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Jazz Profiles: Howard Rumsey, Founding Father of West Coast Jazz, Dies at 97
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** Sunday, July 19, 2015
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** Howard Rumsey, Founding Father of West Coast Jazz, Dies at 97
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Ken Poston, the Founder and Director of the Los Angeles Jazz Institute sent along the following regarding the recent passing of Howard Rumsey and I thought I’d share it with you as I doubt that anyone had a closer working relationship with Howard over the last three decades of his life than Ken did.
“Howard Rumsey, one of the most significant figures in modern jazz and one of the founding fathers of “West Coast Jazz” died on July 15 in Newport Beach, California. He was 97
His primary instrument was the string bass but it was his talent as a bandleader and nightclub operator that created an amazing legacy which touched the lives and careers of countless musicians and fans.
Howard Rumsey was born on November 7, 1917 in Brawley CA in the heart of the Imperial Valley. He took piano lessons for 8 years followed by drums, trumpet and eventually the string bass.
He left Brawley after High School to attend Los Angeles City College where he continued his musical studies. He also began playing with a number of local bands around Southern California. His first job of note was with Vido Musso’s band joining a rhythm section that included a young Stanley Kenton on piano.
After a stint with Gus Arnheim he joined the band of Johnny Scat Davis and toured throughout the United States. They played all the major ballrooms and theaters which gave Howard an opportunity to see the music business, as he liked to say, “from the top down”.
After Scat Davis, Howard joined Stanley Kenton’s newly formed Orchestra which debuted during the summer of 1941 at Balboa Beach. It was during his stay with Kenton that he started to develop a reputation in the jazz world and was the featured soloist on an early Kenton number titled “Concerto for Doghouse”. He stayed with Kenton until 1942 then returned to Southern California where he worked with a variety of bands including Charlie Barnet, Freddie Slack and Barney Bigard.
1949 was a major turning point in his career when he approached John Levine, owner of a small saloon on Pier Ave. in Hermosa Beach and convinced him to establish a weekly jam session on Sunday afternoons. Before long, The Lighthouse Cafe became the primary destination for modern jazz in Southern California.
The Sunday “Modern Jazz Concerts” were so successful that it wasn’t long before a Wednesday through Sunday format was established. The Sunday sessions put the Lighthouse on the map. They started at 2 in the afternoon and ended at 2 in morning with visiting musicians sitting in throughout the day and evening.
Howard had a unique vision in what the Lighthouse could become and subsequently created one of the most iconic jazz clubs of all time. By the early 1950s, the Lighthouse was the headquarters of the burgeoning west coast jazz movement and the house band, Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars, became internationally renowned. Between 1952 and 1962 The collective members of the Lighthouse All Stars reads like a who’s who of modern jazz. Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Cooper, Art Pepper, Maynard Ferguson, Hampton Hawes, Shelly Manne, Russ Freeman, Max Roach, Bud Shank, Conte Candoli, Stan Levey, Frank Rosolino, Victor Feldman, Claude Williamson and Vince Guaraldi all graced the Lighthouse stage throughout the 1950s.
Howard also understood the importance of developing an audience and was tireless in his promotion of the club’s activities. He knew that his core audience was college aged students so he and the All Stars performed at numerous high schools and colleges throughout the year.
He was also a pioneer in jazz education long before any such thing existed. In 1954 he started an Inter-Collegiate Jazz Festival that happened every Easter Week until the mid 1960s. The All Stars acted as judges and awards were given to the most promising groups and individuals. It was a time when jazz wasn’t part of most University curriculums and it provided a showcase for aspiring young musicians. The list of students who took part in the Easter Week festivities include such future luminaries as Les McCann, Charlie Haden, Charles Lloyd, Charlie Shoemake, Mike Wofford, Gabe Baltazar, Pete Christlieb, Lanny Morgan, Tommy Tedesco, Bob Florence, Don Rader, Ray Manzarek, Barry Zweig, Harvey Newmark, Steve Cerra and Daryl Dragon.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hzEU7cYA2g4/VarbVmtLWLI/AAAAAAABszg/_Uj0e4kxz-g/s1600/Steve%2B-%2B1962%2BIntercollegiate%2BLighthouse%2BFestival%2B001.jpg
The above photo feature the 1962 Intercollegiate Jazz Festival winners with from left to right Barry Zweig, guitar, Steve Cerra, drums, Harvey Newmark, bass, Ernie Del Fante, flute and alto sax and John Bellah, piano.
In 1971 Howard left the Lighthouse and opened his own club, Concerts By the Sea, which was located on the Redondo Beach Pier. It was a unique venue that quickly became one of Southern California’s top jazz rooms until Howard retired in 1985.
Upon his retirement, he led a quiet life but still continued his relentless support of live jazz and was especially interested in encouraging young musicians just starting out.
He could often be seen at venues throughout Southern California listening to the music and supporting the artists. It was always a special treat when Howard was in the house and it wasn’t uncommon to see people lined up at the breaks just to say hello and thank him for all the things he had made possible through the years.
Last May, Howard was honored by the Los Angeles Jazz Institute with a Five Day Festival that celebrated his immense contributions to the jazz scene in Southern California and beyond. Fans and musicians came from all over the world to pay tribute.
Howard was a double lifetime member of The Los Angeles , American Federation of Musicians, Local 47.
He leaves behind a truly remarkable legacy that will continue to impact the jazz world for many years to come.”
The following video features bassist Howard and the Lighthouse All Stars on Bill Holman’s Latin for Lovers featuring Conte Candoli, trumpet, Frank Rosolino, trombone, Bob Cooper, tenor saxophone, Sonny Clark, piano and Stan Levey drums.
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Jazz Profiles: Howard Rumsey, Founding Father of West Coast Jazz, Dies at 97
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** Sunday, July 19, 2015
————————————————————
** Howard Rumsey, Founding Father of West Coast Jazz, Dies at 97
————————————————————
© – Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oBYElni3BVs/VarbDiyS0kI/AAAAAAABszY/YITPpsKBLVg/s1600/Untitled-01.jpg
Ken Poston, the Founder and Director of the Los Angeles Jazz Institute sent along the following regarding the recent passing of Howard Rumsey and I thought I’d share it with you as I doubt that anyone had a closer working relationship with Howard over the last three decades of his life than Ken did.
“Howard Rumsey, one of the most significant figures in modern jazz and one of the founding fathers of “West Coast Jazz” died on July 15 in Newport Beach, California. He was 97
His primary instrument was the string bass but it was his talent as a bandleader and nightclub operator that created an amazing legacy which touched the lives and careers of countless musicians and fans.
Howard Rumsey was born on November 7, 1917 in Brawley CA in the heart of the Imperial Valley. He took piano lessons for 8 years followed by drums, trumpet and eventually the string bass.
He left Brawley after High School to attend Los Angeles City College where he continued his musical studies. He also began playing with a number of local bands around Southern California. His first job of note was with Vido Musso’s band joining a rhythm section that included a young Stanley Kenton on piano.
After a stint with Gus Arnheim he joined the band of Johnny Scat Davis and toured throughout the United States. They played all the major ballrooms and theaters which gave Howard an opportunity to see the music business, as he liked to say, “from the top down”.
After Scat Davis, Howard joined Stanley Kenton’s newly formed Orchestra which debuted during the summer of 1941 at Balboa Beach. It was during his stay with Kenton that he started to develop a reputation in the jazz world and was the featured soloist on an early Kenton number titled “Concerto for Doghouse”. He stayed with Kenton until 1942 then returned to Southern California where he worked with a variety of bands including Charlie Barnet, Freddie Slack and Barney Bigard.
1949 was a major turning point in his career when he approached John Levine, owner of a small saloon on Pier Ave. in Hermosa Beach and convinced him to establish a weekly jam session on Sunday afternoons. Before long, The Lighthouse Cafe became the primary destination for modern jazz in Southern California.
The Sunday “Modern Jazz Concerts” were so successful that it wasn’t long before a Wednesday through Sunday format was established. The Sunday sessions put the Lighthouse on the map. They started at 2 in the afternoon and ended at 2 in morning with visiting musicians sitting in throughout the day and evening.
Howard had a unique vision in what the Lighthouse could become and subsequently created one of the most iconic jazz clubs of all time. By the early 1950s, the Lighthouse was the headquarters of the burgeoning west coast jazz movement and the house band, Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars, became internationally renowned. Between 1952 and 1962 The collective members of the Lighthouse All Stars reads like a who’s who of modern jazz. Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Cooper, Art Pepper, Maynard Ferguson, Hampton Hawes, Shelly Manne, Russ Freeman, Max Roach, Bud Shank, Conte Candoli, Stan Levey, Frank Rosolino, Victor Feldman, Claude Williamson and Vince Guaraldi all graced the Lighthouse stage throughout the 1950s.
Howard also understood the importance of developing an audience and was tireless in his promotion of the club’s activities. He knew that his core audience was college aged students so he and the All Stars performed at numerous high schools and colleges throughout the year.
He was also a pioneer in jazz education long before any such thing existed. In 1954 he started an Inter-Collegiate Jazz Festival that happened every Easter Week until the mid 1960s. The All Stars acted as judges and awards were given to the most promising groups and individuals. It was a time when jazz wasn’t part of most University curriculums and it provided a showcase for aspiring young musicians. The list of students who took part in the Easter Week festivities include such future luminaries as Les McCann, Charlie Haden, Charles Lloyd, Charlie Shoemake, Mike Wofford, Gabe Baltazar, Pete Christlieb, Lanny Morgan, Tommy Tedesco, Bob Florence, Don Rader, Ray Manzarek, Barry Zweig, Harvey Newmark, Steve Cerra and Daryl Dragon.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hzEU7cYA2g4/VarbVmtLWLI/AAAAAAABszg/_Uj0e4kxz-g/s1600/Steve%2B-%2B1962%2BIntercollegiate%2BLighthouse%2BFestival%2B001.jpg
The above photo feature the 1962 Intercollegiate Jazz Festival winners with from left to right Barry Zweig, guitar, Steve Cerra, drums, Harvey Newmark, bass, Ernie Del Fante, flute and alto sax and John Bellah, piano.
In 1971 Howard left the Lighthouse and opened his own club, Concerts By the Sea, which was located on the Redondo Beach Pier. It was a unique venue that quickly became one of Southern California’s top jazz rooms until Howard retired in 1985.
Upon his retirement, he led a quiet life but still continued his relentless support of live jazz and was especially interested in encouraging young musicians just starting out.
He could often be seen at venues throughout Southern California listening to the music and supporting the artists. It was always a special treat when Howard was in the house and it wasn’t uncommon to see people lined up at the breaks just to say hello and thank him for all the things he had made possible through the years.
Last May, Howard was honored by the Los Angeles Jazz Institute with a Five Day Festival that celebrated his immense contributions to the jazz scene in Southern California and beyond. Fans and musicians came from all over the world to pay tribute.
Howard was a double lifetime member of The Los Angeles , American Federation of Musicians, Local 47.
He leaves behind a truly remarkable legacy that will continue to impact the jazz world for many years to come.”
The following video features bassist Howard and the Lighthouse All Stars on Bill Holman’s Latin for Lovers featuring Conte Candoli, trumpet, Frank Rosolino, trombone, Bob Cooper, tenor saxophone, Sonny Clark, piano and Stan Levey drums.
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“That’s Jazz” The Spoils Before Dying – IFC – Watch Now
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http://stage.ifc.com/watch-now/the-spoils-before-dying/4351824905001/murder-in-b-flat
THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING Sn. 2 / Ep. 1 Murder in B Flat Aired: 7/8/15 | Watch until 1/1/16
Jazz singer Rock Banyon (Michael Kenneth Williams) finds himself accused of the murder of former lover, Fresno Foxglove (Maya Rudolph) and scientist Wilbur Stygamian.
When the police give him 3 days to prove his innocence, Rock flees to Mexico.
http://stage.ifc.com/watch-now/the-spoils-before-dying/4351824905001/murder-in-b-flat
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/07/the-spoils-before-dying-review-thats-jazz-fear-ste.html
** The Spoils Before Dying Review: “That’s Jazz” / “Fear Steps In”
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Review Ratings:
“That’s Jazz” (Episode 2.03): 6.8
“Fear Steps In” (Episode 2.04): 8.3
IFC’s latest saga The Spoils Before Dying sets itself apart from its predecessor, The Spoils of Babylon, in that it has a compelling story that’s been pretty coherent and easy to follow (so far, anyway). It’s a noirish mystery—Rock Banyon (Michael K. Williams) tries to clear himself of the murders of Fresno Foxglove (Maya Rudolph) and scientist Wilber Stygamian— wrapped in a blanket of ridiculousness that only IFC and Funny or Die can deliver.
It begins as usual with creator Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell) talking about himself and his 1958 classic novel that was hit with more than 80 obscenity lawsuits in over 30 states. He says that when he was brought before a House Subcommittee on Un American Activities: “I plead the fifth and then drank a fifth.” But the Jonrosh is on an especially good roll with this episode’s introduction: “Well, here it is, part three of six. It drags a bit and loses its pace. I was interested in boring my audience at that time—and I still am. Most of you are idiots anyway…” Unfortunately, Jonrosh is right (about the episode).
“That’s Jazz” opens with a faithful recreation of an old TV show with Andy Daly playing host in “Artie Mann’s Jazz Party,” which is sponsored by Boghei “French-like” cigarettes. “A pack or two a day is the Boghei way…” There’s truth in that cigarette commercial spoof, which makes it perfect satire. After Rock has a breakdown on the Artie Mann show, he heads for a watering hole where he meets Kenton Price (Michael Sheen). After ordering a glass of “Bagpipes O’Toole Scotch Flavored Vodka”—as an advertisement for the canned beverage that’s “perfect for driving” flashes on the screen—Price hits on Rock. After Rock turns him down, the two get to talking about Wilber Stygamian, an acquaintance of Price’s. Now this is where Spoils Before Dying gets serious on the audience: It turns out that Stygamian was a member of the secretive Mattachine Society (a real organization) that fought for the rights of gays in the 1950s. Sheen says that “hamosexuals” like himself are perse
cuted by local police and that the secrets the society knows about the power brokers of L.A. could get people into trouble.
The episode does drag in a few places: About midway through there’s a yawner of a musical number with Delores at the club singing above a montage of Rock wondering the streets. But it’s followed by a great scene with an over-the-top Kate McKinnon from Saturday Night Live, playing the girlfriend of Rock’s sax player (who also turned up dead). Alternating between weeping and drinking, McKinnon’s boozy Southern character outs herself as a harlot, who has slept with all the jazz greats. And she means all—naming most of them in a funny and well-edited monologue: “Ella…ooh, Ella was the best.”
In Rock’s quest to track down another clue, Chris Parnell makes an appearance as a drug dealer Beebop Jones who introduces Rock to Tabby Smooth (Jack Kilmer), the future of music—rock music. He also sends Rock off with a warning not to look into the murder of Stygamian. The scene then transitions into a cartoon about jazz set to music and free verse, then ends up back with Jonrosh, hawking Boghei cigarettes. He gets angry with off screen producers who try to get him to stop: “Why would they take tobacco commercials off TV? It makes no sense!” (which can also apply to the mishmash of “That’s Jazz.”)
Its partner episode, “Fear Steps In” fares better with more action, sex, drugs and murder. Jonrosh’s intro is outrageously entertaining. Ferrell deadpans into the camera: “It took me one night to write my novel, The Spoils Before Dying.” Jonrosh then compares himself to other literary giants like Mailer, Vidal, Cheever and curses those who banned the book and exiled him. “Even now, I’m a man without a country…and an apartment.” He says that episode four is “pretty good. I think you’ll enjoy it.”
Rock visits Price for more information about Stygamian and immediately notices that Price is exceptionally jumpy and nervous. Sheen’s performance in this scene as he jumps around the room mixing cocktails is reminiscent of a classic Three Stooges physical comedy sketch; that is, until the toy helicopter is spotted outside his house and assassinates Price as dramatically as Sgt. Elias was in Platoon.
Salizar Vasquez Deleon makes a return appearance and attacks Rock and Delores at Rock’s apartment. What follows is a talking cat sequence and then hot sexy time between Rock and Delores, sort of. Jonrosh pops in to explain that the original film scene was banned and destroyed, and they’ve done their best to recreate it with original audio and storyboards that were found in a Parisian whorehouse that Jonrosh frequented. The censored images and sound effects are extremely amusing.
Emily Ratajkowski makes an appearance at the end as Stygamian’s purported daughter and leads Rock to a secret room about a mile below the scientist’s home. But it’s a trap! There’s an evil German woman scientist waiting with a big needle and the screen fades to black as Spoilssets things up for its final two episodes. The show’s humor is definitely juvenile at times, and isn’t for everyone, but if you look past the winks and nods, you’ll find more serious fodder as well as surprisingly sharp moments of commentary on American culture, history and media.
Christine N. Ziemba is a Los Angeles-based freelance pop culture writer and regular contributor to Paste. You can follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/christineziemba) .
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“That’s Jazz” The Spoils Before Dying – IFC – Watch Now
http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/
http://stage.ifc.com/watch-now/the-spoils-before-dying/4351824905001/murder-in-b-flat
THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING Sn. 2 / Ep. 1 Murder in B Flat Aired: 7/8/15 | Watch until 1/1/16
Jazz singer Rock Banyon (Michael Kenneth Williams) finds himself accused of the murder of former lover, Fresno Foxglove (Maya Rudolph) and scientist Wilbur Stygamian.
When the police give him 3 days to prove his innocence, Rock flees to Mexico.
http://stage.ifc.com/watch-now/the-spoils-before-dying/4351824905001/murder-in-b-flat
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/07/the-spoils-before-dying-review-thats-jazz-fear-ste.html
** The Spoils Before Dying Review: “That’s Jazz” / “Fear Steps In”
————————————————————
Review Ratings:
“That’s Jazz” (Episode 2.03): 6.8
“Fear Steps In” (Episode 2.04): 8.3
IFC’s latest saga The Spoils Before Dying sets itself apart from its predecessor, The Spoils of Babylon, in that it has a compelling story that’s been pretty coherent and easy to follow (so far, anyway). It’s a noirish mystery—Rock Banyon (Michael K. Williams) tries to clear himself of the murders of Fresno Foxglove (Maya Rudolph) and scientist Wilber Stygamian— wrapped in a blanket of ridiculousness that only IFC and Funny or Die can deliver.
It begins as usual with creator Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell) talking about himself and his 1958 classic novel that was hit with more than 80 obscenity lawsuits in over 30 states. He says that when he was brought before a House Subcommittee on Un American Activities: “I plead the fifth and then drank a fifth.” But the Jonrosh is on an especially good roll with this episode’s introduction: “Well, here it is, part three of six. It drags a bit and loses its pace. I was interested in boring my audience at that time—and I still am. Most of you are idiots anyway…” Unfortunately, Jonrosh is right (about the episode).
“That’s Jazz” opens with a faithful recreation of an old TV show with Andy Daly playing host in “Artie Mann’s Jazz Party,” which is sponsored by Boghei “French-like” cigarettes. “A pack or two a day is the Boghei way…” There’s truth in that cigarette commercial spoof, which makes it perfect satire. After Rock has a breakdown on the Artie Mann show, he heads for a watering hole where he meets Kenton Price (Michael Sheen). After ordering a glass of “Bagpipes O’Toole Scotch Flavored Vodka”—as an advertisement for the canned beverage that’s “perfect for driving” flashes on the screen—Price hits on Rock. After Rock turns him down, the two get to talking about Wilber Stygamian, an acquaintance of Price’s. Now this is where Spoils Before Dying gets serious on the audience: It turns out that Stygamian was a member of the secretive Mattachine Society (a real organization) that fought for the rights of gays in the 1950s. Sheen says that “hamosexuals” like himself are perse
cuted by local police and that the secrets the society knows about the power brokers of L.A. could get people into trouble.
The episode does drag in a few places: About midway through there’s a yawner of a musical number with Delores at the club singing above a montage of Rock wondering the streets. But it’s followed by a great scene with an over-the-top Kate McKinnon from Saturday Night Live, playing the girlfriend of Rock’s sax player (who also turned up dead). Alternating between weeping and drinking, McKinnon’s boozy Southern character outs herself as a harlot, who has slept with all the jazz greats. And she means all—naming most of them in a funny and well-edited monologue: “Ella…ooh, Ella was the best.”
In Rock’s quest to track down another clue, Chris Parnell makes an appearance as a drug dealer Beebop Jones who introduces Rock to Tabby Smooth (Jack Kilmer), the future of music—rock music. He also sends Rock off with a warning not to look into the murder of Stygamian. The scene then transitions into a cartoon about jazz set to music and free verse, then ends up back with Jonrosh, hawking Boghei cigarettes. He gets angry with off screen producers who try to get him to stop: “Why would they take tobacco commercials off TV? It makes no sense!” (which can also apply to the mishmash of “That’s Jazz.”)
Its partner episode, “Fear Steps In” fares better with more action, sex, drugs and murder. Jonrosh’s intro is outrageously entertaining. Ferrell deadpans into the camera: “It took me one night to write my novel, The Spoils Before Dying.” Jonrosh then compares himself to other literary giants like Mailer, Vidal, Cheever and curses those who banned the book and exiled him. “Even now, I’m a man without a country…and an apartment.” He says that episode four is “pretty good. I think you’ll enjoy it.”
Rock visits Price for more information about Stygamian and immediately notices that Price is exceptionally jumpy and nervous. Sheen’s performance in this scene as he jumps around the room mixing cocktails is reminiscent of a classic Three Stooges physical comedy sketch; that is, until the toy helicopter is spotted outside his house and assassinates Price as dramatically as Sgt. Elias was in Platoon.
Salizar Vasquez Deleon makes a return appearance and attacks Rock and Delores at Rock’s apartment. What follows is a talking cat sequence and then hot sexy time between Rock and Delores, sort of. Jonrosh pops in to explain that the original film scene was banned and destroyed, and they’ve done their best to recreate it with original audio and storyboards that were found in a Parisian whorehouse that Jonrosh frequented. The censored images and sound effects are extremely amusing.
Emily Ratajkowski makes an appearance at the end as Stygamian’s purported daughter and leads Rock to a secret room about a mile below the scientist’s home. But it’s a trap! There’s an evil German woman scientist waiting with a big needle and the screen fades to black as Spoilssets things up for its final two episodes. The show’s humor is definitely juvenile at times, and isn’t for everyone, but if you look past the winks and nods, you’ll find more serious fodder as well as surprisingly sharp moments of commentary on American culture, history and media.
Christine N. Ziemba is a Los Angeles-based freelance pop culture writer and regular contributor to Paste. You can follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/christineziemba) .
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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Pianist, composer John Taylor (http://www.johntaylorjazz.com/pages/johntaylor.html) died Friday night from a heart attack while performing at the Saveurs Jazz Festival. He recorded more than a dozen times as leader, as well as sessions with Azimuth, Arild Andersen, Peter Erskine, Jan Garbarek, Charlie Haden, John Surman, Miroslav Vitous Kenny Wheeler and others, often for ECM. Taylor was 72.
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Georgetown’s Blues Alley jazz club celebrates its 50th anniversary | WJLA.com
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July 17, 2015 – 06:35 pm
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GEORGETOWN, D.C. (WJLA) – Blues Alley, Georgetown’s renowned jazz club, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary over the next week, with a special concert at Strathmore’s Music Center as well as a featured artist at the club.
The current owner, Harry Schnipper, says it’s the oldest continuously operated jazz supper club in the nation. Countless music legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, and Sonny Rollins have played here. Others, like Wynton Marsalis, have recorded live at the club.
Schnipper started visiting as a teenager, and welcomes music lovers of all ages now.
“We don’t put a prohibition on age here,” he says. “So, we will allow anyone to come through our doors. That’s how I got here. That’s how I think the future of jazz is going to stay here.”
The music at Blues Alley, he says, is evolving with its audience.
“Let’s face it, spoken word, hip hop, there are so many different aspects of jazz. Jazz is an enormous umbrella. It incorporates so many different styles, but you have to stay one step ahead of your audience.”
Some staff members have been at Blues Alley for decades.
“I’m so glad I don’t have to drag myself to work every day, “ says operations manager Kris Ross. “I love comin’ in here.”
Ross thinks the intimacy of the venue keeps patrons from all over the world coming back.
“People would call, spend $200 on tickets, and then say, ‘by the way, who’s playin’?’ It didn’t matter, they were comin’ to see the room.”
Blues Alley’s walls are covered with photos of past performers.
“If these walls could talk, there’d be a whole lot of people in trouble,” Ross jokes. “And a whole lot of history in music that just can’t be relived.”
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Georgetown’s Blues Alley jazz club celebrates its 50th anniversary | WJLA.com
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July 17, 2015 – 06:35 pm
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** Georgetown’s Blues Alley jazz club celebrates its 50th anniversary
————————————————————
GEORGETOWN, D.C. (WJLA) – Blues Alley, Georgetown’s renowned jazz club, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary over the next week, with a special concert at Strathmore’s Music Center as well as a featured artist at the club.
The current owner, Harry Schnipper, says it’s the oldest continuously operated jazz supper club in the nation. Countless music legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, and Sonny Rollins have played here. Others, like Wynton Marsalis, have recorded live at the club.
Schnipper started visiting as a teenager, and welcomes music lovers of all ages now.
“We don’t put a prohibition on age here,” he says. “So, we will allow anyone to come through our doors. That’s how I got here. That’s how I think the future of jazz is going to stay here.”
The music at Blues Alley, he says, is evolving with its audience.
“Let’s face it, spoken word, hip hop, there are so many different aspects of jazz. Jazz is an enormous umbrella. It incorporates so many different styles, but you have to stay one step ahead of your audience.”
Some staff members have been at Blues Alley for decades.
“I’m so glad I don’t have to drag myself to work every day, “ says operations manager Kris Ross. “I love comin’ in here.”
Ross thinks the intimacy of the venue keeps patrons from all over the world coming back.
“People would call, spend $200 on tickets, and then say, ‘by the way, who’s playin’?’ It didn’t matter, they were comin’ to see the room.”
Blues Alley’s walls are covered with photos of past performers.
“If these walls could talk, there’d be a whole lot of people in trouble,” Ross jokes. “And a whole lot of history in music that just can’t be relived.”
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A PLYMOUTH lecturer is to lead a world-first study – into jazz legend Duke Ellington’s songs | Plymouth Herald
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By Plymouth Herald (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/people/Plymouth%20Herald/profile.html) | Posted: July 17, 2015
** Plymouth to lead world-first study of jazz. Nice.
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A PLYMOUTH lecturer is to lead a world-first study – into jazz legend Duke Ellington’s songs.
The live performances of Ellington, and how they differed from his recorded work, are to be explored in the new research project by a Plymouth University academic.
Lecturer in Music Dr Katherine Williams has been awarded the first ever Jazz Research Fellowship by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation and the Jazz Education Network.
The two-year fellowship will provide her with access to one of the world’s most extensive musical archives – held in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC – where she plans to advance her existing research into one of the genre’s most important figures.
Dr Williams, module leader for performance within the University’s Music degrees, said: “Jazz is always surrounded by a sense of mysticism, and it is a genre that continues to inspire audiences to this day.
“Much of the music was written in the 1920s and 30s, but its appeal lives on through the fact there is so much improvisation involved.
“There have been few greater purveyors of that than Duke Ellington, and the result is the music heard by live audiences is in many cases hugely different to that on recordings, and they both differ to what was originally written.”
As part of her fellowship, Dr Williams will travel to Washington DC to explore the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of original papers, photographs, sheet music, recordings and advertising material.
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She hopes to use that information to further understanding about the history of improvisation, and how it has influenced musical performances and can continue to do so in the future.
Dr Williams also plans to set up a band in Plymouth, encouraging students and the local community to recreate Duke Ellington’s work in its various stages as a way of representing jazz’s enduring appeal.
At the completion of the fellowship, she will deliver final presentations of her research at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference in 2017.
Dr Williams, who trained as a classical saxophonist before completing a PhD in classical music and jazz, has this year spoken about her research at events in Ireland, Belgium and California.
She said: “It is amazing to receive this level of international recognition, both personally and for the University, and I cannot wait to go to the Smithsonian and begin my research.
“Duke Ellington was a true pioneer – recognised as a composer rather than simply a musician and band leader – and it will be fascinating to explore the full extent of his talents.
“I also hope I can use what I learn to inspire students about the different ways they might approach performance in their futures.”
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A PLYMOUTH lecturer is to lead a world-first study – into jazz legend Duke Ellington’s songs | Plymouth Herald
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By Plymouth Herald (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/people/Plymouth%20Herald/profile.html) | Posted: July 17, 2015
** Plymouth to lead world-first study of jazz. Nice.
————————————————————
A PLYMOUTH lecturer is to lead a world-first study – into jazz legend Duke Ellington’s songs.
The live performances of Ellington, and how they differed from his recorded work, are to be explored in the new research project by a Plymouth University academic.
Lecturer in Music Dr Katherine Williams has been awarded the first ever Jazz Research Fellowship by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation and the Jazz Education Network.
The two-year fellowship will provide her with access to one of the world’s most extensive musical archives – held in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC – where she plans to advance her existing research into one of the genre’s most important figures.
Dr Williams, module leader for performance within the University’s Music degrees, said: “Jazz is always surrounded by a sense of mysticism, and it is a genre that continues to inspire audiences to this day.
“Much of the music was written in the 1920s and 30s, but its appeal lives on through the fact there is so much improvisation involved.
“There have been few greater purveyors of that than Duke Ellington, and the result is the music heard by live audiences is in many cases hugely different to that on recordings, and they both differ to what was originally written.”
As part of her fellowship, Dr Williams will travel to Washington DC to explore the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of original papers, photographs, sheet music, recordings and advertising material.
** The Best Serums For Younger-Looking Skin While You Sleep
————————————————————
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She hopes to use that information to further understanding about the history of improvisation, and how it has influenced musical performances and can continue to do so in the future.
Dr Williams also plans to set up a band in Plymouth, encouraging students and the local community to recreate Duke Ellington’s work in its various stages as a way of representing jazz’s enduring appeal.
At the completion of the fellowship, she will deliver final presentations of her research at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference in 2017.
Dr Williams, who trained as a classical saxophonist before completing a PhD in classical music and jazz, has this year spoken about her research at events in Ireland, Belgium and California.
She said: “It is amazing to receive this level of international recognition, both personally and for the University, and I cannot wait to go to the Smithsonian and begin my research.
“Duke Ellington was a true pioneer – recognised as a composer rather than simply a musician and band leader – and it will be fascinating to explore the full extent of his talents.
“I also hope I can use what I learn to inspire students about the different ways they might approach performance in their futures.”
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A PLYMOUTH lecturer is to lead a world-first study – into jazz legend Duke Ellington’s songs | Plymouth Herald
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By Plymouth Herald (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/people/Plymouth%20Herald/profile.html) | Posted: July 17, 2015
** Plymouth to lead world-first study of jazz. Nice.
————————————————————
A PLYMOUTH lecturer is to lead a world-first study – into jazz legend Duke Ellington’s songs.
The live performances of Ellington, and how they differed from his recorded work, are to be explored in the new research project by a Plymouth University academic.
Lecturer in Music Dr Katherine Williams has been awarded the first ever Jazz Research Fellowship by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation and the Jazz Education Network.
The two-year fellowship will provide her with access to one of the world’s most extensive musical archives – held in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC – where she plans to advance her existing research into one of the genre’s most important figures.
Dr Williams, module leader for performance within the University’s Music degrees, said: “Jazz is always surrounded by a sense of mysticism, and it is a genre that continues to inspire audiences to this day.
“Much of the music was written in the 1920s and 30s, but its appeal lives on through the fact there is so much improvisation involved.
“There have been few greater purveyors of that than Duke Ellington, and the result is the music heard by live audiences is in many cases hugely different to that on recordings, and they both differ to what was originally written.”
As part of her fellowship, Dr Williams will travel to Washington DC to explore the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of original papers, photographs, sheet music, recordings and advertising material.
** The Best Serums For Younger-Looking Skin While You Sleep
————————————————————
Boost your body while getting some shut-eye with super serums for younger-looking skin.
She hopes to use that information to further understanding about the history of improvisation, and how it has influenced musical performances and can continue to do so in the future.
Dr Williams also plans to set up a band in Plymouth, encouraging students and the local community to recreate Duke Ellington’s work in its various stages as a way of representing jazz’s enduring appeal.
At the completion of the fellowship, she will deliver final presentations of her research at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference in 2017.
Dr Williams, who trained as a classical saxophonist before completing a PhD in classical music and jazz, has this year spoken about her research at events in Ireland, Belgium and California.
She said: “It is amazing to receive this level of international recognition, both personally and for the University, and I cannot wait to go to the Smithsonian and begin my research.
“Duke Ellington was a true pioneer – recognised as a composer rather than simply a musician and band leader – and it will be fascinating to explore the full extent of his talents.
“I also hope I can use what I learn to inspire students about the different ways they might approach performance in their futures.”
LOOKING FOR A JOB? THERE ARE HUNDREDS IN THE HERALD’S JOB SECTION (safari-reader://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-lead-world-study-jazz-Nice/story-26919936-detail/%E2%80%9D/jobs%E2%80%9D)
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Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82 – The New York Times
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** Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82
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By DANIEL E. SLOTNIKJULY 16, 2015
Ettore Stratta Credit Jerry Lacay
Ettore Stratta (http://www.strattaphilips.com/bio/index.htm) , who produced records by stars like Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett and conducted symphonic arrangements of everything from bossa nova (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0NZvasDvkU) to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died on July 9 in Manhattan. He was 82.
His death was confirmed by his wife and business partner, Pat Philips. She said that the cause had not been determined but that Mr. Stratta had suffered strokes and a heart attack.
Mr. Stratta’s output and taste were eclectic. A classically trained conductor who worked with the London, Melbourne and Royal Philharmonic symphony orchestras, he produced Mr. Bennett’s “The Art of Excellence” (http://www.discogs.com/Tony-Bennett-The-Art-Of-Excellence/release/4830033) (1986) and Ms. Streisand’s “Je M’appelle Barbra” (http://www.allmusic.com/album/je-mappelle-barbra-mw0000201969) (1970) and worked with artists including Chaka Khan, Ray Charles, Lena Horne and Dave Brubeck. He also released many records conducting his own orchestra, Fantasy Strings.
He and Ms. Philips first worked together in 1988 on an 80th-birthday concert at Carnegie Hall for the jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, at which the cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed “Pennies From Heaven” with Mr. Grappelli and his trio. Ms. Philips and Mr. Stratta became known for presenting genre-crossing concerts at Avery Fisher Hall, Rose Hall, Birdland and elsewhere, as well as Carnegie Hall tributes to the bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, the saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera and the jazz pianist George Shearing. They also produced festivals in New York devoted to the music of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_reinhardt_django.htm) and to the intersection of tango and jazz.
Mr. Stratta conducted and produced albums devoted to symphonic adaptations of different musical forms, including “Symphonic Tango (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgEfWsDUZh8) ” and “Symphonic Boleros.” His “Symphonic Elvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8YozJbHPU) ” was recorded, appropriately, by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
Mr. Stratta told The Associated Press in 1991 that he would not produce music that did not interest him. “If you’re not really excited by the artist or the concept, I wouldn’t want to do it,” he said.
Ettore Carlo Teresa Stratta was born on March 30, 1933, in Cuneo, a small town in northern Italy. He grew up attending the opera with his father, learned to play piano when he was 5 and had formed a band by the time he was a teenager.
He studied civil engineering in high school and music in Rome before serving in the Italian military, where he mostly played the piano and conducted quartets, from 1951 until 1953.
In 1958 he married Cecile Homer. They later divorced.
He came to America in 1959 and got a job at a Columbia Records pressing plant on Long Island. He moved up through the ranks and in 1963 became the manager of the label’s international artists-and-repertoire division. He left to pursue a career as a conductor and producer.
He and Ms. Philips married in 1998. In addition to her, Mr. Stratta, who lived in Manhattan, is survived by two sons from his first marriage, Paul and Luca; two stepsons, Brad and Evan Philips; a brother, Adalberto; and five grandchildren.
Ms. Philips handled most of the business issues in their partnership, which was fine with Mr. Stratta. He told The Associated Press that he thought many people in the music industry were too focused on profits.
“They could just as easily be selling shoes, but they’re selling records,” he said. “It can’t just be a product you’re selling.”
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Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82 – The New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/arts/ettore-stratta-music-producer-and-conductor-dies-at-82.html
** Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82
————————————————————
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIKJULY 16, 2015
Ettore Stratta Credit Jerry Lacay
Ettore Stratta (http://www.strattaphilips.com/bio/index.htm) , who produced records by stars like Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett and conducted symphonic arrangements of everything from bossa nova (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0NZvasDvkU) to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died on July 9 in Manhattan. He was 82.
His death was confirmed by his wife and business partner, Pat Philips. She said that the cause had not been determined but that Mr. Stratta had suffered strokes and a heart attack.
Mr. Stratta’s output and taste were eclectic. A classically trained conductor who worked with the London, Melbourne and Royal Philharmonic symphony orchestras, he produced Mr. Bennett’s “The Art of Excellence” (http://www.discogs.com/Tony-Bennett-The-Art-Of-Excellence/release/4830033) (1986) and Ms. Streisand’s “Je M’appelle Barbra” (http://www.allmusic.com/album/je-mappelle-barbra-mw0000201969) (1970) and worked with artists including Chaka Khan, Ray Charles, Lena Horne and Dave Brubeck. He also released many records conducting his own orchestra, Fantasy Strings.
He and Ms. Philips first worked together in 1988 on an 80th-birthday concert at Carnegie Hall for the jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, at which the cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed “Pennies From Heaven” with Mr. Grappelli and his trio. Ms. Philips and Mr. Stratta became known for presenting genre-crossing concerts at Avery Fisher Hall, Rose Hall, Birdland and elsewhere, as well as Carnegie Hall tributes to the bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, the saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera and the jazz pianist George Shearing. They also produced festivals in New York devoted to the music of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_reinhardt_django.htm) and to the intersection of tango and jazz.
Mr. Stratta conducted and produced albums devoted to symphonic adaptations of different musical forms, including “Symphonic Tango (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgEfWsDUZh8) ” and “Symphonic Boleros.” His “Symphonic Elvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8YozJbHPU) ” was recorded, appropriately, by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
Mr. Stratta told The Associated Press in 1991 that he would not produce music that did not interest him. “If you’re not really excited by the artist or the concept, I wouldn’t want to do it,” he said.
Ettore Carlo Teresa Stratta was born on March 30, 1933, in Cuneo, a small town in northern Italy. He grew up attending the opera with his father, learned to play piano when he was 5 and had formed a band by the time he was a teenager.
He studied civil engineering in high school and music in Rome before serving in the Italian military, where he mostly played the piano and conducted quartets, from 1951 until 1953.
In 1958 he married Cecile Homer. They later divorced.
He came to America in 1959 and got a job at a Columbia Records pressing plant on Long Island. He moved up through the ranks and in 1963 became the manager of the label’s international artists-and-repertoire division. He left to pursue a career as a conductor and producer.
He and Ms. Philips married in 1998. In addition to her, Mr. Stratta, who lived in Manhattan, is survived by two sons from his first marriage, Paul and Luca; two stepsons, Brad and Evan Philips; a brother, Adalberto; and five grandchildren.
Ms. Philips handled most of the business issues in their partnership, which was fine with Mr. Stratta. He told The Associated Press that he thought many people in the music industry were too focused on profits.
“They could just as easily be selling shoes, but they’re selling records,” he said. “It can’t just be a product you’re selling.”
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Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82 – The New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/arts/ettore-stratta-music-producer-and-conductor-dies-at-82.html
** Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82
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By DANIEL E. SLOTNIKJULY 16, 2015
Ettore Stratta Credit Jerry Lacay
Ettore Stratta (http://www.strattaphilips.com/bio/index.htm) , who produced records by stars like Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett and conducted symphonic arrangements of everything from bossa nova (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0NZvasDvkU) to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died on July 9 in Manhattan. He was 82.
His death was confirmed by his wife and business partner, Pat Philips. She said that the cause had not been determined but that Mr. Stratta had suffered strokes and a heart attack.
Mr. Stratta’s output and taste were eclectic. A classically trained conductor who worked with the London, Melbourne and Royal Philharmonic symphony orchestras, he produced Mr. Bennett’s “The Art of Excellence” (http://www.discogs.com/Tony-Bennett-The-Art-Of-Excellence/release/4830033) (1986) and Ms. Streisand’s “Je M’appelle Barbra” (http://www.allmusic.com/album/je-mappelle-barbra-mw0000201969) (1970) and worked with artists including Chaka Khan, Ray Charles, Lena Horne and Dave Brubeck. He also released many records conducting his own orchestra, Fantasy Strings.
He and Ms. Philips first worked together in 1988 on an 80th-birthday concert at Carnegie Hall for the jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, at which the cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed “Pennies From Heaven” with Mr. Grappelli and his trio. Ms. Philips and Mr. Stratta became known for presenting genre-crossing concerts at Avery Fisher Hall, Rose Hall, Birdland and elsewhere, as well as Carnegie Hall tributes to the bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, the saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera and the jazz pianist George Shearing. They also produced festivals in New York devoted to the music of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_reinhardt_django.htm) and to the intersection of tango and jazz.
Mr. Stratta conducted and produced albums devoted to symphonic adaptations of different musical forms, including “Symphonic Tango (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgEfWsDUZh8) ” and “Symphonic Boleros.” His “Symphonic Elvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8YozJbHPU) ” was recorded, appropriately, by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 1996.
Mr. Stratta told The Associated Press in 1991 that he would not produce music that did not interest him. “If you’re not really excited by the artist or the concept, I wouldn’t want to do it,” he said.
Ettore Carlo Teresa Stratta was born on March 30, 1933, in Cuneo, a small town in northern Italy. He grew up attending the opera with his father, learned to play piano when he was 5 and had formed a band by the time he was a teenager.
He studied civil engineering in high school and music in Rome before serving in the Italian military, where he mostly played the piano and conducted quartets, from 1951 until 1953.
In 1958 he married Cecile Homer. They later divorced.
He came to America in 1959 and got a job at a Columbia Records pressing plant on Long Island. He moved up through the ranks and in 1963 became the manager of the label’s international artists-and-repertoire division. He left to pursue a career as a conductor and producer.
He and Ms. Philips married in 1998. In addition to her, Mr. Stratta, who lived in Manhattan, is survived by two sons from his first marriage, Paul and Luca; two stepsons, Brad and Evan Philips; a brother, Adalberto; and five grandchildren.
Ms. Philips handled most of the business issues in their partnership, which was fine with Mr. Stratta. He told The Associated Press that he thought many people in the music industry were too focused on profits.
“They could just as easily be selling shoes, but they’re selling records,” he said. “It can’t just be a product you’re selling.”
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** The Resurgence Of Vinyl – GRAMMY Studio Summit | New Orleans
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What is it about vinyl records that still gives music lovers the chills? In this conversation from GRAMMY Studio Summit in New Orleans, presented by the Memphis Chapter, a group of experts representing the entire vinyl production process weighs in on the allure of vinyl records. Learn the best practices artists and engineers can employ to get the most out of a vinyl project at every stage of the process and discover why the medium is resurging after all these years.
Ben Blackwell from Third Man Records represents the record label view with a look at why Third Man has decided to release all of their albums on vinyl; Mastering Engineer Bruce Barielle explains the physical constraints of vinyl and emphasizes the importance of mastering for vinyl and digital releases separately; Vinyl Cutter Jeff Powell of Take Out Vinyl gets down to the nuts and bolts of creating the lacquer master; and President and CEO of Furnace MFG Record Pressing Eric Astor takes us home, with a look at the pressing process itself and insight into the significance of test pressings.
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** The Resurgence Of Vinyl – GRAMMY Studio Summit | New Orleans
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What is it about vinyl records that still gives music lovers the chills? In this conversation from GRAMMY Studio Summit in New Orleans, presented by the Memphis Chapter, a group of experts representing the entire vinyl production process weighs in on the allure of vinyl records. Learn the best practices artists and engineers can employ to get the most out of a vinyl project at every stage of the process and discover why the medium is resurging after all these years.
Ben Blackwell from Third Man Records represents the record label view with a look at why Third Man has decided to release all of their albums on vinyl; Mastering Engineer Bruce Barielle explains the physical constraints of vinyl and emphasizes the importance of mastering for vinyl and digital releases separately; Vinyl Cutter Jeff Powell of Take Out Vinyl gets down to the nuts and bolts of creating the lacquer master; and President and CEO of Furnace MFG Record Pressing Eric Astor takes us home, with a look at the pressing process itself and insight into the significance of test pressings.
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** The Resurgence Of Vinyl – GRAMMY Studio Summit | New Orleans
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What is it about vinyl records that still gives music lovers the chills? In this conversation from GRAMMY Studio Summit in New Orleans, presented by the Memphis Chapter, a group of experts representing the entire vinyl production process weighs in on the allure of vinyl records. Learn the best practices artists and engineers can employ to get the most out of a vinyl project at every stage of the process and discover why the medium is resurging after all these years.
Ben Blackwell from Third Man Records represents the record label view with a look at why Third Man has decided to release all of their albums on vinyl; Mastering Engineer Bruce Barielle explains the physical constraints of vinyl and emphasizes the importance of mastering for vinyl and digital releases separately; Vinyl Cutter Jeff Powell of Take Out Vinyl gets down to the nuts and bolts of creating the lacquer master; and President and CEO of Furnace MFG Record Pressing Eric Astor takes us home, with a look at the pressing process itself and insight into the significance of test pressings.
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Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the world, according to Spotify analysis of 20 billion tracks – News – Music – The Independent
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** Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the world, according to Spotify analysis of 20 billion tracks
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** Kendrick Lamar and Drake had the two biggest releases on the service so far this year
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CHRISTOPHER HOOTON (http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/christopher-hooton-9074770.html) Author Biography
Tuesday 14 July 2015
** Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the world, according to Spotify analysis of 20 billion tracks
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Spotify has created a live ‘musical map of the world’, analysing nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for over 1000 cities.
Updated bi-weekly hereon, the map is based on music that is “distinctive” to each area – meaning songs that are listened to frequently in specific cities that are not frequently listened to in others.
The data shows a loyalty among listeners to musicians from their own cities, with London favouring Jamie XX’s new album and Philadelphia listening to a lot of Meek Mill.
The most interesting finding however is that hip-hop is the world’s top genre, showing up on playlists more than all others, regardless of geography or language.
There are all kinds of factors besides just the popularity of hip hop that could be at work here – including the relationship of hip hop labels with Spotify, the inclusivity of the genre, the playlisting of it, the use of Spotify in social settings (where, let’s face it, the trap bangers are going to come out) and the strong sense of narrative arc on hip hop releases that lead to longer listening sessions.
Hip hop has certainly had a big year on the streaming service, with Kendrick Lamar’s new album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ breaking the record for most streams in a single day (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/kendrick-lamars-new-album-to-pimp-a-butterfly-just-broke-the-record-for-most-spotify-streams-in-a-day-10115402.html) (9.6 million) in March, beating Drake’s ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ mixtape from a few weeks before.
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** Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the world, according to Spotify analysis of 20 billion tracks
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Spotify has created a live ‘musical map of the world’, analysing nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for over 1000 cities.
Updated bi-weekly hereon, the map is based on music that is “distinctive” to each area – meaning songs that are listened to frequently in specific cities that are not frequently listened to in others.
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The most interesting finding however is that hip-hop is the world’s top genre, showing up on playlists more than all others, regardless of geography or language.
There are all kinds of factors besides just the popularity of hip hop that could be at work here – including the relationship of hip hop labels with Spotify, the inclusivity of the genre, the playlisting of it, the use of Spotify in social settings (where, let’s face it, the trap bangers are going to come out) and the strong sense of narrative arc on hip hop releases that lead to longer listening sessions.
Hip hop has certainly had a big year on the streaming service, with Kendrick Lamar’s new album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ breaking the record for most streams in a single day (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/kendrick-lamars-new-album-to-pimp-a-butterfly-just-broke-the-record-for-most-spotify-streams-in-a-day-10115402.html) (9.6 million) in March, beating Drake’s ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ mixtape from a few weeks before.
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** Kendrick Lamar and Drake had the two biggest releases on the service so far this year
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Tuesday 14 July 2015
** Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the world, according to Spotify analysis of 20 billion tracks
————————————————————
Spotify has created a live ‘musical map of the world’, analysing nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for over 1000 cities.
Updated bi-weekly hereon, the map is based on music that is “distinctive” to each area – meaning songs that are listened to frequently in specific cities that are not frequently listened to in others.
The data shows a loyalty among listeners to musicians from their own cities, with London favouring Jamie XX’s new album and Philadelphia listening to a lot of Meek Mill.
The most interesting finding however is that hip-hop is the world’s top genre, showing up on playlists more than all others, regardless of geography or language.
There are all kinds of factors besides just the popularity of hip hop that could be at work here – including the relationship of hip hop labels with Spotify, the inclusivity of the genre, the playlisting of it, the use of Spotify in social settings (where, let’s face it, the trap bangers are going to come out) and the strong sense of narrative arc on hip hop releases that lead to longer listening sessions.
Hip hop has certainly had a big year on the streaming service, with Kendrick Lamar’s new album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ breaking the record for most streams in a single day (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/kendrick-lamars-new-album-to-pimp-a-butterfly-just-broke-the-record-for-most-spotify-streams-in-a-day-10115402.html) (9.6 million) in March, beating Drake’s ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ mixtape from a few weeks before.
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The Chantays perform in Santa Ana in 1994. Brian Carman, left, co-wrote the surf music anthem with fellow Chantay Bob Spickard. (Gary Ambrose / Los Angeles Times)
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Brian Carman, Chantays guitarist who co-wrote the surf music classic “Pipeline,” has died
Maybe he should have been studying — or even surfing.
But Brian Carman had a guitar — a $40 Montgomery Ward’s Airline that he bought with his mom’s credit card. And he had a little group called the Chantays (http://www.thechantays.com/) — five guys from Santa Ana High School who thought they could maybe play for dances at the community center.
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One afternoon in 1961, he and his pal Bob Spickard got together and traded licks after school. By the end of the day, they had composed what would become one of Southern California’s most recognizable musical exports — an instrumental anthem to riding the waves and living the life, a hard-driving song that begins with a dive-bombing set of notes cherished by virtually every kid who has picked up a guitar in the last six decades.
Carman, who with Spickard co-wrote “Pipeline” when he was 17 and continued to play with the Chantays even as the popularity of surf music hit some deep troughs before cresting again, died Sunday at his Santa Ana home. He was 69.
Carman, who had been ill for some time, had Crohn’s disease and an ulcerated colon, Spickard said.
Carman and the Chantays had no other hits as big as “Pipeline” — but “Pipeline,” while never topping the charts, became bigger than merely a big song.
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“It’s like the melody of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy,’ ” said Tim Cooley, a music professor at UC Santa Barbara and author of a 2014 book, “Surfing About Music”. (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php%3Fisbn=9780520276642) “It’s there, it’s in your head, it’s unforgettable.”
With its hard-driving rhythm and Carman’s cascading introduction, “Pipeline” became embedded in the national consciousness. It has been used in a host of movies and TV shows. In an episode of “The Sopranos,” it was the background music for a cannoli-eating contest.
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In 1963, it brought the nervous young Chantays to “The Lawrence Welk Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=j09C8clJaXo) ,” where they strummed and drummed to their pre-recorded “Pipeline” as the old pros in Welk’s regular band sat stolidly behind them. The musical bastion of Middle America had never before featured a rock ‘n’ roll group. For years afterward, Welk thanked them at Christmas with cheese logs and gift baskets.
“Our parents absolutely loved it although we might have thought it was somewhat corny,” Spickard said. “But Welk was an absolute gentleman.”
Born Aug. 10, 1945, Carman grew up in Santa Ana. His father worked at the Department of Motor Vehicles and his mother was a legal secretary. His older brother Steve, who played saxophone in a local band called the Rhythm Rangers, inspired Carman and his friends to get into music.
“They were making some money and attracting the girls,” Spickard said. “We thought, ‘Hey — that’s a pretty good idea.’ ”
While the Chantays became known for surfing instrumentals, Carman was not an avid surfer. In fact, “Pipeline” was initially called “Liberty’s Whip,” after actor Lee Marvin’s whip-flicking bad guy in the film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
The band changed it after Spickard and fellow Chantay Warren Waters went to a Bruce Brown film and saw surfers riding the famous Pipeline wave off Oahu’s north shore.
It was good timing. California surfing was taking center stage. The Chantays joined with the likes of guitarist Dick Dale, the Ventures, the Surfaris and the Beach Boys in providing the theme music.
The Chantays’ other well-known tunes also have surf themes, with titles like “Killer Dana,” “Bailout at Frog Rock” and “South Swell.”
With the coming of the Beatles and the other bands in the British Invasion, surf music receded. As Vietnam protests and the counterculture mushroomed, it began to seem quaint. On his debut album in 1967, Jimi Hendrix promised his listeners that “you’ll never hear surf music again.”
For a while, the Chantays played under other names to capture the changing spirit of the times. They were the Ill Winds and the Leaping Ferns, but came back as the Chantays — a name chosen over Montays and Zantays only because it sounded cool. Their name was memorialized in their hometown, with a street beside Santa Ana High School renamed Chantays Avenue.
As they got older, the Chantays started families and picked up day jobs with more responsibility. With occasionally shifting personnel they kept playing, veering into lounge-style music and then returning to their roots in the surf.
In 1994, Jim Washburn, a reviewer for The Times, saw the grown Chantays perform “Pipeline” “with gobs of adolescent enthusiasm in it, the thrill of kids getting loud, cool sounds to come out of their shiny new amps.”
Surf music today is “completely happening,” said Cooley, the UC Santa Barbara ethnomusicologist. Surf bands evolved into garage bands and punk bands, he said, but the form over the years has revived.
“It’s not charting,” he said, “but the charts don’t tell the full story.”
Carman played with the Chantays until about two years ago, when health problems sidelined him. He worked as a plant manager for a guitar maker and had other jobs in the music industry.
His survivors include his wife Suni, son Brett, and brother Steve. His first wife, Katie, died of breast cancer.
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Brian Carman, Chantays guitarist who co-wrote the surf music classic “Pipeline,” has died
Maybe he should have been studying — or even surfing.
But Brian Carman had a guitar — a $40 Montgomery Ward’s Airline that he bought with his mom’s credit card. And he had a little group called the Chantays (http://www.thechantays.com/) — five guys from Santa Ana High School who thought they could maybe play for dances at the community center.
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One afternoon in 1961, he and his pal Bob Spickard got together and traded licks after school. By the end of the day, they had composed what would become one of Southern California’s most recognizable musical exports — an instrumental anthem to riding the waves and living the life, a hard-driving song that begins with a dive-bombing set of notes cherished by virtually every kid who has picked up a guitar in the last six decades.
Carman, who with Spickard co-wrote “Pipeline” when he was 17 and continued to play with the Chantays even as the popularity of surf music hit some deep troughs before cresting again, died Sunday at his Santa Ana home. He was 69.
Carman, who had been ill for some time, had Crohn’s disease and an ulcerated colon, Spickard said.
Carman and the Chantays had no other hits as big as “Pipeline” — but “Pipeline,” while never topping the charts, became bigger than merely a big song.
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“It’s like the melody of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy,’ ” said Tim Cooley, a music professor at UC Santa Barbara and author of a 2014 book, “Surfing About Music”. (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php%3Fisbn=9780520276642) “It’s there, it’s in your head, it’s unforgettable.”
With its hard-driving rhythm and Carman’s cascading introduction, “Pipeline” became embedded in the national consciousness. It has been used in a host of movies and TV shows. In an episode of “The Sopranos,” it was the background music for a cannoli-eating contest.
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In 1963, it brought the nervous young Chantays to “The Lawrence Welk Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=j09C8clJaXo) ,” where they strummed and drummed to their pre-recorded “Pipeline” as the old pros in Welk’s regular band sat stolidly behind them. The musical bastion of Middle America had never before featured a rock ‘n’ roll group. For years afterward, Welk thanked them at Christmas with cheese logs and gift baskets.
“Our parents absolutely loved it although we might have thought it was somewhat corny,” Spickard said. “But Welk was an absolute gentleman.”
Born Aug. 10, 1945, Carman grew up in Santa Ana. His father worked at the Department of Motor Vehicles and his mother was a legal secretary. His older brother Steve, who played saxophone in a local band called the Rhythm Rangers, inspired Carman and his friends to get into music.
“They were making some money and attracting the girls,” Spickard said. “We thought, ‘Hey — that’s a pretty good idea.’ ”
While the Chantays became known for surfing instrumentals, Carman was not an avid surfer. In fact, “Pipeline” was initially called “Liberty’s Whip,” after actor Lee Marvin’s whip-flicking bad guy in the film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
The band changed it after Spickard and fellow Chantay Warren Waters went to a Bruce Brown film and saw surfers riding the famous Pipeline wave off Oahu’s north shore.
It was good timing. California surfing was taking center stage. The Chantays joined with the likes of guitarist Dick Dale, the Ventures, the Surfaris and the Beach Boys in providing the theme music.
The Chantays’ other well-known tunes also have surf themes, with titles like “Killer Dana,” “Bailout at Frog Rock” and “South Swell.”
With the coming of the Beatles and the other bands in the British Invasion, surf music receded. As Vietnam protests and the counterculture mushroomed, it began to seem quaint. On his debut album in 1967, Jimi Hendrix promised his listeners that “you’ll never hear surf music again.”
For a while, the Chantays played under other names to capture the changing spirit of the times. They were the Ill Winds and the Leaping Ferns, but came back as the Chantays — a name chosen over Montays and Zantays only because it sounded cool. Their name was memorialized in their hometown, with a street beside Santa Ana High School renamed Chantays Avenue.
As they got older, the Chantays started families and picked up day jobs with more responsibility. With occasionally shifting personnel they kept playing, veering into lounge-style music and then returning to their roots in the surf.
In 1994, Jim Washburn, a reviewer for The Times, saw the grown Chantays perform “Pipeline” “with gobs of adolescent enthusiasm in it, the thrill of kids getting loud, cool sounds to come out of their shiny new amps.”
Surf music today is “completely happening,” said Cooley, the UC Santa Barbara ethnomusicologist. Surf bands evolved into garage bands and punk bands, he said, but the form over the years has revived.
“It’s not charting,” he said, “but the charts don’t tell the full story.”
Carman played with the Chantays until about two years ago, when health problems sidelined him. He worked as a plant manager for a guitar maker and had other jobs in the music industry.
His survivors include his wife Suni, son Brett, and brother Steve. His first wife, Katie, died of breast cancer.
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The Chantays perform in Santa Ana in 1994. Brian Carman, left, co-wrote the surf music anthem with fellow Chantay Bob Spickard. (Gary Ambrose / Los Angeles Times)
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Brian Carman, Chantays guitarist who co-wrote the surf music classic “Pipeline,” has died
Maybe he should have been studying — or even surfing.
But Brian Carman had a guitar — a $40 Montgomery Ward’s Airline that he bought with his mom’s credit card. And he had a little group called the Chantays (http://www.thechantays.com/) — five guys from Santa Ana High School who thought they could maybe play for dances at the community center.
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One afternoon in 1961, he and his pal Bob Spickard got together and traded licks after school. By the end of the day, they had composed what would become one of Southern California’s most recognizable musical exports — an instrumental anthem to riding the waves and living the life, a hard-driving song that begins with a dive-bombing set of notes cherished by virtually every kid who has picked up a guitar in the last six decades.
Carman, who with Spickard co-wrote “Pipeline” when he was 17 and continued to play with the Chantays even as the popularity of surf music hit some deep troughs before cresting again, died Sunday at his Santa Ana home. He was 69.
Carman, who had been ill for some time, had Crohn’s disease and an ulcerated colon, Spickard said.
Carman and the Chantays had no other hits as big as “Pipeline” — but “Pipeline,” while never topping the charts, became bigger than merely a big song.
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“It’s like the melody of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy,’ ” said Tim Cooley, a music professor at UC Santa Barbara and author of a 2014 book, “Surfing About Music”. (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php%3Fisbn=9780520276642) “It’s there, it’s in your head, it’s unforgettable.”
With its hard-driving rhythm and Carman’s cascading introduction, “Pipeline” became embedded in the national consciousness. It has been used in a host of movies and TV shows. In an episode of “The Sopranos,” it was the background music for a cannoli-eating contest.
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In 1963, it brought the nervous young Chantays to “The Lawrence Welk Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=j09C8clJaXo) ,” where they strummed and drummed to their pre-recorded “Pipeline” as the old pros in Welk’s regular band sat stolidly behind them. The musical bastion of Middle America had never before featured a rock ‘n’ roll group. For years afterward, Welk thanked them at Christmas with cheese logs and gift baskets.
“Our parents absolutely loved it although we might have thought it was somewhat corny,” Spickard said. “But Welk was an absolute gentleman.”
Born Aug. 10, 1945, Carman grew up in Santa Ana. His father worked at the Department of Motor Vehicles and his mother was a legal secretary. His older brother Steve, who played saxophone in a local band called the Rhythm Rangers, inspired Carman and his friends to get into music.
“They were making some money and attracting the girls,” Spickard said. “We thought, ‘Hey — that’s a pretty good idea.’ ”
While the Chantays became known for surfing instrumentals, Carman was not an avid surfer. In fact, “Pipeline” was initially called “Liberty’s Whip,” after actor Lee Marvin’s whip-flicking bad guy in the film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
The band changed it after Spickard and fellow Chantay Warren Waters went to a Bruce Brown film and saw surfers riding the famous Pipeline wave off Oahu’s north shore.
It was good timing. California surfing was taking center stage. The Chantays joined with the likes of guitarist Dick Dale, the Ventures, the Surfaris and the Beach Boys in providing the theme music.
The Chantays’ other well-known tunes also have surf themes, with titles like “Killer Dana,” “Bailout at Frog Rock” and “South Swell.”
With the coming of the Beatles and the other bands in the British Invasion, surf music receded. As Vietnam protests and the counterculture mushroomed, it began to seem quaint. On his debut album in 1967, Jimi Hendrix promised his listeners that “you’ll never hear surf music again.”
For a while, the Chantays played under other names to capture the changing spirit of the times. They were the Ill Winds and the Leaping Ferns, but came back as the Chantays — a name chosen over Montays and Zantays only because it sounded cool. Their name was memorialized in their hometown, with a street beside Santa Ana High School renamed Chantays Avenue.
As they got older, the Chantays started families and picked up day jobs with more responsibility. With occasionally shifting personnel they kept playing, veering into lounge-style music and then returning to their roots in the surf.
In 1994, Jim Washburn, a reviewer for The Times, saw the grown Chantays perform “Pipeline” “with gobs of adolescent enthusiasm in it, the thrill of kids getting loud, cool sounds to come out of their shiny new amps.”
Surf music today is “completely happening,” said Cooley, the UC Santa Barbara ethnomusicologist. Surf bands evolved into garage bands and punk bands, he said, but the form over the years has revived.
“It’s not charting,” he said, “but the charts don’t tell the full story.”
Carman played with the Chantays until about two years ago, when health problems sidelined him. He worked as a plant manager for a guitar maker and had other jobs in the music industry.
His survivors include his wife Suni, son Brett, and brother Steve. His first wife, Katie, died of breast cancer.
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Randy Weston, ‘Jazz Griot,’ Among Illustrious Artists-in-Residence | The New School News
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Randy Weston (http://www.randyweston.info/) is one of the greatest living jazz musicians, an innovator and visionary who has performed on five continents, formed partnerships with the likes of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and forged a unique sound that has brought African rhythms to the foreground of contemporary jazz.
Titles such as “innovator” and “visionary” inevitably pop up in discussions of the 89-year-old Brooklyn-born pianist and composer. But there is another descriptor that is equally fitting of Weston: griot. Griots are a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who provide an oral history of West Africa.
In Weston’s case, he’s a griot of jazz and its African roots.
“It’s so important to teach the history of our music and the origins of our music, which comes directly from the African continent,” Weston says. “It’s so important to reach our young people. Musicians have to be historians, too.”
Weston will share that history, as well as his wisdom and expertise, with students when he joins the School of Jazz (http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/) as its artist-in-residence this semester. During his residency, the jazz guru will participate in a lecture series exploring his music and the development of American jazz and its roots in Africa, lead an improvisation ensemble program, mentor students, and perform live. Throughout these activities, Weston will be a conduit to the past, channeling the golden era of jazz in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the genre’s African origins.
“In many cases, students aren’t taught the history of Africa or African music,” says Weston, a lifelong student of the continent’s culture and history. “I always say, if you want to learn the language, you have to learn the alphabet.”
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, Weston’s interest in African culture and spirituality took hold at an early age, thanks in large part to his father. In his 50-year career, Weston has traveled to 18 African countries, producing the continent’s first major jazz festival and living for many years in Morocco, where he opened a popular jazz club. At the same time, he formed deep connections with a number of America’s jazz masters, including Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Ellington and Monk.
“Randy is a griot, a living link with early days of the music,” says Philip Ballman, coordinator of special programs at the School of Jazz. “To have one of the foremost jazz practitioners speak about his experiences is invaluable for young musicians finding their way. Randy is a treasure, and we’re so lucky to have him.”
Come next semester, Weston will take on the role of teacher. But despite his new title of artist-in-residence, he’ll always think himself as a student.
“I’m always learning,” he says. “Whether it’s visiting Africa or coming to The New School, it’s all related to the fantastic experience of music and what it means to us. It’s the one language we should all understand.”
Weston is one of the many accomplished musicians, artists, playwrights, and choreographers who will share their wisdom and expertise with students as artists-in-residence at The New School, offering students the chance to learn from and in some cases work directly with masters of their fields.
The list of illustrious professional artists includes
* Naila Al Atrash, a Syrian-born stage director and actor known for her challenging plays, which explore society, economics, and politics. She will guest-direct a play in the Eugene Lang College (http://www.newschool.edu/lang/) Theater Program (http://www.newschool.edu/lang/courses-subpage.aspx?id=24420) .
* Imani Winds (http://www.imaniwinds.com/) , a genre-defying Grammy-nominated wind quintet entering the second year of its residency at The New School. The group will conduct master classes, perform concerts, serve as guest lecturers in classrooms, and teach entrepreneurship in the performing arts.
* Nami Yamamoto (http://newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/past/2012-festival/artist-roster/nami-yamamoto/) , a renowned Japanese dancer and choreographer. She will create a new work for Eugene Lang College dance students, to be performed in their end-of-semester Fall Dance Performances.
* The Orion Quartet (http://www.orionquartet.com/) , a critically acclaimed string quartet that has been an artist-in-residence at The New School for the last decade. The group will lead master classes, perform concerts and offer private one-on-one instruction to students.
* Andrew Balio (http://bsomusic.org/musicians/musician/andrew-balio.aspx) , principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During a daylong residency in October, he will conduct a master class, participate in a panel discussion on the future of classical music and of orchestral music, and perform a recital.
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Randy Weston (http://www.randyweston.info/) is one of the greatest living jazz musicians, an innovator and visionary who has performed on five continents, formed partnerships with the likes of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and forged a unique sound that has brought African rhythms to the foreground of contemporary jazz.
Titles such as “innovator” and “visionary” inevitably pop up in discussions of the 89-year-old Brooklyn-born pianist and composer. But there is another descriptor that is equally fitting of Weston: griot. Griots are a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who provide an oral history of West Africa.
In Weston’s case, he’s a griot of jazz and its African roots.
“It’s so important to teach the history of our music and the origins of our music, which comes directly from the African continent,” Weston says. “It’s so important to reach our young people. Musicians have to be historians, too.”
Weston will share that history, as well as his wisdom and expertise, with students when he joins the School of Jazz (http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/) as its artist-in-residence this semester. During his residency, the jazz guru will participate in a lecture series exploring his music and the development of American jazz and its roots in Africa, lead an improvisation ensemble program, mentor students, and perform live. Throughout these activities, Weston will be a conduit to the past, channeling the golden era of jazz in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the genre’s African origins.
“In many cases, students aren’t taught the history of Africa or African music,” says Weston, a lifelong student of the continent’s culture and history. “I always say, if you want to learn the language, you have to learn the alphabet.”
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, Weston’s interest in African culture and spirituality took hold at an early age, thanks in large part to his father. In his 50-year career, Weston has traveled to 18 African countries, producing the continent’s first major jazz festival and living for many years in Morocco, where he opened a popular jazz club. At the same time, he formed deep connections with a number of America’s jazz masters, including Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Ellington and Monk.
“Randy is a griot, a living link with early days of the music,” says Philip Ballman, coordinator of special programs at the School of Jazz. “To have one of the foremost jazz practitioners speak about his experiences is invaluable for young musicians finding their way. Randy is a treasure, and we’re so lucky to have him.”
Come next semester, Weston will take on the role of teacher. But despite his new title of artist-in-residence, he’ll always think himself as a student.
“I’m always learning,” he says. “Whether it’s visiting Africa or coming to The New School, it’s all related to the fantastic experience of music and what it means to us. It’s the one language we should all understand.”
Weston is one of the many accomplished musicians, artists, playwrights, and choreographers who will share their wisdom and expertise with students as artists-in-residence at The New School, offering students the chance to learn from and in some cases work directly with masters of their fields.
The list of illustrious professional artists includes
* Naila Al Atrash, a Syrian-born stage director and actor known for her challenging plays, which explore society, economics, and politics. She will guest-direct a play in the Eugene Lang College (http://www.newschool.edu/lang/) Theater Program (http://www.newschool.edu/lang/courses-subpage.aspx?id=24420) .
* Imani Winds (http://www.imaniwinds.com/) , a genre-defying Grammy-nominated wind quintet entering the second year of its residency at The New School. The group will conduct master classes, perform concerts, serve as guest lecturers in classrooms, and teach entrepreneurship in the performing arts.
* Nami Yamamoto (http://newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/past/2012-festival/artist-roster/nami-yamamoto/) , a renowned Japanese dancer and choreographer. She will create a new work for Eugene Lang College dance students, to be performed in their end-of-semester Fall Dance Performances.
* The Orion Quartet (http://www.orionquartet.com/) , a critically acclaimed string quartet that has been an artist-in-residence at The New School for the last decade. The group will lead master classes, perform concerts and offer private one-on-one instruction to students.
* Andrew Balio (http://bsomusic.org/musicians/musician/andrew-balio.aspx) , principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During a daylong residency in October, he will conduct a master class, participate in a panel discussion on the future of classical music and of orchestral music, and perform a recital.
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Jazz legend and New School artist-in-residence Randy Weston. Photo by Carol Friedman.
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Randy Weston (http://www.randyweston.info/) is one of the greatest living jazz musicians, an innovator and visionary who has performed on five continents, formed partnerships with the likes of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and forged a unique sound that has brought African rhythms to the foreground of contemporary jazz.
Titles such as “innovator” and “visionary” inevitably pop up in discussions of the 89-year-old Brooklyn-born pianist and composer. But there is another descriptor that is equally fitting of Weston: griot. Griots are a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who provide an oral history of West Africa.
In Weston’s case, he’s a griot of jazz and its African roots.
“It’s so important to teach the history of our music and the origins of our music, which comes directly from the African continent,” Weston says. “It’s so important to reach our young people. Musicians have to be historians, too.”
Weston will share that history, as well as his wisdom and expertise, with students when he joins the School of Jazz (http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/) as its artist-in-residence this semester. During his residency, the jazz guru will participate in a lecture series exploring his music and the development of American jazz and its roots in Africa, lead an improvisation ensemble program, mentor students, and perform live. Throughout these activities, Weston will be a conduit to the past, channeling the golden era of jazz in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the genre’s African origins.
“In many cases, students aren’t taught the history of Africa or African music,” says Weston, a lifelong student of the continent’s culture and history. “I always say, if you want to learn the language, you have to learn the alphabet.”
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, Weston’s interest in African culture and spirituality took hold at an early age, thanks in large part to his father. In his 50-year career, Weston has traveled to 18 African countries, producing the continent’s first major jazz festival and living for many years in Morocco, where he opened a popular jazz club. At the same time, he formed deep connections with a number of America’s jazz masters, including Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Ellington and Monk.
“Randy is a griot, a living link with early days of the music,” says Philip Ballman, coordinator of special programs at the School of Jazz. “To have one of the foremost jazz practitioners speak about his experiences is invaluable for young musicians finding their way. Randy is a treasure, and we’re so lucky to have him.”
Come next semester, Weston will take on the role of teacher. But despite his new title of artist-in-residence, he’ll always think himself as a student.
“I’m always learning,” he says. “Whether it’s visiting Africa or coming to The New School, it’s all related to the fantastic experience of music and what it means to us. It’s the one language we should all understand.”
Weston is one of the many accomplished musicians, artists, playwrights, and choreographers who will share their wisdom and expertise with students as artists-in-residence at The New School, offering students the chance to learn from and in some cases work directly with masters of their fields.
The list of illustrious professional artists includes
* Naila Al Atrash, a Syrian-born stage director and actor known for her challenging plays, which explore society, economics, and politics. She will guest-direct a play in the Eugene Lang College (http://www.newschool.edu/lang/) Theater Program (http://www.newschool.edu/lang/courses-subpage.aspx?id=24420) .
* Imani Winds (http://www.imaniwinds.com/) , a genre-defying Grammy-nominated wind quintet entering the second year of its residency at The New School. The group will conduct master classes, perform concerts, serve as guest lecturers in classrooms, and teach entrepreneurship in the performing arts.
* Nami Yamamoto (http://newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/past/2012-festival/artist-roster/nami-yamamoto/) , a renowned Japanese dancer and choreographer. She will create a new work for Eugene Lang College dance students, to be performed in their end-of-semester Fall Dance Performances.
* The Orion Quartet (http://www.orionquartet.com/) , a critically acclaimed string quartet that has been an artist-in-residence at The New School for the last decade. The group will lead master classes, perform concerts and offer private one-on-one instruction to students.
* Andrew Balio (http://bsomusic.org/musicians/musician/andrew-balio.aspx) , principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During a daylong residency in October, he will conduct a master class, participate in a panel discussion on the future of classical music and of orchestral music, and perform a recital.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Transcendence of the Universe, Adapted in Jazz for Kids Based on “Saint James Infirmary” | Brain Pickings
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A love letter to the cosmos, in a cut-paper stop-motion musical animation.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral,” Ptolemy marveled (http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/10/a-private-history-of-happiness/) , “but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies … I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.” Eighteen centuries later, Neil deGrasse Tyson — Ptolemy’s contemporary counterpart — echoed the ancient astronomer as he reflected on the most astounding fact about the universe (http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/03/06/neil-degrasse-tyson-space-chronicles-universe/) : “When I look up at the night sky and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe … the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, because they’re small, the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
When Portland-based jazz pianist, singer-songwriter, and children’s music composer Lori Henriques (http://www.lorihenriques.com/) came upon Tyson’s words, she was stirred to set his sentiment to song, using the captivating melody of “Saint James Infirmary,” which she had always wanted to incorporate into children’s music. The result is the infinitely delightful “When I Look Into The Night Sky,” found on Henriques’s science album for children, The World Is a Curious Place to Live (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20) (iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/world-is-curious-place-to/id664877819?uo=4&at=10l68V) ).
Complement The World Is a Curious Place to Live (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20) , which is an absolute treat in its totality, with Henriques’s marvelous jazz adaptation of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle (http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/08/lori-henriques-heisenbergs-aha) and her musical homage to Jane Goodall (http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/19/me-jane-patrick-mcdonnell/#lori) .
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A love letter to the cosmos, in a cut-paper stop-motion musical animation.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral,” Ptolemy marveled (http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/10/a-private-history-of-happiness/) , “but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies … I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.” Eighteen centuries later, Neil deGrasse Tyson — Ptolemy’s contemporary counterpart — echoed the ancient astronomer as he reflected on the most astounding fact about the universe (http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/03/06/neil-degrasse-tyson-space-chronicles-universe/) : “When I look up at the night sky and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe … the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, because they’re small, the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
When Portland-based jazz pianist, singer-songwriter, and children’s music composer Lori Henriques (http://www.lorihenriques.com/) came upon Tyson’s words, she was stirred to set his sentiment to song, using the captivating melody of “Saint James Infirmary,” which she had always wanted to incorporate into children’s music. The result is the infinitely delightful “When I Look Into The Night Sky,” found on Henriques’s science album for children, The World Is a Curious Place to Live (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20) (iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/world-is-curious-place-to/id664877819?uo=4&at=10l68V) ).
Complement The World Is a Curious Place to Live (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20) , which is an absolute treat in its totality, with Henriques’s marvelous jazz adaptation of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle (http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/08/lori-henriques-heisenbergs-aha) and her musical homage to Jane Goodall (http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/19/me-jane-patrick-mcdonnell/#lori) .
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Transcendence of the Universe, Adapted in Jazz for Kids Based on “Saint James Infirmary” | Brain Pickings
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** Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Transcendence of the Universe, Adapted in Jazz for Kids Based on “Saint James Infirmary”
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by Maria Popova (http://www.brainpickings.org/author/mpopova/)
A love letter to the cosmos, in a cut-paper stop-motion musical animation.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral,” Ptolemy marveled (http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/10/a-private-history-of-happiness/) , “but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies … I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.” Eighteen centuries later, Neil deGrasse Tyson — Ptolemy’s contemporary counterpart — echoed the ancient astronomer as he reflected on the most astounding fact about the universe (http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/03/06/neil-degrasse-tyson-space-chronicles-universe/) : “When I look up at the night sky and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe … the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, because they’re small, the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
When Portland-based jazz pianist, singer-songwriter, and children’s music composer Lori Henriques (http://www.lorihenriques.com/) came upon Tyson’s words, she was stirred to set his sentiment to song, using the captivating melody of “Saint James Infirmary,” which she had always wanted to incorporate into children’s music. The result is the infinitely delightful “When I Look Into The Night Sky,” found on Henriques’s science album for children, The World Is a Curious Place to Live (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20) (iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/world-is-curious-place-to/id664877819?uo=4&at=10l68V) ).
Complement The World Is a Curious Place to Live (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DPX6C9C/braipick-20) , which is an absolute treat in its totality, with Henriques’s marvelous jazz adaptation of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle (http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/08/lori-henriques-heisenbergs-aha) and her musical homage to Jane Goodall (http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/19/me-jane-patrick-mcdonnell/#lori) .
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From The Archive: Dizzy and Duke, and All That’s Jazz, Sat Here – The New York Times
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** Dizzy and Duke, and All That’s Jazz, Sat Here
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By COREY KILGANNON (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/corey-kilgannon/)
OCTOBER 18, 2007 12:53 PM
Phil Schaap Phil Schaap taking it easy in the Dizzy Chair, where many jazz luminaries were interviewed. The original upholstery has been shredded for a fund-raising drive at the Columbia jazz station, WKCR-FM (89.9). (Photo: Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times)
For almost as long as Phil Schaap has been playing jazz records as a disc jockey at WKCR-FM (89.9) (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/) , a red chair has been hanging around the station on the Columbia campus, where he was a freshman 41 years ago.
The chair had been dragged over from a nearby student lounge. Although it was a simple piece of furniture — a modest wooden frame with red upholstered padding — it was the deluxe chair in the station’s waiting room and soon became the seat of honor for renowned jazz musicians when they visited.
“We’ve always been a bare-bones station, and this was just a decent chair to have guests sit in,” Mr. Schaap, 57, said this week in the station’s studio on campus in Morningside Heights.
When Duke Ellington visited the station while on campus receiving his honorary doctorate from Columbia in May 1973, he was interviewed there while in the chair. From then on, it retained a certain “Duke Sat Here” aura and was reserved as a chair of honor for the untold numbers of musicians and personalities to follow.
On Dizzy Gillespie’s 70th birthday, a sound booth was set up around the chair for him to be interviewed -– the second defining moment: it was baptized as the Dizzy Gillespie Chair.
Now, with the station trying to raise money to continue operating, the chair is being used as a fund-raising tool during its station’s marathon broadcast (10 days of Dizzy round the clock from Oct. 13 to 22) to mark Gillespie’s birthday — he died in 1993, but would have turned 90 on Sunday.
The chair’s original red upholstery has been pulled off and chopped into 1,600 pieces to be “sold.” A piece is offered to any donor of $1,000 or more, as a shred of jazz history.
Mr. Schaap said he has put the chair up for sale in the past, but each time, the buyer donated the money but asked that the chair remain at the station. The station, which runs no commercials, operates on a $280,000-a-year budget. The university provides just a fraction of that.
If each person donates $1,000 the station will amass an endowment of $1.6 million, said Mr. Schaap, which will ensure its financial well-being for many years. Ben Young, a longtime D.J. at the station, walked in with a small metal box of red scraps of worn, red upholstery.
Was it leather?
“Naugahyde?” Mr. Young conjectured.
Most of the musicians have come by to be interviewed by Mr. Schaap, an encyclopedic jazz historian who has a collection of more than 3,000 recorded interviews of jazz figures.
On Tuesday morning, he was in the studio playing recordings of Charlie Parker and Gillespie together. As he spoke, his hands automatically found the combination of buttons, switches and dials to segue from “Hot House” to “Salt Peanuts” on CD and then cueing up “Slim’s Jam” on an LP.
Mr. Schaap plopped down on the chair, which has been redone with similar red upholstery, and rattled off a staggering list of names of jazz greats who sat there while being interviewed at WKCR through its 66-year history. Jazzwise, this included Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. Other luminaries included Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg and Dennis Hopper. In all, more than 250 renowned musicians and others have been through since the station played its first record over the air (which, incidentally, was “Swing Is Here,” by an ensemble that included Benny Goodman and Roy Eldridge. Both have spent time in the Dizzy Chair).
Mr. Schaap alternated the music with extended pleas for listeners to call in and donate. Their donations will save jazz radio in New York, he said. If the radio station’s finances continued to sink, listeners would lose their daily dose of Charlie Parker.
In an adjacent room, a team of student D.J.’s fielded the calls, some of whom had not returned to their dorms the previous night. Out in the hallway, two mattresses were leaned against a wall. Jordan Paul, the station manager, confessed to spending the previous night sleeping at the windowless station.
The station regularly plays this type of multiday music marathon — including 11 days of John Coltrane in 2004 and two weeks of Billie Holliday in 2005.
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From The Archive: Dizzy and Duke, and All That’s Jazz, Sat Here – The New York Times
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** Dizzy and Duke, and All That’s Jazz, Sat Here
————————————————————
By COREY KILGANNON (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/corey-kilgannon/)
OCTOBER 18, 2007 12:53 PM
Phil Schaap Phil Schaap taking it easy in the Dizzy Chair, where many jazz luminaries were interviewed. The original upholstery has been shredded for a fund-raising drive at the Columbia jazz station, WKCR-FM (89.9). (Photo: Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times)
For almost as long as Phil Schaap has been playing jazz records as a disc jockey at WKCR-FM (89.9) (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/) , a red chair has been hanging around the station on the Columbia campus, where he was a freshman 41 years ago.
The chair had been dragged over from a nearby student lounge. Although it was a simple piece of furniture — a modest wooden frame with red upholstered padding — it was the deluxe chair in the station’s waiting room and soon became the seat of honor for renowned jazz musicians when they visited.
“We’ve always been a bare-bones station, and this was just a decent chair to have guests sit in,” Mr. Schaap, 57, said this week in the station’s studio on campus in Morningside Heights.
When Duke Ellington visited the station while on campus receiving his honorary doctorate from Columbia in May 1973, he was interviewed there while in the chair. From then on, it retained a certain “Duke Sat Here” aura and was reserved as a chair of honor for the untold numbers of musicians and personalities to follow.
On Dizzy Gillespie’s 70th birthday, a sound booth was set up around the chair for him to be interviewed -– the second defining moment: it was baptized as the Dizzy Gillespie Chair.
Now, with the station trying to raise money to continue operating, the chair is being used as a fund-raising tool during its station’s marathon broadcast (10 days of Dizzy round the clock from Oct. 13 to 22) to mark Gillespie’s birthday — he died in 1993, but would have turned 90 on Sunday.
The chair’s original red upholstery has been pulled off and chopped into 1,600 pieces to be “sold.” A piece is offered to any donor of $1,000 or more, as a shred of jazz history.
Mr. Schaap said he has put the chair up for sale in the past, but each time, the buyer donated the money but asked that the chair remain at the station. The station, which runs no commercials, operates on a $280,000-a-year budget. The university provides just a fraction of that.
If each person donates $1,000 the station will amass an endowment of $1.6 million, said Mr. Schaap, which will ensure its financial well-being for many years. Ben Young, a longtime D.J. at the station, walked in with a small metal box of red scraps of worn, red upholstery.
Was it leather?
“Naugahyde?” Mr. Young conjectured.
Most of the musicians have come by to be interviewed by Mr. Schaap, an encyclopedic jazz historian who has a collection of more than 3,000 recorded interviews of jazz figures.
On Tuesday morning, he was in the studio playing recordings of Charlie Parker and Gillespie together. As he spoke, his hands automatically found the combination of buttons, switches and dials to segue from “Hot House” to “Salt Peanuts” on CD and then cueing up “Slim’s Jam” on an LP.
Mr. Schaap plopped down on the chair, which has been redone with similar red upholstery, and rattled off a staggering list of names of jazz greats who sat there while being interviewed at WKCR through its 66-year history. Jazzwise, this included Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. Other luminaries included Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg and Dennis Hopper. In all, more than 250 renowned musicians and others have been through since the station played its first record over the air (which, incidentally, was “Swing Is Here,” by an ensemble that included Benny Goodman and Roy Eldridge. Both have spent time in the Dizzy Chair).
Mr. Schaap alternated the music with extended pleas for listeners to call in and donate. Their donations will save jazz radio in New York, he said. If the radio station’s finances continued to sink, listeners would lose their daily dose of Charlie Parker.
In an adjacent room, a team of student D.J.’s fielded the calls, some of whom had not returned to their dorms the previous night. Out in the hallway, two mattresses were leaned against a wall. Jordan Paul, the station manager, confessed to spending the previous night sleeping at the windowless station.
The station regularly plays this type of multiday music marathon — including 11 days of John Coltrane in 2004 and two weeks of Billie Holliday in 2005.
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From The Archive: Dizzy and Duke, and All That’s Jazz, Sat Here – The New York Times
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** Dizzy and Duke, and All That’s Jazz, Sat Here
————————————————————
By COREY KILGANNON (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/corey-kilgannon/)
OCTOBER 18, 2007 12:53 PM
Phil Schaap Phil Schaap taking it easy in the Dizzy Chair, where many jazz luminaries were interviewed. The original upholstery has been shredded for a fund-raising drive at the Columbia jazz station, WKCR-FM (89.9). (Photo: Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times)
For almost as long as Phil Schaap has been playing jazz records as a disc jockey at WKCR-FM (89.9) (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/) , a red chair has been hanging around the station on the Columbia campus, where he was a freshman 41 years ago.
The chair had been dragged over from a nearby student lounge. Although it was a simple piece of furniture — a modest wooden frame with red upholstered padding — it was the deluxe chair in the station’s waiting room and soon became the seat of honor for renowned jazz musicians when they visited.
“We’ve always been a bare-bones station, and this was just a decent chair to have guests sit in,” Mr. Schaap, 57, said this week in the station’s studio on campus in Morningside Heights.
When Duke Ellington visited the station while on campus receiving his honorary doctorate from Columbia in May 1973, he was interviewed there while in the chair. From then on, it retained a certain “Duke Sat Here” aura and was reserved as a chair of honor for the untold numbers of musicians and personalities to follow.
On Dizzy Gillespie’s 70th birthday, a sound booth was set up around the chair for him to be interviewed -– the second defining moment: it was baptized as the Dizzy Gillespie Chair.
Now, with the station trying to raise money to continue operating, the chair is being used as a fund-raising tool during its station’s marathon broadcast (10 days of Dizzy round the clock from Oct. 13 to 22) to mark Gillespie’s birthday — he died in 1993, but would have turned 90 on Sunday.
The chair’s original red upholstery has been pulled off and chopped into 1,600 pieces to be “sold.” A piece is offered to any donor of $1,000 or more, as a shred of jazz history.
Mr. Schaap said he has put the chair up for sale in the past, but each time, the buyer donated the money but asked that the chair remain at the station. The station, which runs no commercials, operates on a $280,000-a-year budget. The university provides just a fraction of that.
If each person donates $1,000 the station will amass an endowment of $1.6 million, said Mr. Schaap, which will ensure its financial well-being for many years. Ben Young, a longtime D.J. at the station, walked in with a small metal box of red scraps of worn, red upholstery.
Was it leather?
“Naugahyde?” Mr. Young conjectured.
Most of the musicians have come by to be interviewed by Mr. Schaap, an encyclopedic jazz historian who has a collection of more than 3,000 recorded interviews of jazz figures.
On Tuesday morning, he was in the studio playing recordings of Charlie Parker and Gillespie together. As he spoke, his hands automatically found the combination of buttons, switches and dials to segue from “Hot House” to “Salt Peanuts” on CD and then cueing up “Slim’s Jam” on an LP.
Mr. Schaap plopped down on the chair, which has been redone with similar red upholstery, and rattled off a staggering list of names of jazz greats who sat there while being interviewed at WKCR through its 66-year history. Jazzwise, this included Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. Other luminaries included Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg and Dennis Hopper. In all, more than 250 renowned musicians and others have been through since the station played its first record over the air (which, incidentally, was “Swing Is Here,” by an ensemble that included Benny Goodman and Roy Eldridge. Both have spent time in the Dizzy Chair).
Mr. Schaap alternated the music with extended pleas for listeners to call in and donate. Their donations will save jazz radio in New York, he said. If the radio station’s finances continued to sink, listeners would lose their daily dose of Charlie Parker.
In an adjacent room, a team of student D.J.’s fielded the calls, some of whom had not returned to their dorms the previous night. Out in the hallway, two mattresses were leaned against a wall. Jordan Paul, the station manager, confessed to spending the previous night sleeping at the windowless station.
The station regularly plays this type of multiday music marathon — including 11 days of John Coltrane in 2004 and two weeks of Billie Holliday in 2005.
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New Leadership Chosen for World’s Largest Jazz Archive | Rutgers University – Newark
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** New Leadership Chosen for World’s Largest Jazz Archive
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BY PETER ENGLOT //
INSTITUTE OF JAZZ STUDIES (http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/tags/institute-jazz-studies)
Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University–Newark prepared to play on a bigger stage
Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) Chancellor Nancy Cantor has appointed the tandem of a multi-talented jazz champion and a revered keeper of the jazz flame to empower the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) to “play on a much bigger stage while connecting new audiences to jazz.”
Cantor has announced the selection of Wayne Winborne as executive director of IJS, the world’s largest and most comprehensive jazz archive, and Vincent Pelote as director of operations. The appointments follow exhaustive national searches for both positions that included consultation and interviews with leading figures in the jazz world.
Following the retirement of longtime director and jazz fixture Dan Morgenstern, the IJS leadership was restructured to transform the position into two posts: a director of operations, whose focus will be the curation of the archive, and an executive director charged with forging partnerships to elevate the visibility and appreciation of the archive locally, nationally, and globally. A key goal articulated at the outset of the searches was to build awareness of this jazz gem, which for nearly 50 years has been revered among scholars all over the world and other members of the jazz cognoscenti, such as Ken Burns, who mined the archives for his landmark PBS documentary series, Jazz. Although the IJS, with holdings that include more than 150,000 precious recordings, is well-known among scholars and musicians of the jazz world, it is not yet well-known outside the circle of jazz insiders.
Cantor is thrilled with the results of the searches. The tandem of Winborne and Pelote, she says, combines “very deep and very broad knowledge of jazz, extensive connections with contemporary jazz artists, experience in education and in producing performances and programming, and the personalities and management skills to strengthen and significantly augment partnerships to lead the IJS into a new era of visibility and impact.”
John Schreiber, president and CEO of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, a well-known jazz impresario himself, co-chaired the search that found Winborne and is eager to start collaborating with him and the IJS. “I’m delighted to welcome Wayne home to Newark as the new leader of IJS. With deep experience that intersects philanthropy, education and corporate America, he possesses an irresistible passion for jazz and an impressive background as a jazz record producer, historian and advocate. All of us at the Arts Center can’t wait to start jammin’ with Wayne!”
Sterling Bland, the other executive director search co-chair, who is an English professor in the RU-N College of Arts & Sciences and has written extensively on jazz, is equally energized about what Winborne will bring to the university’s academic programming around jazz through the faculty appointment he will hold as professor of professional practice. “Wayne impressed faculty members from Arts & Sciences with his experience, his knowledge of IJS and the jazz idiom, his ability to teach innovative courses, and his personal warmth,” says Bland. “He’s positioned to contribute significantly to the experience of graduate students in the M.A. program in Jazz History and Research and undergraduate students in the music program in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, as well as collaborate fruitfully with faculty and students across departments, programs, and research centers.”
Winborne, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., has headed his own firm for the past five years, the Winborne Group, a consulting company with offices in New York City and Los Angeles that specializes in business development, strategic planning, fundraising, diversity, multicultural marketing, and program design and facilitation. For eight years prior to that, he was vice president for business diversity outreach at Prudential Financial in Newark, where he facilitated business and recruitment opportunities in targeted, diverse communities through corporate sponsorships, marketing partnerships, and related business development activities.
Previously, Winborne was director of program and policy research at The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), program officer at the Ford Foundation, senior research coordinator at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, and adjunct lecturer in psychology and research methods at New York University and the City University of New York’s Baruch and Medgar Evers Colleges. He has authored a number of publications related to diversity and management in corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic settings.
Along with this impressive melding of business and academic experience, Winborne also has extensive knowledge of jazz and extensive relationships with artists and producers throughout the genre. He has served as advisor and consultant to artists and musicians and worked with filmmakers, playwrights, and theater producers. Winborne has produced recordings for the MaxJazz, HighNote, and Savant labels, including “Daybreak” by Bruce Barth and the just-released “Feeling Good” by Mary Stallings. He also has taught jazz history and appreciation at Stanford University.
Winborne also brings to the IJS an extensive record of success in fundraising in the jazz and nonprofit communities, as well as a network of collaborations with an array of cultural institutions. He has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations ranging from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, to the Asian American Justice Center, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Social and Public Art Resource Center. He earned degrees from Stanford and New York University.
“I can’t wait to get started,” says Winborne. “There is so much to build upon: the IJS’ phenomenal holdings, experienced and committed staff, rich history, and its presence in Newark, the intellectual resources of the university, and the great good will among so many possible collaborators across Newark, the New York metro area, and the jazz world. IJS is poised to realize fully the bold vision Chancellor Cantor has developed. I’m honored to have been chosen to be a part of this exciting next chapter.”
For his part, Pelote, a resident of Bayonne, N.J., is a well-known figure in the jazz community in Newark, the New York City metropolitan area, and beyond, having played a pivotal role at the IJS for 37 years. Most recently, he served as head of collections services and sound archivist, bringing expertise in music education as well as library science and archival management to all of his many roles at IJS over the years. An experienced teacher, broadcaster, and principal investigator on major grants supporting the IJS, Pelote has published several discographies, including one on Lionel Hampton in the celebrated vibraphonist’s autobiography. Nationally, he has served as president of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. Pelote also is an accomplished jazz guitarist, and a graduate of Rutgers University, with a B.A. in music education, and a master of library science.
Cantor sees IJS’ new leadership as poised to ignite precisely the kind of collaboration needed to take the institute to a whole new level through innovation and collaboration. “With the considerable strengths of the IJS staff and support of community partners such as NJPAC—with whom we expect to announce a new, jazz-centered partnership in the coming weeks—and other key stakeholders, we will polish the IJS as a crown jewel of jazz and of Newark to realize the institute’s and our collective potential.”
About the Institute of Jazz Studies
The Institute of Jazz Studies (http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/index1.html) at Rutgers University – Newark is the largest and most comprehensive library and archive of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. IJS was founded in 1952 with a donation of the vast collection of jazz lover and pioneering historian Marshall Stearns. In 1966 the IJS became part of Rutgers University, and in 1994 moved to its current home at the John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Ave., Newark. The collection includes extensive and rare recordings, publications, instruments, and artifacts of jazz history, and is the designated repository for archives of jazz greats including Benny Carter and Mary Lou Williams. IJS presented decades of radio programs on WBGO, Newark public radio, as well as “Jazz Research Roundtables” presenting the world’s foremost jazz scholars, and concerts of leading jazz performers. More information is available at http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/index1.html.
About Rutgers University–Newark
Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) is a diverse, urban, public research university that is an anchor institution in New Jersey’s largest city and cultural capital. Nearly 11,500 students are currently enrolled at its 38-acre campus in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered through the Newark College of Arts and Sciences, University College, the Graduate School-Newark, Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick, the School of Law-Newark, the School of Criminal Justice, and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. An engine of discovery, innovation, and social mobility, RU-N has a remarkable legacy of producing high-impact scholarship that is connected to the great questions and challenges of the world. A pivotal strength is that RU-N brings an exceptional diversity of people to this work—students, faculty, staff, and community partners—increasing it innovation, creativity, engagement, and relevance for our time and the times ahead. For
more information please visit www.newark.rutgers.edu (http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/) .
Media contact:
Peter Englot
Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Chief of Staff
Office of the Chancellor
Rutgers University–Newark
123 Washington Street, Suite 590
Newark, NJ 07079
973-353-5541
peter.englot@rutgers.edu (mailto:peter.englot@rutgers.edu)
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Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University–Newark prepared to play on a bigger stage
Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) Chancellor Nancy Cantor has appointed the tandem of a multi-talented jazz champion and a revered keeper of the jazz flame to empower the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) to “play on a much bigger stage while connecting new audiences to jazz.”
Cantor has announced the selection of Wayne Winborne as executive director of IJS, the world’s largest and most comprehensive jazz archive, and Vincent Pelote as director of operations. The appointments follow exhaustive national searches for both positions that included consultation and interviews with leading figures in the jazz world.
Following the retirement of longtime director and jazz fixture Dan Morgenstern, the IJS leadership was restructured to transform the position into two posts: a director of operations, whose focus will be the curation of the archive, and an executive director charged with forging partnerships to elevate the visibility and appreciation of the archive locally, nationally, and globally. A key goal articulated at the outset of the searches was to build awareness of this jazz gem, which for nearly 50 years has been revered among scholars all over the world and other members of the jazz cognoscenti, such as Ken Burns, who mined the archives for his landmark PBS documentary series, Jazz. Although the IJS, with holdings that include more than 150,000 precious recordings, is well-known among scholars and musicians of the jazz world, it is not yet well-known outside the circle of jazz insiders.
Cantor is thrilled with the results of the searches. The tandem of Winborne and Pelote, she says, combines “very deep and very broad knowledge of jazz, extensive connections with contemporary jazz artists, experience in education and in producing performances and programming, and the personalities and management skills to strengthen and significantly augment partnerships to lead the IJS into a new era of visibility and impact.”
John Schreiber, president and CEO of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, a well-known jazz impresario himself, co-chaired the search that found Winborne and is eager to start collaborating with him and the IJS. “I’m delighted to welcome Wayne home to Newark as the new leader of IJS. With deep experience that intersects philanthropy, education and corporate America, he possesses an irresistible passion for jazz and an impressive background as a jazz record producer, historian and advocate. All of us at the Arts Center can’t wait to start jammin’ with Wayne!”
Sterling Bland, the other executive director search co-chair, who is an English professor in the RU-N College of Arts & Sciences and has written extensively on jazz, is equally energized about what Winborne will bring to the university’s academic programming around jazz through the faculty appointment he will hold as professor of professional practice. “Wayne impressed faculty members from Arts & Sciences with his experience, his knowledge of IJS and the jazz idiom, his ability to teach innovative courses, and his personal warmth,” says Bland. “He’s positioned to contribute significantly to the experience of graduate students in the M.A. program in Jazz History and Research and undergraduate students in the music program in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, as well as collaborate fruitfully with faculty and students across departments, programs, and research centers.”
Winborne, a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., has headed his own firm for the past five years, the Winborne Group, a consulting company with offices in New York City and Los Angeles that specializes in business development, strategic planning, fundraising, diversity, multicultural marketing, and program design and facilitation. For eight years prior to that, he was vice president for business diversity outreach at Prudential Financial in Newark, where he facilitated business and recruitment opportunities in targeted, diverse communities through corporate sponsorships, marketing partnerships, and related business development activities.
Previously, Winborne was director of program and policy research at The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), program officer at the Ford Foundation, senior research coordinator at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, and adjunct lecturer in psychology and research methods at New York University and the City University of New York’s Baruch and Medgar Evers Colleges. He has authored a number of publications related to diversity and management in corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic settings.
Along with this impressive melding of business and academic experience, Winborne also has extensive knowledge of jazz and extensive relationships with artists and producers throughout the genre. He has served as advisor and consultant to artists and musicians and worked with filmmakers, playwrights, and theater producers. Winborne has produced recordings for the MaxJazz, HighNote, and Savant labels, including “Daybreak” by Bruce Barth and the just-released “Feeling Good” by Mary Stallings. He also has taught jazz history and appreciation at Stanford University.
Winborne also brings to the IJS an extensive record of success in fundraising in the jazz and nonprofit communities, as well as a network of collaborations with an array of cultural institutions. He has served on the boards of local and national nonprofit organizations ranging from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, to the Asian American Justice Center, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Social and Public Art Resource Center. He earned degrees from Stanford and New York University.
“I can’t wait to get started,” says Winborne. “There is so much to build upon: the IJS’ phenomenal holdings, experienced and committed staff, rich history, and its presence in Newark, the intellectual resources of the university, and the great good will among so many possible collaborators across Newark, the New York metro area, and the jazz world. IJS is poised to realize fully the bold vision Chancellor Cantor has developed. I’m honored to have been chosen to be a part of this exciting next chapter.”
For his part, Pelote, a resident of Bayonne, N.J., is a well-known figure in the jazz community in Newark, the New York City metropolitan area, and beyond, having played a pivotal role at the IJS for 37 years. Most recently, he served as head of collections services and sound archivist, bringing expertise in music education as well as library science and archival management to all of his many roles at IJS over the years. An experienced teacher, broadcaster, and principal investigator on major grants supporting the IJS, Pelote has published several discographies, including one on Lionel Hampton in the celebrated vibraphonist’s autobiography. Nationally, he has served as president of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. Pelote also is an accomplished jazz guitarist, and a graduate of Rutgers University, with a B.A. in music education, and a master of library science.
Cantor sees IJS’ new leadership as poised to ignite precisely the kind of collaboration needed to take the institute to a whole new level through innovation and collaboration. “With the considerable strengths of the IJS staff and support of community partners such as NJPAC—with whom we expect to announce a new, jazz-centered partnership in the coming weeks—and other key stakeholders, we will polish the IJS as a crown jewel of jazz and of Newark to realize the institute’s and our collective potential.”
About the Institute of Jazz Studies
The Institute of Jazz Studies (http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/index1.html) at Rutgers University – Newark is the largest and most comprehensive library and archive of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. IJS was founded in 1952 with a donation of the vast collection of jazz lover and pioneering historian Marshall Stearns. In 1966 the IJS became part of Rutgers University, and in 1994 moved to its current home at the John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Ave., Newark. The collection includes extensive and rare recordings, publications, instruments, and artifacts of jazz history, and is the designated repository for archives of jazz greats including Benny Carter and Mary Lou Williams. IJS presented decades of radio programs on WBGO, Newark public radio, as well as “Jazz Research Roundtables” presenting the world’s foremost jazz scholars, and concerts of leading jazz performers. More information is available at http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/index1.html.
About Rutgers University–Newark
Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) is a diverse, urban, public research university that is an anchor institution in New Jersey’s largest city and cultural capital. Nearly 11,500 students are currently enrolled at its 38-acre campus in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered through the Newark College of Arts and Sciences, University College, the Graduate School-Newark, Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick, the School of Law-Newark, the School of Criminal Justice, and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. An engine of discovery, innovation, and social mobility, RU-N has a remarkable legacy of producing high-impact scholarship that is connected to the great questions and challenges of the world. A pivotal strength is that RU-N brings an exceptional diversity of people to this work—students, faculty, staff, and community partners—increasing it innovation, creativity, engagement, and relevance for our time and the times ahead. For
more information please visit www.newark.rutgers.edu (http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/) .
Media contact:
Peter Englot
Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Chief of Staff
Office of the Chancellor
Rutgers University–Newark
123 Washington Street, Suite 590
Newark, NJ 07079
973-353-5541
peter.englot@rutgers.edu (mailto:peter.englot@rutgers.edu)
Photo by Theo Anderson.
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