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Constitution and Bylaw Meeting: September 2011 Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 Vol. 71 No. 8 @1:00 pm Membership Meeting: Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 @1:00 pm WAGE SCALE CHANGES SEE PAGES 14 -15 Page 2 By Ruth Marion Tobias NEW GENERAL DIRECTOR includes a $25,000 for each recipient People’s Music School, Chicago October 1, 2011 is the date on which and a public ceremony at Jazz at Youth Symphony Orchestras, Merit ANTHONY FREUD will take the Lincoln Center in New York January School of Music, Midwest Young reins of Lyric Opera 10…..Freeman’s summer of tributes Artist, Chicago Children’s’ Choir and of Chicago from celebrated his legacy which launched Chicago Sinfonietta in the effort. Muti retiring WILLIAM the inventive “Made in Chicago: conducted an orchestra of Chicago- MASON. The World Class Jazz” series at Pritzker area young musicians and guests 53-year-old native Pavilion…..The from Mexico in an open rehearsal of London, whose inimitable piano of “Romeo and Juliet” while he and achievements as soloist, KEVIN Ma concluded the festival with a Anthony Freud general director COLE revisited free “Celebration of Youth in Music” of both Houston Grand Opera GEORGE that brought together the various (2006-present) and the Welsh National GERSHWIN’s participating ensembles. Cellist Ma’s Opera (1994-2005) have been widely Kevin Cole “Rhapsody in 14th season with the Ravinia Festival acclaimed, is also current chairman of Blue” with CSO under the baton of this summer filled up the park and Opera America. He also is a former JAMES CONLON, in “By George! overflowed the Metra trains which chairman of Opera Europa and known The Great Gershwin Gala”, a concert transported much of the adoring for organizing “important artistic at Ravinia to benefit Reach Teach Play, audience. initiatives, impressive increases in Ravinia’s education programs…… attendance and fundraising, and WILLIE PICKENS with a group LONG RUN visionary community-engagement which included bassist STEWART GRADY JOHNSON, the 88-year- programs to reach diverse new MILLER and drummer ROBERT old highly regarded saxophonist audiences.” Applause, applause. SHY rocked the Green Mill jazz club. and his quartet ended a long, long These are the folks whose work filled engagement—some 20+ years—at FIRST-RATE INK the entertainment pages in recent Bistro 110 (of that address on Pearson Trumpeter BOBBY weeks. Street), when the establishment closed LEWIS lauded for at the end of July. The venue may be “Warm Cool”, his A CHICAGO TREASURE fini, but long live Grady! latest CD release….. With his enormous talent and affable The National persona, cellist YO-YO MA has REMEMBRANCE Bobby Lewis Endowment showered Chicago CELEBRATIONS for the Arts this entire season Tributes to the lives and talents of two Jazz Masters Award, 2012, honors with warmth and so fondly remembered musicians were 87-year-old VON FREEMAN, love. Together held in July. The third annual concert saxophone; Chicago-born drummer with another honoring BUDDY CHARLES, to JACK DeJOHNETTE, bassist remarkable benefit the church where he served CHARLIE HADEN, vocalist talent and for many years, was held at St. Isaac SHEILA JORDAN and educator- Yo Yo Ma persona, CSO’s Jogues Parish in Niles. musician JIMMY OWENS. This is music director the nation’s highest jazz honor: the RICCARDO MUTI, he (they) “The Music Never Ends”, A Concert lifetime A.B.SPELLMAN NEA Jazz presented the second biennial Chicago Celebrating the Life of JOE VITO, Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy and Youth in Music Festival involving was presented at the Chicago Cultural September 2011 cfm10208.com Intermezzo Page 3 Local 10-208 of Center in PRESTON BRADLEY Due to the success and response in AFM AFL-CIO Hall where the gathering of talent April of CJP’s Sketches of Blue”, CHICAGO FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OFFICERS – DELEGATES included FRANK D’RONE, MARK Orbert’s tribute to Miles Davis, it will 2008-2011 MADSEN, FRANK CARUSO, be reprised the weekend of November Gary Matts President FRANK WINKLER, LARRY 5 and 6 at North Shore Center for Terryl Jares Vice-President Spencer Aloisio Secretary-Treasurer NOVAK, PAT FERRIERI and BOB the Performing Arts in Skokie. BOARD OF DIRECTORS SUTTER Meanwhile, the Orbert Davis Quintet Robert Bauchens Bob Lizik performs at the Hyde Park Jazz Rich Daniels Janice MacDonald COMIN’ UP! Festival, September 24. Also Davis Frank Donaldson Leo Murphy B.J. Levy An excellent opportunity to hear can be heard Sundays from noon to American soprano RENEE 3 PM with JOHN MOULTRIE, host CONTRACT DEPARTMENT Terryl Jares – Vice-President FLEMING, will be September 10 and creator of iROCK JAZZ Radio, Nancy Van Aacken when she headlines Lyric Opera’s free station WDCB. ASSISTANTS TO THE preseason concert in Millennium Park. PRESIDENT - JURISDICTIONS * * * * * FROM MY “IT’S TO LAUGH” Terryl Jares - Vice-President Supervisor - Entire jurisdiction TREASURE TROVE including theaters ORBERT DAVIS, trumpeter/ It’s not whether you win or lose, but (Cell Phone: 312-310-4100) Dean Rolando composer, will be artist-in-residence how you place the blame. Recordings, Transcriptions, at the 33rd Chicago Jazz Festival, Sept Learn from your parents’ mistakes; Documentaries, Etc. 1-4 in several downtown venues. On use birth control. (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) September 3rd, he and his Chicago Red meat is not bad for you. Fuzzy DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE Jazz Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble green meat is bad for you. ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL will introduce ORGANIZATIONS a work Personal favorites: Spencer Aloisio Gary Matts Terryl Jares commissioned What kid’s say…….Q & A by the Festival Where was Hadrian’s Wall built? DELEGATES TO CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND at the Petrillo Around Hadrian’s garden. INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL Music Shell Where was the American Declaration Rich Daniels Gary Matts Orbert Davis in Grant Park. of Independence signed? Terryl Jares Photo by Louis J. Byrd The program will also include his new At the bottom. DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS “Sketches of Spain (Revisited)” that What is the meaning of the word Spencer Aloisio Terryl Jares originated with MILES DAVIS and “varicose”? Close by. Rich Daniels Gary Matts GIL EVANS and their “Sketches of Briefly explain what hard water is. Frank Donaldson Alternates: Spain”. Ice. Leo Murphy Larry Bowen EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO With that, a happy “tee-hee” to y’all. Terryl Jares PRESIDENT EMERITI Nicholas Bliss Ed Ward VICE-PRESIDENT EMERITUS Tom Beranek BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITUS Ruth Marion Tobias Open Daily, except MEMBERSHIP FEEDBACK Saturday, Sunday and Holidays All letters submitted must be signed and e-mailed to [email protected] or Office Hours 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. mailed to The Chicago Federation of Musicians, 656 W. Randolph St., #2W, All Phones: 312-782-0063 (24 Hrs.) Chicago, IL 60661. The Board of Directors reserves the right to determine AFM WEB SITE: www.afm.org whether material submitted shall be published, and the right to edit as needed CFM WEB SITE: www.cfm10208.com for clarity, length, libelous statements or personal attacks. Opinions are those Address all e-mail to the of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the Board of Directors of Secretary/Treasurer: [email protected] the Chicago Federation of Musicians. Cover illustration provided by Chris Nolan Creative. Intermezzo cfm10208.com September 2011 Page 4 By Ruth Marion Tobias Eric Hochberg is a well-known The southern view of woods and garden is He loves the music business, recalling member of Chicago’s cadre of free-lance quite spectacular. The couple has upgraded the good and the bad. “Early on I had a musicians—the tightly knit, highly trained and refurbished the home as well as other chance to work with Pat Metheny who assemblage of versatile jobbing players. dwellings, satisfying a personal hobby. was just starting out. It was the last week of His bass playing enhances such bands as A graduate of New Trier High School, his tour and his bass player had to leave. Cheveré de Chicago, the musically high he attended the University of Indiana as We were someplace in Rockford on a rainy level group he has been a part of for twenty- a trumpet major. However when a bass night with five people in the audience! five years and his enthusiasm bubbles up, player quit the band, Eric took over. Having Staying in some little motel, but that’s how “It’s such fun!” He leads his own group, experienced some trumpet problems at it goes sometimes on the road. Yet it can be composes and arranges and teaches at the that level, he decided to stick with bass. so great like the Montreux Jazz Festival with Merit School of Music on Chicago’s near Friendships began with “good people in Terry Callier around 1978; they put us up West Side. college” and future musical luminaries such like we were royalty. You just never know His work for “probably 30 years” with as drummer what to expect. Another highlight of my life Terry Callier began with a chance meeting Peter Erskine, has been working with Ken Nordine for his on a train bound for New York. Eric’s bass pianist Alan Word Jazz. (Nordine, the voiceover and was the prerequisite for the two men to Pasqua and recording artist has enlisted innumerable open a conversation. He related, “A little saxophonist musicians as performance back-up.) later I was walking down Belmont (Avenue) Steve Eisen. I remembered a record my parents played and saw this guy coming toward me and “In the early for me when I was small. When I was hired it was him. He asked me how things were ‘70s I came to work with him I took the record with me going and what I was doing.