May 2011 Volume 36, Number 05

The Daves – Holo & Loomis WHEN: Sunday, May 15, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. Join Oregon’s “Black Swan” WHERE: Ballard Elks Lodge, 6411 Seaview Ave. NW for our May 15th Concert ADMISSION: $10, PSTJS members - $13, Non-member guests (pay only at door) By Rod Belcher Beautiful view, excellent dance floor, lots of free parking. Oregon-based “Black Swan Classic Band” has many fans Coffee, other beverages and snacks available who rate it as the best Trad unit ever developed in our neighboring state. Under the leadership of Kit Johnson, the virtuoso from Free Parking. Great view, excellent dance floor. Willamette Valley, the group has always had high standards of Snacks, coffee, other beverages available musicianship and an extensive “book” of both familiar and not-so- familiar tunes.

Black Swan also has something special going for it -- the inclusion of two excellent brass players from the Puget Sound region as well as a top-flight feminine vocalist.

Those horn men are cornetist Dave Holo, who leads two different groups each week at Pioneer Square’s “New Orleans Cafe,” and Dave Loomis, whose (and occasional vocal) work has graced several first-rate jazz bands based in Seattle for many years.

As for the vocalist, she’s Marilyn Keller, who merits a closely attentive ear every time she cozies up to the microphone. She sings a wide spectrum of songs, from early 20th Century , through gospel numbers, and standards from the pens of America’s Broadway and Tin Pan Alley composers.

Her perfect-pitch ear and voice control grace her every delivery, with great backing by Black Swan.

Other sidemen in the band are Oregonians Steve Matthes, ; John Bennett, ; Ron Leach, drums and John McKinley, banjo.

“Black Swan Classic Jazz Band” has built a solid West Coast following through appearances at festivals, on cruises, at civic and corporate events, and on recordings. A recent well-received gig was at the annual Seaside, OR, jazz festival. “Well received” should be the case, too, at our May 15 concert. Jazz Soundings May 2011 Page 2 Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society Gigs for Local Bands 19031 Ocean Avenue Edmonds, WA 98020-2344 BELLINGHAM TRADITIONAL JAZZ SOCIETY 425-776-5072 www.pstjs.org 1st Saturdays, 2 - 5 pm (except Jul and Aug) VFW Hall 625 N. State St. EVENTS March 5 - Combo Deluxe April 9 - Jerry Jones Quartet Elks Lodge, Ballard, 6411 Seaview Ave N.W., Seattle CASEY MacGILL’s BLUE 4 TRIO UPCOMING EVENTS Sundays, 5:30 - 8:30 Tutta Bella Pizzeria 4411 Stoneway N 206-633-3800 May 15 Black Swan Jazz Band Wednesdays, 8-11. Pink Door Restaurant & Lounge 1919 Post Alley June 19 Ain’t No Heaven Seven (Pike Market) 206-443-3241 Sept 18 Bob Schulz’s Frisco Jazz Band CORNUCOPIA CONCERT BAND October 16 Sidewalk Stompers Friday, May 20, 5:30-7 pm at Union Station, 401 S. Jackson St., Seattle. November 20 Evergreen Classic Jazz Band Union Station Centennial observance. December 18 Ray Skjelbred’s First Thursday Band

LEADERSHIP FIRST THURSDAY BAND PRESIDENT: Judy Levy [email protected] 1st Thurs of each month, 7 - 10 p.m., New Orleans Restaurant, 114 1st Ave S., 425-890-6605 Seattle, WA VICE PRESIDENT: George Swinford [email protected] 425-869-2780 GLENN CRYTZER’s SYNCOPATORS SECRETARY: Cilla Trush [email protected] 1st Sunday of the Month 9:30-12:30 Century Ballroom 915 East Pine 206-363-9174 (2nd Floor) 206-324-7263 TREASURER: Gloria Kristovich [email protected] Third Wednesday of the Month (same as above) 425-776-7816 GRAND DOMINION BOARD OF DIRECTORS April 28 - May 1 Chattanooga Traditional Jazz Festival - Holiday Inn Dave Brown: [email protected] 253-752-6525 Joanne Hargrave [email protected] 206-550-4664 holotradband Leroy Johnson: [email protected] 206-772-4378 Tuesdays, 7 - 10 p.m., New Orleans Restaurant, 114 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA Jan Lemmon [email protected] 425-776-9763 Edmund Lewin: 360-297-6633 NEW ORLEANS JAZZ QUINTET Ian McKenna: [email protected] 425-771-5479 Mondays 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. New Orleans Restaurant, 114 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA George Oelrich: [email protected] 360-793-0836 Carol Rippey: [email protected] 425-776-5072 PEARL DJANGO May 8, 1 - 5 pm, Aberdeen Elks, Aberdeen, WA 425-644-1111 MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR May 15, 9 pm Belltown Billards, 90 Blanchard St., Seattle, WA May 26, 7:30 pm Paschal Winery, 11122 Suncrest Road. Talent, OR 541- Carol Rippey: [email protected] 425-776-5072 488-3869 - or email: [email protected] (near Ashland) May 27, Evening pm, Plaza Bistro, Sonoma,, CA EDITOR May 28-30, Sacramento Jazz Festival, Sacramento, CA Anita LaFranchi: [email protected] 206-522-7691 June 7-8, 7:30 pm, Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixty Ave., Seattle, WA 206-441-9729

JAZZ SOUNDINGS UPTOWN LOWDOWN JB Published monthly except July and August by the Puget Sound Tradi- April 28 - May 1 Chattanooga Traditional Jazz Festival - Holiday Inn tional Jazz Society. Anita LaFranchi, editor, [email protected] Ads must be submitted in a jpeg or PDF format Payment in advance to: Gloria Kristovich, P.O. Box 373, Edmonds, WA 98020-0373 Advertising Rates: On Your Dial...... Full page $100. 7 1/2” wide by 9 1/2 “ tall Saturday Half Page $60. 7 1/2” wide by 4 1/4 “ tall 7 - 12 p.m. Swing Years and beyond KUOW 94.9 FM Quarter Page $40. 3 5/8 Wide by 4 1/4 “ tall Sunday Deadline is the 10th of the month for the next months issue 3 -6 p.m. Art of Jazz, Ken Wiley, KPLU 88.5 FM Jazz Soundings May 2011 Page 3

THE VARIOUS STYLES OF “OKOM”: by: Doug Parker PSTJS member

Continued from the April issue:

SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO STYLE: This was a loose, “skiffle” SUBSCRIBE TODAY style of music, played almost exclusively by black jazzmen, of whom the most prominent figure was the aforementioned clarinetist News You Can Use About Traditional Jazz and Ragtime . The groups would sometimes consist of only U.S. One Year: $26 -:- Canadian $39 U.S. Funds* three, four, or five instruments, usually clarinet, trumpet, piano, U.S. Two Years: $48 -:- Canadian $74 U.S. Funds* and washboard. Key figures besides Dodds included his drummer (*) Includes Airmail Delivery brother Warren, nicknamed “Baby”, who also played washboard, Make check payable to: The American Rag trumpeter Natty Dominique, pianist Jimmy Blythe, and washboard- 20137 Skyline Ranch Dr., Apple Valley, CA 92308-5035 player Jimmy Bertrand. Phone/Fax: 760-247-5145 Name ______KANSAS CITY JAZZ: The riverboats on the , Address ______carrying New Orleans jazz bands, such as that of pianist Fate Marable (including a young cornetist named ; this City ______State ______was prior to his joining King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band) to Chicago, Phone ______Zip + 4 ______frequently stopped in Kansas City, Missouri, and in the process, influenced the local players in that city. The earliest Kansas City Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society band had a sound not unlike the bands of Marable or Oliver, but used more instruments. For instance, the Moten band which recorded in 1926 and ‘27 consisted of two , trombone, three saxophones, restricting. They discovered, and listened to, the records made in banjo, tuba, drums, and the leader’s piano, but as time went on, the 20s by such bands as Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, added more instruments. Several of Moten’s sidemen later became Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven, and particularly King members of the Orchestra, which was prominent during Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. This inspired these guys to invent a new the swing era. And Basie’s rock-solid bass player, Walter Page, led style, based upon, but not imitating, what they had heard on these a band contemporary to that of Moten, called the “Blue Devils.” records. The prime “movers and shakers” in what became known as the Great Jazz Revival, were trumpeters Lu Watters and Bob Scobey, HOT DANCE BANDS: This term refers to the bands of the 20s, in trombonist Turk Murphy, clarinetist Bob Helm, pianists Paul Lingle which the arrangements used were not strictly stock, but contained and Wally Rose, and banjoist-singer Clancy Hayes. A distinguishing blank “ad lib” passages, allowing soloists to take off on improvised characteristic of the new San Francisco Style was the use of ragtime solos. Two examples of hot dance bands of this period would syncopation and of ragtime compositions; in fact, although admittedly be the band of Ben Pollack, which featured future greats such as it may be a bit of an oversimplification, this school of jazz could be and Jack Teagarden, and that of Jean Goldkette, described as orchestral ragtime. Also, this new-yet-old style brought with their brilliant cornetist , as well as driving the banjo and tuba back into the rhythm sections of jazz bands, bassist Steve Brown. The instrumentation was basically the same after years of non-use. Lu Watters’ Yerba Buena Jazz Band, when it as that of the Bennie Moten band mentioned in the preceding recorded in 1941 and 1942, used an instrumental combination of two paragraph, but there were some differences: Goldkette had three trumpets, trombone, clarinet, piano, drums, tuba, and two banjos. cornets or trumpets after Bix joined his band in 1926, as well as The standard instrumentation for most bands that followed has been two , and was one of the first to use a string bass rather similar, although generally only seven pieces are used, with the than a tuba; Pollack had a string section (two violins and a cello) second banjo usually omitted, and the second trumpet or not in 1928 and ‘29; and the “California Ramblers” substituted a bass being a common part of the front line either. Murphy had, for most saxophone for the tuba, played expertly by Adrian Rollini. In recent of his long career as a bandleader after leaving the Watters band, years (mainly due to economics) there have been very few hot a six-man unit, consisting of his trombone, plus clarinet, cornet or dance bands of 10 or more pieces, but two fine examples would trumpet, piano, tuba and banjo, as he felt the drums added nothing be the Bay Area-based Royal Society Jazz Orchestra and Vince to the sound he wanted. The Yerba Buena band blazed the trail Giordano’s Nighthawks, from New York. Incidentally, Giordano followed by not only Turk’s band, but also the Castle Jazz Band, the plays all three bass instruments: string bass, tuba, and bass sax! Firehouse Five Plus Two, and the South Frisco Jazz Band, to give but three examples. Among the very good bands playing in this SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ: sometimes referred to as WEST style today are the High Sierra Jazz Band, the Bob Schulz Frisco COAST JAZZ: In the middle to late ‘30s in the Bay Area, some Jazz Band, Titanic Jazz Band, Black Swan Jazz Band, Hume Street of the young musicians who were then playing in swing bands Jazz Band, and the Uptown Lowdown. We in the Northwest are grew tired of having to play the kind of music, which they felt was fortunate that the last three bands mentioned are based in our area! Jazz Soundings May 2011 Page 4

21st annual Jazz Festival 23-26, June, 2011 Saint Martin’s University (Marcus Pavilion Headquarters) 5300 Pacific Ave. SE, Lacey, WA Jazz Festival www.olyjazz.com Great Jazz Bands Black SwanclaSSic JB/Marilyn keller • BoB Schulz GranD DoMinion • hiGh Sierra • iVory & GolD Jerry krahn quartet Set • ray SkJelBreD/hiS cuBS St. louiS riVerMen • titan hot SeVen toM hook/Black DoGS • toM riGney FlaMeau Great uptown lowDown • weSt enD

Special FeatureS Four venues, one site Parasol parades two dancing, two listening After Glow Parties Large dance floors Special Events • Swing Set Nearby hotels • Shuttle service On-site RV parking

Qty. RV parking w/hookup: ____ Early Bird All Event before May 31, 2011...... $75 ____ All Event after May 31, 2011 ...... $80 ______days @ $25/day ____ Pre-festival Thursday ...... $10 RV dry park parking: ____ Friday only ...... $35 ______days @$20/day ____ Friday nite after 7pm ...... $20 Length of RV: ____ Saturday only ...... $45 ______ft. ____ Saturday nite after 7pm ...... $25 no. of slideouts______Sunday only ...... $20 Permit issued at check in ____ Student - 14-22 w/ID, All Event ...... $15 ____ Patron of Jazz (Includes All Event Badge) ...... $125 TOTAL $______

INFORMATION: Charlotte Dickison - 360-943-9123 • Email: [email protected] RV PARkIng: Pat Herndon - 360-956-7132 • Email: [email protected] Visit our website at: www.olyjazz.com name ______Address ______City ______State______Zip______Phone ______Email______Credit Card #______-______-______-______Exp.______/___*__ Signature ______Postmark will determine price. Voucher will be mailed. Badges required at all festival sites. NO REFuNdS AFtER JuNE 15, 2011. PLEASE mAkE chEckS PAyAbLE tO GOdJS (We accept VISA/MasterCard/Discover credit cards) Mail to: greater Olympia Jazz Society • P.O. Box 924, Olympia, WA 98507 wE ARE AN EquAL OPPORtuNity ORGANizAtiON Jazz Soundings May 2011 Page 5

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Notes from the Prez A Little Vignette of Jazz

PSTJS members are the Best! Read on and you’ll know why. by: Jerry Fader, PSTJS member

We made it! We have reached our goad; Thanks to the members It was late winter in 1945 when my older brother, Bill, who generously contributed to the Bob Schulz gig in September. asked me, as a 15-year-old, if I would like to go to the local Many of you have already sent in your contributions; I’m hoping the Seven Cedars Dance Hall and see Louis Armstrong’s jazz rest of you will do the same so we can have it all wrapped up and band. For an ignorant kid at that time it sounded like a good in the bank before we take our summer break. They’ll be in town on idea, whoever this Louis Armstrong is. The Armstrong band Saturday September 17th to play at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant was on a national tour and this was a one-night stand in in Pioneer Square 4-7 pm, and then Sunday the 18th they’ll be back at Mount Vernon, WA. the Ballard Elks for our annual season opener. I hope all of you can be there. It’ll be a terrific weekend. You’ve done a great job of supporting We entered the hall where the band was already our Society in the financing of our September band, Bob Schulz and playing and Bill said, “Hey, look! No one is right in front his Frisco Jazz Band. of the bandstand and we can get right up there.” Well, One of our Society members, Leroy Johnson, has generously that seemed like a great idea so Bill and I made our way contributed two (2) all event ticket vouchers for the Lacey Festival across the dance floor to that spot just as another song in June. We’ll auction them off at our May Jazz Sunday so be sure to was about to be played. bring your checkbooks. The lineup for Lacey is great and all of you who attend will have a fabulous time. The proceeds will go into the Louis picked up his horn right in front of us and Youth Scholarship Fun played while Bill and I were “baptized” with jazz and I have heard from several of our Jazz Camp Students that they’ll a little saliva as we discovered why Louis was called be at camp this July. If there are any other aspiring musicians out there Satchmo. When he played he also managed to spray interested in furthering their musical experience and skills, please all around the vicinity, too. That was why no one stood let me know. PSTJS pays for each student’s tuition ($550) for the directly in front of him. week of camp, room and board, all they need to do is provide their own transportation to and from camp and enjoy of one of the most The music was great and I was hooked on jazz and wonderful musical weeks they will ever have. Applications need to be especially Satchmo’s extraordinary playing. What a great sent to me as soon as you can. Mail the app to Judy Levy 5226 236th evening—even being personally spit on by the great Louis Pl S.E. Issaquah, WA 98029. All the information about camp is on Armstrong. It probably should be noted that we did manage their website, www.campheebiejeebies.us. And remember, there is no to give the band a little space as well. age limit once the student is 12 years old. That’s it for this month; see you on the 15th for Black Swan. Cheers, Judy Puget Sound Non-profit Org Traditional Jazz Society U..S. Postage 19031 Ocean Ave. Paid Edmonds, WA 98020-2344 Seattle, WA Permit 1375 Address service requested

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BANDS, CONTACTS AIN’T NO HEAVEN SEVEN Leader: Terry Rogers HOT CLUB SANDWICH Contact: James Schneider [email protected] 206-465-6601 www.hotclubsandwich.com 206-561-1137 CASEY MacGILL’s BLUE 4 TRIO HUME STREET PRESERVATION JAZZ BAND Contact: Mike Daugherty [email protected] 206- Bookings: Karla West 406-862-3814 832-5372 www.blue4trio.com JAZZ UNLIMITED BAND Leader: Duane Wright COAL CREEK JAZZ BAND Leader: Arny Robbins [email protected] 866-337-2111 206-499-2719 [email protected] JAZZ STRINGS Bookings: Candace Brown COMBO DE LUXE Bookings: Candace Brown [email protected] 253-752-6525 www.combodeluxe.net [email protected] LOUISIANA JOYMAKERS! Leader: Leigh Smith 253-752-6525 [email protected] 604-294-9464 CORNUCOPIA CONCERT BAND Leader: Allan Rustad MIGHTY APHRODITE Co-leaders: Bria Skonberg, www.comband.org 425-744-4575 Claire McKenna DR. D AND THE DIXIE DOGS Leader: Ansgar Duemchen [email protected] 405-613-0568 [email protected] www.dr-d-dixiedogs.com NEW ORLEANS QUINTET Leader: Dave Holo 425-337-1740 www.neworleansquintet.com 253-875-6932 DUKES OF DABOB Bookings: Ernie Landes NO INHIBITIONS JAZZ BAND 360-437-9588 [email protected] 360-981-7412 www.noinhibitionsjazz.com DUWAMISH JAZZ BAND Bookings: Carol Johnston RAINIER JAZZ BAND Manager: Randy Keller [email protected] 206-932-7632 [email protected] 206-437-1568 FIRST THURSDAY BAND Leader: Ray Skjelbred, RAY SKJELBRED [email protected] 206-420-8535 [email protected] 206-420-8535 FOGGY BOTTOM JAZZ BAND Leader: Bruce Cosacchi RONNIE PIERCE JAZZ ENSEMBLE www.foggybottomjazz.com 360-638-2074 [email protected], 206-467-9365 GRAND DOMINION JAZZ BAND Bookings: Bob Pelland UPTOWN LOWDOWN JAZZ BAND Leader: Bert Barr [email protected] 360-387-2500 [email protected] 425-898-4288 holotradband Leader: Dave Holo WILD CARDS JAZZ Leader: Randy Keller www.holotradband.com 253-875-6932 [email protected] 206-437-1568