[members-announce] Phil Thomas, Charlie Cole, Future of Jazz, Edmond Hall, Gerry Mulligan, Chicago CDs, etc.

[Paul Baker]

OCTOBER ON THE JAZZ INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO WEBSITE

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News and views
by Charles Walton

Phillip Palmer Thomas
Julius Soloway
The Treniers
Fletcher Henderson

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Charlie Cole, joint owner of the DuSable Lounge
A Bronzeville conversation

"I was in the beer business, and one day I ran into Ben Cohen. Mr Cohen
owned several hotels. He had hotels in the Loop and he owned the Seneca
hotel on the Chicago North Side. Cohen asked me, as a beer salesman, to
find someone who would be able to operate a cocktail lounge for him."
-by Charles Walton

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The Future of Jazz

"Yuval Taylor, who did such a fine job at Da Capo Press with its program
of reissuing jazz books, has come up with one very neat idea: get an
interesting assortment of jazz critics and writers (some of whom are
musicians) and have them interact on a series of issues relating to
where this music may be going.... Reading it is like sitting in on one
of the great jazz bull-sessions of all time."
-reviewed by Don Rose

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Most Valued Player-Edmond Hall

"Before Coleman Hawkins more or less single-handedly created a role for
the tenor sax in jazz, the clarinet was the only reed instrument that
had a home in the music. Edmond Hall, along with Johnny Dodds and Sidney
Bechet, was one of its ablest exponents."
-by Nic Jones

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Classic Recordings: Gerry Mulligan

"Of the five arrangers who contributed to the 'Birth of the Cool'
sessions, Mulligan was the possibly the most original, certainly the
most prolific, responsible for six of the twelve numbers recorded for
Capitol.[i] It was an impressive vote of confidence by his peers,
including Miles Davis, Gil Evans, George Russell, John Lewis and Lee
Konitz; indeed Russell would later say, 'The most important innovator of
1950s was Gerry Mulligan.'"
-by Stuart Nicholson

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Chicago CD Reviews 
New releases by Famoudou Don Moye/Tatsu Aoki and Ryan Cohan.
-reviewed by Alain Drouot and Jeremy Kahn

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Fred Anderson

"Whose idea it was? Well, I remember, basically it was my idea to play
with Roscoe. We hadn't played together in a long time. I think we played
together in a jam session years ago. So we had played together. But it
was my idea. When he finally said he was coming [to the Velvet Lounge] I
suggested that we play together. I've been listening to Roscoe for a
long time. But it's not that. I just thought it would be a good bill. It
turned out nice. It was a good idea because he hadn't played at The
Velvet before, and I hadn't played with him."
-interview by Lazaro Vega

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How Jazz Works
A humorous look at the character types and group dynamics that make up a
jazz ensemble.
-contributed by Bill O'Connell

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Von Freeman only turns 80 once. Premonition Records is issuing a new CD
recorded live at the New Apartment Lounge, Symphony Center presented a
birthday concert on October 4, he played a set at the Chicago Jazz
Festival, and the city will re-name part of 75th Street "Von Freeman
Way." The Jazz Institute is featuring Freeman in a solo concert on
October 17th at the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave, Curtiss
Hall, 10th Floor at 7 p.m. Come help him blow out the candles on his
cake-as if Von needed any help in blowing. 

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Michael "Dodo" Marmorosa had been out of the jazz scene for a long time
but was one of the top pianists of the bebop era. He was living in a VA
Hospital in Pittsburgh when he died Tuesday, Sept. 24, of a heart
attack. He was 76. Read an archived article about his Chicago
connection.

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FROM RECENT ISSUES

Working at the DuSable Hotel: 
Bronzeville conversation with Eddie Flagg

"I started as a bellboy in about 1935 in the Ritz Hotel (Oakwood and
King Drive, then known as South Parkway). I made quite a name for myself
as a bellboy 'taking care' of the musicians."
-by Charles Walton

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Remembering Russ Freeman

"The host of the Riviera Hotel's Monday Night Jazz in Las Vegas called
me one day and said he'd met a guy named Russ Freeman. Given this host's
penchant for smooth jazz, I thought he meant the leader of the
Rippingtons. 'No,' he said. 'This guy is a piano player. Who is he?'"
-by Bill Moody

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Most Valued Player-Hampton Hawes

"Though the division between the east coast and west coast schools of
jazz in the 1950s was rather more than the product of geography, it was
simplistic. Put simply, consensus decreed that music emanating from New
York was the work of hard-driving soloists accompanied by rhythm
sections who knew only too well how to find and maintain a groove, while
music coming out of Los Angeles was a less heated, more genteel affair.
Born in November, 1928 and the son of a Los Angeles clergyman, pianist
Hampton Hawes was, according to that rule, born in the wrong place."
-by Nic Jones

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What Happened to Jazz?

"What's happened to jazz? Where's all the brass? What happened to jazz?
What happened to class? There was Dizzy and Miles, Flip Phillips, and
Bird. Stan Getz played phrasing like we'd never heard...."
-unknown author

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Looking for Chet Baker: An Evan Horne Mystery

"When we last left Evan Horne, the jazz world's own pianist-private eye,
he had brought to justice a serial killer who was knocking off lite-jazz
saxophonists in the vein of Kenny, Boney et al. The capture came in a
harrowing episode that might have added Horne's name to the growing
toll, but of course that couldn't happen because then there would be no
more books in the series. It did, however, leave Horne with some
emotional scars to go along with the damaged hand that almost ended his
musical career."
-reviewed by Don Rose

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Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans

"What's in a name? Gil Evans wasn't really his, though that's the one
recognized by musicians and fans around the globe. Ian Ernest Gilmore
Green was born to a British mother and perhaps-the full history is
murky-an Australian father in Toronto in 1912. He grew up mainly with
his nomadic, often-married, often liasoned mother, whose fifth husband
was named Evans-the one Gil adopted largely for professional purposes,
but didn't make legal for half a century. Gerry Mulligan turned it into
a perfect anagram: Svengali, lovingly reflecting the near hypnotic
effect this Canadian-born perfectionist had on those around him."
-reviewed by Don Rose

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Out of Nowhere: The Musical Life of Warne Marsh

" 'The world has gone mad today and good's bad today . . .' Aside from
the fact that Cole Porter wrote those words in 1934 as part of the
bridge of "Anything Goes" (and the words are truer than ever in 2002!),
this snip of lyric also can be connected to-I can still hardly believe
it-one of my major heroes, tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh. Surely the
world must have gone mad in order for two wonderful and excellent books
to have been published within a two year period about this elusive, hard
for some to understand, vastly underrated master jazz improvisor."
-reviewed by George Ziskind

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