“Best of South Jersey” The Strutter 2008 - 2011! VOLUME 23 NUMBER 11 Traditional Jazz in the Philadelphia Tri-State Area JUNE 2013 OUR NEXT CONCERT OUR SECOND JUNE Neville Dickie & Midiri Brothers CONCERT - JAM SESSION & ANNUAL MEETING Sunday, June 23, 2013 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Haddonfield Methodist Church 29 Warwick Road Haddonfield, NJ 08033 This year Bob Rawlins, clarinet, will lead our Sunday, June 9, 2013 annual jam session. The jam band will be anchored 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. by seasoned jazz professionals including Randy Community Arts Center Reinhardt on trumpet, Pat Mercuri on 414 Plush Mill Road banjo/guitar, and Brian Nalepka on tuba/bass. Bob Wallingford, PA 19086 will call song titles and invite other musicians to sit Directions on Page 7 in as the session progresses. World-class stride pianist and Tri-State Jazz This concert will also be the celebration of the 25th Society favorite Neville Dickie, from England, will anniversary of the Tri-State Jazz Society. join the multi-talented Midiri brothers for an The jam session is open to all jazz musicians. afternoon of traditional jazz, stride and swing Admission is free if you come to sit in with our core featuring Paul on vibes, drums and trombone, and band. A keyboard and a drum set will be available; Joe on clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, and - he says otherwise, bring your own instrument. - "possibly bass clarinet." Continued on Page 2 Neville Dickie, with a cameo appearance by jazz phenom Geoff Gallante, sold out the Community Concert Admissions Arts Center in 2011 and received standing ovations. $10 First-time attendees and members A dynamic performer, he's also an exceptional $20 General Admission leader with British charm and a quick dry wit. High school/college students with ID and Joe and Paul Midiri have made both jazz and children with paying adult admitted free classical music the focus of their lives since they Pay at the door graduated from Glassboro State College in the mid- 1980s. With Joe on clarinet and saxophone, and Paul on vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, drums In This Issue and trombone, they have recorded with everything Looking Ahead.................Page 2 from trios to big bands featuring the arrangements La Pompe Attack Review. .Page 3 of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and the Dorsey Membership Renewals.......Page 3 Brothers as well as Paul's original arrangements Article: Treat It Gentle......Page 4 and compositions. Future Concert Schedules.. Page 5 The Strutter is published by Tri-State Jazz Society, Inc. - P.O. Box 896 - Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 1 LOOKING AHEAD TO OUR JAM SESSION JULY 2013 CONCERT Continued from Page 1 The world renowned Boston-based New Black Eagles Jazz Band will give a late afternoon concert at the Haddonfield Methodist Church on July 7, Bob Rawlins 2013 from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. Please note the later than usual time for the concert. Jam Session Leader, Clarinet Although walk-ons will be permitted as time allows, we strongly encourage you to guarantee your place on the program by pre-registering via email at [email protected] or by leaving a message on our hotline: (856) 720-0232. In either case, be sure to include your name, email address if available, phone number and instrument(s). The New Black Eagles Jazz Band is "in many people's view, the premier traditional jazz band in We’ve chosen Bob Rawlins’ new traditional jazz fake the world." ~ Jazz Times. book, The Real Dixieland Book (Hal Leonard), as a primary source for both tunes and keys. If you’d The New Black Eagles have been together for 40 like to suggest any tunes from the book you’d years and play the traditional music of New particularly like to do, please leave word on our Orleans. According to trombonist Stan Vincent, "we hotline above and we will try to honor your present our interpretation of early black jazz as it requests. was played from, say, 1900-1938." Indeed, they take their name from the Black Eagle Social Club, which was a black organization in New Orleans at ANNUAL MEETING the turn of the century. The Annual Meeting of Tri-State Jazz Society will be Renowned for their seamless ensemble work, they held on June 23 at the Haddonfield Methodist have appeared just about everywhere great jazz is Church during the first intermission of the jam played, including the Newport Jazz Festival. The session. The meeting will last 20 minutes. The NBEJB has an uncommonly large repertoire and agenda will include brief financial and membership will feature material by Armstrong, Oliver, Bechet, reports and election of Directors to serve on the Morton and Ellington, as well as other early Board. The nominating committee has masters of the form. recommended the following nominees for Director to serve three-year terms: Tony Pringle plays cornet and is the founding member of the NBEJB. Other musicians include: Sanford Catz, current Tri-State Jazz Society Bob Pilsbury - Piano and Vocals President Stan Vincent - Trombone Mike Mudry, current Tri-State Jazz Society Billy Novick - Clarinet & Reeds Treasurer Peter Bullis - Banjo Nominations from the floor will also be accepted. Barry Bockus - Bass C.H. "Pam" Pameijer - Drums 2 MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS LA POMPE ATTACK It’s time to remind our members to renew their MAY CONCERT REVIEW membership which expires each year on June 30, On Sunday, May 19, 2013, at Haddonfield except for new members who joined after March 1, Methodist Church in Haddonfield, NJ, Tri-State 2013. Basic yearly membership dues are $20 per Jazz presented a Doug Munro & La Pompe Attack person and members are admitted to regular concert. Doug plays guitar and is the leader; Bill concerts at half price ($10) for the rest of their Nixon, violin; Ernie Pugliese, guitar; Michael membership year. Goetz, string bass; and Michael Nikolidakis, guest guitarist made up the band. We have a new approach to membership for first- time members only. Starting July 1, 2013 new first- time members’ dues are $20 for joining in our first quarter (July, August, September), $15 for joining in our second quarter (October, November, December), $10 for our third quarter (January, February, March 2014), and $5 for the remainder Photo by Paul Macatee of our membership year which ends on June 30, Django Reinhardt's music has been resurrected 2014. Concert attendees attending a first TSJS through the efforts of many of his contemporaries. concert will continue to get a 50% concert For example, Dan Levinson's group Fête Manouche admission fee. This first-time concert admission follows the gypsy jazz tradition. For many who fee will be in addition to any membership fee perform gypsy jazz, Reinhardt, Dorado Schmitt and detailed above. others are usually the centerpiece at concerts. But also each of those groups has a character of their We also need to remind our members that own; an individual trademark, a signature which currently receive our Strutter newsletter by US mail sets them apart. that there will now be an annual charge of $10, in addition to your annual membership fee, for La Pompe Attack is one of those groups. Led by receiving the Strutter by US Mail. There is no guitarist Doug Munro, the group adheres to gypsy charge for members to receive the Strutter by email jazz traditions, but also exemplifies other traditions and we encourage all members to use that version. as well. Munro's guitar reflects more than a hint of Send an email to Jay Schultz (email address below) the great Reinhardt, but throws in raw blues and to tell us if you want to be on our email lists for early rock and roll riffs. Nixon, by contrast, these communications. Except for the Strutter and approaches the violin the way Joe Venuti did back membership notices, all TSJS communications are in the 1920s - in an almost classic style, almost sent by email only. avoiding the blues and swinging in an effortless, subtle way. Completing the quartet were rhythm We also rely on the generous contributions of guitarist Ernie Pugliese and string bassist Michael members to balance our yearly budget (July 1 to Goetz. To say that these two men provided June 30) and continue to offer top-notch concerts. sufficient rhythm would be understatement; La Please consider renewing your membership at the Pompe Attack did indeed attack! Sponsor level of $50, $70 for couples; or the Patron level of $100 or more, $120 for couples. Please Tributes to Django and other practitioners of the mail the renewal form on page 8 of this gypsy jazz art were the bulk of the selections newsletter with your check. We are a 501(c)(3) performed at the concert. "Deux Ambience," taken educational non-profit corporation, so your at a medium swing, showcased Munro's heavy contributions and dues may be tax deductible, but attack with fingers dancing along the fret board check with your tax advisor. If you have while Nixon sailed smoothly on violin. Munro's membership questions, contact Jay Schultz. Leave solo on Ellington's "In A Sentimental Mood" was a message for him on our hot line (856)-720-0232 anything but sentimental, alternating accelerating or send Jay an email at rushed figures with calm ones. "Bossa Dorado" had [email protected]. Nixon enticing one to cut a rug, whether it be a 3 rhumba or tango, while Munro challenged dancers TREAT IT GENTLE to be creative in their dancing. "Sweet Georgia "I have never forgotten the power and imagination Brown," taken at a fast clip, had Goetz taking a with which he played….to me [he] was the very solid, hornlike solo on bass while Munro took some epitome of jazz…everything he played in his whole Armstronglike breaks.