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The Riffs And Rhythms That Led To Jazz As We Know It : NPR

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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recording in Feb. 1917 is often cited as the first jazz record ever, but critic Kevin Whitehead says that the roots of jazz stretch a little further back.
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. A year from now, we’ll be hearing a lot about the hundredth anniversary of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recording in February, 1917, which is usually cited as the first jazz record. But our jazz critic, Kevin Whitehead, says there are a couple of earlier records that may be contenders, one of them recorded on February 3, 100 years ago. Before we hear them, let’s hear the Original Dixieland Jazz Band from 1917.
(SOUNDBITE OF ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND SONG, “DIXIELAND JASS BAND ONE STEP”)
KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: That’s the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in February, 1917. With “Dixieland Jass Band One Step,” the flip side of “Livery Stable Blues.” You can hear why folks call it the first jazz record, the way cornet, clarinet and trombone mix it up helped define New Orleans-style jazz. You can hear its military roots in that opening call to arms and ragtime behind the shambling beat. But there was a new breeziness to the rhythm. When the band repeat a section, you can hear they’re not really improvising as much as paraphrasing themselves. But it gives everything the right, off-book flavor. That’s hot stuff in 1917.
(SOUNDBITE OF ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND SONG, “DIXIELAND JASS BAND ONE STEP”)
WHITEHEAD: The white Original Dixieland Jazz Band wasn’t the first jazz group but part of a wave that had been building for a decade and a half. Jazz had evolved out of ragtime, brass bands, field hollers, dance music and anything else handy. You can’t point to one moment and say, jazz starts here. Though, it would’ve been well before 1917. There are earlier recorded examples of that same rhythmic freshness and improvised feel. But first, let’s hear some 1913 music on the cusp of jazz but not quite there, African-American bandleader James Reese Europe’s “Down Home Rag.”
(SOUNDBITE OF JAMES REESE EUROPE SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra in late 1913 sound like cowboys headed for the corral, riding herd on a dozen mandolins. A bit over two years later, on February 3, 1916, the black vaudeville act The Versatile Four cut a miniaturized covered of that arrangement, right down to the yelling. But on their version, something fundamental had changed. The two banjo players are more free with those punchy riffs, and drummer Charlie Johnson swings like crazy for 1916.
(SOUNDBITE OF THE VERSATILE FOUR SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: You can hear military rudiments in Charlie Johnson’s jazz percussion. But he takes them somewhere else. He plays accents and press rolls (ph), emphasizes the backbeat, crashes on a rude symbol and doubles up his time on wood blocks. It’s hip 1920s drumming a few years early.
(SOUNDBITE OF THE VERSATILE FOUR SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: That little riff that “drives” “Down Home Rag” repeats five times every two bars for a wheels-within-wheels effect. That so-called secondary rag syncopation also propels Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood” and a hundred country fiddle solos. The composer of “Down Home Rag,” clarinetist Wilbur Sweatman, recorded his version in December, 1916, where you can hear those country fiddles coming. Sweatman doesn’t really improvise either here, but he does catch that free, jazzy phrasing on clarinet a little before the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. He floats above the violin and his mostly earthbound band.
(SOUNDBITE OF WILBUR SWEATMAN SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: We might do better to think not of one first jazz record but of a few records and piano rolls that track how jazz broke free of its ancestors. Singers help point the way too. Vaudeville comic Bert Williams caught some of the surges and hesitations of swing on record by 1906 and cut his own “Ode To Syncopation” in 1914. Even so, by then, pioneering cornetist Buddy Bolden’s career was already over. And later in 1914, The Creole Band from New Orleans toured the western U.S. and Canada on a vaudeville circuit. So jazz was already around by the mid teens. It just took record companies some time to catch on.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “ODE TO SYNCOPATION”)
BERT WILLIAMS: (Singing) Syncopation (unintelligible). It’s called a sensation, you can’t get away now. Lawyers and physicians, even men of high positions, great big politicians all come around…
GROSS: Kevin Whitehead writes for Point of Departure and Tone Audio and is the author of “Why Jazz?” Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, my guest will be Peter Bergen author of the new book “United States Of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists.” He’s CNN’s national security analyst and has been reporting on jihad for decades. He interviewed bin Laden in 1997. I hope you’ll join us. FRESH AIR’s executive producer is Danny Miller. I’m Terry Gross.
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The Riffs And Rhythms That Led To Jazz As We Know It : NPR

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** The Riffs And Rhythms That Led To Jazz As We Know It
————————————————————
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recording in Feb. 1917 is often cited as the first jazz record ever, but critic Kevin Whitehead says that the roots of jazz stretch a little further back.
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. A year from now, we’ll be hearing a lot about the hundredth anniversary of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recording in February, 1917, which is usually cited as the first jazz record. But our jazz critic, Kevin Whitehead, says there are a couple of earlier records that may be contenders, one of them recorded on February 3, 100 years ago. Before we hear them, let’s hear the Original Dixieland Jazz Band from 1917.
(SOUNDBITE OF ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND SONG, “DIXIELAND JASS BAND ONE STEP”)
KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: That’s the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in February, 1917. With “Dixieland Jass Band One Step,” the flip side of “Livery Stable Blues.” You can hear why folks call it the first jazz record, the way cornet, clarinet and trombone mix it up helped define New Orleans-style jazz. You can hear its military roots in that opening call to arms and ragtime behind the shambling beat. But there was a new breeziness to the rhythm. When the band repeat a section, you can hear they’re not really improvising as much as paraphrasing themselves. But it gives everything the right, off-book flavor. That’s hot stuff in 1917.
(SOUNDBITE OF ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND SONG, “DIXIELAND JASS BAND ONE STEP”)
WHITEHEAD: The white Original Dixieland Jazz Band wasn’t the first jazz group but part of a wave that had been building for a decade and a half. Jazz had evolved out of ragtime, brass bands, field hollers, dance music and anything else handy. You can’t point to one moment and say, jazz starts here. Though, it would’ve been well before 1917. There are earlier recorded examples of that same rhythmic freshness and improvised feel. But first, let’s hear some 1913 music on the cusp of jazz but not quite there, African-American bandleader James Reese Europe’s “Down Home Rag.”
(SOUNDBITE OF JAMES REESE EUROPE SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra in late 1913 sound like cowboys headed for the corral, riding herd on a dozen mandolins. A bit over two years later, on February 3, 1916, the black vaudeville act The Versatile Four cut a miniaturized covered of that arrangement, right down to the yelling. But on their version, something fundamental had changed. The two banjo players are more free with those punchy riffs, and drummer Charlie Johnson swings like crazy for 1916.
(SOUNDBITE OF THE VERSATILE FOUR SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: You can hear military rudiments in Charlie Johnson’s jazz percussion. But he takes them somewhere else. He plays accents and press rolls (ph), emphasizes the backbeat, crashes on a rude symbol and doubles up his time on wood blocks. It’s hip 1920s drumming a few years early.
(SOUNDBITE OF THE VERSATILE FOUR SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: That little riff that “drives” “Down Home Rag” repeats five times every two bars for a wheels-within-wheels effect. That so-called secondary rag syncopation also propels Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood” and a hundred country fiddle solos. The composer of “Down Home Rag,” clarinetist Wilbur Sweatman, recorded his version in December, 1916, where you can hear those country fiddles coming. Sweatman doesn’t really improvise either here, but he does catch that free, jazzy phrasing on clarinet a little before the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. He floats above the violin and his mostly earthbound band.
(SOUNDBITE OF WILBUR SWEATMAN SONG, “DOWN HOME RAG”)
WHITEHEAD: We might do better to think not of one first jazz record but of a few records and piano rolls that track how jazz broke free of its ancestors. Singers help point the way too. Vaudeville comic Bert Williams caught some of the surges and hesitations of swing on record by 1906 and cut his own “Ode To Syncopation” in 1914. Even so, by then, pioneering cornetist Buddy Bolden’s career was already over. And later in 1914, The Creole Band from New Orleans toured the western U.S. and Canada on a vaudeville circuit. So jazz was already around by the mid teens. It just took record companies some time to catch on.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “ODE TO SYNCOPATION”)
BERT WILLIAMS: (Singing) Syncopation (unintelligible). It’s called a sensation, you can’t get away now. Lawyers and physicians, even men of high positions, great big politicians all come around…
GROSS: Kevin Whitehead writes for Point of Departure and Tone Audio and is the author of “Why Jazz?” Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, my guest will be Peter Bergen author of the new book “United States Of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists.” He’s CNN’s national security analyst and has been reporting on jihad for decades. He interviewed bin Laden in 1997. I hope you’ll join us. FRESH AIR’s executive producer is Danny Miller. I’m Terry Gross.
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Dan Hicks, eclectic folk-jazz artist from the Bay Area, dies at 74 – LA Times

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** Dan Hicks, eclectic folk-jazz artist from the Bay Area, dies at 74
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Dan Hicks

Bay Area folk-pop-jazz singer and bandleader Dan Hicks, known for his acoustic eclectism, sense of humor and popular songs such as ““I Scare Myself,” died Saturday in Mill Valley, according to his wife. Hicks was 74.

Hicks had revealed in 2015 that he was battling liver cancer, this shortly after he went public with a bout with throat cancer.

In 1965, Hicks took over the drum chair in the Charlatans, one of the first bands on the soon-to-boom San Francisco rock scene.

Hicks started the Hot Licks in 1968 and won a national following with albums that offered a heady, usually lighthearted blend of Bob Wills-inspired Western swing, jug-band music and jumping jazz. In his early days, Hicks developed a reputation for sometimes combative repartee with his audiences.

“I played a lot of bars, and people would yell stuff at me,” Hicks told the Times in 1995 (http://articles.latimes.com/1995-01-14/entertainment/ca-19842_1_hot-licks) . “They’d get a little unruly, and that’s how it all got started. I would just try to get them first. I definitely toned that all down.”

In late 2015, he had announced tour dates with the Hot Licks, but his wife of almost 20 years, Clare Wasserman, said the liver cancer had worsened in recent weeks. He died in bed at home early Saturday with his beloved dog Coco by his side, Wasserman said.

Hicks was born in Little Rock, Ark., and his family moved to Northern California when he was about 5. He grew up listening to country music and, as a teenager living in Santa Rosa, fell in love with the sounds of Benny Goodman and other swing-era jazz greats.

Eventually his tastes broadened to include folk, bluegrass, jug band and the blues. While in Santa Rosa, Hicks took to big-band swing and became a drummer in dance bands. But his style was varied and often indefinable.

“He wanted to play rooms where he could see everybody and feel them,” said Wasserman, who also served as his business manager, via phone Saturday afternoon.

“He was a jazz musician, I think, in a lot of ways,” she added. “He revered that life and that world, and his heroes were those musicians. They weren’t the rockers, put it that way. He came up in a time in San Francisco where all there was, was the psychedelic stuff. Out of all this, comes this sound.”

Hicks’ songs had an easy-going, comfortable feel. Songs such as “Hell, I’d Go!,” “13-D,” and “Presently in the Past,” were filled with unexpected turns — a scat vocal here, or a squiggly string section there, or a playful call-and-response over there.

They had a wide and diverse following, as evidenced by his 2000 album with the Hot Licks, “Beatin’ The Heat,” which featured guests such as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Bette Midler. Still, as Wasserman noted on Saturday, Hicks would bristle at playing large rooms.

“I don’t think my music is especially commercial; it’s not even attempting to be,” Hicks said in a 1998 interview (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/20/entertainment/ca-20970) with The Times. “We’re just a little ol’ four-piece [band]. We’re certainly not your loud, corporate type of band that you’ll find in arenas or on MTV.”

Hicks is survived by his wife and his stepdaughter, Sarah.

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Dan Hicks, eclectic folk-jazz artist from the Bay Area, dies at 74 – LA Times

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** Dan Hicks, eclectic folk-jazz artist from the Bay Area, dies at 74
————————————————————

Todd Martens (http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-todd-martens-staff.html#nt=byline)

Dan Hicks

Bay Area folk-pop-jazz singer and bandleader Dan Hicks, known for his acoustic eclectism, sense of humor and popular songs such as ““I Scare Myself,” died Saturday in Mill Valley, according to his wife. Hicks was 74.

Hicks had revealed in 2015 that he was battling liver cancer, this shortly after he went public with a bout with throat cancer.

In 1965, Hicks took over the drum chair in the Charlatans, one of the first bands on the soon-to-boom San Francisco rock scene.

Hicks started the Hot Licks in 1968 and won a national following with albums that offered a heady, usually lighthearted blend of Bob Wills-inspired Western swing, jug-band music and jumping jazz. In his early days, Hicks developed a reputation for sometimes combative repartee with his audiences.

“I played a lot of bars, and people would yell stuff at me,” Hicks told the Times in 1995 (http://articles.latimes.com/1995-01-14/entertainment/ca-19842_1_hot-licks) . “They’d get a little unruly, and that’s how it all got started. I would just try to get them first. I definitely toned that all down.”

In late 2015, he had announced tour dates with the Hot Licks, but his wife of almost 20 years, Clare Wasserman, said the liver cancer had worsened in recent weeks. He died in bed at home early Saturday with his beloved dog Coco by his side, Wasserman said.

Hicks was born in Little Rock, Ark., and his family moved to Northern California when he was about 5. He grew up listening to country music and, as a teenager living in Santa Rosa, fell in love with the sounds of Benny Goodman and other swing-era jazz greats.

Eventually his tastes broadened to include folk, bluegrass, jug band and the blues. While in Santa Rosa, Hicks took to big-band swing and became a drummer in dance bands. But his style was varied and often indefinable.

“He wanted to play rooms where he could see everybody and feel them,” said Wasserman, who also served as his business manager, via phone Saturday afternoon.

“He was a jazz musician, I think, in a lot of ways,” she added. “He revered that life and that world, and his heroes were those musicians. They weren’t the rockers, put it that way. He came up in a time in San Francisco where all there was, was the psychedelic stuff. Out of all this, comes this sound.”

Hicks’ songs had an easy-going, comfortable feel. Songs such as “Hell, I’d Go!,” “13-D,” and “Presently in the Past,” were filled with unexpected turns — a scat vocal here, or a squiggly string section there, or a playful call-and-response over there.

They had a wide and diverse following, as evidenced by his 2000 album with the Hot Licks, “Beatin’ The Heat,” which featured guests such as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Bette Midler. Still, as Wasserman noted on Saturday, Hicks would bristle at playing large rooms.

“I don’t think my music is especially commercial; it’s not even attempting to be,” Hicks said in a 1998 interview (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/20/entertainment/ca-20970) with The Times. “We’re just a little ol’ four-piece [band]. We’re certainly not your loud, corporate type of band that you’ll find in arenas or on MTV.”

Hicks is survived by his wife and his stepdaughter, Sarah.

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Dan Hicks, eclectic folk-jazz artist from the Bay Area, dies at 74 – LA Times

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ph-dan-hicks-eclectic-folk-jazz-artist-from-the-bay-area-dies-at-74-20160206-story.html

** Dan Hicks, eclectic folk-jazz artist from the Bay Area, dies at 74
————————————————————

Todd Martens (http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-todd-martens-staff.html#nt=byline)

Dan Hicks

Bay Area folk-pop-jazz singer and bandleader Dan Hicks, known for his acoustic eclectism, sense of humor and popular songs such as ““I Scare Myself,” died Saturday in Mill Valley, according to his wife. Hicks was 74.

Hicks had revealed in 2015 that he was battling liver cancer, this shortly after he went public with a bout with throat cancer.

In 1965, Hicks took over the drum chair in the Charlatans, one of the first bands on the soon-to-boom San Francisco rock scene.

Hicks started the Hot Licks in 1968 and won a national following with albums that offered a heady, usually lighthearted blend of Bob Wills-inspired Western swing, jug-band music and jumping jazz. In his early days, Hicks developed a reputation for sometimes combative repartee with his audiences.

“I played a lot of bars, and people would yell stuff at me,” Hicks told the Times in 1995 (http://articles.latimes.com/1995-01-14/entertainment/ca-19842_1_hot-licks) . “They’d get a little unruly, and that’s how it all got started. I would just try to get them first. I definitely toned that all down.”

In late 2015, he had announced tour dates with the Hot Licks, but his wife of almost 20 years, Clare Wasserman, said the liver cancer had worsened in recent weeks. He died in bed at home early Saturday with his beloved dog Coco by his side, Wasserman said.

Hicks was born in Little Rock, Ark., and his family moved to Northern California when he was about 5. He grew up listening to country music and, as a teenager living in Santa Rosa, fell in love with the sounds of Benny Goodman and other swing-era jazz greats.

Eventually his tastes broadened to include folk, bluegrass, jug band and the blues. While in Santa Rosa, Hicks took to big-band swing and became a drummer in dance bands. But his style was varied and often indefinable.

“He wanted to play rooms where he could see everybody and feel them,” said Wasserman, who also served as his business manager, via phone Saturday afternoon.

“He was a jazz musician, I think, in a lot of ways,” she added. “He revered that life and that world, and his heroes were those musicians. They weren’t the rockers, put it that way. He came up in a time in San Francisco where all there was, was the psychedelic stuff. Out of all this, comes this sound.”

Hicks’ songs had an easy-going, comfortable feel. Songs such as “Hell, I’d Go!,” “13-D,” and “Presently in the Past,” were filled with unexpected turns — a scat vocal here, or a squiggly string section there, or a playful call-and-response over there.

They had a wide and diverse following, as evidenced by his 2000 album with the Hot Licks, “Beatin’ The Heat,” which featured guests such as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Bette Midler. Still, as Wasserman noted on Saturday, Hicks would bristle at playing large rooms.

“I don’t think my music is especially commercial; it’s not even attempting to be,” Hicks said in a 1998 interview (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/20/entertainment/ca-20970) with The Times. “We’re just a little ol’ four-piece [band]. We’re certainly not your loud, corporate type of band that you’ll find in arenas or on MTV.”

Hicks is survived by his wife and his stepdaughter, Sarah.

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Variety: A Melodic Acrostic – The New York Times

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Wordplay – New York Times Blog

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By DEB AMLEN (http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/author/deb-amlen/)

FEBRUARY 6, 2016 12:00 PM February 6, 2016 12:00 pm 6 Comments
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Many of you are music aficionados and probably know way more about jazz than I do, but I can certainly appreciate what WYNTON MARSALIS has done for the music industry.

In addition to being an extremely talented trumpet player and composer, he helped rescue the jazz scene in New York City by founding “Jazz at Lincoln Center (http://www.jazz.org/) ,” a company whose mission, according to its website, is “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy.”

Today, Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon offer us a puzzle featuring Mr. Wynton’s description of the function of a band’s rhythm section. In my opinion, the acrostic was on the relatively easy side, although I did not know that Biblical character ELIJAH went up to heaven in a whirlwind, as the clue indicates. All I know about ELIJAH, if it’s the same person, is that he’s always late to our Seder.

My favorite clue today was “Stop talking like a pirate?” for AVAST, which is probably better read “Stop, talking like a pirate?” and is a dandy bit of misdirection.

Let’s check in with our constructors:

** Constructors’ Notes:
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Oh, just getting in step for Mardi Gras! How about some Professor Longhair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR82f0GJgXg) ?

Your thoughts?

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Variety: A Melodic Acrostic – The New York Times

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Wordplay – New York Times Blog

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By DEB AMLEN (http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/author/deb-amlen/)

FEBRUARY 6, 2016 12:00 PM February 6, 2016 12:00 pm 6 Comments
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Many of you are music aficionados and probably know way more about jazz than I do, but I can certainly appreciate what WYNTON MARSALIS has done for the music industry.

In addition to being an extremely talented trumpet player and composer, he helped rescue the jazz scene in New York City by founding “Jazz at Lincoln Center (http://www.jazz.org/) ,” a company whose mission, according to its website, is “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy.”

Today, Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon offer us a puzzle featuring Mr. Wynton’s description of the function of a band’s rhythm section. In my opinion, the acrostic was on the relatively easy side, although I did not know that Biblical character ELIJAH went up to heaven in a whirlwind, as the clue indicates. All I know about ELIJAH, if it’s the same person, is that he’s always late to our Seder.

My favorite clue today was “Stop talking like a pirate?” for AVAST, which is probably better read “Stop, talking like a pirate?” and is a dandy bit of misdirection.

Let’s check in with our constructors:

** Constructors’ Notes:
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Oh, just getting in step for Mardi Gras! How about some Professor Longhair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR82f0GJgXg) ?

Your thoughts?

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Variety: A Melodic Acrostic – The New York Times

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Wordplay – New York Times Blog

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By DEB AMLEN (http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/author/deb-amlen/)

FEBRUARY 6, 2016 12:00 PM February 6, 2016 12:00 pm 6 Comments
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Many of you are music aficionados and probably know way more about jazz than I do, but I can certainly appreciate what WYNTON MARSALIS has done for the music industry.

In addition to being an extremely talented trumpet player and composer, he helped rescue the jazz scene in New York City by founding “Jazz at Lincoln Center (http://www.jazz.org/) ,” a company whose mission, according to its website, is “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy.”

Today, Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon offer us a puzzle featuring Mr. Wynton’s description of the function of a band’s rhythm section. In my opinion, the acrostic was on the relatively easy side, although I did not know that Biblical character ELIJAH went up to heaven in a whirlwind, as the clue indicates. All I know about ELIJAH, if it’s the same person, is that he’s always late to our Seder.

My favorite clue today was “Stop talking like a pirate?” for AVAST, which is probably better read “Stop, talking like a pirate?” and is a dandy bit of misdirection.

Let’s check in with our constructors:

** Constructors’ Notes:
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Oh, just getting in step for Mardi Gras! How about some Professor Longhair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR82f0GJgXg) ?

Your thoughts?

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Brilliant Corners: Jazz Oddities: A Maven’s Quiz

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As Jazz piles up the years, musicians from widely disparate eras and wildly different contexts end up playing together. Here are some questions that will be tough, even with Google lurking in the background. You smart Johns and Janes can mull it over and reply with answers via the Comments.

1) Who recorded with both Ma Rainey and Pearl Bailey?

2) Who recorded with both Johnny Dunn in 1922 and Coltrane in ’61?

3) Who recorded with both the ’27 Goldkette band and ’47 Thornhill?

4) Who played with both James Reese Europe and Dizzy?

5) Who recorded with both Bix and Monk?

6) Who played with both Kid Rena and Sir Charles Thompson?

7) Who recorded with Henry Busse, Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong?

8) What sax player played with both Miles Davis & Blood, Sweat and Tears?

9) Who played himself in the movies Screaming Mimi and Ocean’s 11?

10) Who Played with both the Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles and Joe Venuti?

Tip o’ the hat to Prof. Chalfen for his contributions. Speaking of which, M. Chalfen has these, for extra credit:

11) Who recorded with WIlbur Sweatman and Charles Mingus?

12) Who played with Keppard in the Original Creole Orch and recorded with Bird & Martial Solal?

13) Who played with Lu Waters & Capt. Beefheart?

I had a thread on Facebook about this, so if you were in on that, I know who you are…

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Brilliant Corners: Jazz Oddities: A Maven’s Quiz

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As Jazz piles up the years, musicians from widely disparate eras and wildly different contexts end up playing together. Here are some questions that will be tough, even with Google lurking in the background. You smart Johns and Janes can mull it over and reply with answers via the Comments.

1) Who recorded with both Ma Rainey and Pearl Bailey?

2) Who recorded with both Johnny Dunn in 1922 and Coltrane in ’61?

3) Who recorded with both the ’27 Goldkette band and ’47 Thornhill?

4) Who played with both James Reese Europe and Dizzy?

5) Who recorded with both Bix and Monk?

6) Who played with both Kid Rena and Sir Charles Thompson?

7) Who recorded with Henry Busse, Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong?

8) What sax player played with both Miles Davis & Blood, Sweat and Tears?

9) Who played himself in the movies Screaming Mimi and Ocean’s 11?

10) Who Played with both the Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles and Joe Venuti?

Tip o’ the hat to Prof. Chalfen for his contributions. Speaking of which, M. Chalfen has these, for extra credit:

11) Who recorded with WIlbur Sweatman and Charles Mingus?

12) Who played with Keppard in the Original Creole Orch and recorded with Bird & Martial Solal?

13) Who played with Lu Waters & Capt. Beefheart?

I had a thread on Facebook about this, so if you were in on that, I know who you are…

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Brilliant Corners: Jazz Oddities: A Maven’s Quiz

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As Jazz piles up the years, musicians from widely disparate eras and wildly different contexts end up playing together. Here are some questions that will be tough, even with Google lurking in the background. You smart Johns and Janes can mull it over and reply with answers via the Comments.

1) Who recorded with both Ma Rainey and Pearl Bailey?

2) Who recorded with both Johnny Dunn in 1922 and Coltrane in ’61?

3) Who recorded with both the ’27 Goldkette band and ’47 Thornhill?

4) Who played with both James Reese Europe and Dizzy?

5) Who recorded with both Bix and Monk?

6) Who played with both Kid Rena and Sir Charles Thompson?

7) Who recorded with Henry Busse, Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong?

8) What sax player played with both Miles Davis & Blood, Sweat and Tears?

9) Who played himself in the movies Screaming Mimi and Ocean’s 11?

10) Who Played with both the Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles and Joe Venuti?

Tip o’ the hat to Prof. Chalfen for his contributions. Speaking of which, M. Chalfen has these, for extra credit:

11) Who recorded with WIlbur Sweatman and Charles Mingus?

12) Who played with Keppard in the Original Creole Orch and recorded with Bird & Martial Solal?

13) Who played with Lu Waters & Capt. Beefheart?

I had a thread on Facebook about this, so if you were in on that, I know who you are…

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City History, and Vantages, Often Overlooked – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/nyregion/city-history-and-vantages-often-overlooked.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160205

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Bookshelf (http://www.nytimes.com/column/bookshelf-new-york-city)
By SAM ROBERTS (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/sam_roberts/index.html) FEB. 5, 2016

Duke Ellington, center, with the composer and lyricist Billy Strayhorn, at his left, who wrote “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life” and other jazz standards. via The David Hajdu Collection
“America begins in New York,” Kenneth T. Jackson, the Columbia University professor and editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, likes to say. Now comes the journalist and author Fergus M. Bordewich to engagingly revive the forgotten story of the nearly 18 months that New York was the nation’s first capital (http://www.fergusbordewich.com/) in “The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government” (Simon & Schuster, $30).
As the author instructively recalls, that first Congress fleshed out the bare bones of the recently ratified Constitution in two sessions that were probably the most productive in its history — a claim vindicated through prodigious research by the First Federal Congress Project at George Washington University.
Congressmen, representing only 11 states, convened at Peter Charles L’Enfant’s renovated Federal Hall downtown. These learned men loftily managed to compromise on most issues (though closing their eyes to others, like the slave market practically across the street) while enduring the clatter of horse-drawn traffic outside their windows and the noise of insatiable spectators cracking nuts in the public gallery of the House of Representatives.
The itinerant Congress had settled in New York from sheer exhaustion, Mr. Bordewich writes, but lobbying to move again began immediately. The prolific Senator William Maclay, who favored his native Philadelphia, took one look at the new canary-colored presidential coach, festooned with Cupids, and feared that George Washington had been corrupted by “the Pompous People of New York.”
Where to settle permanently was decided by another accommodation: The South would get the capital if Congress agreed to assume the states’ war debts. New York felt betrayed. Arriving at the interim seat of government in Philadelphia, some congressmen and their camp followers lamented the move. Abigail Adams took one look at Martha Washington’s unfinished mansion and declared, “When all is done, it will not be Broadway.”
Can a composer and lyricist be appropriately described as unsung? “Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life” (Agate Bolden, $35), edited by A. Alyce Claerbaut and David Schlesinger, redeems the musical claim of Billy Strayhorn (http://www.billystrayhorn.com/) , the musician who composed “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life” and scores of other jazz hits and whose successful collaborations with Duke Ellington (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/duke_ellington/index.html?inline=nyt-per) (after he moved into Ellington’s home in the Sugar Hill area of Harlem) have been echoed by dozens of recording artists since.
This lush paean to the composer explores the challenges he faced of being both black and gay, and his commitment, as Ellington described it, to his own four freedoms: “Freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity (even through all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might possibly help another more than it might himself; and freedom from the kind of pride that might make a man think that he was better than his brother or his neighbor.”
Celebrate the serenity of a reduction in the number of sightseeing helicopter flights by gorging on the luscious eye candy in “New York From Above” (9 Square Editions, $99.95), sold through One World Observatory (http://shop.oneworldobservatory.com/new-york-from-above-by-evan-joseph/) and its website. Evan Joseph, an architecture photographer, hovers over Manhattan to capture rare bird’s-eye visions of the skyline and rarefied views from luxury apartments.

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City History, and Vantages, Often Overlooked – The New York Times

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Bookshelf (http://www.nytimes.com/column/bookshelf-new-york-city)
By SAM ROBERTS (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/sam_roberts/index.html) FEB. 5, 2016

Duke Ellington, center, with the composer and lyricist Billy Strayhorn, at his left, who wrote “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life” and other jazz standards. via The David Hajdu Collection
“America begins in New York,” Kenneth T. Jackson, the Columbia University professor and editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, likes to say. Now comes the journalist and author Fergus M. Bordewich to engagingly revive the forgotten story of the nearly 18 months that New York was the nation’s first capital (http://www.fergusbordewich.com/) in “The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government” (Simon & Schuster, $30).
As the author instructively recalls, that first Congress fleshed out the bare bones of the recently ratified Constitution in two sessions that were probably the most productive in its history — a claim vindicated through prodigious research by the First Federal Congress Project at George Washington University.
Congressmen, representing only 11 states, convened at Peter Charles L’Enfant’s renovated Federal Hall downtown. These learned men loftily managed to compromise on most issues (though closing their eyes to others, like the slave market practically across the street) while enduring the clatter of horse-drawn traffic outside their windows and the noise of insatiable spectators cracking nuts in the public gallery of the House of Representatives.
The itinerant Congress had settled in New York from sheer exhaustion, Mr. Bordewich writes, but lobbying to move again began immediately. The prolific Senator William Maclay, who favored his native Philadelphia, took one look at the new canary-colored presidential coach, festooned with Cupids, and feared that George Washington had been corrupted by “the Pompous People of New York.”
Where to settle permanently was decided by another accommodation: The South would get the capital if Congress agreed to assume the states’ war debts. New York felt betrayed. Arriving at the interim seat of government in Philadelphia, some congressmen and their camp followers lamented the move. Abigail Adams took one look at Martha Washington’s unfinished mansion and declared, “When all is done, it will not be Broadway.”
Can a composer and lyricist be appropriately described as unsung? “Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life” (Agate Bolden, $35), edited by A. Alyce Claerbaut and David Schlesinger, redeems the musical claim of Billy Strayhorn (http://www.billystrayhorn.com/) , the musician who composed “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life” and scores of other jazz hits and whose successful collaborations with Duke Ellington (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/duke_ellington/index.html?inline=nyt-per) (after he moved into Ellington’s home in the Sugar Hill area of Harlem) have been echoed by dozens of recording artists since.
This lush paean to the composer explores the challenges he faced of being both black and gay, and his commitment, as Ellington described it, to his own four freedoms: “Freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity (even through all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might possibly help another more than it might himself; and freedom from the kind of pride that might make a man think that he was better than his brother or his neighbor.”
Celebrate the serenity of a reduction in the number of sightseeing helicopter flights by gorging on the luscious eye candy in “New York From Above” (9 Square Editions, $99.95), sold through One World Observatory (http://shop.oneworldobservatory.com/new-york-from-above-by-evan-joseph/) and its website. Evan Joseph, an architecture photographer, hovers over Manhattan to capture rare bird’s-eye visions of the skyline and rarefied views from luxury apartments.

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City History, and Vantages, Often Overlooked – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/nyregion/city-history-and-vantages-often-overlooked.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160205

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Bookshelf (http://www.nytimes.com/column/bookshelf-new-york-city)
By SAM ROBERTS (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/sam_roberts/index.html) FEB. 5, 2016

Duke Ellington, center, with the composer and lyricist Billy Strayhorn, at his left, who wrote “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life” and other jazz standards. via The David Hajdu Collection
“America begins in New York,” Kenneth T. Jackson, the Columbia University professor and editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, likes to say. Now comes the journalist and author Fergus M. Bordewich to engagingly revive the forgotten story of the nearly 18 months that New York was the nation’s first capital (http://www.fergusbordewich.com/) in “The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government” (Simon & Schuster, $30).
As the author instructively recalls, that first Congress fleshed out the bare bones of the recently ratified Constitution in two sessions that were probably the most productive in its history — a claim vindicated through prodigious research by the First Federal Congress Project at George Washington University.
Congressmen, representing only 11 states, convened at Peter Charles L’Enfant’s renovated Federal Hall downtown. These learned men loftily managed to compromise on most issues (though closing their eyes to others, like the slave market practically across the street) while enduring the clatter of horse-drawn traffic outside their windows and the noise of insatiable spectators cracking nuts in the public gallery of the House of Representatives.
The itinerant Congress had settled in New York from sheer exhaustion, Mr. Bordewich writes, but lobbying to move again began immediately. The prolific Senator William Maclay, who favored his native Philadelphia, took one look at the new canary-colored presidential coach, festooned with Cupids, and feared that George Washington had been corrupted by “the Pompous People of New York.”
Where to settle permanently was decided by another accommodation: The South would get the capital if Congress agreed to assume the states’ war debts. New York felt betrayed. Arriving at the interim seat of government in Philadelphia, some congressmen and their camp followers lamented the move. Abigail Adams took one look at Martha Washington’s unfinished mansion and declared, “When all is done, it will not be Broadway.”
Can a composer and lyricist be appropriately described as unsung? “Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life” (Agate Bolden, $35), edited by A. Alyce Claerbaut and David Schlesinger, redeems the musical claim of Billy Strayhorn (http://www.billystrayhorn.com/) , the musician who composed “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lush Life” and scores of other jazz hits and whose successful collaborations with Duke Ellington (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/duke_ellington/index.html?inline=nyt-per) (after he moved into Ellington’s home in the Sugar Hill area of Harlem) have been echoed by dozens of recording artists since.
This lush paean to the composer explores the challenges he faced of being both black and gay, and his commitment, as Ellington described it, to his own four freedoms: “Freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity (even through all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might possibly help another more than it might himself; and freedom from the kind of pride that might make a man think that he was better than his brother or his neighbor.”
Celebrate the serenity of a reduction in the number of sightseeing helicopter flights by gorging on the luscious eye candy in “New York From Above” (9 Square Editions, $99.95), sold through One World Observatory (http://shop.oneworldobservatory.com/new-york-from-above-by-evan-joseph/) and its website. Evan Joseph, an architecture photographer, hovers over Manhattan to capture rare bird’s-eye visions of the skyline and rarefied views from luxury apartments.

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Middletown man, Henry “Pucho” Brown, splits Lottery winnings with waitress – News – recordonline.com – Middletown, NY

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By Richard J. Bayne (mailto:dbayne@th-record.com)
Times Herald-Record

TOWN OF WALLKILL – It all started at Maddy’s Diner a day before New Year’s Eve. Henry “Pucho” Brown ordered a BLT and a coffee. He offered waitress Kimberly Cruver a $2 tip.

Cruver said she wouldn’t accept the money. Brown, who lives in Middletown, eats at Maddy’s almost every day, and Cruver wasn’t going to take a $2 tip for a sandwich and a coffee.

“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” Brown told her. “I’ll play your birthday in the Lottery, and if the number comes in, I’ll give you half.”

Cruver’s birth year is 1965, so on that Wednesday morning before New Year’s Eve, Brown, a regular Lottery player, called his “man,” John at Middletown Liquor on Route 211, and asked him to put Cruver’s birth year on two $2 Win 4 tickets.

Too many people were trying to play 1965 that day, Brown said, and the system wouldn’t take his entry. So they ended up playing 9561.

Brown won $10,000.

On New Year’s Eve, when Brown found out he had won, he called Maddy’s right away. Everyone at the diner knew that Brown, a celebrated Latin percussion musician, founder of Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers and a 2003 inductee of the International Latin Music Hall of Fame, would honor the agreement.

“Some people in my family thought I was crazy, but I’m a man of my word,” Brown said.

He confessed, there was a brief moment of hesitation. Sitting at the counter at Maddy’s this week, Brown, 77, described a scene right out of a Warner Bros. cartoon, in which Greed, sitting on one shoulder, and Larceny, on the other, tried to talk him into keeping mum about the win, and pocketing the entire $10,000.

“But the heart won out,” Brown said, punching himself in the chest.

After Brown finished his story, the crowd at Maddy’s buzzed about the 1994 Nicolas Cage-Bridget Fonda movie, “It Could Happen to You,” in which an NYPD officer wins $4 million in the lottery and splits it with a waitress.

In the movie, the waitress buys the diner where she works.

Cruver, a single mom, said she plans to spend every penny of her $5,000 on her two sons.

“It’s me and my boys against the world,” she said.

Brown, who traveled the world with Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers, said his share of the money is already gone. He had some bills to pay.

And then he picked up his flip phone and called John with a new round of Lottery pick

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Middletown man, Henry “Pucho” Brown, splits Lottery winnings with waitress – News – recordonline.com – Middletown, NY

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By Richard J. Bayne (mailto:dbayne@th-record.com)
Times Herald-Record

TOWN OF WALLKILL – It all started at Maddy’s Diner a day before New Year’s Eve. Henry “Pucho” Brown ordered a BLT and a coffee. He offered waitress Kimberly Cruver a $2 tip.

Cruver said she wouldn’t accept the money. Brown, who lives in Middletown, eats at Maddy’s almost every day, and Cruver wasn’t going to take a $2 tip for a sandwich and a coffee.

“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” Brown told her. “I’ll play your birthday in the Lottery, and if the number comes in, I’ll give you half.”

Cruver’s birth year is 1965, so on that Wednesday morning before New Year’s Eve, Brown, a regular Lottery player, called his “man,” John at Middletown Liquor on Route 211, and asked him to put Cruver’s birth year on two $2 Win 4 tickets.

Too many people were trying to play 1965 that day, Brown said, and the system wouldn’t take his entry. So they ended up playing 9561.

Brown won $10,000.

On New Year’s Eve, when Brown found out he had won, he called Maddy’s right away. Everyone at the diner knew that Brown, a celebrated Latin percussion musician, founder of Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers and a 2003 inductee of the International Latin Music Hall of Fame, would honor the agreement.

“Some people in my family thought I was crazy, but I’m a man of my word,” Brown said.

He confessed, there was a brief moment of hesitation. Sitting at the counter at Maddy’s this week, Brown, 77, described a scene right out of a Warner Bros. cartoon, in which Greed, sitting on one shoulder, and Larceny, on the other, tried to talk him into keeping mum about the win, and pocketing the entire $10,000.

“But the heart won out,” Brown said, punching himself in the chest.

After Brown finished his story, the crowd at Maddy’s buzzed about the 1994 Nicolas Cage-Bridget Fonda movie, “It Could Happen to You,” in which an NYPD officer wins $4 million in the lottery and splits it with a waitress.

In the movie, the waitress buys the diner where she works.

Cruver, a single mom, said she plans to spend every penny of her $5,000 on her two sons.

“It’s me and my boys against the world,” she said.

Brown, who traveled the world with Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers, said his share of the money is already gone. He had some bills to pay.

And then he picked up his flip phone and called John with a new round of Lottery pick

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Middletown man, Henry “Pucho” Brown, splits Lottery winnings with waitress – News – recordonline.com – Middletown, NY

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By Richard J. Bayne (mailto:dbayne@th-record.com)
Times Herald-Record

TOWN OF WALLKILL – It all started at Maddy’s Diner a day before New Year’s Eve. Henry “Pucho” Brown ordered a BLT and a coffee. He offered waitress Kimberly Cruver a $2 tip.

Cruver said she wouldn’t accept the money. Brown, who lives in Middletown, eats at Maddy’s almost every day, and Cruver wasn’t going to take a $2 tip for a sandwich and a coffee.

“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” Brown told her. “I’ll play your birthday in the Lottery, and if the number comes in, I’ll give you half.”

Cruver’s birth year is 1965, so on that Wednesday morning before New Year’s Eve, Brown, a regular Lottery player, called his “man,” John at Middletown Liquor on Route 211, and asked him to put Cruver’s birth year on two $2 Win 4 tickets.

Too many people were trying to play 1965 that day, Brown said, and the system wouldn’t take his entry. So they ended up playing 9561.

Brown won $10,000.

On New Year’s Eve, when Brown found out he had won, he called Maddy’s right away. Everyone at the diner knew that Brown, a celebrated Latin percussion musician, founder of Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers and a 2003 inductee of the International Latin Music Hall of Fame, would honor the agreement.

“Some people in my family thought I was crazy, but I’m a man of my word,” Brown said.

He confessed, there was a brief moment of hesitation. Sitting at the counter at Maddy’s this week, Brown, 77, described a scene right out of a Warner Bros. cartoon, in which Greed, sitting on one shoulder, and Larceny, on the other, tried to talk him into keeping mum about the win, and pocketing the entire $10,000.

“But the heart won out,” Brown said, punching himself in the chest.

After Brown finished his story, the crowd at Maddy’s buzzed about the 1994 Nicolas Cage-Bridget Fonda movie, “It Could Happen to You,” in which an NYPD officer wins $4 million in the lottery and splits it with a waitress.

In the movie, the waitress buys the diner where she works.

Cruver, a single mom, said she plans to spend every penny of her $5,000 on her two sons.

“It’s me and my boys against the world,” she said.

Brown, who traveled the world with Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers, said his share of the money is already gone. He had some bills to pay.

And then he picked up his flip phone and called John with a new round of Lottery pick

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Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history | Guinness World Records

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With an incredible total of 2,221 individual recording credits as of 15 September 2015, legendary American musician Ronald Levin Carter aka Ron Carter (USA, b.1937) has certainly earned his Guinness World Records title as the Most recorded jazz bassist in history.

Carter has played his elegant and rich double bass lines on tracks for numerous big names in the jazz world, including Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Billy Joel, Hank Jones and Billie Cobham – meaning even if you don’t recognise him by name, it is likely you have heard his instrument on a variety of famous recordings.

Born in Ferndale, Michigan, he began his musical career at the age of 10, playing the cello, but he later redirected his talent towards the double bass due to the racial stereotyping of classical musicians. However, he went on to earn a master’s degree in bass performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Carter’s big break came as a member of the second great Miles Davis Quintet in the early 1960s, playing alongside Herbie Hancock (piano), Tony Williams (drums) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), and remained a member of Davis’ stellar line-up until 1968.

Carter’s impressive resume of achievements also includes performances on the soundtrack to a number of seminal films, such as Midnight Cowboy (1969) as well as TV shows such as Twin Peaks (1990).

The bassist has also dipped his toes into the world of hip hop, after appearing on A Tribe Called Quest’s influential album The Low End Theory (1991) on the track “Verses from the Abstract”.

Just last year the esteemed jazz artist was given the 2015 Odyssey Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music by the Global Music Awards and, although Ron is now nearing 80, he continues to perform, entertain, and inspire others all over the world.

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Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history | Guinness World Records

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** Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history
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With an incredible total of 2,221 individual recording credits as of 15 September 2015, legendary American musician Ronald Levin Carter aka Ron Carter (USA, b.1937) has certainly earned his Guinness World Records title as the Most recorded jazz bassist in history.

Carter has played his elegant and rich double bass lines on tracks for numerous big names in the jazz world, including Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Billy Joel, Hank Jones and Billie Cobham – meaning even if you don’t recognise him by name, it is likely you have heard his instrument on a variety of famous recordings.

Born in Ferndale, Michigan, he began his musical career at the age of 10, playing the cello, but he later redirected his talent towards the double bass due to the racial stereotyping of classical musicians. However, he went on to earn a master’s degree in bass performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Carter’s big break came as a member of the second great Miles Davis Quintet in the early 1960s, playing alongside Herbie Hancock (piano), Tony Williams (drums) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), and remained a member of Davis’ stellar line-up until 1968.

Carter’s impressive resume of achievements also includes performances on the soundtrack to a number of seminal films, such as Midnight Cowboy (1969) as well as TV shows such as Twin Peaks (1990).

The bassist has also dipped his toes into the world of hip hop, after appearing on A Tribe Called Quest’s influential album The Low End Theory (1991) on the track “Verses from the Abstract”.

Just last year the esteemed jazz artist was given the 2015 Odyssey Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music by the Global Music Awards and, although Ron is now nearing 80, he continues to perform, entertain, and inspire others all over the world.

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Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history | Guinness World Records

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http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/1/ron-carter-earns-world-record-as-the-most-recorded-jazz-bassist-in-history-411828

** Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history
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With an incredible total of 2,221 individual recording credits as of 15 September 2015, legendary American musician Ronald Levin Carter aka Ron Carter (USA, b.1937) has certainly earned his Guinness World Records title as the Most recorded jazz bassist in history.

Carter has played his elegant and rich double bass lines on tracks for numerous big names in the jazz world, including Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Billy Joel, Hank Jones and Billie Cobham – meaning even if you don’t recognise him by name, it is likely you have heard his instrument on a variety of famous recordings.

Born in Ferndale, Michigan, he began his musical career at the age of 10, playing the cello, but he later redirected his talent towards the double bass due to the racial stereotyping of classical musicians. However, he went on to earn a master’s degree in bass performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Carter’s big break came as a member of the second great Miles Davis Quintet in the early 1960s, playing alongside Herbie Hancock (piano), Tony Williams (drums) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), and remained a member of Davis’ stellar line-up until 1968.

Carter’s impressive resume of achievements also includes performances on the soundtrack to a number of seminal films, such as Midnight Cowboy (1969) as well as TV shows such as Twin Peaks (1990).

The bassist has also dipped his toes into the world of hip hop, after appearing on A Tribe Called Quest’s influential album The Low End Theory (1991) on the track “Verses from the Abstract”.

Just last year the esteemed jazz artist was given the 2015 Odyssey Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music by the Global Music Awards and, although Ron is now nearing 80, he continues to perform, entertain, and inspire others all over the world.

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R.I.P. Maurice White – Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire + NY Times Obit By PETER KEEPNEWS

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** Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire – Sun Goddess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE)
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** http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/music/maurice-white-founder-of-earth-wind-and-fire-dies-at-74.html

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** Maurice White, Founder and Leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 74
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By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 4, 2016

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Johnny Graham, left, and Maurice White performing in 1982. Rob Verhorst/Redferns

Maurice White, the founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, whose genre-defying music made it one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74.

The band’s publicist, Mark Young, said Mr. White died late Wednesday or early Thursday. He did not specify the cause, but Mr. White had announced in 2000 that he had Parkinson’s disease.

Earth, Wind & Fire — whose many hits included “Shining Star,” “September,” “That’s the Way of the World” and a cover of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life” — had a sound that was rooted in rhythm and blues but crossed musical boundaries, attracting an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

The horn arrangements were punchy, the bass lines funky and the rhythms infectious, but there was also room for adventurous improvisation, mellow vocal harmonies and pure pop melodicism.

“Although we were basically jazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and dance music … which somehow ended up becoming pop,” Mr. White wrote on the group’s website (http://www.earthwindandfire.com/) . “We were coming out of a decade of experimentation, mind expansion and cosmic awareness. I wanted our music to convey messages of universal love and harmony without force-feeding listeners’ spiritual content.”

Earth, Wind & Fire, which was larger than the average rock or funk band, became renowned not just for its music but also for its elaborate stage shows, marked by pyrotechnics, choreography, lighting effects and sometimes even magic tricks. Mr. White stopped touring with the band in the 1990s.

Mr. White, who began his career as a jazz drummer, played various percussion instruments with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the African thumb piano, or kalimba, which became an essential element of the group’s sound. He shared lead vocals with Philip Bailey, wrote or co-wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, and produced many of its records.

As a producer, Mr. White also worked with Barbra Streisand and other artists.

** Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘Shining Star’
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The band attracted an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

Maurice White was born on Dec. 19, 1941, in Memphis and raised by his grandmother. He sang in a church choir and was inspired to become a drummer by watching local marching bands.

“I saw the guys in the band playing drums — they had on shiny suits and were getting all the attention from the girls,” he told The Commercial Appeal of Memphis in 2007. “So I decided: That’s what I want to do. From that point on I just became infatuated with music.”

After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School, where he was in the drum corps, Mr. White moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and played drums in local nightclubs. By the mid-1960s he had become a fixture in the studios of Chess, the city’s leading record company, recording with Etta James, Fontella Bass and others.

In 1966 he replaced Red Holt in the pianist Ramsey Lewis’s trio, which, with records like “The ‘In’ Crowd,” had become one of the few jazz groups to crack the upper levels of the pop charts in the 1960s.

“Ramsey helped shape my musical vision beyond just the music,” Mr. White said. “I learned about performance and staging.”

Mr. White left the Lewis trio in 1969 to form a group with two friends, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead. That group, the Salty Peppers, had only moderate success. After moving to Los Angeles, Mr. White renamed it Earth, Wind & Fire (after the three elements in his astrological sign), revamped the personnel and signed with Warner Bros. Records.

The band’s records for Warner Bros. attracted some attention, but Earth, Wind & Fire did not break through to worldwide success until Mr. White shuffled the personnel yet again and signed with Columbia. The group first reached the pop Top 40 in 1974 with “Mighty Mighty” and had its first and only No. 1 pop hit, “Shining Star,” a year later.

All told, Earth, Wind & Fire had 16 Top 40 singles, won six Grammys (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and sold an estimated 90 million albums. Mr. White also won an individual Grammy for his arrangement of “Got to Get You Into My Life” in 1979.

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Mr. White was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.

His survivors include his brothers Verdine and Fred, both of whom were members of Earth, Wind and Fire for many years. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. White was proud of his accomplishments as a musician. But he always saw his mission as more than just entertaining people.

“It’s important to put the emphasis on the positive aspect,” he told The Chicago Tribune in 1985. “I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something — I guess you could call it hope.”

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R.I.P. Maurice White – Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire + NY Times Obit By PETER KEEPNEWS

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** Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire – Sun Goddess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE)
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** http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/music/maurice-white-founder-of-earth-wind-and-fire-dies-at-74.html

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** Maurice White, Founder and Leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 74
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By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 4, 2016

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Johnny Graham, left, and Maurice White performing in 1982. Rob Verhorst/Redferns

Maurice White, the founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, whose genre-defying music made it one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74.

The band’s publicist, Mark Young, said Mr. White died late Wednesday or early Thursday. He did not specify the cause, but Mr. White had announced in 2000 that he had Parkinson’s disease.

Earth, Wind & Fire — whose many hits included “Shining Star,” “September,” “That’s the Way of the World” and a cover of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life” — had a sound that was rooted in rhythm and blues but crossed musical boundaries, attracting an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

The horn arrangements were punchy, the bass lines funky and the rhythms infectious, but there was also room for adventurous improvisation, mellow vocal harmonies and pure pop melodicism.

“Although we were basically jazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and dance music … which somehow ended up becoming pop,” Mr. White wrote on the group’s website (http://www.earthwindandfire.com/) . “We were coming out of a decade of experimentation, mind expansion and cosmic awareness. I wanted our music to convey messages of universal love and harmony without force-feeding listeners’ spiritual content.”

Earth, Wind & Fire, which was larger than the average rock or funk band, became renowned not just for its music but also for its elaborate stage shows, marked by pyrotechnics, choreography, lighting effects and sometimes even magic tricks. Mr. White stopped touring with the band in the 1990s.

Mr. White, who began his career as a jazz drummer, played various percussion instruments with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the African thumb piano, or kalimba, which became an essential element of the group’s sound. He shared lead vocals with Philip Bailey, wrote or co-wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, and produced many of its records.

As a producer, Mr. White also worked with Barbra Streisand and other artists.

** Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘Shining Star’
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**
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The band attracted an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

Maurice White was born on Dec. 19, 1941, in Memphis and raised by his grandmother. He sang in a church choir and was inspired to become a drummer by watching local marching bands.

“I saw the guys in the band playing drums — they had on shiny suits and were getting all the attention from the girls,” he told The Commercial Appeal of Memphis in 2007. “So I decided: That’s what I want to do. From that point on I just became infatuated with music.”

After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School, where he was in the drum corps, Mr. White moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and played drums in local nightclubs. By the mid-1960s he had become a fixture in the studios of Chess, the city’s leading record company, recording with Etta James, Fontella Bass and others.

In 1966 he replaced Red Holt in the pianist Ramsey Lewis’s trio, which, with records like “The ‘In’ Crowd,” had become one of the few jazz groups to crack the upper levels of the pop charts in the 1960s.

“Ramsey helped shape my musical vision beyond just the music,” Mr. White said. “I learned about performance and staging.”

Mr. White left the Lewis trio in 1969 to form a group with two friends, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead. That group, the Salty Peppers, had only moderate success. After moving to Los Angeles, Mr. White renamed it Earth, Wind & Fire (after the three elements in his astrological sign), revamped the personnel and signed with Warner Bros. Records.

The band’s records for Warner Bros. attracted some attention, but Earth, Wind & Fire did not break through to worldwide success until Mr. White shuffled the personnel yet again and signed with Columbia. The group first reached the pop Top 40 in 1974 with “Mighty Mighty” and had its first and only No. 1 pop hit, “Shining Star,” a year later.

All told, Earth, Wind & Fire had 16 Top 40 singles, won six Grammys (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and sold an estimated 90 million albums. Mr. White also won an individual Grammy for his arrangement of “Got to Get You Into My Life” in 1979.

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Mr. White was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.

His survivors include his brothers Verdine and Fred, both of whom were members of Earth, Wind and Fire for many years. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. White was proud of his accomplishments as a musician. But he always saw his mission as more than just entertaining people.

“It’s important to put the emphasis on the positive aspect,” he told The Chicago Tribune in 1985. “I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something — I guess you could call it hope.”

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R.I.P. Maurice White – Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire + NY Times Obit By PETER KEEPNEWS

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** Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire – Sun Goddess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE

** http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/music/maurice-white-founder-of-earth-wind-and-fire-dies-at-74.html

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** Maurice White, Founder and Leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 74
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By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 4, 2016

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Johnny Graham, left, and Maurice White performing in 1982. Rob Verhorst/Redferns

Maurice White, the founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, whose genre-defying music made it one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74.

The band’s publicist, Mark Young, said Mr. White died late Wednesday or early Thursday. He did not specify the cause, but Mr. White had announced in 2000 that he had Parkinson’s disease.

Earth, Wind & Fire — whose many hits included “Shining Star,” “September,” “That’s the Way of the World” and a cover of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life” — had a sound that was rooted in rhythm and blues but crossed musical boundaries, attracting an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

The horn arrangements were punchy, the bass lines funky and the rhythms infectious, but there was also room for adventurous improvisation, mellow vocal harmonies and pure pop melodicism.

“Although we were basically jazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and dance music … which somehow ended up becoming pop,” Mr. White wrote on the group’s website (http://www.earthwindandfire.com/) . “We were coming out of a decade of experimentation, mind expansion and cosmic awareness. I wanted our music to convey messages of universal love and harmony without force-feeding listeners’ spiritual content.”

Earth, Wind & Fire, which was larger than the average rock or funk band, became renowned not just for its music but also for its elaborate stage shows, marked by pyrotechnics, choreography, lighting effects and sometimes even magic tricks. Mr. White stopped touring with the band in the 1990s.

Mr. White, who began his career as a jazz drummer, played various percussion instruments with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the African thumb piano, or kalimba, which became an essential element of the group’s sound. He shared lead vocals with Philip Bailey, wrote or co-wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, and produced many of its records.

As a producer, Mr. White also worked with Barbra Streisand and other artists.

** Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘Shining Star’
————————————————————

**
————————————————————

The band attracted an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

Maurice White was born on Dec. 19, 1941, in Memphis and raised by his grandmother. He sang in a church choir and was inspired to become a drummer by watching local marching bands.

“I saw the guys in the band playing drums — they had on shiny suits and were getting all the attention from the girls,” he told The Commercial Appeal of Memphis in 2007. “So I decided: That’s what I want to do. From that point on I just became infatuated with music.”

After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School, where he was in the drum corps, Mr. White moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and played drums in local nightclubs. By the mid-1960s he had become a fixture in the studios of Chess, the city’s leading record company, recording with Etta James, Fontella Bass and others.

In 1966 he replaced Red Holt in the pianist Ramsey Lewis’s trio, which, with records like “The ‘In’ Crowd,” had become one of the few jazz groups to crack the upper levels of the pop charts in the 1960s.

“Ramsey helped shape my musical vision beyond just the music,” Mr. White said. “I learned about performance and staging.”

Mr. White left the Lewis trio in 1969 to form a group with two friends, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead. That group, the Salty Peppers, had only moderate success. After moving to Los Angeles, Mr. White renamed it Earth, Wind & Fire (after the three elements in his astrological sign), revamped the personnel and signed with Warner Bros. Records.

The band’s records for Warner Bros. attracted some attention, but Earth, Wind & Fire did not break through to worldwide success until Mr. White shuffled the personnel yet again and signed with Columbia. The group first reached the pop Top 40 in 1974 with “Mighty Mighty” and had its first and only No. 1 pop hit, “Shining Star,” a year later.

All told, Earth, Wind & Fire had 16 Top 40 singles, won six Grammys (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and sold an estimated 90 million albums. Mr. White also won an individual Grammy for his arrangement of “Got to Get You Into My Life” in 1979.

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Mr. White was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.

His survivors include his brothers Verdine and Fred, both of whom were members of Earth, Wind and Fire for many years. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. White was proud of his accomplishments as a musician. But he always saw his mission as more than just entertaining people.

“It’s important to put the emphasis on the positive aspect,” he told The Chicago Tribune in 1985. “I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something — I guess you could call it hope.”

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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R.I.P. Maurice White – Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire + NY Times Obit By PETER KEEPNEWS

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** Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind & Fire – Sun Goddess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE)
————————————————————
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE

** http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/music/maurice-white-founder-of-earth-wind-and-fire-dies-at-74.html

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** Maurice White, Founder and Leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 74
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By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 4, 2016

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Johnny Graham, left, and Maurice White performing in 1982. Rob Verhorst/Redferns

Maurice White, the founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, whose genre-defying music made it one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74.

The band’s publicist, Mark Young, said Mr. White died late Wednesday or early Thursday. He did not specify the cause, but Mr. White had announced in 2000 that he had Parkinson’s disease.

Earth, Wind & Fire — whose many hits included “Shining Star,” “September,” “That’s the Way of the World” and a cover of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life” — had a sound that was rooted in rhythm and blues but crossed musical boundaries, attracting an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

The horn arrangements were punchy, the bass lines funky and the rhythms infectious, but there was also room for adventurous improvisation, mellow vocal harmonies and pure pop melodicism.

“Although we were basically jazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and dance music … which somehow ended up becoming pop,” Mr. White wrote on the group’s website (http://www.earthwindandfire.com/) . “We were coming out of a decade of experimentation, mind expansion and cosmic awareness. I wanted our music to convey messages of universal love and harmony without force-feeding listeners’ spiritual content.”

Earth, Wind & Fire, which was larger than the average rock or funk band, became renowned not just for its music but also for its elaborate stage shows, marked by pyrotechnics, choreography, lighting effects and sometimes even magic tricks. Mr. White stopped touring with the band in the 1990s.

Mr. White, who began his career as a jazz drummer, played various percussion instruments with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the African thumb piano, or kalimba, which became an essential element of the group’s sound. He shared lead vocals with Philip Bailey, wrote or co-wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, and produced many of its records.

As a producer, Mr. White also worked with Barbra Streisand and other artists.

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The band attracted an audience that was as diverse racially as the music was stylistically.

Maurice White was born on Dec. 19, 1941, in Memphis and raised by his grandmother. He sang in a church choir and was inspired to become a drummer by watching local marching bands.

“I saw the guys in the band playing drums — they had on shiny suits and were getting all the attention from the girls,” he told The Commercial Appeal of Memphis in 2007. “So I decided: That’s what I want to do. From that point on I just became infatuated with music.”

After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School, where he was in the drum corps, Mr. White moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and played drums in local nightclubs. By the mid-1960s he had become a fixture in the studios of Chess, the city’s leading record company, recording with Etta James, Fontella Bass and others.

In 1966 he replaced Red Holt in the pianist Ramsey Lewis’s trio, which, with records like “The ‘In’ Crowd,” had become one of the few jazz groups to crack the upper levels of the pop charts in the 1960s.

“Ramsey helped shape my musical vision beyond just the music,” Mr. White said. “I learned about performance and staging.”

Mr. White left the Lewis trio in 1969 to form a group with two friends, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead. That group, the Salty Peppers, had only moderate success. After moving to Los Angeles, Mr. White renamed it Earth, Wind & Fire (after the three elements in his astrological sign), revamped the personnel and signed with Warner Bros. Records.

The band’s records for Warner Bros. attracted some attention, but Earth, Wind & Fire did not break through to worldwide success until Mr. White shuffled the personnel yet again and signed with Columbia. The group first reached the pop Top 40 in 1974 with “Mighty Mighty” and had its first and only No. 1 pop hit, “Shining Star,” a year later.

All told, Earth, Wind & Fire had 16 Top 40 singles, won six Grammys (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and sold an estimated 90 million albums. Mr. White also won an individual Grammy for his arrangement of “Got to Get You Into My Life” in 1979.

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Mr. White was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.

His survivors include his brothers Verdine and Fred, both of whom were members of Earth, Wind and Fire for many years. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. White was proud of his accomplishments as a musician. But he always saw his mission as more than just entertaining people.

“It’s important to put the emphasis on the positive aspect,” he told The Chicago Tribune in 1985. “I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something — I guess you could call it hope.”

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February 03,2016 01:04 AM

Meet the man who “heard no color line in the music” in Guinness’ high-energy look at the 1930s New York jazz scene. Meet the man who “heard no color line in the music” in Guinness’ high-energy look at the 1930s New York jazz scene. Photo by: GuinnessEurope / YouTube
Guinness (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwib7vK8_tnKAhXqtoMKHbS1DsgQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Ftopic%2FGuinness-Made-of-More.html&usg=AFQjCNGG0zMibOzFDW8NKhhBqEMJngN8cQ&sig2=b-_lUD9Hp_J2l_pt9JOLOg&bvm=bv.113034660,d.cWw) revealed another instant classic today with their latest ‘Made of More’ advert featuring the story of John Hammond – the man responsible for discovering musical legends Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Aretha Franklin and many others and who also attempted to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the 1930s music industry.
Entitled the “Intolerant Champion,” the advert (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html) sets the scene in 1930s New York where racial disharmony prevailed. Black and white musicians rarely played together and many music venues permitted white audiences only.
However, fostering a passion for music of black origin (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4icmA_9nKAhUru4MKHZ6hBeEQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2Fgenealogy%2FBlack-Irish-Identities-The-complex-relationship-between-Irish-and-African-Americans.html&usg=AFQjCNFvYQ39a7VLuw6Swhwkj95oLZ5jKA&sig2=tCPBZf_amIWcgUhs4s1Fhw) – Jazz, The Blues, Big Band and Gospel – Hammond would travel the clubs and bars of Harlem seeking raw, undiscovered musical talent for his radio show.
Hammond, who was born in Manhattan in 1910, was first introduced to jazz music when he was 13 and with his family on vacation in London.
He dropped out of Yale in 1931, where he was studying the violin and viola, and became a radio DJ for WEVD. He left that in protest two years later when the station moved to a new building where new rules prevented black musicians from using the elevator.
Read more: See if you can hold the tears back—the greatest Guinness ad ever! (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html)
It was at that time he joined Columbia as as a talent scout and record producer. He heard Billie Holiday for the first time at Monette Moore’s Jazz Club in Harlem the same year, and immediately arranged her first recording session.
The song featured in the video (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html) , a remix of “Sing Sing Sing” from the “Swings Kids” movie score by James Horner, is also extremely significant. It was originally made famous by the Benny Goodman Trio – the first major mixed race (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4icmA_9nKAhUru4MKHZ6hBeEQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2Fgenealogy%2FBlack-Irish-Identities-The-complex-relationship-between-Irish-and-African-Americans.html&usg=AFQjCNFvYQ39a7VLuw6Swhwkj95oLZ5jKA&sig2=tCPBZf_amIWcgUhs4s1Fhw) band in America. Hammond was instrumental in bringing the band members together.
On January 16, 1938, he organized a concert in Carnegie Hall for the trio, the first time a racially integrated musical group appeared on stage at a major American music hall.
“I heard no color line in the music…” Hammond reflected in his memoirs, often referring to himself as the “sometimes intolerant champion of tolerance,” while others simply saw him as “the world’s greatest talent scout.”
Although he also signed legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwii5d2P_9nKAhWixIMKHQxlCb8QFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Fculture%2Fentertainment%2Fbruce-springsteens-irish-roots-traced-before-his-upcoming-dublin-concert-161897415-237515171.html&usg=AFQjCNEKif1Wz-4p8IyiovyA7UUiMfY5gQ&sig2=pBARmvIHp7Ggqc3ZHR4QRA&bvm=bv.113034660,d.amc) to Columbia Records, it is for his efforts in championing the potential of black and white musicians working together – and fighting this cause – for which he is most famous.
Voiced by the US actor Danny Glover and shot completely in black and white, the advert also features singer Lianne La Havas, who has referenced Hammond artists such as Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan as influences on her music.
“It’s fair to say that John Hammond is an unsung hero and his lasting legacy on the world of music is a story (http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-10-guinness-facts-93321039-237782481.html) that has been largely untold,” said the video’s director, Jake Nava.
“It is wonderful to have the opportunity to tell an aspect of it in a way that I believe authentically captures the significance of what he achieved.”
Read more: Top ten facts about Guinness. (http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-10-guinness-facts-93321039-237782481.html)

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February 03,2016 01:04 AM

Meet the man who “heard no color line in the music” in Guinness’ high-energy look at the 1930s New York jazz scene. Meet the man who “heard no color line in the music” in Guinness’ high-energy look at the 1930s New York jazz scene. Photo by: GuinnessEurope / YouTube
Guinness (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwib7vK8_tnKAhXqtoMKHbS1DsgQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Ftopic%2FGuinness-Made-of-More.html&usg=AFQjCNGG0zMibOzFDW8NKhhBqEMJngN8cQ&sig2=b-_lUD9Hp_J2l_pt9JOLOg&bvm=bv.113034660,d.cWw) revealed another instant classic today with their latest ‘Made of More’ advert featuring the story of John Hammond – the man responsible for discovering musical legends Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Aretha Franklin and many others and who also attempted to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the 1930s music industry.
Entitled the “Intolerant Champion,” the advert (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html) sets the scene in 1930s New York where racial disharmony prevailed. Black and white musicians rarely played together and many music venues permitted white audiences only.
However, fostering a passion for music of black origin (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4icmA_9nKAhUru4MKHZ6hBeEQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2Fgenealogy%2FBlack-Irish-Identities-The-complex-relationship-between-Irish-and-African-Americans.html&usg=AFQjCNFvYQ39a7VLuw6Swhwkj95oLZ5jKA&sig2=tCPBZf_amIWcgUhs4s1Fhw) – Jazz, The Blues, Big Band and Gospel – Hammond would travel the clubs and bars of Harlem seeking raw, undiscovered musical talent for his radio show.
Hammond, who was born in Manhattan in 1910, was first introduced to jazz music when he was 13 and with his family on vacation in London.
He dropped out of Yale in 1931, where he was studying the violin and viola, and became a radio DJ for WEVD. He left that in protest two years later when the station moved to a new building where new rules prevented black musicians from using the elevator.
Read more: See if you can hold the tears back—the greatest Guinness ad ever! (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html)
It was at that time he joined Columbia as as a talent scout and record producer. He heard Billie Holiday for the first time at Monette Moore’s Jazz Club in Harlem the same year, and immediately arranged her first recording session.
The song featured in the video (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html) , a remix of “Sing Sing Sing” from the “Swings Kids” movie score by James Horner, is also extremely significant. It was originally made famous by the Benny Goodman Trio – the first major mixed race (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4icmA_9nKAhUru4MKHZ6hBeEQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2Fgenealogy%2FBlack-Irish-Identities-The-complex-relationship-between-Irish-and-African-Americans.html&usg=AFQjCNFvYQ39a7VLuw6Swhwkj95oLZ5jKA&sig2=tCPBZf_amIWcgUhs4s1Fhw) band in America. Hammond was instrumental in bringing the band members together.
On January 16, 1938, he organized a concert in Carnegie Hall for the trio, the first time a racially integrated musical group appeared on stage at a major American music hall.
“I heard no color line in the music…” Hammond reflected in his memoirs, often referring to himself as the “sometimes intolerant champion of tolerance,” while others simply saw him as “the world’s greatest talent scout.”
Although he also signed legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwii5d2P_9nKAhWixIMKHQxlCb8QFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Fculture%2Fentertainment%2Fbruce-springsteens-irish-roots-traced-before-his-upcoming-dublin-concert-161897415-237515171.html&usg=AFQjCNEKif1Wz-4p8IyiovyA7UUiMfY5gQ&sig2=pBARmvIHp7Ggqc3ZHR4QRA&bvm=bv.113034660,d.amc) to Columbia Records, it is for his efforts in championing the potential of black and white musicians working together – and fighting this cause – for which he is most famous.
Voiced by the US actor Danny Glover and shot completely in black and white, the advert also features singer Lianne La Havas, who has referenced Hammond artists such as Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan as influences on her music.
“It’s fair to say that John Hammond is an unsung hero and his lasting legacy on the world of music is a story (http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-10-guinness-facts-93321039-237782481.html) that has been largely untold,” said the video’s director, Jake Nava.
“It is wonderful to have the opportunity to tell an aspect of it in a way that I believe authentically captures the significance of what he achieved.”
Read more: Top ten facts about Guinness. (http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-10-guinness-facts-93321039-237782481.html)

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Frances Mulraney @FrancesMulraney (http://www.twitter.com/FrancesMulraney)
February 03,2016 01:04 AM

Meet the man who “heard no color line in the music” in Guinness’ high-energy look at the 1930s New York jazz scene. Meet the man who “heard no color line in the music” in Guinness’ high-energy look at the 1930s New York jazz scene. Photo by: GuinnessEurope / YouTube
Guinness (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwib7vK8_tnKAhXqtoMKHbS1DsgQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Ftopic%2FGuinness-Made-of-More.html&usg=AFQjCNGG0zMibOzFDW8NKhhBqEMJngN8cQ&sig2=b-_lUD9Hp_J2l_pt9JOLOg&bvm=bv.113034660,d.cWw) revealed another instant classic today with their latest ‘Made of More’ advert featuring the story of John Hammond – the man responsible for discovering musical legends Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Aretha Franklin and many others and who also attempted to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the 1930s music industry.
Entitled the “Intolerant Champion,” the advert (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html) sets the scene in 1930s New York where racial disharmony prevailed. Black and white musicians rarely played together and many music venues permitted white audiences only.
However, fostering a passion for music of black origin (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4icmA_9nKAhUru4MKHZ6hBeEQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2Fgenealogy%2FBlack-Irish-Identities-The-complex-relationship-between-Irish-and-African-Americans.html&usg=AFQjCNFvYQ39a7VLuw6Swhwkj95oLZ5jKA&sig2=tCPBZf_amIWcgUhs4s1Fhw) – Jazz, The Blues, Big Band and Gospel – Hammond would travel the clubs and bars of Harlem seeking raw, undiscovered musical talent for his radio show.
Hammond, who was born in Manhattan in 1910, was first introduced to jazz music when he was 13 and with his family on vacation in London.
He dropped out of Yale in 1931, where he was studying the violin and viola, and became a radio DJ for WEVD. He left that in protest two years later when the station moved to a new building where new rules prevented black musicians from using the elevator.
Read more: See if you can hold the tears back—the greatest Guinness ad ever! (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html)
It was at that time he joined Columbia as as a talent scout and record producer. He heard Billie Holiday for the first time at Monette Moore’s Jazz Club in Harlem the same year, and immediately arranged her first recording session.
The song featured in the video (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Inspiring-new-Guinness-ad-pays-tribute-to-our-heroes-this-4th-of-July-VIDEO.html) , a remix of “Sing Sing Sing” from the “Swings Kids” movie score by James Horner, is also extremely significant. It was originally made famous by the Benny Goodman Trio – the first major mixed race (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4icmA_9nKAhUru4MKHZ6hBeEQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2Fgenealogy%2FBlack-Irish-Identities-The-complex-relationship-between-Irish-and-African-Americans.html&usg=AFQjCNFvYQ39a7VLuw6Swhwkj95oLZ5jKA&sig2=tCPBZf_amIWcgUhs4s1Fhw) band in America. Hammond was instrumental in bringing the band members together.
On January 16, 1938, he organized a concert in Carnegie Hall for the trio, the first time a racially integrated musical group appeared on stage at a major American music hall.
“I heard no color line in the music…” Hammond reflected in his memoirs, often referring to himself as the “sometimes intolerant champion of tolerance,” while others simply saw him as “the world’s greatest talent scout.”
Although he also signed legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwii5d2P_9nKAhWixIMKHQxlCb8QFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Fculture%2Fentertainment%2Fbruce-springsteens-irish-roots-traced-before-his-upcoming-dublin-concert-161897415-237515171.html&usg=AFQjCNEKif1Wz-4p8IyiovyA7UUiMfY5gQ&sig2=pBARmvIHp7Ggqc3ZHR4QRA&bvm=bv.113034660,d.amc) to Columbia Records, it is for his efforts in championing the potential of black and white musicians working together – and fighting this cause – for which he is most famous.
Voiced by the US actor Danny Glover and shot completely in black and white, the advert also features singer Lianne La Havas, who has referenced Hammond artists such as Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan as influences on her music.
“It’s fair to say that John Hammond is an unsung hero and his lasting legacy on the world of music is a story (http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-10-guinness-facts-93321039-237782481.html) that has been largely untold,” said the video’s director, Jake Nava.
“It is wonderful to have the opportunity to tell an aspect of it in a way that I believe authentically captures the significance of what he achieved.”
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Don Cheadle Is Miles Ahead In New Trailer For Jazz Music Biopic

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** Don Cheadle Is Miles Ahead In New Trailer For Jazz Music Biopic
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By Michael Briers (http://wegotthiscovered.com/author/michael-briers/)

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Taking on the starring role for a biopic of any kind comes packing its own share of expectations, particularly when it comes to stepping into the shoes of an icon from beyond our time. But for Avengers star Don Cheadle, he was deemed the perfect fit to assume the role of jazz legend Miles Davis long before the biopic ever came to form, after gaining the blessing of Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn almost a decade ago.

Fast forward to today and we’ve arrived at the first trailer for Miles Ahead (http://wegotthiscovered.com/tag/miles-ahead/) . Written and directed by Cheadle, the musical biopic represents something of a passion project for the actor, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about bringing Davis’ story to the moviegoing masses.

“Just the fact that he wasn’t playing. The fact that he hadn’t played for five years, up to that point, and in a way, was either chopping at the bit to figure out what to say again, if to say again, or he was going down towards death very quickly. He was standing on that knife’s edge at that point, and I don’t think he even know which way it was gonna go.”

“So for us, when we got to the period in all the research about how Miles didn’t play for five years, we were like, ‘What?’ [Laughs] That was the part that was the most interesting from a human being standpoint to me,” he told EW. “Musically and what he did with his art form was amazing to me all the time, for the most part. But for me, as a human and an artist and someone who’s a creative person, what happens when you just stop for five years? That’s why we picked that moment to sort of be the departure point: him on the verge of talking again, basically.”

Penned alongside Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson, Miles Ahead also stars Ewan McGregor as a Rolling Stone reporter, and both he and Cheadle’s stylish lead strike up an unlikely friendship as they embark on a search for wayward session tapes in the 70s.

Having already made its bow at the New York Film Festival late last year, Miles Ahead will open for a limited run on April 1.

Source: EW (http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/02/don-cheadle-miles-davis-miles-ahead-trailer)

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Don Cheadle Is Miles Ahead In New Trailer For Jazz Music Biopic

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** Don Cheadle Is Miles Ahead In New Trailer For Jazz Music Biopic
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By Michael Briers (http://wegotthiscovered.com/author/michael-briers/)

miles-ahead

Taking on the starring role for a biopic of any kind comes packing its own share of expectations, particularly when it comes to stepping into the shoes of an icon from beyond our time. But for Avengers star Don Cheadle, he was deemed the perfect fit to assume the role of jazz legend Miles Davis long before the biopic ever came to form, after gaining the blessing of Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn almost a decade ago.

Fast forward to today and we’ve arrived at the first trailer for Miles Ahead (http://wegotthiscovered.com/tag/miles-ahead/) . Written and directed by Cheadle, the musical biopic represents something of a passion project for the actor, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about bringing Davis’ story to the moviegoing masses.

“Just the fact that he wasn’t playing. The fact that he hadn’t played for five years, up to that point, and in a way, was either chopping at the bit to figure out what to say again, if to say again, or he was going down towards death very quickly. He was standing on that knife’s edge at that point, and I don’t think he even know which way it was gonna go.”

“So for us, when we got to the period in all the research about how Miles didn’t play for five years, we were like, ‘What?’ [Laughs] That was the part that was the most interesting from a human being standpoint to me,” he told EW. “Musically and what he did with his art form was amazing to me all the time, for the most part. But for me, as a human and an artist and someone who’s a creative person, what happens when you just stop for five years? That’s why we picked that moment to sort of be the departure point: him on the verge of talking again, basically.”

Penned alongside Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson, Miles Ahead also stars Ewan McGregor as a Rolling Stone reporter, and both he and Cheadle’s stylish lead strike up an unlikely friendship as they embark on a search for wayward session tapes in the 70s.

Having already made its bow at the New York Film Festival late last year, Miles Ahead will open for a limited run on April 1.

Source: EW (http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/02/don-cheadle-miles-davis-miles-ahead-trailer)

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Don Cheadle Is Miles Ahead In New Trailer For Jazz Music Biopic

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** Don Cheadle Is Miles Ahead In New Trailer For Jazz Music Biopic
————————————————————

By Michael Briers (http://wegotthiscovered.com/author/michael-briers/)

miles-ahead

Taking on the starring role for a biopic of any kind comes packing its own share of expectations, particularly when it comes to stepping into the shoes of an icon from beyond our time. But for Avengers star Don Cheadle, he was deemed the perfect fit to assume the role of jazz legend Miles Davis long before the biopic ever came to form, after gaining the blessing of Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn almost a decade ago.

Fast forward to today and we’ve arrived at the first trailer for Miles Ahead (http://wegotthiscovered.com/tag/miles-ahead/) . Written and directed by Cheadle, the musical biopic represents something of a passion project for the actor, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about bringing Davis’ story to the moviegoing masses.

“Just the fact that he wasn’t playing. The fact that he hadn’t played for five years, up to that point, and in a way, was either chopping at the bit to figure out what to say again, if to say again, or he was going down towards death very quickly. He was standing on that knife’s edge at that point, and I don’t think he even know which way it was gonna go.”

“So for us, when we got to the period in all the research about how Miles didn’t play for five years, we were like, ‘What?’ [Laughs] That was the part that was the most interesting from a human being standpoint to me,” he told EW. “Musically and what he did with his art form was amazing to me all the time, for the most part. But for me, as a human and an artist and someone who’s a creative person, what happens when you just stop for five years? That’s why we picked that moment to sort of be the departure point: him on the verge of talking again, basically.”

Penned alongside Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson, Miles Ahead also stars Ewan McGregor as a Rolling Stone reporter, and both he and Cheadle’s stylish lead strike up an unlikely friendship as they embark on a search for wayward session tapes in the 70s.

Having already made its bow at the New York Film Festival late last year, Miles Ahead will open for a limited run on April 1.

Source: EW (http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/02/don-cheadle-miles-davis-miles-ahead-trailer)

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Obituary: Joe Harris / Jazz drummer played with bebop legends | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Obituary: Joe Harris / Jazz drummer played with bebop legends
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By Peter Smith / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Joe Harris was still in his teens when he hit the road from his native Pittsburgh for a globe-trotting career as one of the most versatile jazz drummers of his time, one of the last survivors of the golden era of bebop.

Even in his last years after returning to Pittsburgh, when he tapered back his performing schedule, he continued to practice daily and mentor younger jazz musicians.

Mr. Harris died Wednesday at age 89 at Allegheny General Hospital. He had been in good health until recently but began having shortness of breath a week earlier followed by other complications, said his sister, Barbara Randall, who shared a Manchester duplex with him.

Mr. Harris’ comment to a reporter 20 years ago about his prolific life and career still seems apt: “There’s too much, brother. You can’t get me all in one lifetime.”

His story can’t be told without dropping names from a who’s who of jazz greats at every turn.

A onetime member of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s band, Mr. Harris also accompanied Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday and other greats.

“The top rung of musicians in the jazz world, Joe played right along with those people,” said Jimmy Heath, a saxophonist, band leader and composer who toured with Mr. Harris beginning in the 1940s and spoke to him by phone a few days before his unexpected final illness.

“He was just an interpreter of the music who was very good at doing that, giving you what you wanted and needed for support,” Mr. Heath, of New York City, said.

Mr. Harris was part “of the generation that created the music” of the mid-century flowering of modern jazz, added Nelson Harrison, founder of the Pittsburgh Jazz Network and a trombonist who often performed with Mr. Harris.

Mr. Harrison said that when the legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes performed at the New Hazlett Theater on the North Side two years ago, he called Mr. Harris to the front, embraced him and offered him his drumsticks, asking the Pittsburgher to play first.

In addition to many gigs across America, Mr. Harris also lived in Sweden, where he married and where his daughter still lives, and for periods in Germany and Japan before returning home.

Ms. Randall — who was 18 years her brother’s junior and sang in a band accompanied by Mr. Harris during an extended European trip that was his high school graduation present to her — said her brother was “very proud” and guarded his privacy but that his mind was sharp to the end. He lived frugally, rode his bike from his Manchester home as recently as last summer and played tennis into his mid-80s.

He taught himself to speak Swedish fluently and learned a fair amount of German and Japanese, his sister said.

Joseph Allison Harris was born Dec. 23, 1926, to Joseph and Bertha Harris of Manchester. The elder Mr. Harris was among 28 people killed the following year in one of Pittsburgh’s worst disasters, the massive Equitable Gas tank explosion on the North Side.

Young Joe and another brother, Robert, were raised by his mother and their stepfather, Lee Randall, after she remarried. Robert died in 1977.

Joe Harris took lessons at an early age from Pittsburgher Bill Hammond, an acclaimed master of traditional rudimental drumming. That formal training, added to later experience with a variety of Latin and other rhythms, stood Mr. Harris well, Mr. Heath said, enabling him to sit in with a band or orchestra and quickly sight-read almost any style of music.

By his mid-teens, Mr. Harris was playing in big-band ensembles and touring the country.

A former Pittsburgh band mate, bassist Ray Brown, joined Mr. Gillespie’s pioneering bebop band and arranged for Mr. Harris to audition for an opening at the drums. Mr. Harris’ work is immortalized on many of Mr. Gillespie’s recordings from that era.

That includes a 1947 concert at New York City’s Carnegie Hall that has entered jazz lore, featuring an especially intense set with Mr. Parker and Mr. Gillespie.

But not long after that show, Mr. Gillespie fired Mr. Harris when the drummer demanded in front of the whole band that Mr. Gillespie pay overtime for a rehearsal, according to a 1995 profile in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The two later reconciled. In 1986, Mr. Gillespie performed in Pittsburgh and invited Mr. Harris up to jam.

Mr. Harris’ services remained in high demand.

“I knew a lot of different rhythms,” he recalled. “I knew the difference between a mambo and a rumba. Whereas most jazz drummers, they had one beat that they played for all the Latin tunes.”

Vintage videos of Mr. Harris’ performances show a man at once confident, graceful and understated at the drum set.

In 1956, during a tour of Sweden, he met Marianne, the Swedish woman who would become his wife and give birth to their daughter. He lived and worked there five years.

And like many other African-American jazz expatriates, he welcomed the contrast from the racial prejudices of the United States.

“There was no racism at all,” he recalled of Sweden. “It was heaven on earth.”

But one of his great regrets, he later said, was the failure of his marriage. He left Sweden but continued to visit his daughter.

“My father was loved by the Swedish jazz community, both when he lived here and later when he visited us,” said his daughter, Malou Harris Meilink, who is herself a musician as are her daughter, Linnea, and son, Vidar.

“Many younger players were inspired by and studied his playing,” she said by email.

“He spoke excellent Swedish and always insisted on communicating in Swedish.”

Mr. Harris later toured Europe with a band led by Quincy Jones and eventually joined a state-run band at Radio Free Berlin.

He traveled extensively, including a year in Japan on a study grant, learning folk music traditions of Asia and Africa.

He spent his last decades at his Manchester home, teaching jazz history and drums for years at the University of Pittsburgh.

Funeral arrangements were still in progress on Sunday.

Peter Smith: petersmith@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1416; Twitter @PG_PeterSmith.

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Obituary: Joe Harris / Jazz drummer played with bebop legends
————————————————————
By Peter Smith / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Joe Harris was still in his teens when he hit the road from his native Pittsburgh for a globe-trotting career as one of the most versatile jazz drummers of his time, one of the last survivors of the golden era of bebop.

Even in his last years after returning to Pittsburgh, when he tapered back his performing schedule, he continued to practice daily and mentor younger jazz musicians.

Mr. Harris died Wednesday at age 89 at Allegheny General Hospital. He had been in good health until recently but began having shortness of breath a week earlier followed by other complications, said his sister, Barbara Randall, who shared a Manchester duplex with him.

Mr. Harris’ comment to a reporter 20 years ago about his prolific life and career still seems apt: “There’s too much, brother. You can’t get me all in one lifetime.”

His story can’t be told without dropping names from a who’s who of jazz greats at every turn.

A onetime member of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s band, Mr. Harris also accompanied Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday and other greats.

“The top rung of musicians in the jazz world, Joe played right along with those people,” said Jimmy Heath, a saxophonist, band leader and composer who toured with Mr. Harris beginning in the 1940s and spoke to him by phone a few days before his unexpected final illness.

“He was just an interpreter of the music who was very good at doing that, giving you what you wanted and needed for support,” Mr. Heath, of New York City, said.

Mr. Harris was part “of the generation that created the music” of the mid-century flowering of modern jazz, added Nelson Harrison, founder of the Pittsburgh Jazz Network and a trombonist who often performed with Mr. Harris.

Mr. Harrison said that when the legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes performed at the New Hazlett Theater on the North Side two years ago, he called Mr. Harris to the front, embraced him and offered him his drumsticks, asking the Pittsburgher to play first.

In addition to many gigs across America, Mr. Harris also lived in Sweden, where he married and where his daughter still lives, and for periods in Germany and Japan before returning home.

Ms. Randall — who was 18 years her brother’s junior and sang in a band accompanied by Mr. Harris during an extended European trip that was his high school graduation present to her — said her brother was “very proud” and guarded his privacy but that his mind was sharp to the end. He lived frugally, rode his bike from his Manchester home as recently as last summer and played tennis into his mid-80s.

He taught himself to speak Swedish fluently and learned a fair amount of German and Japanese, his sister said.

Joseph Allison Harris was born Dec. 23, 1926, to Joseph and Bertha Harris of Manchester. The elder Mr. Harris was among 28 people killed the following year in one of Pittsburgh’s worst disasters, the massive Equitable Gas tank explosion on the North Side.

Young Joe and another brother, Robert, were raised by his mother and their stepfather, Lee Randall, after she remarried. Robert died in 1977.

Joe Harris took lessons at an early age from Pittsburgher Bill Hammond, an acclaimed master of traditional rudimental drumming. That formal training, added to later experience with a variety of Latin and other rhythms, stood Mr. Harris well, Mr. Heath said, enabling him to sit in with a band or orchestra and quickly sight-read almost any style of music.

By his mid-teens, Mr. Harris was playing in big-band ensembles and touring the country.

A former Pittsburgh band mate, bassist Ray Brown, joined Mr. Gillespie’s pioneering bebop band and arranged for Mr. Harris to audition for an opening at the drums. Mr. Harris’ work is immortalized on many of Mr. Gillespie’s recordings from that era.

That includes a 1947 concert at New York City’s Carnegie Hall that has entered jazz lore, featuring an especially intense set with Mr. Parker and Mr. Gillespie.

But not long after that show, Mr. Gillespie fired Mr. Harris when the drummer demanded in front of the whole band that Mr. Gillespie pay overtime for a rehearsal, according to a 1995 profile in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The two later reconciled. In 1986, Mr. Gillespie performed in Pittsburgh and invited Mr. Harris up to jam.

Mr. Harris’ services remained in high demand.

“I knew a lot of different rhythms,” he recalled. “I knew the difference between a mambo and a rumba. Whereas most jazz drummers, they had one beat that they played for all the Latin tunes.”

Vintage videos of Mr. Harris’ performances show a man at once confident, graceful and understated at the drum set.

In 1956, during a tour of Sweden, he met Marianne, the Swedish woman who would become his wife and give birth to their daughter. He lived and worked there five years.

And like many other African-American jazz expatriates, he welcomed the contrast from the racial prejudices of the United States.

“There was no racism at all,” he recalled of Sweden. “It was heaven on earth.”

But one of his great regrets, he later said, was the failure of his marriage. He left Sweden but continued to visit his daughter.

“My father was loved by the Swedish jazz community, both when he lived here and later when he visited us,” said his daughter, Malou Harris Meilink, who is herself a musician as are her daughter, Linnea, and son, Vidar.

“Many younger players were inspired by and studied his playing,” she said by email.

“He spoke excellent Swedish and always insisted on communicating in Swedish.”

Mr. Harris later toured Europe with a band led by Quincy Jones and eventually joined a state-run band at Radio Free Berlin.

He traveled extensively, including a year in Japan on a study grant, learning folk music traditions of Asia and Africa.

He spent his last decades at his Manchester home, teaching jazz history and drums for years at the University of Pittsburgh.

Funeral arrangements were still in progress on Sunday.

Peter Smith: petersmith@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1416; Twitter @PG_PeterSmith.

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Obituary: Joe Harris / Jazz drummer played with bebop legends | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Obituary: Joe Harris / Jazz drummer played with bebop legends
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By Peter Smith / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Joe Harris was still in his teens when he hit the road from his native Pittsburgh for a globe-trotting career as one of the most versatile jazz drummers of his time, one of the last survivors of the golden era of bebop.

Even in his last years after returning to Pittsburgh, when he tapered back his performing schedule, he continued to practice daily and mentor younger jazz musicians.

Mr. Harris died Wednesday at age 89 at Allegheny General Hospital. He had been in good health until recently but began having shortness of breath a week earlier followed by other complications, said his sister, Barbara Randall, who shared a Manchester duplex with him.

Mr. Harris’ comment to a reporter 20 years ago about his prolific life and career still seems apt: “There’s too much, brother. You can’t get me all in one lifetime.”

His story can’t be told without dropping names from a who’s who of jazz greats at every turn.

A onetime member of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s band, Mr. Harris also accompanied Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday and other greats.

“The top rung of musicians in the jazz world, Joe played right along with those people,” said Jimmy Heath, a saxophonist, band leader and composer who toured with Mr. Harris beginning in the 1940s and spoke to him by phone a few days before his unexpected final illness.

“He was just an interpreter of the music who was very good at doing that, giving you what you wanted and needed for support,” Mr. Heath, of New York City, said.

Mr. Harris was part “of the generation that created the music” of the mid-century flowering of modern jazz, added Nelson Harrison, founder of the Pittsburgh Jazz Network and a trombonist who often performed with Mr. Harris.

Mr. Harrison said that when the legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes performed at the New Hazlett Theater on the North Side two years ago, he called Mr. Harris to the front, embraced him and offered him his drumsticks, asking the Pittsburgher to play first.

In addition to many gigs across America, Mr. Harris also lived in Sweden, where he married and where his daughter still lives, and for periods in Germany and Japan before returning home.

Ms. Randall — who was 18 years her brother’s junior and sang in a band accompanied by Mr. Harris during an extended European trip that was his high school graduation present to her — said her brother was “very proud” and guarded his privacy but that his mind was sharp to the end. He lived frugally, rode his bike from his Manchester home as recently as last summer and played tennis into his mid-80s.

He taught himself to speak Swedish fluently and learned a fair amount of German and Japanese, his sister said.

Joseph Allison Harris was born Dec. 23, 1926, to Joseph and Bertha Harris of Manchester. The elder Mr. Harris was among 28 people killed the following year in one of Pittsburgh’s worst disasters, the massive Equitable Gas tank explosion on the North Side.

Young Joe and another brother, Robert, were raised by his mother and their stepfather, Lee Randall, after she remarried. Robert died in 1977.

Joe Harris took lessons at an early age from Pittsburgher Bill Hammond, an acclaimed master of traditional rudimental drumming. That formal training, added to later experience with a variety of Latin and other rhythms, stood Mr. Harris well, Mr. Heath said, enabling him to sit in with a band or orchestra and quickly sight-read almost any style of music.

By his mid-teens, Mr. Harris was playing in big-band ensembles and touring the country.

A former Pittsburgh band mate, bassist Ray Brown, joined Mr. Gillespie’s pioneering bebop band and arranged for Mr. Harris to audition for an opening at the drums. Mr. Harris’ work is immortalized on many of Mr. Gillespie’s recordings from that era.

That includes a 1947 concert at New York City’s Carnegie Hall that has entered jazz lore, featuring an especially intense set with Mr. Parker and Mr. Gillespie.

But not long after that show, Mr. Gillespie fired Mr. Harris when the drummer demanded in front of the whole band that Mr. Gillespie pay overtime for a rehearsal, according to a 1995 profile in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The two later reconciled. In 1986, Mr. Gillespie performed in Pittsburgh and invited Mr. Harris up to jam.

Mr. Harris’ services remained in high demand.

“I knew a lot of different rhythms,” he recalled. “I knew the difference between a mambo and a rumba. Whereas most jazz drummers, they had one beat that they played for all the Latin tunes.”

Vintage videos of Mr. Harris’ performances show a man at once confident, graceful and understated at the drum set.

In 1956, during a tour of Sweden, he met Marianne, the Swedish woman who would become his wife and give birth to their daughter. He lived and worked there five years.

And like many other African-American jazz expatriates, he welcomed the contrast from the racial prejudices of the United States.

“There was no racism at all,” he recalled of Sweden. “It was heaven on earth.”

But one of his great regrets, he later said, was the failure of his marriage. He left Sweden but continued to visit his daughter.

“My father was loved by the Swedish jazz community, both when he lived here and later when he visited us,” said his daughter, Malou Harris Meilink, who is herself a musician as are her daughter, Linnea, and son, Vidar.

“Many younger players were inspired by and studied his playing,” she said by email.

“He spoke excellent Swedish and always insisted on communicating in Swedish.”

Mr. Harris later toured Europe with a band led by Quincy Jones and eventually joined a state-run band at Radio Free Berlin.

He traveled extensively, including a year in Japan on a study grant, learning folk music traditions of Asia and Africa.

He spent his last decades at his Manchester home, teaching jazz history and drums for years at the University of Pittsburgh.

Funeral arrangements were still in progress on Sunday.

Peter Smith: petersmith@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1416; Twitter @PG_PeterSmith.

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A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter – The New York Times

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** A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter
————————————————————
By ROSIE SCHAAP (http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=Schaap%2C+Rosie&more=date_all) FEB. 1, 2016

Sidney Bechet playing at a party of the German banker Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild in 1931.Felix H. Man/ullstein bild via Getty Images

In my latest Drink column (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/drinking-with-archibald-motley.html) , I discuss how prominently and evocatively the culture of drink features in the paintings of the Harlem Renaissance artist Archibald Motley. Drinking might get some serious thematic competition from music, except that the two so frequently go together in Motley’s paintings, as in life.

I found myself listening to Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) a lot while I worked on the column, specifically the 2000 release “The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings,” produced and engineered by Phil Schaap (http://www.philschaapjazz.com/) .

The last name might look familiar — even familial. Two or three times a year, when I’m introduced to someone I’ve never met, that person hears my last name and asks, “Are you related to Phil Schaap?” Few questions delight me more. “Yes I am,” I get to answer, nearly bursting with pride. “He’s my first cousin, once removed.”

Phil is the host of WKCR’s “Bird Flight,” a five-mornings-a-week consideration of the music of Charlie Parker (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/charlie_parker/index.html?inline=nyt-per) , and the curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. He’s known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the music form and his exacting attention to details. “There is no exaggerating the relentlessness of Schaap’s approach,” David Remnick wrote in a 2008 New Yorker profile (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/19/bird-watcher) . I don’t think it’s an exaggeration, either, to say that cousin Phil probably knows more about jazz than anybody in the world.

So when I decided my latest column should have a playlist composed of jazz tunes that Archibald Motley himself might have listened to, I asked my cousin to help me out. I told Phil that Motley was born in New Orleans, raised in Chicago and lived briefly in Paris. I said that the paintings that interested me most were from the years 1926 to 1945. And I couldn’t help mentioning that, yes, there’s a lot of drinking going on. With only these pieces of information, Phil devised this six-song playlist, with notes:

“Stock Yards Strut” (1926), Freddie Keppard and His Jazz Cardinals.
“Stock Yards Strut” (1926), Freddie Keppard and His Jazz Cardinals Video via Youtube

“Done in Chicago by New Orleanian Freddie Keppard in his only leader date. Keppard was the hot-jazz trumpeter in the Creole Band, which brought jazz to the full U.S.A. when featured in vaudeville 1914 to 1917,” Phil says, adding: “Keppard drank a lot!”

“Louisianna” (1928), Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang.
“Louisianna” (1928), Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang Video via Youtube

Of this, Phil remarks succinctly: “Bix drank a lot!” (I’d add that anyone who knows the sad, short story of the genius cornetist’s life and death might say that’s an understatement.)

“Fifteen Cents” (1933), Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon.
“Fifteen Cents” (1933), Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon Video via Youtube

Another piece “done in Chicago,” Phil notes that “it’s about getting some prohibition booze.”

“Honeysuckle Rose” (1937), Coleman Hawkins All-Star Jam Band.
“Honeysuckle Rose” (1937), Coleman Hawkins All-Star Jam Band. Video via Youtube

This piece was recorded in Paris. Phil notes that it was the first title on the first session for Swing Records — the first all-jazz record company, and “it was a breakthrough in showcasing the reed section. It is a most masterful arrangement by Benny Carter.”

“Goin’ to Chicago” (1941), Count Basie Orchestra.
“Goin’ to Chicago” (1941), Count Basie Orchestra. Video via Youtube

This song, Phil says, “would become a signature piece for Joe Williams singing with the Count Basie Band — ‘New Testament edition’ — during the 1950s and 1960s. But this April 10, 1941, recording was the hit single, done by the original Count Basie Orchestra and featuring the singing of ‘Mr. Five by Five,’ Jimmy Rushing. This one was actually recorded in Chicago!”

“Perdido Street Blues” (1940), Louis Armstrong With Sidney Bechet.
“Perdido Street Blues” (1940), Louis Armstrong With Sidney Bechet. Video via Youtube

Armstrong, of course, had to make an appearance on the list. The title, Phil notes, makes reference to “a once-famous block in the Crescent City,” the city where Armstrong, Bechet — and Motley — were born.

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A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter – The New York Times

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** A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter
————————————————————
By ROSIE SCHAAP (http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=Schaap%2C+Rosie&more=date_all) FEB. 1, 2016

Sidney Bechet playing at a party of the German banker Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild in 1931.Felix H. Man/ullstein bild via Getty Images

In my latest Drink column (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/drinking-with-archibald-motley.html) , I discuss how prominently and evocatively the culture of drink features in the paintings of the Harlem Renaissance artist Archibald Motley. Drinking might get some serious thematic competition from music, except that the two so frequently go together in Motley’s paintings, as in life.

I found myself listening to Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) a lot while I worked on the column, specifically the 2000 release “The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings,” produced and engineered by Phil Schaap (http://www.philschaapjazz.com/) .

The last name might look familiar — even familial. Two or three times a year, when I’m introduced to someone I’ve never met, that person hears my last name and asks, “Are you related to Phil Schaap?” Few questions delight me more. “Yes I am,” I get to answer, nearly bursting with pride. “He’s my first cousin, once removed.”

Phil is the host of WKCR’s “Bird Flight,” a five-mornings-a-week consideration of the music of Charlie Parker (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/charlie_parker/index.html?inline=nyt-per) , and the curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. He’s known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the music form and his exacting attention to details. “There is no exaggerating the relentlessness of Schaap’s approach,” David Remnick wrote in a 2008 New Yorker profile (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/19/bird-watcher) . I don’t think it’s an exaggeration, either, to say that cousin Phil probably knows more about jazz than anybody in the world.

So when I decided my latest column should have a playlist composed of jazz tunes that Archibald Motley himself might have listened to, I asked my cousin to help me out. I told Phil that Motley was born in New Orleans, raised in Chicago and lived briefly in Paris. I said that the paintings that interested me most were from the years 1926 to 1945. And I couldn’t help mentioning that, yes, there’s a lot of drinking going on. With only these pieces of information, Phil devised this six-song playlist, with notes:

“Stock Yards Strut” (1926), Freddie Keppard and His Jazz Cardinals.
“Stock Yards Strut” (1926), Freddie Keppard and His Jazz Cardinals Video via Youtube

“Done in Chicago by New Orleanian Freddie Keppard in his only leader date. Keppard was the hot-jazz trumpeter in the Creole Band, which brought jazz to the full U.S.A. when featured in vaudeville 1914 to 1917,” Phil says, adding: “Keppard drank a lot!”

“Louisianna” (1928), Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang.
“Louisianna” (1928), Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang Video via Youtube

Of this, Phil remarks succinctly: “Bix drank a lot!” (I’d add that anyone who knows the sad, short story of the genius cornetist’s life and death might say that’s an understatement.)

“Fifteen Cents” (1933), Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon.
“Fifteen Cents” (1933), Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon Video via Youtube

Another piece “done in Chicago,” Phil notes that “it’s about getting some prohibition booze.”

“Honeysuckle Rose” (1937), Coleman Hawkins All-Star Jam Band.
“Honeysuckle Rose” (1937), Coleman Hawkins All-Star Jam Band. Video via Youtube

This piece was recorded in Paris. Phil notes that it was the first title on the first session for Swing Records — the first all-jazz record company, and “it was a breakthrough in showcasing the reed section. It is a most masterful arrangement by Benny Carter.”

“Goin’ to Chicago” (1941), Count Basie Orchestra.
“Goin’ to Chicago” (1941), Count Basie Orchestra. Video via Youtube

This song, Phil says, “would become a signature piece for Joe Williams singing with the Count Basie Band — ‘New Testament edition’ — during the 1950s and 1960s. But this April 10, 1941, recording was the hit single, done by the original Count Basie Orchestra and featuring the singing of ‘Mr. Five by Five,’ Jimmy Rushing. This one was actually recorded in Chicago!”

“Perdido Street Blues” (1940), Louis Armstrong With Sidney Bechet.
“Perdido Street Blues” (1940), Louis Armstrong With Sidney Bechet. Video via Youtube

Armstrong, of course, had to make an appearance on the list. The title, Phil notes, makes reference to “a once-famous block in the Crescent City,” the city where Armstrong, Bechet — and Motley — were born.

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A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter – The New York Times

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/magazine/a-playlist-fit-for-a-harlem-renaissance-painter.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160201

** A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter
————————————————————
By ROSIE SCHAAP (http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=Schaap%2C+Rosie&more=date_all) FEB. 1, 2016

Sidney Bechet playing at a party of the German banker Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild in 1931.Felix H. Man/ullstein bild via Getty Images

In my latest Drink column (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/drinking-with-archibald-motley.html) , I discuss how prominently and evocatively the culture of drink features in the paintings of the Harlem Renaissance artist Archibald Motley. Drinking might get some serious thematic competition from music, except that the two so frequently go together in Motley’s paintings, as in life.

I found myself listening to Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) a lot while I worked on the column, specifically the 2000 release “The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings,” produced and engineered by Phil Schaap (http://www.philschaapjazz.com/) .

The last name might look familiar — even familial. Two or three times a year, when I’m introduced to someone I’ve never met, that person hears my last name and asks, “Are you related to Phil Schaap?” Few questions delight me more. “Yes I am,” I get to answer, nearly bursting with pride. “He’s my first cousin, once removed.”

Phil is the host of WKCR’s “Bird Flight,” a five-mornings-a-week consideration of the music of Charlie Parker (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/charlie_parker/index.html?inline=nyt-per) , and the curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. He’s known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the music form and his exacting attention to details. “There is no exaggerating the relentlessness of Schaap’s approach,” David Remnick wrote in a 2008 New Yorker profile (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/19/bird-watcher) . I don’t think it’s an exaggeration, either, to say that cousin Phil probably knows more about jazz than anybody in the world.

So when I decided my latest column should have a playlist composed of jazz tunes that Archibald Motley himself might have listened to, I asked my cousin to help me out. I told Phil that Motley was born in New Orleans, raised in Chicago and lived briefly in Paris. I said that the paintings that interested me most were from the years 1926 to 1945. And I couldn’t help mentioning that, yes, there’s a lot of drinking going on. With only these pieces of information, Phil devised this six-song playlist, with notes:

“Stock Yards Strut” (1926), Freddie Keppard and His Jazz Cardinals.
“Stock Yards Strut” (1926), Freddie Keppard and His Jazz Cardinals Video via Youtube

“Done in Chicago by New Orleanian Freddie Keppard in his only leader date. Keppard was the hot-jazz trumpeter in the Creole Band, which brought jazz to the full U.S.A. when featured in vaudeville 1914 to 1917,” Phil says, adding: “Keppard drank a lot!”

“Louisianna” (1928), Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang.
“Louisianna” (1928), Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang Video via Youtube

Of this, Phil remarks succinctly: “Bix drank a lot!” (I’d add that anyone who knows the sad, short story of the genius cornetist’s life and death might say that’s an understatement.)

“Fifteen Cents” (1933), Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon.
“Fifteen Cents” (1933), Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon Video via Youtube

Another piece “done in Chicago,” Phil notes that “it’s about getting some prohibition booze.”

“Honeysuckle Rose” (1937), Coleman Hawkins All-Star Jam Band.
“Honeysuckle Rose” (1937), Coleman Hawkins All-Star Jam Band. Video via Youtube

This piece was recorded in Paris. Phil notes that it was the first title on the first session for Swing Records — the first all-jazz record company, and “it was a breakthrough in showcasing the reed section. It is a most masterful arrangement by Benny Carter.”

“Goin’ to Chicago” (1941), Count Basie Orchestra.
“Goin’ to Chicago” (1941), Count Basie Orchestra. Video via Youtube

This song, Phil says, “would become a signature piece for Joe Williams singing with the Count Basie Band — ‘New Testament edition’ — during the 1950s and 1960s. But this April 10, 1941, recording was the hit single, done by the original Count Basie Orchestra and featuring the singing of ‘Mr. Five by Five,’ Jimmy Rushing. This one was actually recorded in Chicago!”

“Perdido Street Blues” (1940), Louis Armstrong With Sidney Bechet.
“Perdido Street Blues” (1940), Louis Armstrong With Sidney Bechet. Video via Youtube

Armstrong, of course, had to make an appearance on the list. The title, Phil notes, makes reference to “a once-famous block in the Crescent City,” the city where Armstrong, Bechet — and Motley — were born.

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