen, who, for a time, served on the board of YoungArts in Miami, told Fisher Island Magazine, “We could use music as a vehicle for bringing the community together.”
Rosen is survived by his wife, Hazel; his children Jerold (J.J.) Rosen and Sandra Rosen Honigman; his grandchildren, Matthew, Sammy, Eric, Craig; his mother Vivian Rosen and his sister Susan Zelinka. Services will be private. A public memorial service is in the planning stages.
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Jazz Roots producer, music executive Larry Rosen dies at 75 | Miami Herald
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** Jazz Roots producer, music executive Larry Rosen dies at 75
————————————————————
BY HOWARD COHEN
Larry Rosen, already renowned in the music industry for co-founding the contemporary jazz label GRP with musician Dave Grusin, was already into his 60s when the business as he knew it went to hell. The biz was absconded by those young’uns with their free Napster downloads. The looming rise of Apple’s iTunes Store would soon turn CDs — a format Rosen pushed on wary record labels in the early-’80s — into shiny coasters to set their beer koozies.
So what’s an older music man to do? Defy, defy, defy. Rosen, who lived part-time on Fisher Island, had made millions and altered the sound of Miami with his popular Jazz Roots series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts by defying expectations his entire life.
Rosen, who died Friday at his home in New Jersey at 75 from brain cancer, embraced change and technology. He sold GRP for some $60 million in 1990, and launched N2K, an early online music site in the mid-’90s. He quipped in a 2011 Miami Herald article, “That’s something for a drummer from the Bronx whose mother didn’t want him to be a musician.”
Even rocker David Bowie, known for his trailblazing, approached Rosen, the jazz man, in 1996, to pick his brain on how best to sell his single Telling Lies. Bowie’s major label, Virgin, wouldn’t allow the star to release the track digitally without a parent album to promote.
“Technology is going in one direction, consumers are going in that direction and you are a total ass if you are trying to stop it. But that’s what they tried to do. And you can see what happened: they killed themselves,” Rosen told Miami freelance writer and jazz critic Fernando Gonzalez, a former Herald pop music critic, for a 2009 feature in the International Review of Music blog.
Rosen sold GRP, the contemporary jazz label he co-founded with musician Dave Grusin in 1982, to MCA (now Universal) for some $60 million in 1990.
“You won’t stop technology or progress. It’s that simple.”
Then there’s Miami. Failed jazz clubs, one after the other. This isn’t New York City’s 52nd Street.
But Rosen, who produced and engineered music for his GRP artists, which included contemporary jazz artists like Patti Austin, Spyro Gyra, the Rippingtons, Diane Schuur and Arturo Sandoval, defied prevailing logic. He saw major possibilities for jazz at the Arsht on Biscayne Boulevard.
In 2008, he debuted his Jazz Roots series at the venue. That first season, Rosen presented Dave Brubeck, Paquito D’Rivera, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea and others. To expose the culture to youth, Rosen and the Arsht saw to it that high school students were brought into the center to interact with musicians and learn from Rosen. About 150 Miami-Dade Schools students still attend each Miami concert.
For his contributions to South Florida’s cultural community — and beyond, John Richard, president and CEO of the Arsht, considers Rosen a towering figure in popular culture and a close friend.
“He was a giant in the field and brought that talent to Miami late in his career. The Jazz Roots program collaboration with the Arsht Center was just a stunning accomplishment …a brilliant stroke of genius,” Richard said. “He did this with love and passion for the genre of jazz and the musicians that performed. He approached it with incredible excitement, enthusiasm, tireless energy … and made it a key point that the Miami audience would continue to support jazz long into the future.”
For Rosen, who defied his parents when they tried to push him into a conventional career, like a doctor or lawyer, and for the adult who later defied the major labels who wanted to cling to 12-inch vinyl rather than the 5-inch digital compact disc, Rosen marched to his own inner muse.
That’s something for a drummer from the Bronx whose mother didn’t want him to be a musician.
Larry Rosen, on selling GRP, the label he co-founded, for $60 million, in a 2011 Miami Herald story.
“If you look at musical movements in America they’ve all come from some city that´s going through some social change: think New Orleans, think New York City, obviously; or Chicago and the blues; Kansas City at a certain time, Nashville of course, Los Angeles, San Francisco during the ’60s. I think the next place is Miami. I totally believe this is where the next music in the United States is going to be formulated,” he told the International Review of Music.
“Mr. Rosen made an important contribution to the cultural scene of Miami. Jazz lives in a difficult space between its artistic possibilities and the demands of the marketplace. That’s a tough balance to achieve. Mr Rosen’s knowledge of the music, his experience as a musician, producer and entrepreneur was key for putting jazz front and center at one of our most important venues and making it part of the conversation in Miami culture,” said Gonzalez.
Rosen, born May 25, 1940, in New York City, just knew. Miami had the ingredients — the ethnic potpourri, the growing art scene, investors with deep pockets, the right venue, and curiosity. Rosen figured out how to make the pieces work together.
In 2011, Rosen, who, for a time, served on the board of YoungArts in Miami, told Fisher Island Magazine, “We could use music as a vehicle for bringing the community together.”
Rosen is survived by his wife, Hazel; his children Jerold (J.J.) Rosen and Sandra Rosen Honigman; his grandchildren, Matthew, Sammy, Eric, Craig; his mother Vivian Rosen and his sister Susan Zelinka. Services will be private. A public memorial service is in the planning stages.
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Jazz Roots producer, music executive Larry Rosen dies at 75 | Miami Herald
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** Jazz Roots producer, music executive Larry Rosen dies at 75
————————————————————
BY HOWARD COHEN
Larry Rosen, already renowned in the music industry for co-founding the contemporary jazz label GRP with musician Dave Grusin, was already into his 60s when the business as he knew it went to hell. The biz was absconded by those young’uns with their free Napster downloads. The looming rise of Apple’s iTunes Store would soon turn CDs — a format Rosen pushed on wary record labels in the early-’80s — into shiny coasters to set their beer koozies.
So what’s an older music man to do? Defy, defy, defy. Rosen, who lived part-time on Fisher Island, had made millions and altered the sound of Miami with his popular Jazz Roots series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts by defying expectations his entire life.
Rosen, who died Friday at his home in New Jersey at 75 from brain cancer, embraced change and technology. He sold GRP for some $60 million in 1990, and launched N2K, an early online music site in the mid-’90s. He quipped in a 2011 Miami Herald article, “That’s something for a drummer from the Bronx whose mother didn’t want him to be a musician.”
Even rocker David Bowie, known for his trailblazing, approached Rosen, the jazz man, in 1996, to pick his brain on how best to sell his single Telling Lies. Bowie’s major label, Virgin, wouldn’t allow the star to release the track digitally without a parent album to promote.
“Technology is going in one direction, consumers are going in that direction and you are a total ass if you are trying to stop it. But that’s what they tried to do. And you can see what happened: they killed themselves,” Rosen told Miami freelance writer and jazz critic Fernando Gonzalez, a former Herald pop music critic, for a 2009 feature in the International Review of Music blog.
Rosen sold GRP, the contemporary jazz label he co-founded with musician Dave Grusin in 1982, to MCA (now Universal) for some $60 million in 1990.
“You won’t stop technology or progress. It’s that simple.”
Then there’s Miami. Failed jazz clubs, one after the other. This isn’t New York City’s 52nd Street.
But Rosen, who produced and engineered music for his GRP artists, which included contemporary jazz artists like Patti Austin, Spyro Gyra, the Rippingtons, Diane Schuur and Arturo Sandoval, defied prevailing logic. He saw major possibilities for jazz at the Arsht on Biscayne Boulevard.
In 2008, he debuted his Jazz Roots series at the venue. That first season, Rosen presented Dave Brubeck, Paquito D’Rivera, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea and others. To expose the culture to youth, Rosen and the Arsht saw to it that high school students were brought into the center to interact with musicians and learn from Rosen. About 150 Miami-Dade Schools students still attend each Miami concert.
For his contributions to South Florida’s cultural community — and beyond, John Richard, president and CEO of the Arsht, considers Rosen a towering figure in popular culture and a close friend.
“He was a giant in the field and brought that talent to Miami late in his career. The Jazz Roots program collaboration with the Arsht Center was just a stunning accomplishment …a brilliant stroke of genius,” Richard said. “He did this with love and passion for the genre of jazz and the musicians that performed. He approached it with incredible excitement, enthusiasm, tireless energy … and made it a key point that the Miami audience would continue to support jazz long into the future.”
For Rosen, who defied his parents when they tried to push him into a conventional career, like a doctor or lawyer, and for the adult who later defied the major labels who wanted to cling to 12-inch vinyl rather than the 5-inch digital compact disc, Rosen marched to his own inner muse.
That’s something for a drummer from the Bronx whose mother didn’t want him to be a musician.
Larry Rosen, on selling GRP, the label he co-founded, for $60 million, in a 2011 Miami Herald story.
“If you look at musical movements in America they’ve all come from some city that´s going through some social change: think New Orleans, think New York City, obviously; or Chicago and the blues; Kansas City at a certain time, Nashville of course, Los Angeles, San Francisco during the ’60s. I think the next place is Miami. I totally believe this is where the next music in the United States is going to be formulated,” he told the International Review of Music.
“Mr. Rosen made an important contribution to the cultural scene of Miami. Jazz lives in a difficult space between its artistic possibilities and the demands of the marketplace. That’s a tough balance to achieve. Mr Rosen’s knowledge of the music, his experience as a musician, producer and entrepreneur was key for putting jazz front and center at one of our most important venues and making it part of the conversation in Miami culture,” said Gonzalez.
Rosen, born May 25, 1940, in New York City, just knew. Miami had the ingredients — the ethnic potpourri, the growing art scene, investors with deep pockets, the right venue, and curiosity. Rosen figured out how to make the pieces work together.
In 2011, Rosen, who, for a time, served on the board of YoungArts in Miami, told Fisher Island Magazine, “We could use music as a vehicle for bringing the community together.”
Rosen is survived by his wife, Hazel; his children Jerold (J.J.) Rosen and Sandra Rosen Honigman; his grandchildren, Matthew, Sammy, Eric, Craig; his mother Vivian Rosen and his sister Susan Zelinka. Services will be private. A public memorial service is in the planning stages.
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Larry Rosen, Jazz Producer and Co-Founder of GRP Records, Dies at 75 – Hollywood Reporter
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** Larry Rosen, Jazz Producer and Co-Founder of GRP Records, Dies at 75
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by The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Rosen, one of the most influential and tech-savvy modern jazz producers who co-founded GRP Records with pianist Dave Grusin, died Friday, his publicist said. He was 75.
Rosen, who had been battling brain cancer, died surrounded by his family at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, publicist Sheryl Feuerstein said.
Against the advice of their financial advisers and lawyers, Rosen and Grusin mortgaged their homes to borrow money to launch GRP as an independent label in 1982.
“It was two musicians who just believed in the music and merging technology with quality product,” Rosen recalled in a 2012 interview with Billboard Magazine on the 30th anniversary of the label’s founding. “We wanted to see if audiences would like it and they did.”
GRP, which embraced the jazz-fusion sound and enjoyed crossover success, was voted Billboard’s No. 1 contemporary jazz label for five consecutive years and won 33 Grammys. Its catalogue included albums by many top jazz artists such as Chick Corea, Lee Ritenour, Diana Krall, Diane Schuur, Patti Austin, Dr. Johnand Ramsey Lewis.
On the technological side, GRP was noteworthy as the first record label to use digital recording technology for all its releases and issue every release on the new CD format.
More recently, Rosen’s main focus was on producing concerts. In 2008, he created Jazz Roots, a popular jazz concert series with an education and mentoring program for music students, at the invitation of the new Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The series, which has presented world-class jazz artists such as Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis and Dee Dee Bridgewater, expanded to performing arts centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas and other cities.
A Bronx native, Rosen performed as a drummer with the Newport Jazz Festival Youth Band in 1959. He got to know Grusin when they worked together with singer Andy Williams’ band.
In 1972, the two formed a freelance production team Grusin/Rosen Productions that discovered and produced such artists as Earl Klugh, Patti Austin and Lee Ritenour. Six years later, GRP signed a production deal with Clive Davis’ Arista Records. Rosen engineered Grusin’s album Mountain Dance, the first digitally recorded non-classical album.
After enjoying success as an independent label, they sold GRP to MCA Records in a multimillion-dollar deal, with Rosen remaining as president and CEO of the label until 1995.
Rosen went on to found N2K, which not only released CDs but became one of the first online music sites with a music store and genre-based community sites, making available some of the first digital downloads in early 1996.
For television, Rosen created and produced the PBS series Legends of Jazz with pianist Ramsey Lewis in 2006. He also established the annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Rosen, one of the most influential and tech-savvy modern jazz producers who co-founded GRP Records with pianist Dave Grusin, died Friday, his publicist said. He was 75.
Rosen, who had been battling brain cancer, died surrounded by his family at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, publicist Sheryl Feuerstein said.
Against the advice of their financial advisers and lawyers, Rosen and Grusin mortgaged their homes to borrow money to launch GRP as an independent label in 1982.
“It was two musicians who just believed in the music and merging technology with quality product,” Rosen recalled in a 2012 interview with Billboard Magazine on the 30th anniversary of the label’s founding. “We wanted to see if audiences would like it and they did.”
GRP, which embraced the jazz-fusion sound and enjoyed crossover success, was voted Billboard’s No. 1 contemporary jazz label for five consecutive years and won 33 Grammys. Its catalogue included albums by many top jazz artists such as Chick Corea, Lee Ritenour, Diana Krall, Diane Schuur, Patti Austin, Dr. Johnand Ramsey Lewis.
On the technological side, GRP was noteworthy as the first record label to use digital recording technology for all its releases and issue every release on the new CD format.
More recently, Rosen’s main focus was on producing concerts. In 2008, he created Jazz Roots, a popular jazz concert series with an education and mentoring program for music students, at the invitation of the new Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The series, which has presented world-class jazz artists such as Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis and Dee Dee Bridgewater, expanded to performing arts centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas and other cities.
A Bronx native, Rosen performed as a drummer with the Newport Jazz Festival Youth Band in 1959. He got to know Grusin when they worked together with singer Andy Williams’ band.
In 1972, the two formed a freelance production team Grusin/Rosen Productions that discovered and produced such artists as Earl Klugh, Patti Austin and Lee Ritenour. Six years later, GRP signed a production deal with Clive Davis’ Arista Records. Rosen engineered Grusin’s album Mountain Dance, the first digitally recorded non-classical album.
After enjoying success as an independent label, they sold GRP to MCA Records in a multimillion-dollar deal, with Rosen remaining as president and CEO of the label until 1995.
Rosen went on to found N2K, which not only released CDs but became one of the first online music sites with a music store and genre-based community sites, making available some of the first digital downloads in early 1996.
For television, Rosen created and produced the PBS series Legends of Jazz with pianist Ramsey Lewis in 2006. He also established the annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
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** Larry Rosen, Jazz Producer and Co-Founder of GRP Records, Dies at 75
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NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Rosen, one of the most influential and tech-savvy modern jazz producers who co-founded GRP Records with pianist Dave Grusin, died Friday, his publicist said. He was 75.
Rosen, who had been battling brain cancer, died surrounded by his family at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, publicist Sheryl Feuerstein said.
Against the advice of their financial advisers and lawyers, Rosen and Grusin mortgaged their homes to borrow money to launch GRP as an independent label in 1982.
“It was two musicians who just believed in the music and merging technology with quality product,” Rosen recalled in a 2012 interview with Billboard Magazine on the 30th anniversary of the label’s founding. “We wanted to see if audiences would like it and they did.”
GRP, which embraced the jazz-fusion sound and enjoyed crossover success, was voted Billboard’s No. 1 contemporary jazz label for five consecutive years and won 33 Grammys. Its catalogue included albums by many top jazz artists such as Chick Corea, Lee Ritenour, Diana Krall, Diane Schuur, Patti Austin, Dr. Johnand Ramsey Lewis.
On the technological side, GRP was noteworthy as the first record label to use digital recording technology for all its releases and issue every release on the new CD format.
More recently, Rosen’s main focus was on producing concerts. In 2008, he created Jazz Roots, a popular jazz concert series with an education and mentoring program for music students, at the invitation of the new Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The series, which has presented world-class jazz artists such as Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis and Dee Dee Bridgewater, expanded to performing arts centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas and other cities.
A Bronx native, Rosen performed as a drummer with the Newport Jazz Festival Youth Band in 1959. He got to know Grusin when they worked together with singer Andy Williams’ band.
In 1972, the two formed a freelance production team Grusin/Rosen Productions that discovered and produced such artists as Earl Klugh, Patti Austin and Lee Ritenour. Six years later, GRP signed a production deal with Clive Davis’ Arista Records. Rosen engineered Grusin’s album Mountain Dance, the first digitally recorded non-classical album.
After enjoying success as an independent label, they sold GRP to MCA Records in a multimillion-dollar deal, with Rosen remaining as president and CEO of the label until 1995.
Rosen went on to found N2K, which not only released CDs but became one of the first online music sites with a music store and genre-based community sites, making available some of the first digital downloads in early 1996.
For television, Rosen created and produced the PBS series Legends of Jazz with pianist Ramsey Lewis in 2006. He also established the annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
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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Bronx Street to be Named After Maxine Sullivan
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Ritter Place and Prospect Avenue in the Bronx will be named to honor the late singer Maxine Sullivan this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m.
She lived at 818 Ritter Place for over 40 years. During the 1940s, Sullivan and her husband John Kirby were featured on the radio program Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm, the first black jazz stars to have their own weekly radio series. She recorded with the bands of Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter and Jimmy Lunceford. As a solo artist she performed at several New York City jazz clubs and toured Europe. In 1949, she appeared in a television series, Uptown Jubilee, and in 1953 starred in the play Take a Giant Step. Sullivan was nominated for the 1979 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in My Old Friends and was featured in the film biography Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love. In semi-retirement in the ’50s-’60sshe was active in the local community and in the 1970s, Sullivan founded a non-profit community center, the House That Jazz Built. She died on April 7, 1987, in the Bronx at the age of 75.
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Ritter Place and Prospect Avenue in the Bronx will be named to honor the late singer Maxine Sullivan this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m.
She lived at 818 Ritter Place for over 40 years. During the 1940s, Sullivan and her husband John Kirby were featured on the radio program Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm, the first black jazz stars to have their own weekly radio series. She recorded with the bands of Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter and Jimmy Lunceford. As a solo artist she performed at several New York City jazz clubs and toured Europe. In 1949, she appeared in a television series, Uptown Jubilee, and in 1953 starred in the play Take a Giant Step. Sullivan was nominated for the 1979 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in My Old Friends and was featured in the film biography Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love. In semi-retirement in the ’50s-’60sshe was active in the local community and in the 1970s, Sullivan founded a non-profit community center, the House That Jazz Built. She died on April 7, 1987, in the Bronx at the age of 75.
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R.I.P. legendary Brit jazz bass player Coleridge Goode
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I heard this week that the legendary Brit jazz bass player Coleridge Goode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleridge_Goode) had passed away. Miraculously he reached 100 year old, apparently he was still on good form up until very recently. This was the bass man who played for all sorts of amazing british jazz goups and album, the Joe Harriott ones, Michael Garrick ones, and I actually have a heap of ones made for school / music and movement classes that remain unissued. So I thought I could offer an album he appears on for 50p – this is Rising Stars (https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/rising-stars/) . An amazing, spooky and underrated set of recording from 1964ish. It seems quite appropriate for such a sad passing. I can track down his widow through Val Wilmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Wilmer) (who lives up the road) and send her some flowers with any money made.
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From: Jonny Trunk
I heard this week that the legendary Brit jazz bass player Coleridge Goode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleridge_Goode) had passed away. Miraculously he reached 100 year old, apparently he was still on good form up until very recently. This was the bass man who played for all sorts of amazing british jazz goups and album, the Joe Harriott ones, Michael Garrick ones, and I actually have a heap of ones made for school / music and movement classes that remain unissued. So I thought I could offer an album he appears on for 50p – this is Rising Stars (https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/rising-stars/) . An amazing, spooky and underrated set of recording from 1964ish. It seems quite appropriate for such a sad passing. I can track down his widow through Val Wilmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Wilmer) (who lives up the road) and send her some flowers with any money made.
Jonny
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From: Jonny Trunk
I heard this week that the legendary Brit jazz bass player Coleridge Goode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleridge_Goode) had passed away. Miraculously he reached 100 year old, apparently he was still on good form up until very recently. This was the bass man who played for all sorts of amazing british jazz goups and album, the Joe Harriott ones, Michael Garrick ones, and I actually have a heap of ones made for school / music and movement classes that remain unissued. So I thought I could offer an album he appears on for 50p – this is Rising Stars (https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/rising-stars/) . An amazing, spooky and underrated set of recording from 1964ish. It seems quite appropriate for such a sad passing. I can track down his widow through Val Wilmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Wilmer) (who lives up the road) and send her some flowers with any money made.
Jonny
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Teaching the Marriage of Music and Lyrics – The New York Times
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** Teaching the Marriage of Music and Lyrics
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By PHILLIP LUTZ
Bill Charlap, left, the director of jazz studies at William Paterson University in Wayne, directed his students through an ensemble class last month. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Bill Charlap popped a preview of his latest CD, “The Silver Lining (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/arts/music/review-tony-bennett-and-bill-charlap-in-the-silver-lining-the-songs-of-jerome-kern.html) ,” in the music player last month as he drove from his new job as director of jazz studies at William Paterson University (http://www.wpunj.edu/) in Wayne to his trio engagement at the Village Vanguard (http://www.villagevanguard.com/) in New York City. Out came the unmistakable voice of Tony Bennett singing “All the Things You Are (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF1VMYuBi8) ,” with Mr. Charlap accompanying him on piano.
On the recording, Mr. Bennett was in playful form, and when he pulled one of his signature surprises — a sudden change of key — Mr. Charlap responded without missing a beat. As he listened in the car, the pianist smiled as he recalled the ensemble class he had just finished teaching at Paterson, the first of the semester with this small group of students, which was also observed by a reporter. There, he had warned his students of the need to be prepared for sudden key changes.
“That was a perfect example of why you do your homework,” Mr. Charlap said as the CD played on.
Mr. Charlap practices what he preaches: At the end of the class in question, he asked the five students, who were instrumentalists, to memorize the words to “All the Things You Are.”
A colleague called Mr. Charlap “one of the world’s premier jazz pianists.” Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
The unusual assignment is emblematic of what distinguished Mr. Charlap among the 80 jazz musicians and experts who applied for the director’s job when it opened up after the death of Mulgrew Miller (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/mulgrew-miller-jazz-pianist-dies-at-57.html) in 2013, said David Demsey, the coordinator of jazz studies at Paterson and a member of the director’s search committee.
“Not only is he one of the world’s premier jazz pianists, but he is also one of the world’s foremost experts on the popular songbook,” Mr. Demsey said of Mr. Charlap.
During Mr. Charlap’s ensemble class, it seemed that whether he was alone at the keyboard or in dynamic interplay with the students, he revealed a deep knowledge of both the process of songwriting and the way it can become a basis for improvisation.
He emphasized the wedding of lyrics to music as a key element in the “through-line” between the composers, the popular singers and the jazz artists who “all belong to each other” and are “all of a piece of the great fabric of this song.”
“The words drip off the notes,” he said. “The notes drip off the words.”
In one exchange, Mr. Charlap, who lives in West Orange, challenged Danny Raycraft, a senior from Fairport, N.Y., who plays alto saxophone, to consider the lyrics to the opening bars of “All the Things You Are” — “You are the promised kiss of springtime” — as he played.
After a few false starts, Mr. Raycraft added a subtle syncopation to his reading that observers agreed lent musical life to the lyrics. The process was repeated in one form or another throughout the class.
Mr. Charlap teaches the importance of understanding the connection between lyrics and music, calling it a key element in learning improvisation. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
“I know those guys found something in ‘All the Things You Are’ they never heard before,” Mr. Demsey said.
Mr. Charlap said the students had begun to find the song’s larger meaning by connecting their interpretations with the intentions of its writers, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. “If they can really learn to do that,” he said, “then the sky’s the limit for them hanging their own personality on it in a very real way, not in a way that dismisses history but in a way that embraces history.”
Mr. Charlap, who will be 49 on Oct. 15, comes naturally to his approach. His father, Mark Charlap, known as Moose, was the Broadway composer who wrote the music to “Peter Pan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AilIsO6EG4c) .” And his mother, with whom he still performs, is the Grammy (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) -nominated singer Sandy Stewart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2lBjvUN0I) , who appeared with Perry Como on television variety shows in the 1950s and ’60s.
References to onetime cultural touchstones like “Peter Pan” and Perry Como, which Mr. Charlap used to introduce himself to his students on the first day of the ensemble class, did not seem to register. Nor did an allusion to sheet music, seeing that most young jazz musicians now use lead sheets called up on their cellphones. But Mr. Charlap was able to close the generational divide with his on-the-spot demonstration of how sheet music can guide musicians. Using alternating musical figures in his right and left hands, he created a hypothetical sheet-music version of “All the Things You Are” and then broke down the composition part by part, explaining how each part is equivalent to a section of an orchestra.
How Mr. Charlap’s pedigree, experience and teaching style will translate into shaping a jazz studies program will become clear over time, he said. Next year, Mr. Charlap will help curate the Jazz Room concert series. The 2015 season is the program’s 35th year, which will begin in the school’s Shea Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 18 with the Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve41vYaNPBc) . In April, Mr. Charlap will bring his trio to the series.
Mr. Charlap has chosen artists who represent the two sides of his musical personality — the popular composer Harold Arlen and the jazz pianist Horace Silver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jFGFwOm7k) — as subjects for this semester’s Dialogue Days. For this curriculum requirement, participants will perform a work by Mr. Arlen or Mr. Silver and then be formally critiqued.
Students who attended his show at the Village Vanguard last month were already absorbing how Mr. Charlap likes to work. In his first set, he chose to perform standards like “Autumn in New York” and “I’ll Remember April.” But his interpretations of the tunes leaned toward the adventurous.
“He has the perfect combination,” Mr. Demsey said. “A gentle, kind nature. And he is a force.”
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** Teaching the Marriage of Music and Lyrics
————————————————————
By PHILLIP LUTZ
Bill Charlap, left, the director of jazz studies at William Paterson University in Wayne, directed his students through an ensemble class last month. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Bill Charlap popped a preview of his latest CD, “The Silver Lining (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/arts/music/review-tony-bennett-and-bill-charlap-in-the-silver-lining-the-songs-of-jerome-kern.html) ,” in the music player last month as he drove from his new job as director of jazz studies at William Paterson University (http://www.wpunj.edu/) in Wayne to his trio engagement at the Village Vanguard (http://www.villagevanguard.com/) in New York City. Out came the unmistakable voice of Tony Bennett singing “All the Things You Are (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF1VMYuBi8) ,” with Mr. Charlap accompanying him on piano.
On the recording, Mr. Bennett was in playful form, and when he pulled one of his signature surprises — a sudden change of key — Mr. Charlap responded without missing a beat. As he listened in the car, the pianist smiled as he recalled the ensemble class he had just finished teaching at Paterson, the first of the semester with this small group of students, which was also observed by a reporter. There, he had warned his students of the need to be prepared for sudden key changes.
“That was a perfect example of why you do your homework,” Mr. Charlap said as the CD played on.
Mr. Charlap practices what he preaches: At the end of the class in question, he asked the five students, who were instrumentalists, to memorize the words to “All the Things You Are.”
A colleague called Mr. Charlap “one of the world’s premier jazz pianists.” Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
The unusual assignment is emblematic of what distinguished Mr. Charlap among the 80 jazz musicians and experts who applied for the director’s job when it opened up after the death of Mulgrew Miller (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/mulgrew-miller-jazz-pianist-dies-at-57.html) in 2013, said David Demsey, the coordinator of jazz studies at Paterson and a member of the director’s search committee.
“Not only is he one of the world’s premier jazz pianists, but he is also one of the world’s foremost experts on the popular songbook,” Mr. Demsey said of Mr. Charlap.
During Mr. Charlap’s ensemble class, it seemed that whether he was alone at the keyboard or in dynamic interplay with the students, he revealed a deep knowledge of both the process of songwriting and the way it can become a basis for improvisation.
He emphasized the wedding of lyrics to music as a key element in the “through-line” between the composers, the popular singers and the jazz artists who “all belong to each other” and are “all of a piece of the great fabric of this song.”
“The words drip off the notes,” he said. “The notes drip off the words.”
In one exchange, Mr. Charlap, who lives in West Orange, challenged Danny Raycraft, a senior from Fairport, N.Y., who plays alto saxophone, to consider the lyrics to the opening bars of “All the Things You Are” — “You are the promised kiss of springtime” — as he played.
After a few false starts, Mr. Raycraft added a subtle syncopation to his reading that observers agreed lent musical life to the lyrics. The process was repeated in one form or another throughout the class.
Mr. Charlap teaches the importance of understanding the connection between lyrics and music, calling it a key element in learning improvisation. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
“I know those guys found something in ‘All the Things You Are’ they never heard before,” Mr. Demsey said.
Mr. Charlap said the students had begun to find the song’s larger meaning by connecting their interpretations with the intentions of its writers, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. “If they can really learn to do that,” he said, “then the sky’s the limit for them hanging their own personality on it in a very real way, not in a way that dismisses history but in a way that embraces history.”
Mr. Charlap, who will be 49 on Oct. 15, comes naturally to his approach. His father, Mark Charlap, known as Moose, was the Broadway composer who wrote the music to “Peter Pan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AilIsO6EG4c) .” And his mother, with whom he still performs, is the Grammy (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) -nominated singer Sandy Stewart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2lBjvUN0I) , who appeared with Perry Como on television variety shows in the 1950s and ’60s.
References to onetime cultural touchstones like “Peter Pan” and Perry Como, which Mr. Charlap used to introduce himself to his students on the first day of the ensemble class, did not seem to register. Nor did an allusion to sheet music, seeing that most young jazz musicians now use lead sheets called up on their cellphones. But Mr. Charlap was able to close the generational divide with his on-the-spot demonstration of how sheet music can guide musicians. Using alternating musical figures in his right and left hands, he created a hypothetical sheet-music version of “All the Things You Are” and then broke down the composition part by part, explaining how each part is equivalent to a section of an orchestra.
How Mr. Charlap’s pedigree, experience and teaching style will translate into shaping a jazz studies program will become clear over time, he said. Next year, Mr. Charlap will help curate the Jazz Room concert series. The 2015 season is the program’s 35th year, which will begin in the school’s Shea Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 18 with the Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve41vYaNPBc) . In April, Mr. Charlap will bring his trio to the series.
Mr. Charlap has chosen artists who represent the two sides of his musical personality — the popular composer Harold Arlen and the jazz pianist Horace Silver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jFGFwOm7k) — as subjects for this semester’s Dialogue Days. For this curriculum requirement, participants will perform a work by Mr. Arlen or Mr. Silver and then be formally critiqued.
Students who attended his show at the Village Vanguard last month were already absorbing how Mr. Charlap likes to work. In his first set, he chose to perform standards like “Autumn in New York” and “I’ll Remember April.” But his interpretations of the tunes leaned toward the adventurous.
“He has the perfect combination,” Mr. Demsey said. “A gentle, kind nature. And he is a force.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/nyregion/teaching-the-marriage-of-music-and-lyrics.html?emc=edit_tnt_20151008
** Teaching the Marriage of Music and Lyrics
————————————————————
By PHILLIP LUTZ
Bill Charlap, left, the director of jazz studies at William Paterson University in Wayne, directed his students through an ensemble class last month. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Bill Charlap popped a preview of his latest CD, “The Silver Lining (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/arts/music/review-tony-bennett-and-bill-charlap-in-the-silver-lining-the-songs-of-jerome-kern.html) ,” in the music player last month as he drove from his new job as director of jazz studies at William Paterson University (http://www.wpunj.edu/) in Wayne to his trio engagement at the Village Vanguard (http://www.villagevanguard.com/) in New York City. Out came the unmistakable voice of Tony Bennett singing “All the Things You Are (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF1VMYuBi8) ,” with Mr. Charlap accompanying him on piano.
On the recording, Mr. Bennett was in playful form, and when he pulled one of his signature surprises — a sudden change of key — Mr. Charlap responded without missing a beat. As he listened in the car, the pianist smiled as he recalled the ensemble class he had just finished teaching at Paterson, the first of the semester with this small group of students, which was also observed by a reporter. There, he had warned his students of the need to be prepared for sudden key changes.
“That was a perfect example of why you do your homework,” Mr. Charlap said as the CD played on.
Mr. Charlap practices what he preaches: At the end of the class in question, he asked the five students, who were instrumentalists, to memorize the words to “All the Things You Are.”
A colleague called Mr. Charlap “one of the world’s premier jazz pianists.” Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
The unusual assignment is emblematic of what distinguished Mr. Charlap among the 80 jazz musicians and experts who applied for the director’s job when it opened up after the death of Mulgrew Miller (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/mulgrew-miller-jazz-pianist-dies-at-57.html) in 2013, said David Demsey, the coordinator of jazz studies at Paterson and a member of the director’s search committee.
“Not only is he one of the world’s premier jazz pianists, but he is also one of the world’s foremost experts on the popular songbook,” Mr. Demsey said of Mr. Charlap.
During Mr. Charlap’s ensemble class, it seemed that whether he was alone at the keyboard or in dynamic interplay with the students, he revealed a deep knowledge of both the process of songwriting and the way it can become a basis for improvisation.
He emphasized the wedding of lyrics to music as a key element in the “through-line” between the composers, the popular singers and the jazz artists who “all belong to each other” and are “all of a piece of the great fabric of this song.”
“The words drip off the notes,” he said. “The notes drip off the words.”
In one exchange, Mr. Charlap, who lives in West Orange, challenged Danny Raycraft, a senior from Fairport, N.Y., who plays alto saxophone, to consider the lyrics to the opening bars of “All the Things You Are” — “You are the promised kiss of springtime” — as he played.
After a few false starts, Mr. Raycraft added a subtle syncopation to his reading that observers agreed lent musical life to the lyrics. The process was repeated in one form or another throughout the class.
Mr. Charlap teaches the importance of understanding the connection between lyrics and music, calling it a key element in learning improvisation. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
“I know those guys found something in ‘All the Things You Are’ they never heard before,” Mr. Demsey said.
Mr. Charlap said the students had begun to find the song’s larger meaning by connecting their interpretations with the intentions of its writers, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. “If they can really learn to do that,” he said, “then the sky’s the limit for them hanging their own personality on it in a very real way, not in a way that dismisses history but in a way that embraces history.”
Mr. Charlap, who will be 49 on Oct. 15, comes naturally to his approach. His father, Mark Charlap, known as Moose, was the Broadway composer who wrote the music to “Peter Pan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AilIsO6EG4c) .” And his mother, with whom he still performs, is the Grammy (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) -nominated singer Sandy Stewart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2lBjvUN0I) , who appeared with Perry Como on television variety shows in the 1950s and ’60s.
References to onetime cultural touchstones like “Peter Pan” and Perry Como, which Mr. Charlap used to introduce himself to his students on the first day of the ensemble class, did not seem to register. Nor did an allusion to sheet music, seeing that most young jazz musicians now use lead sheets called up on their cellphones. But Mr. Charlap was able to close the generational divide with his on-the-spot demonstration of how sheet music can guide musicians. Using alternating musical figures in his right and left hands, he created a hypothetical sheet-music version of “All the Things You Are” and then broke down the composition part by part, explaining how each part is equivalent to a section of an orchestra.
How Mr. Charlap’s pedigree, experience and teaching style will translate into shaping a jazz studies program will become clear over time, he said. Next year, Mr. Charlap will help curate the Jazz Room concert series. The 2015 season is the program’s 35th year, which will begin in the school’s Shea Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 18 with the Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve41vYaNPBc) . In April, Mr. Charlap will bring his trio to the series.
Mr. Charlap has chosen artists who represent the two sides of his musical personality — the popular composer Harold Arlen and the jazz pianist Horace Silver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jFGFwOm7k) — as subjects for this semester’s Dialogue Days. For this curriculum requirement, participants will perform a work by Mr. Arlen or Mr. Silver and then be formally critiqued.
Students who attended his show at the Village Vanguard last month were already absorbing how Mr. Charlap likes to work. In his first set, he chose to perform standards like “Autumn in New York” and “I’ll Remember April.” But his interpretations of the tunes leaned toward the adventurous.
“He has the perfect combination,” Mr. Demsey said. “A gentle, kind nature. And he is a force.”
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Legendary jazz record producer Creed Taylor shares his story.
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Legendary jazz record producer Creed Taylor shares his story.
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** New Episode: Record Producer Creed Taylor
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For forty years, Creed Taylor was one of a small handful of jazz record producers and label managers who shaped and defined the sound of jazz recording. Through his work with the Bethlehem, ABC, Impulse!, Verve, and CTI labels, he produced classic albums for countless artists. He introduced us to “The Girl From Ipanema”, “Mister Magic” and showed us “The Blues and the Abstract Truth”.
Which two records did he bring when he went off to war? What were his favorite career moments? What was it like to be in the room with Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard or Antonio Carlos Jobim? What was the record business like in the 1950s?
We met at his apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan and talked about some of his most memorable experiences.
One idea that emerged from our conversation is that you can’t always tell who a person is from the music they make, and people are not always who we imagine them to be.
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** New Episode: Record Producer Creed Taylor
————————————————————
For forty years, Creed Taylor was one of a small handful of jazz record producers and label managers who shaped and defined the sound of jazz recording. Through his work with the Bethlehem, ABC, Impulse!, Verve, and CTI labels, he produced classic albums for countless artists. He introduced us to “The Girl From Ipanema”, “Mister Magic” and showed us “The Blues and the Abstract Truth”.
Which two records did he bring when he went off to war? What were his favorite career moments? What was it like to be in the room with Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard or Antonio Carlos Jobim? What was the record business like in the 1950s?
We met at his apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan and talked about some of his most memorable experiences.
One idea that emerged from our conversation is that you can’t always tell who a person is from the music they make, and people are not always who we imagine them to be.
Listen Now (http://third-story.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b0c0ea691187aef132912d7e6&id=1469f25650&e=5c0f52d069)
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Legendary jazz record producer Creed Taylor shares his story.
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Legendary jazz record producer Creed Taylor shares his story.
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For forty years, Creed Taylor was one of a small handful of jazz record producers and label managers who shaped and defined the sound of jazz recording. Through his work with the Bethlehem, ABC, Impulse!, Verve, and CTI labels, he produced classic albums for countless artists. He introduced us to “The Girl From Ipanema”, “Mister Magic” and showed us “The Blues and the Abstract Truth”.
Which two records did he bring when he went off to war? What were his favorite career moments? What was it like to be in the room with Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard or Antonio Carlos Jobim? What was the record business like in the 1950s?
We met at his apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan and talked about some of his most memorable experiences.
One idea that emerged from our conversation is that you can’t always tell who a person is from the music they make, and people are not always who we imagine them to be.
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Old-School Cassettes Make Comeback as Consumers Yearn for the Antique – NBC News
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They’re a thing of the past for many people, but in this iTunes-driven age, there’s a longing for the antique sounds of analog found on cassette tapes.
That demand is literally music to the ears of those at National Audio Co., which is seeing a surge in requests for classic hits on cassette.
“We attribute our success, as I say often, to stubbornness and stupidity,” said Steve Stepp, the company’s president.
Cassettes peaked in the late 1980s, but the rise first of compact discs and then downloadable digital files eclipsed them, and by 2001, they accounted for only 4 percent of all music sales. By 2005, worldwide sales had fallen from almost a billion cassettes to fewer than 1 million, according to industry figures.
But audiophiles refuse to be deterred, preferring “the warmth and presence in an analog recording that you will not hear in the digital recording,” Stepp said.
Related: The Walkman Turns 35: What Was the First Song You Played on One? (http://www.today.com/popculture/walkman-turns-35-what-was-first-song-you-played-1D79871818)
Using relatively old equipment from the 1970s to produce all of its cassettes, National Audio, which opened in 1969, produced 10 million tapes in 2014, according to a Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-company-is-still-making-audio-cassettes-and-sales-are-better-than-ever) report.
“When you compare the two side by side, you will hear the difference,” Stepp said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the president of National Audio Co. He is Steve Stepp.
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Old-School Cassettes Make Comeback as Consumers Yearn for the Antique – NBC News
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They’re a thing of the past for many people, but in this iTunes-driven age, there’s a longing for the antique sounds of analog found on cassette tapes.
That demand is literally music to the ears of those at National Audio Co., which is seeing a surge in requests for classic hits on cassette.
“We attribute our success, as I say often, to stubbornness and stupidity,” said Steve Stepp, the company’s president.
Cassettes peaked in the late 1980s, but the rise first of compact discs and then downloadable digital files eclipsed them, and by 2001, they accounted for only 4 percent of all music sales. By 2005, worldwide sales had fallen from almost a billion cassettes to fewer than 1 million, according to industry figures.
But audiophiles refuse to be deterred, preferring “the warmth and presence in an analog recording that you will not hear in the digital recording,” Stepp said.
Related: The Walkman Turns 35: What Was the First Song You Played on One? (http://www.today.com/popculture/walkman-turns-35-what-was-first-song-you-played-1D79871818)
Using relatively old equipment from the 1970s to produce all of its cassettes, National Audio, which opened in 1969, produced 10 million tapes in 2014, according to a Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-company-is-still-making-audio-cassettes-and-sales-are-better-than-ever) report.
“When you compare the two side by side, you will hear the difference,” Stepp said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the president of National Audio Co. He is Steve Stepp.
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Old-School Cassettes Make Comeback as Consumers Yearn for the Antique – NBC News
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They’re a thing of the past for many people, but in this iTunes-driven age, there’s a longing for the antique sounds of analog found on cassette tapes.
That demand is literally music to the ears of those at National Audio Co., which is seeing a surge in requests for classic hits on cassette.
“We attribute our success, as I say often, to stubbornness and stupidity,” said Steve Stepp, the company’s president.
Cassettes peaked in the late 1980s, but the rise first of compact discs and then downloadable digital files eclipsed them, and by 2001, they accounted for only 4 percent of all music sales. By 2005, worldwide sales had fallen from almost a billion cassettes to fewer than 1 million, according to industry figures.
But audiophiles refuse to be deterred, preferring “the warmth and presence in an analog recording that you will not hear in the digital recording,” Stepp said.
Related: The Walkman Turns 35: What Was the First Song You Played on One? (http://www.today.com/popculture/walkman-turns-35-what-was-first-song-you-played-1D79871818)
Using relatively old equipment from the 1970s to produce all of its cassettes, National Audio, which opened in 1969, produced 10 million tapes in 2014, according to a Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-company-is-still-making-audio-cassettes-and-sales-are-better-than-ever) report.
“When you compare the two side by side, you will hear the difference,” Stepp said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the president of National Audio Co. He is Steve Stepp.
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Jazz holds a special place in Calagione’s heart – By Maddy Lauria – CapeGazette.com
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** Jazz holds a special place in Calamine’s heart
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By Maddy Lauria | Oct 07, 2015
Photo by: Maddy Lauria Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head and this year’s Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival Producer of Year, shows his love for vinyl at a recent party in Milton.
Rehoboth Beach — There was once a time when Sam Calagione, the charismatic face of Dogfish Head and avid supporter of the local arts and business communities, did judge an album by its cover.
He grew up on the sounds of Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand, music suited for a clean-cut business man sipping whiskey, rather than a flannel-shirt sporting craft beer maven.
But Calagione loved it just the same, he said.
At the age of 12, he got his first turntable and the preteen started exploring new genres by choosing his favorite vinyls based on the cover art rather than the contents.
But when he stumbled on Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain” album, that was it. Calagione was hooked on jazz.
Years later, Calagione worked with Davis’ family to create Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew tribute beer, and a Davis quote shared by his nephew has stuck with him ever since: “Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.”
“At Dogfish Head we’ve worked very hard to not copy what other distillers and other breweries do, but explore goodness for ourselves. The same spirit is at the heart of great improvisational jazz music,” he said.
Calagione isn’t a musician, with the exception of a short stint as a rapper with The Pain Relievaz (https://vimeo.com/28859721) , but music has always been an integral part of his life. It’s also been at the heart of some of Dogfish Head’s best brews and has driven Calagione to provide space and support for local arts and original music.
That dedication to promoting creativity, the arts and original music has earned Calagione the title of this year’s Producer of the Year at the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival, now in its 26th year.
“The balance between experimentation and collaboration, when you look at a jazz group, is the balance that we strike as a group of co-workers every day at Dogfish Head,” he said.
When Dogfish Head was still blossoming on the scene and Rehoboth Beach’s off-season marked a quiet time in the Cape Region, Calagione said he was already working to support the arts in whatever way he could.
“We wanted to see the arts community thrive in coastal Delaware,” he said.
In the 1990s, when Calagione and his crew learned about the young festival, there was no question that Dogfish would be involved in its growth. For nearly 20 years, Calagione has supported the festival by providing space for original jazz musicians and donating beer as a fundraising tool for the event.
“We worked hard because we had a love of original music at our pub, trying to find other ways to promote the arts and celebrate the arts,” he said. “We’re proud of our small role in the jazz fest, but it’s really Denny, who runs it, his leadership and the other leaders that run that fest that have made it a world-class festival.”
After decades of finding inspiration among the notes, music has poured over into Calagione’s home as well. Shelves upon shelves are lined with albums and CDs of every genre, said his wife, Mariah Calagione.
“He has an inordinate passion for all things music-related,” she said, and the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival has a special place in her husband’s heart.
“In our early years, back before Rehoboth was as much of a destination as it is now, the jazz fest was a sort of beacon of business for the mid-fall horizon when a lot of people weren’t thinking about coming down to the beach,” she said. “Over the 20 years, they’ve tried a lot of different things and we participate whenever there’s any opportunity. We’re honored that they think of Sam and Dogfish in this way. It’s quite wonderful.”
Sam Calagione is known for his craft beer, but locals know he also plays a huge role in supporting the arts community. (Courtesy of: Dogfish Head)
Sam Calagione’s dedication to supporting the arts and original music has earned him the title of Producer of the Year for this year’s Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival. (Photo by: Maddy Lauria)
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By Maddy Lauria | Oct 07, 2015
Photo by: Maddy Lauria Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head and this year’s Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival Producer of Year, shows his love for vinyl at a recent party in Milton.
Rehoboth Beach — There was once a time when Sam Calagione, the charismatic face of Dogfish Head and avid supporter of the local arts and business communities, did judge an album by its cover.
He grew up on the sounds of Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand, music suited for a clean-cut business man sipping whiskey, rather than a flannel-shirt sporting craft beer maven.
But Calagione loved it just the same, he said.
At the age of 12, he got his first turntable and the preteen started exploring new genres by choosing his favorite vinyls based on the cover art rather than the contents.
But when he stumbled on Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain” album, that was it. Calagione was hooked on jazz.
Years later, Calagione worked with Davis’ family to create Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew tribute beer, and a Davis quote shared by his nephew has stuck with him ever since: “Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.”
“At Dogfish Head we’ve worked very hard to not copy what other distillers and other breweries do, but explore goodness for ourselves. The same spirit is at the heart of great improvisational jazz music,” he said.
Calagione isn’t a musician, with the exception of a short stint as a rapper with The Pain Relievaz (https://vimeo.com/28859721) , but music has always been an integral part of his life. It’s also been at the heart of some of Dogfish Head’s best brews and has driven Calagione to provide space and support for local arts and original music.
That dedication to promoting creativity, the arts and original music has earned Calagione the title of this year’s Producer of the Year at the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival, now in its 26th year.
“The balance between experimentation and collaboration, when you look at a jazz group, is the balance that we strike as a group of co-workers every day at Dogfish Head,” he said.
When Dogfish Head was still blossoming on the scene and Rehoboth Beach’s off-season marked a quiet time in the Cape Region, Calagione said he was already working to support the arts in whatever way he could.
“We wanted to see the arts community thrive in coastal Delaware,” he said.
In the 1990s, when Calagione and his crew learned about the young festival, there was no question that Dogfish would be involved in its growth. For nearly 20 years, Calagione has supported the festival by providing space for original jazz musicians and donating beer as a fundraising tool for the event.
“We worked hard because we had a love of original music at our pub, trying to find other ways to promote the arts and celebrate the arts,” he said. “We’re proud of our small role in the jazz fest, but it’s really Denny, who runs it, his leadership and the other leaders that run that fest that have made it a world-class festival.”
After decades of finding inspiration among the notes, music has poured over into Calagione’s home as well. Shelves upon shelves are lined with albums and CDs of every genre, said his wife, Mariah Calagione.
“He has an inordinate passion for all things music-related,” she said, and the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival has a special place in her husband’s heart.
“In our early years, back before Rehoboth was as much of a destination as it is now, the jazz fest was a sort of beacon of business for the mid-fall horizon when a lot of people weren’t thinking about coming down to the beach,” she said. “Over the 20 years, they’ve tried a lot of different things and we participate whenever there’s any opportunity. We’re honored that they think of Sam and Dogfish in this way. It’s quite wonderful.”
Sam Calagione is known for his craft beer, but locals know he also plays a huge role in supporting the arts community. (Courtesy of: Dogfish Head)
Sam Calagione’s dedication to supporting the arts and original music has earned him the title of Producer of the Year for this year’s Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival. (Photo by: Maddy Lauria)
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By Maddy Lauria | Oct 07, 2015
Photo by: Maddy Lauria Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head and this year’s Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival Producer of Year, shows his love for vinyl at a recent party in Milton.
Rehoboth Beach — There was once a time when Sam Calagione, the charismatic face of Dogfish Head and avid supporter of the local arts and business communities, did judge an album by its cover.
He grew up on the sounds of Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand, music suited for a clean-cut business man sipping whiskey, rather than a flannel-shirt sporting craft beer maven.
But Calagione loved it just the same, he said.
At the age of 12, he got his first turntable and the preteen started exploring new genres by choosing his favorite vinyls based on the cover art rather than the contents.
But when he stumbled on Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain” album, that was it. Calagione was hooked on jazz.
Years later, Calagione worked with Davis’ family to create Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew tribute beer, and a Davis quote shared by his nephew has stuck with him ever since: “Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.”
“At Dogfish Head we’ve worked very hard to not copy what other distillers and other breweries do, but explore goodness for ourselves. The same spirit is at the heart of great improvisational jazz music,” he said.
Calagione isn’t a musician, with the exception of a short stint as a rapper with The Pain Relievaz (https://vimeo.com/28859721) , but music has always been an integral part of his life. It’s also been at the heart of some of Dogfish Head’s best brews and has driven Calagione to provide space and support for local arts and original music.
That dedication to promoting creativity, the arts and original music has earned Calagione the title of this year’s Producer of the Year at the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival, now in its 26th year.
“The balance between experimentation and collaboration, when you look at a jazz group, is the balance that we strike as a group of co-workers every day at Dogfish Head,” he said.
When Dogfish Head was still blossoming on the scene and Rehoboth Beach’s off-season marked a quiet time in the Cape Region, Calagione said he was already working to support the arts in whatever way he could.
“We wanted to see the arts community thrive in coastal Delaware,” he said.
In the 1990s, when Calagione and his crew learned about the young festival, there was no question that Dogfish would be involved in its growth. For nearly 20 years, Calagione has supported the festival by providing space for original jazz musicians and donating beer as a fundraising tool for the event.
“We worked hard because we had a love of original music at our pub, trying to find other ways to promote the arts and celebrate the arts,” he said. “We’re proud of our small role in the jazz fest, but it’s really Denny, who runs it, his leadership and the other leaders that run that fest that have made it a world-class festival.”
After decades of finding inspiration among the notes, music has poured over into Calagione’s home as well. Shelves upon shelves are lined with albums and CDs of every genre, said his wife, Mariah Calagione.
“He has an inordinate passion for all things music-related,” she said, and the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival has a special place in her husband’s heart.
“In our early years, back before Rehoboth was as much of a destination as it is now, the jazz fest was a sort of beacon of business for the mid-fall horizon when a lot of people weren’t thinking about coming down to the beach,” she said. “Over the 20 years, they’ve tried a lot of different things and we participate whenever there’s any opportunity. We’re honored that they think of Sam and Dogfish in this way. It’s quite wonderful.”
Sam Calagione is known for his craft beer, but locals know he also plays a huge role in supporting the arts community. (Courtesy of: Dogfish Head)
Sam Calagione’s dedication to supporting the arts and original music has earned him the title of Producer of the Year for this year’s Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival. (Photo by: Maddy Lauria)
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** A Cover That Gave Jazz Lots of Soul
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Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. ENLARGE
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. Photo: Ravinia Festival
By
Marc Myers
Oct. 7, 2015 6:20 p.m. ET
Nashville, Tenn.
It happened again Saturday night. When jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis launched into “The In Crowd” during his encore at the James K. Polk Theater here, the audience of 338 shouted “Yeah!” and began clapping along—the way club-goers had done in 1965 on Mr. Lewis’s live hit recording.
Fifty years ago this week, Mr. Lewis’s slinky instrumental jazz cover of “The In Crowd” peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s pop chart. A month later, his album of the same name reached No. 2—just behind the Beatles’ “Help!” and ahead of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”—remaining on the chart for 47 weeks.
Mr. Lewis and his trio won a Grammy that year, and the single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. But the recording was more than just a hit. Its funky gospel feel inaugurated a new pop sound and marked the start of the soul-jazz movement.
Within months, the unexpected success of “The In Crowd” encouraged other jazz artists to embrace soul as a way to remain relevant on jukeboxes. In 1966, the list of jazz versions of soul hits recorded included Wes Montgomery’s “Goin’ Out of My Head,” Junior Mance’s “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” and Big John Patton’s “Ain’t That Peculiar.”
As the genre caught on, soul-jazz recordings became more elaborate with the addition of horns. Hits included Cannonball Adderley’s “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” (1966), Hugh Masekela’s “Grazing in the Grass” (1968), Young-Holt Unlimited’s “Soulful Strut” (1968) and Les McCann and Eddie Harris’s “Compared to What” (1969).
During his concert on Saturday night, Mr. Lewis, 80, performed not only soul-jazz but also an eclectic mix with guitarist Henry Johnson, bassist Joshua Ramos and drummer Charles Heath. The set list included Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Satin Doll,” John Coltrane’s “Dear Lord,” the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” the Stylistics’ “Betcha By Golly, Wow” and three medleys of gospel, Brazilian and Cole Porter songs. Mr. Lewis saved “Sun Goddess,” his 1974 hit with Earth, Wind & Fire, for his encore.
What distinguishes Mr. Lewis from most jazz pianists is his seductive use of dynamics paired with a gospel-rooted rhythmic pulse. His sermon-like approach to the keyboard is gentle and hushed, resulting in delicate and highly melodic interpretations. But Mr. Lewis isn’t shy about adding stronger touches and trademark glissandos—influences from Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal, two of his favorite jazz pianists.
“Nuance is the name of the game,” Mr. Lewis said during a phone conversation after the concert. “I find it’s better to have the audience lean forward to hear you than push back emotionally against loud music.”
Born in 1935, Mr. Lewis grew up in Chicago and started classical piano lessons at age 4. When he was 9, Mr. Lewis began playing for Chicago’s Wayman AME Church, expanding again to jazz at 15 with the Cleffs, a local septet. But when the draft thinned the Cleffs’ ranks in the early 1950s, Mr. Lewis formed a trio with bassist Eldee Young and drummer Isaac “Redd” Holt.
In May 1965, the three musicians were in a booth of a Washington, D.C., coffee shop when their waitress overheard them talking about song ideas. Mr. Lewis told her they needed a song that would get the audience’s fingers popping and hips swinging for their live recording in the coming days at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub.
The waitress asked if they had heard Dobie Gray’s hit vocal of “The In Crowd.” “She played the song on the jukebox and I heard instantly how our version should sound,” Mr. Lewis said.
The trio bought the single, and when they brought it back to their hotel, Mr. Lewis put it on his portable phonograph so they could work out an arrangement. But at the club, they hesitated to play the song.
“The first night, the audience at the first two sets seemed a little stiff, so we skipped it,” said Mr. Lewis. “On the last set, at 1 a.m., things were more loose and we went into it.” Almost immediately, the audience began clapping on the second and fourth beats—and double-clapping on some. When the live record was released, its hip, party feel inspired other jazz artists to record soul hits live.
But the crossover success of soul-jazz also had an unintended effect on teens. Many, like this writer, went off to the jazz departments of record stores with the same basic question: What else do you have that sounds like “Soulful Strut” and “The In Crowd”?
Mr. Myers, a frequent contributor to the Journal, writes daily about music and the arts at JazzWax.com
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** A Cover That Gave Jazz Lots of Soul
————————————————————
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. ENLARGE
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. Photo: Ravinia Festival
By
Marc Myers
Oct. 7, 2015 6:20 p.m. ET
Nashville, Tenn.
It happened again Saturday night. When jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis launched into “The In Crowd” during his encore at the James K. Polk Theater here, the audience of 338 shouted “Yeah!” and began clapping along—the way club-goers had done in 1965 on Mr. Lewis’s live hit recording.
Fifty years ago this week, Mr. Lewis’s slinky instrumental jazz cover of “The In Crowd” peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s pop chart. A month later, his album of the same name reached No. 2—just behind the Beatles’ “Help!” and ahead of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”—remaining on the chart for 47 weeks.
Mr. Lewis and his trio won a Grammy that year, and the single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. But the recording was more than just a hit. Its funky gospel feel inaugurated a new pop sound and marked the start of the soul-jazz movement.
Within months, the unexpected success of “The In Crowd” encouraged other jazz artists to embrace soul as a way to remain relevant on jukeboxes. In 1966, the list of jazz versions of soul hits recorded included Wes Montgomery’s “Goin’ Out of My Head,” Junior Mance’s “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” and Big John Patton’s “Ain’t That Peculiar.”
As the genre caught on, soul-jazz recordings became more elaborate with the addition of horns. Hits included Cannonball Adderley’s “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” (1966), Hugh Masekela’s “Grazing in the Grass” (1968), Young-Holt Unlimited’s “Soulful Strut” (1968) and Les McCann and Eddie Harris’s “Compared to What” (1969).
During his concert on Saturday night, Mr. Lewis, 80, performed not only soul-jazz but also an eclectic mix with guitarist Henry Johnson, bassist Joshua Ramos and drummer Charles Heath. The set list included Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Satin Doll,” John Coltrane’s “Dear Lord,” the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” the Stylistics’ “Betcha By Golly, Wow” and three medleys of gospel, Brazilian and Cole Porter songs. Mr. Lewis saved “Sun Goddess,” his 1974 hit with Earth, Wind & Fire, for his encore.
What distinguishes Mr. Lewis from most jazz pianists is his seductive use of dynamics paired with a gospel-rooted rhythmic pulse. His sermon-like approach to the keyboard is gentle and hushed, resulting in delicate and highly melodic interpretations. But Mr. Lewis isn’t shy about adding stronger touches and trademark glissandos—influences from Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal, two of his favorite jazz pianists.
“Nuance is the name of the game,” Mr. Lewis said during a phone conversation after the concert. “I find it’s better to have the audience lean forward to hear you than push back emotionally against loud music.”
Born in 1935, Mr. Lewis grew up in Chicago and started classical piano lessons at age 4. When he was 9, Mr. Lewis began playing for Chicago’s Wayman AME Church, expanding again to jazz at 15 with the Cleffs, a local septet. But when the draft thinned the Cleffs’ ranks in the early 1950s, Mr. Lewis formed a trio with bassist Eldee Young and drummer Isaac “Redd” Holt.
In May 1965, the three musicians were in a booth of a Washington, D.C., coffee shop when their waitress overheard them talking about song ideas. Mr. Lewis told her they needed a song that would get the audience’s fingers popping and hips swinging for their live recording in the coming days at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub.
The waitress asked if they had heard Dobie Gray’s hit vocal of “The In Crowd.” “She played the song on the jukebox and I heard instantly how our version should sound,” Mr. Lewis said.
The trio bought the single, and when they brought it back to their hotel, Mr. Lewis put it on his portable phonograph so they could work out an arrangement. But at the club, they hesitated to play the song.
“The first night, the audience at the first two sets seemed a little stiff, so we skipped it,” said Mr. Lewis. “On the last set, at 1 a.m., things were more loose and we went into it.” Almost immediately, the audience began clapping on the second and fourth beats—and double-clapping on some. When the live record was released, its hip, party feel inspired other jazz artists to record soul hits live.
But the crossover success of soul-jazz also had an unintended effect on teens. Many, like this writer, went off to the jazz departments of record stores with the same basic question: What else do you have that sounds like “Soulful Strut” and “The In Crowd”?
Mr. Myers, a frequent contributor to the Journal, writes daily about music and the arts at JazzWax.com
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** A Cover That Gave Jazz Lots of Soul
————————————————————
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. ENLARGE
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis. Photo: Ravinia Festival
By
Marc Myers
Oct. 7, 2015 6:20 p.m. ET
Nashville, Tenn.
It happened again Saturday night. When jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis launched into “The In Crowd” during his encore at the James K. Polk Theater here, the audience of 338 shouted “Yeah!” and began clapping along—the way club-goers had done in 1965 on Mr. Lewis’s live hit recording.
Fifty years ago this week, Mr. Lewis’s slinky instrumental jazz cover of “The In Crowd” peaked at No. 5 on Billboard’s pop chart. A month later, his album of the same name reached No. 2—just behind the Beatles’ “Help!” and ahead of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”—remaining on the chart for 47 weeks.
Mr. Lewis and his trio won a Grammy that year, and the single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. But the recording was more than just a hit. Its funky gospel feel inaugurated a new pop sound and marked the start of the soul-jazz movement.
Within months, the unexpected success of “The In Crowd” encouraged other jazz artists to embrace soul as a way to remain relevant on jukeboxes. In 1966, the list of jazz versions of soul hits recorded included Wes Montgomery’s “Goin’ Out of My Head,” Junior Mance’s “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” and Big John Patton’s “Ain’t That Peculiar.”
As the genre caught on, soul-jazz recordings became more elaborate with the addition of horns. Hits included Cannonball Adderley’s “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” (1966), Hugh Masekela’s “Grazing in the Grass” (1968), Young-Holt Unlimited’s “Soulful Strut” (1968) and Les McCann and Eddie Harris’s “Compared to What” (1969).
During his concert on Saturday night, Mr. Lewis, 80, performed not only soul-jazz but also an eclectic mix with guitarist Henry Johnson, bassist Joshua Ramos and drummer Charles Heath. The set list included Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Satin Doll,” John Coltrane’s “Dear Lord,” the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” the Stylistics’ “Betcha By Golly, Wow” and three medleys of gospel, Brazilian and Cole Porter songs. Mr. Lewis saved “Sun Goddess,” his 1974 hit with Earth, Wind & Fire, for his encore.
What distinguishes Mr. Lewis from most jazz pianists is his seductive use of dynamics paired with a gospel-rooted rhythmic pulse. His sermon-like approach to the keyboard is gentle and hushed, resulting in delicate and highly melodic interpretations. But Mr. Lewis isn’t shy about adding stronger touches and trademark glissandos—influences from Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal, two of his favorite jazz pianists.
“Nuance is the name of the game,” Mr. Lewis said during a phone conversation after the concert. “I find it’s better to have the audience lean forward to hear you than push back emotionally against loud music.”
Born in 1935, Mr. Lewis grew up in Chicago and started classical piano lessons at age 4. When he was 9, Mr. Lewis began playing for Chicago’s Wayman AME Church, expanding again to jazz at 15 with the Cleffs, a local septet. But when the draft thinned the Cleffs’ ranks in the early 1950s, Mr. Lewis formed a trio with bassist Eldee Young and drummer Isaac “Redd” Holt.
In May 1965, the three musicians were in a booth of a Washington, D.C., coffee shop when their waitress overheard them talking about song ideas. Mr. Lewis told her they needed a song that would get the audience’s fingers popping and hips swinging for their live recording in the coming days at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub.
The waitress asked if they had heard Dobie Gray’s hit vocal of “The In Crowd.” “She played the song on the jukebox and I heard instantly how our version should sound,” Mr. Lewis said.
The trio bought the single, and when they brought it back to their hotel, Mr. Lewis put it on his portable phonograph so they could work out an arrangement. But at the club, they hesitated to play the song.
“The first night, the audience at the first two sets seemed a little stiff, so we skipped it,” said Mr. Lewis. “On the last set, at 1 a.m., things were more loose and we went into it.” Almost immediately, the audience began clapping on the second and fourth beats—and double-clapping on some. When the live record was released, its hip, party feel inspired other jazz artists to record soul hits live.
But the crossover success of soul-jazz also had an unintended effect on teens. Many, like this writer, went off to the jazz departments of record stores with the same basic question: What else do you have that sounds like “Soulful Strut” and “The In Crowd”?
Mr. Myers, a frequent contributor to the Journal, writes daily about music and the arts at JazzWax.com
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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Joseph Torregano, jazz musician, educator and police reserve officer, has died | NOLA.com
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** Joseph Torregano, jazz musician, educator and police reserve officer, has died
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By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune (http://connect.nola.com/staff/dmaccash/posts.html)
Joseph Torregano
Joseph Torregano, (http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2011/05/hey_new_orleans_jazz_fest_jose.html) a clarinetist and retired New Orleans music teacher, who, over the years, was a mainstay of traditional brass bands, such as the Young Tuxedo, the Olympia, the Excelsior and the Original Royal Players, died Tuesday (Oct. 6) of cancer at his house in La Place, said his brother Michael Torregano. He was 63.
Torregano was the third of four children, all boys, of Louis Torregano and Anna Malarcher Torregano who lived in New Orleans’ 6th Ward. He began taking piano lessons at age 5, his brother Michael said. Torregano took up the clarinet, which would become his signature instrument, while attending Andrew J. Bell Junior High School.
He attended John McDonogh High School and received a degree in music education from Southern University of New Orleans in 1975. He eventually became a band instructor teaching musicians, such as Christian Scott (http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2011/05/christian_scott_played_jazz_pr.html) and Victor Goines during more than 30 years working in New Orleans area schools, such as Gregory Junior High, John McDonogh and East St. John High School in La Place. Most recently, he taught at the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in the 9th Ward.
Fellow reed player Dr. Michael White said that he and Torregano met as teenagers taking private lessons at the Crescent City Music Center on Saturdays. At age 18, Torregano was playing in Ernest “Doc” Paulin (http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/ernest-doc-paulin-passes) ‘s Dixieland Jazz Band and not much later in Danny Barker’s Fairview Baptist Church Band.
As a teacher, White said, Torregano impressed on his students the traditional values of good music, and the discipline of marching. Friend and band mate Greg Stafford said that in their prime, the brass bands he and Torregano played in would “march for almost 12 hours on a Mardi Gras Day.”
Both White and Stafford recalled that Torregano’s clarinet playing favored the style of Pete Fountain, who was a friend and hero. White and Stafford traveled with Torregano, delivering traditional jazz around the globe, to Japan, Switzerland and Germany, as well as the Smithsonian Institution and The White House.
In the midst of his music and teaching career, Torregano enlisted as a reserve New Orleans Police Department officer, rising to the rank of lieutenant. For roughly two decades, Torregano spent part of each week on patrol or engaged in other NOPD assignments, his brother Michael said. His favorite role, Michael said, was keeping the peace during Carnival at the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Poydras Street.
Torregano has had cancer since at least 2010. His 2011 appearance at Jazz Fest (http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2011/05/hey_new_orleans_jazz_fest_jose.html) was a triumphant return from a hospital bed. Bass drummer Anthony Bennett, leader of the Original Royal Players shared the stage with Torregano that day, as they had time and again since they met in seventh grade.
“We had a ball,” he said of the performance. The audience was “really glad to see him.”
A NOLA.com commentor calling himself woodwind70, left this note on a story about Torregano’s 2011 Jazz Fest appearance: “This guy taught Kirk Joseph of the Dirty Dozen, most of the Soul Rebels Brass Band, Trombone Shorty, Christian Scott, Herman LeBeau, Shannon Powell, Victor Goines and Gerald French.”
In the early 2010s, Bennett said, the Original Royal Players would perform at The American Cancer Society’s Patrick F. Taylor Hope Lodge, a cancer treatment center on River Road, where Torregano was “an inspiration to a lot of those people.”
Thinking back on their decades of friendship, Bennett said Torregano didn’t change much from seventh grade on.
“He was pretty much the same spirit. He was all about the music,” Bennett said.
Torregano and his quartet played the 2015 Jazz Fest in April.
Torregano is survived by his wife Dr. Jacqueline Langie Torregano, two children Joseph Torregano of State College Pennsylvania and Jennifer Torregano of New Orleans, and brother Michael.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been finalized.
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