John a . Lawrence, Jazz Musicologist

Xw N f ' 'li-r 11 M n B H p m n j ^ n D B B B P M A Y '76 ^lOf^ ^JOC^ -^1®^ 'f y s / C * ' 7Bsttf^ 7®T O f ^ ^ 1 0 ^ '^jOr^ •^tqc^'#^k> ^ 10i?&^ ^ © r<*£& ^ ^ j © ^ - -^x MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION, POTOMAC RIVER JAZZ CLUB (Please print or type) NAME_______________ ___________________________________________________________ STREET___________ CITY____________________________________ STATE 5 ZIP__________________________ PHONE NO._____________________ OCCUPATION_(Opt.)____________________________ RECORD COLLECTOR ( ) YES MUSICIAN? (What instruments?)_______________________________________________ MEMBER OF ORGANIZED BAND?______________________________________ INTERESTED IN ORGANIZING OR JOINING ONE?______________________ INTERESTED IN JAMMING OCCASIONALLY?____________________________ READ MUSIC? ( ) YES DESCRIBE YOUR JAZZ INTERESTS BRIEFLY (What styles interest you, etc.) [ ] Individual membership - $7.50 per year. Member is eligible for all benefits of the PRJC, including all discounts offered and the right to vote in the general election and to hold office in the club. [ ] Family membership - $10.00 per year. Both husband and wife are eligible for benefits described above. Children under 18 are eligible for all discounts. (A single person buying a family membership is eligible for all benefits described above; discounts offered will be extended to one guest when that guest accompanies the member.) I enclose check payable to the Potomac River Jazz Club for the option checked above. Signature M ’ to: Esther C. West, Secretary-Treasurer 4040 Uline Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22304 2 Tailgate Ramblings, May 1976 both regulars with the Bay City 7, and Jim Riley, a fine banjoist and vocalist. And playing the As the cover art indicates, this issue of TR oompahhorn will be Jim Adkins. is dedicated to the memory of Scotty Lawrence, The cruise will be on the Wilson Line's M.V. past vice-president of the club and on the Board America. The band will start playing at 7:30 of Directors since 1974. The section devoted to and the boat will sail at 8:30. The cost is $9 Scotty begins with the Washington Post obituary, for PRJC members, $10 for non-members. Order which carries the by-line of PRJC member Hal tickets from Fred Wahler (checks payable to Willard. Hal asked us to say that the article PRJC), 3903 Buck Creek Road, Temple Hills, MD was actually written by A1 Webber and Ed Fishel, 20031. The boat ride always sells out and al two of Scotty's closest musical friends. Webber ways attracts a large number of non-members, so and Fishel have each written reminiscences of club members should act now to get tickets in Scotty, which follow the obituary. time. Tailgate Ramblings received several more unso licited articles about Scotty which could not be printed due to lack of space. These articles Early Deadline for June TR and the original cover art for this issue have Contributers, advertisers and bandleaders take been given to Elinore Lawrence— the last entries note: Due to your editor’s travel plans, the in the scrapbook of the life of her husband and deadline for the June issue of TR will be May 15. our friend, Scotty. Last-minute information can be phoned to me over the May 16-17 weekend at 521-4597. Lloyd A. Kaplan Did You Remember Not to Forget to Renew? 1928 - 1976 This is the last copy of Tailgate Ramblings you'll receive if you failed to renew your PRJC membership for 1976. Act now so as not to miss It is with heavy heart that we note the passing an issue of this terrific newsletter with the of yet another PRJC member: Lloyd Kaplan, 47, modest editor. Send your renewals to Secretary- of Silver Spring. Lloyd was a senior research Treasurer Esther West (address on p. 2). chemist for the Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak Laboratory. Since joining PRJC last year he had become one of our most active mem Lou Byers Joines PRJC Board of Directors bers and was learning to play the cornet at the time of his death. Recordings of Bix Beiderbecke Lou Byers, who narrowly missed getting elected and Red Nichols— two of Lloyd's favorites— were to the board at last November's open meeting, played at a memorial service on April 19 at the was named to the Board of Directors at the April Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring. meeting. Lou is the entertainment editor for A portion of Lloyd's extensive record collec the Globe Newspapers of Northern Virginia and tion will be donated to the National Museum of has reported on the New Orleans jazz scene in Traditional Jazz in his hame. Tailgate Ramblings. ************************ Keen-eyed readers will have noticed that some thing was missing from the "write if you get TEE WINDJAMMER SINKS. work" item on p. 8 of last month's TR. The no tice said that two PRJC vocalists had sent news Shortly after the last issue of TR went to of important upcoming appearances, but only press the good folks at Marriott announced that Natalie Lamb was mentioned in the article. they had other musical plans for the Windjammer The missing paragraph belonged to Dolores Room. Our last Sunday there was April 11. A Brown, from right here in Washington. On May 18 committee from the Board of Directors is looking she'll be appearing in Storyville, George Wein's for a new home for weekly club sessions, which new club in New York. Dolores has promised to will be announced in TR and on 630-PRJC. report on the new club in a future issue of TR. ...BUT THE AMERICA SAILS ONI Cruise Director Fred Wahler has announced the New Jazz in the Free State lineup for the PRJC's jazz riverboat ride on Jazz lovers on the Maryland side of the federal June 26. As promised, he's given us a real all- quagmire should appreciate two interesting new star group. On cornet will be none other than entries in the regular gigs column of this issue. Lew Green, leader of the famous Salty Dogs. On The Bay City Seven, a fine San Francisco-style clarinet and soprano sax will be Joe Ashworth, group which has always had trouble finding a re whose playing (and vocalizing) with the Bix gular job in its native Balmer, will be playing Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Band excited us so much every Friday and Saturday night on the S .S. in March. On the ivories will be Rick Cordray, Nobska, a new restaurant which will have its regular pianist with Tex Wyndham's Red Lion JB grand opening Friday, April 30. in Wilmington. From Baltimore we'll have John Wessner (trombone) and John Goldburn (drums), (cont. on p. 8) 3 formed by local groups. newsletter. Tailgate Ram Born In Tayport, Scot blings, with reminiscences John A . Lawrence, land, Aug. 24, 1908, Mr. Law of his early years in jazz. rence attended St. Andrews In addition to his wife University in Scotland and and son John, he is sur Jazz Musicologist came to the United States vived by a son James, a in 1927. He played with and bass player with both jazz By Hal Willard arranged for bands in the and classical groups in the Pittsburgh area and in 1933 Boston area. Washington Post Staff Writer led a band at Nick’s, the rcnce played in local night John A. (Scotty) Lawrence, legendary Dixieland night a .jazz trumpet player and spots and music rooms on- club in Greenwich Village. evenings and weekends traditional jazz musicolo while working for the gov He joined the Army in gist, died in his sleep in a ernment. He was considered 1943 and served as a lingu motel in Needles, Calif., the dean of local Dixieland ist and later in the post lan d at Ft. Belvoir. In post April 9 while on a cross jazz trumpeters and before war years he led bands at country automobile trip .his death still played with the Bayou, the Charles Ho with his wife. He was 67. two jazz groups, the Band tel and other local spots. Mr. Lawrence and his from Tin Pan Alley and the Good Time Six. He taught trumpet and wife, o f 45 Mount Vernon musical harmony for years. Unlike most jazz musi Ave., Alexandria, were on He also was first trumpeter cians, Mr. Lawrence had *he way to visit their son, and assistant director of the form al education in music, John, a professor at the Alexandria Citizens Band. University of California at lie studied at the Peabody He composed that band’s Irvine. Conservatory in Baltimore, trademark piece, “The Alex Mr. Lawrence retired as was an arranger for dance andria Gazette March." a position classifier at the and jazz orchestras during Mr. Lawrence was an hon Department of Health, Edu his early years and was orary life member of the cation and Welfare in 1970, highly regarded as an au American Federation of but did not retire from thority on traditional jazz Musicians and vice presi music, which had been his repertoire. dent, music director and occupation from the1 late member of the board of di 1920s until 1943, and con Recently he was engaged rectors of the Potomac tinued to be his avocation. in compiling a detailed River Jazz Club. He was a jazz “book" of many hun For 25 years, Mr. Law- frequent contributor to its dreds of tunes to be per JOHN A. LAWRENCE Scotty Lawrence never wrote a book about jazz. It is very likely that Scotty's book would have Had he done so, his work would have shamed— and enraged the Davenport Disciples; his preference edified— most of the enthusiastic obscurantists in cornet players simply did not include Bix who have supplied us with jazz "literature." Beiderbecke.

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