TAILGATE RAM BUNGS July 1978 Volume 8 No. 7

Jazz Clubs Listed Yogurt and Jam on F St. This month, TR devotes most of its There hadn't been time to get the word editorial space to a listing of as around so the crowd upstairs at Yummy many as we know of the traditionally Yogurt was far under capacity one Fri­ oriented clubs in the United day evening last month. States and Canada. Obviously, this Which is a shame, but it didn't listing does not - and could not - deter^a^mixed group of PRJC musicians contain all the clubs devoted to and visiting firemen from folk music or to more modern forms from staging as riotous an evening of of jazz many of which have at least jazz as has recently been heard in a contingent interest in the classical these environs. styles. If it did, we would see a Guests of Betty and Jim Ritter, the truly overwhelming listing of popular three N.O. visitors, all members of interest in jazz, extending nation­ the Original Tuxedo Marching Band, were wide. Herman Sherman - alto; Joe Torregano - As it is, we count 111 jazz clubs clt; and Gregg Stafford - crt. They of which we know in the played with a band which included Ritter, and Canada. That contrasts with 79 Garry Wilkinson, Jim Adkins, Lowell clubs when we last printed this list Peart, Gil Carter, and from time to about a year and a half ago. Anna and time, others. Fred Wahler, who's undiminished The Tuxedo Band was in town for a enthusiasm for this project is greatly jazz_gig at the White House, and the aided by their wide acquaintanceships session came about when they called the throughout the country, were aided Ritters who hadmet them in N.O. last in this compilation by PRJC Past- year. The Ritters worked out arrange­ President Harold Gray, who also gets ments with Ed Fishel and the Yummy ° around. Yogurt's proprietor, Sheldon Fischer, As a result of all this, TR this who agreed to stay open long past month has sharply reduced editorial closing time. content. We'll get back to that next The music was uniformly exciting. month. There is quite a bit to report. Of the yisiting musicians, Sherman Two PRJCers have published books, played a full-throated alto sax, the LSU Bolden book cries out for uninfluenced by the usual alto influ­ review, and there are some records ences - Hodges, Parker, Carter - but that we will be bringing to your reaching back to the older roots that attention. Fred Starr referred to recently in these pages in his piece about trad­ Baker Back from USSR itional saxes. Torregano in some respects is the most modern of the three Dick Baker, PRJC President, has returned discarding the traditional Picou chorus from the Soviet Union after a 5-week on High Society, and substituting an tour with the New England Conservatory interesting solo of his own. The liquid Ragtime Ensemble. Creole clarinet tradition is detectable The tour encompassed some eight in his playing, but he is closer to Soviet cities, and Dick reports the Hall and Bailey than to Dodds or Bigard. ensemble played before thousands of Gregg Stafford, a youngster, is an Russians - 17,000 in three concerts at exciting prospect. Well grounded in the Novosibirsk, alone. He also reports tradition, he has a forthright, striding that despite recent international style. Paired with Ritter throughout the tensions, the Soviets rolled out the evening, he showed a good match for red carpet for the ragtime troupe. Jim's driving, bodacious style. We’ve relieved Dick of the necessity It was, in brief, one of the best to give us a "From the Bakery" column evenings of jazz PRJC has seen this year. this month while he collects his It deserved a big crowd which, sadly, it thoughts. Hope we'll hear some first didn't get. Incidentally, it should hand recollections from him next month. be added that Yummy Yogurt's upstairs room is pleasant, not too "live," and a rewarding place to hear jazz. -- TC where we heard the band (great) and saw many passers-by - for instance, Joe Godfrey sporting his Greek fisherman's hat (which could be a real trendsetter) and John Sears with his hat with what Tailgate Rambling! I assume is part of his collection of July 1978 buttons (^J—star generals have fewer Vol. 8 No. 7 campaign buttons). Editor - Ted Chandler FESTIVAL TIME: Talked to returnees Contributing Editors A1 Webber from Sacramento festival - say it was Dick Baker reat (where else are there 63 bands for Mary Doyle t2 3 ), a bargain with transport from PRJC President Dick Baker (703)698-8017 motels thrown in. From here went the V.P. - Ray West (703)370-5605 Watkins, Wahlers, Hal Farmer, Pete Mart- PRJC Hot line 573-TRAD ineau, and a couple of anonymous others. Returns from St Louis not in, but one TR is published monthly for members of hears that the person seeking a rider the Potomac River Jazz Club, a nonprofit got a favorable answer. It pays to group dedicated to the preservation of advertise in Tailgate. traditional jazz and its encouragement FITS AND STARTS: Kramers went to a in the Washington-Baltimore area. Signed retirement party at Capitol Yacht Club, articles in TR represent the views of and music turned out . On stage their authors alone and should not be were Bill Whelan and Ken Underwood. A construed as club policy or opinion. happy surprise..Tom Martin, PRJC member Articles, letters, and ad copy (no -used to drum with Good Time 6 , presently charge for classified ads for members) a N.C. resident, is father of the pretty should be mailed to the editor at: girl on the June Playboy cover. She was 7160 Talisman Lane Nancy Drew in the TV series, and PB did Columbia, Md. 210^5. a story on her.. New musician around town: Don West, multithreat on bass, cornet, and Is It True What They Say . . . guitar. Nor replacing John Wood (resting MANY interesting places to go this month ■ a while) on string bass with Stutz Bear­ PRJCers need at least one clone to look cats. Very expressive face. In same band, in on all the places one would like. Way Whitey Smith replaces Jerry Nichols (moved) back at the end of May, we had two very on trombone. nice young men from the Toledo Cake THE SCENE: Made it to Devil's Fork on Walking band stay with us after the a Sunday - great food, strolling jazz special. Both under 30 (who said trad­ musicians. Not yet made it to Yummy itional jazz was for the geriatric set?) Yocurt, so unfortunately missed the these two, drummer and trombone respect­ incomparable Ed Fishel and the Tuxedo ively, were great - didn’t drink, didn't Brass Band on their way to the White smoke, made their own beds, plus laughed House. I am practicing Salt Peanuts, and at our jokes. Seriously, if you would everyone else should, also - one never like to be one who has a band member or knows when it may come up again. two stay - sometimes they like to meet — Mary H. Doyle the locals - contact a PRJC board member. A new jazz fan is with us - an STYLE OR CLASS: Went to Reston Days pound boy - bound to be brought up to hear the Buck Creek band - found a righteously by his parents, the Tony seat in the shade in the outdoor bistro, Hagerts - she's singer Anne Stansfield. PRJC MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION (Please Print)

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PRJC DUES THRU 1978 - $5.00> Checks payable to Potomac River Jazz Club. Mail to: PRJC Membership Secy 7004 Westmoreland Rd. Falls Church, Va. 220^2 BUT ON THE OTHER HAND advertisement An Editorial Outcry Some months ago, we promised that one of these days, we would reprint the /^W riting Bureaucrats! • how to write like a Albert McCarthy discography of the Stamp out professional • editing With gobbledy for strength, concise­ which originally gook! Buy ness and clarity • Precision copies for checklist for writina appeared in the Record Changer. This your entire regulations • hand­ How To Write staff book of grammar • is the month. We would not want to be So That You simple exercises Cannot Possibly in the position of arguing that the Be Misunderstood “ This is strictly a Hamfats are among the more significant handbook — and a of jazzbands, but they were an inter­ good one — to help administrators, profes­ esting group capable of creating real sionals, scientists and others ... to express excitement. Our contention would be that themselves with ac­ they deserve far more attention than has curacy and clarity.” come their way. Also, this month, we — Publishers Weekly are back in print with another of Roy At these fine bookstores Just in time, Carew's great reminiscences. »'•' ££&£». Me BOO. E.,» President Carter Fnim Boon Savile Bookshop Fonhall Books Smithsonian Bookst We hope you caught the interview Francis Scott Key Trover Books Writing with Precision George Washington U Van Ness Book Georgetown U Bkst Shoppe the Star did with Sigidi Braudy of How to Write So That Globe Books You Cannot Possibly WPFW-FM about jazz in the D.C. area. Be Misunderstood The interviewer missed some obvious by Jefferson D. Bates Acropolis Books Ltd. points, it seemed to us, but Sigidi $8.95 cloth/ $5.95 paper was excellent. Among the points he made was the fact that Jelly's Jungle Inn at 12th and U was in a building that (Paid advertisement) - You PRJC members may still stands. Interesting! Roy Carew wonder why anyone would advertise a book this month takes us to the Jungle Inn. called WRITING WITH PRECISION in a publica­ We received a long letter from Sam tion devoted to jazz. The answer is that Laudenslager, leader of the Kingsmen, the author, Jefferson D. Bates, is also de­ making some excellent points - and some voted to jazz. (PRJC Charter Member 010.) not so good - at TR’s expense. We’ll He says to te ll you he writes much better reprint parts of Sam’s letter next than he sings--in case you've heard any of month and attempt to answer some of the his heartfelt but frequently off-key rendi­ issues he raised. We think he is very tions of "St. James Infirmary" or "Pennies thought-provoking, even though one from heaven" at the annual picnic. (He's suggestion he makes would, if taken, the rotund, bald-headed, bespectacled cat would get TR into more trouble than we who keeps Satchmo spinning in his grave.) feel disposed to deal with! WRITING WITH PRECISION has received good reviews and is going into its second At midmonth, one Saturday evening printing soon. It was chosen as the recom­ we consulted our own gig list and found mended book for the month of Ju ly by WRITER'S that the New Sunshine JB would be DIGEST magazine. The book is extremely holding a jazz dance at the Glen Echo practical; furthermore, it's fun to read. Crystal Ballroom. So off we went. What I t is based on more than 25 years of ex­ we found were some 40 or 50 couples perience. Bates was editorial director of in a ring around the center of the the pioneering Air Force "Effective Writing dance floor while an instructor inducted Program" in the 50s, and la te r was chief them into the mysteries of the Turkey ghostwriter at NASA, where he wrote for such Trot. After they demonstrated to his notables as Dr. Wernher von Braun and a ll satisfaction that many of them under­ the Apollo astronauts. He now teaches stood their marching orders, the band seminars (based on the book) for Georgetown struck up and off they all strutted. Li's Continuing Management Education Program It can’t be repeated too often, we and for his own organization, J„Li. Bates think (we say it as a nondancer), that Associates. jazz is dance music, and any attempt to I f you'd like an autographed copy, send recruit new afficionados for jazz may 55.95 (plus 51.00 for postage, handling, be well advised to take this into and sales tax when applicable) to: account. If one wished to hear the WRITING WITH PRECISION New Sunshines in concert, the jazz dance Suite T-79, Arlington Towers was not the best place to go. But if you 1121 Arlington Blvd. wanted to see an intelligent missionary Arlington, Va. 22209 project underway, it was just great. And Lord knows we could stand some intelligent jazz missionary work! -- TC advertisement Editor: Communication At the end of July, I will be leaving Editor: the D.C. area after 7 years. I was among I am looking for recordings made by- the first 100 to be counted as members Clarence Williams and the several small of PRJC. I remember the first B'haus bands he recorded with - like the Blue 5- dates and Alexandria's Ragtime Band. Many, made in the late 20's, featured But now it is time to say farewell. Bechet, Buster Bailey, Armstrong, St. I would like to thank the club for being Clair, Ed Allen, and others. In the US, in existence to allow those who love they came out on OK and Columbia. I this kind of music to have a source for had several in Europe on Golden Vocalion. our much-needed "habit," all of those Fontana (Holland?) brought out two re­ who have encouraged and supported my issues which I have. All these little musical efforts, and especially Frank bands - some of them washboard groups - Weiderfeld for getting me and the tuba produced the most wonderful, joyous together. jazz ever recorded, but aside from the I shall be moving to West Palm Beach, Fontanas, I have never seen any reissues. Fla., and would appreciate hearing from Williams was one of the top five most anyone knowing the places to go to important pioneers of jazz, and obviously get my musical fix in the area. the most neglected. — Jim Adkins I would be most interested in buying or trading casette tapes if any PRJCer (Ed. Note: This issue may be helpful, has access to these recordings. My Jim. And happy landings - we hate to address: 9^11 Lee Highway, Apt 911. see you go. — TC) Fairfax, 22031. Editor: -- R. Leidelmeyer, M.D. Though I think the Editor responded to Ed Fishel's long-repressed anxiety (Ed note: That's an interesting request over swing music in excellent fashion, and a good point about the neglect of I would like to add a comment or two. Clarence Williams. Hope you meet with There are some unique qualities about success. --TC) traditional jazz as a basis for club Editor: activities. One, it reflects the true In TR last month I was inaccurately origins of American jazz. Two, we recog­ identified as "leader" of the Federal nize it not so much by the tunes played, Jazz Commission. This is, of course, but by the inimitable style and instru­ erroneous on several grounds. First, no mentation used. Three, the era and aura proper Federal commission has a leader. evoked by this jazz was clearly that of They prefer to drift in genial bliss, a fun-loving, foot-stomping, cabaret- and are hence the natural proponents of oriented environment. While I suppose polyphony and improvisation in music. these criteria could loosely be applied Second, and more important, the to any of the many generations of the Federal Jazz Commission is truly a jazz idiom, never so completely as in collaborative enterprise, with every the hey-day of Jelly Roll Morton, Georg member not only sharing equally in its Brunis, Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong, successes and failures, but also in the et al. mundane tasks of day-to-day management I’m not going to attempt to define and musical development. Commissioner where traditional jazz stops and swing Wilkinson, for example, reigns as starts - really a futile effort, since virtual tsar in the realm of the defin­ the same personalities and styles cros­ ition of accurate and faithful chord sed over and existed in both schools. sequences, Commr. Addicott rules over ...Jazz was brash, unashamed, and rhythmic backups, Commr. Webber sets all appealed directly to each listener to tempos, Commr. Frankel presides over join the party. Ithink these qualities breaks and solos, Commr Stimson con­ all make it a distinct focus for club ducts much of our internal housekeeping, activities. Unlike many other jazz and Commr. Converse joins in all of the clubs, PRJC has promoted a fine above functions. We are proud to be a program of participation for musicians collegial band, and could not fulfill non-musicians, record collectors, you our mission as a repertory jazz ensemble name it. All designed for fun and not were we not organized in such a manner. commercial profit. Least of all could we do so if I or Tom Niemann anyone else pretended to "lead" the FJC. (Ed. Note: Breathes there a man with soul so dead who doesn't know that Fred Starr Tom, a past-President of PRJC, is (Ed. Note: Oops! -- TC) a fine jazz pianist and has contrib­ uted numerous excellent coversfor TR which accurately reflect the delight he finds in jazz. -- TC) Traditional Jazz Clubs in U.S. and Canada

Compiled by Anna and Fred Wahler and Harold Gray

Alabama Ragtime Preservation Society, Inc. James L. Heisterkemp Mobile Jazz Society Box 41453 William Hammond, Pres, (205) 438-1296 San Francisco, CA 94142 P.O. Box 1098 Mobile, AL 366OI Sacramento N.O. Hot Jazz Society

Arizona 3470 Cedar Ravine (916) 622-2520 Placerville, CA 95667 Jazz in AZ Sacramento Traditional Jazz Soc. Don Miller Jack Weaver (916) 422-JASS Box 13363 P.O. Box 15604 Phoenix, AZ 85002 Sacramento CA 95813 Phoenix Hot Jazz Society (Cond. annual jazz festival) P.O. Box 6006 San Diego Jazz Club Phoenix AZ 85005 Bill Hill, Pres. (71^) 297-0119 The Phoenix Saints 3344 5th Ave. 2632 E. Mountain View San Diego, CA 92103 Phoenix, AZ 85028 Santa Barbara Dixieland Jazz Soc. Arkansas Chuck Schaeffer, Pres. 5048 Rocosco Way Jazz Club of Arkansas Santa Barbara, CA 93111 Jack D. Lawhon, Jr. P0 Box 7291 Sierra Jazz Club Little Rock, AR Lueder Ohlwein (209) 561-4265 45137 S. Fork Dr. Box 416 California Three Rivers, CA 93271 Central Coast Hot Jazz Society United Jazz Clubs of Southern K.O. Eckland (805)773-2276 California 84l Wadsworth Ave. Tom Raftican, Pres. (213) 966-6007 Pismo Beach, CA 93559 335 N. Dodsworth Cider City Hot Jazz Society West Covina, CA. 91793 732 Cynthia Ct. South Bay (L.A.) N.O. Jazz Club Watsonville, CA 95076 1735 West 162nd St. Gardena, CA 90247 (714) 879-7080 Jazz Forum Chuck Conklin, Pres. (213) 345-9754 South Bay (S.F.) Traditional Jazz Soc 17941 Emelita St. 3043 Harding Ave. Encino, CA 91316 Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 247-8415 Jazz Incorporated Southern California Banjo Club Lloyd Grafton, Pres, (714) 776-4027 12110 Long Beach Blvd. 717 S. Lynn St. Lynnwood, CA 90262 Santa Ana, CA 92705 Southern Calif. Hot Jazz Society Maple Leaf Club Floyd Levin (2 1 3 ) 654-1510 5560 W. 62nd St. 11361 Dona Lisa Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90056 Studio City, CA 91604 Monterey Bay Hot Jazz Society Valley Dixieland Jazz Club John Fanning (408) 449-8026 John Robertson, Pres. (213) 349-6429 P0 Box 1872 5453 DuBois Ave. Salinas, CA 93902 Woodland Hills, CA 91304 Jazz at the Elks N.O. Jazz Club of Northern Calif. Jack Weaver Dave Walker, Pres. (^1 5 ) 398-NOJC 644 Knollwood Dr. P.O. Box 1004 J J Woodland, CA 95695 Tiburon, CA 94920 Poor Angel. Hot Jazz Society N.O. Jazz Club of Southern Calif. Bob Tabor (213) 434-2834 Norm Burnham, Pres. (213) 867-7501 5719 Bertrand Ave. 11551 Trask Ave. Encino, CA 91316 Garden Grove, CA California (cont) Central Illinois Jazz Santa Monica Jazz Club Pete George (217) 234-2595 PO Box 84235 (213) 478-2938 713 LaFayette Ave. Los Angeles, CA„ 90073 Mattoon, 1161938 South Bay Traditional Jazz Society (Cond. annual Decatur Fest.) Pat Ault or Larry Albee Good Time Jazz Club Box 9245 (408) 247-8415 Jim Wallace (312) 566-7333 San Jose, CA 95157 P.O. Box 577 Southern Calif. Hot Jazz Society Mundelein, IL 60060 Floyd Levin (213) 654-1510 Jazz Institute of 7055 N. Figueroa St. Kit Perrigo, Exec. Sec'y Los Angeles, CA 90042 P.O. Box 7231 (312) 421-6394 Colorado Chicago, IL 60607 Broadmoor Jazz Club Iowa 1403 Mesa Ave (3 0 3 ) 635-4690 Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society Colorado Springs, Colo. Don 0'Dette (319) 324-7170 Denver Jazz Club 2225 W. 17th St. Alan Granruth or Lou Anne Beebe Davenport, IA 52804) 1190 South Vine (303) 279-1620 Denver, CO 80210 Kansas Kansas City-Quivira Jazz Club Connecticut Dick Rippey (913) 631-8032 Connecticut Traditional Jazz Club Kansas City KS 66106 Dorothy Winslow Louisiana P.O. Box 3° New Orleans Jazz Club Wethersfield, CT 06109 Helen Arlt, Sec'y. (504) 897-0094 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Club of Conn. 1227 Webster St. John P. Johansen (203) 289-0050 New Orleans, La. 70118 349 Rye St. Nick LaRocca Dixieland Jazz Foundation Broad Brook, CT 06016 PO Box 5222 Florida New Orleans, LA 70150 Cent. Fla. Hot Jazz Society Massachusetts Betty Schaaf, Pres. & Editor Boston Jazz Society P.O. Box 5703 (305) 843-0972 P.O. Box 178 Orlando, FL 32805 Boston, MA 02134 New Old Jazz Soc. of Everywhere Cape Cod Jazz Society John M. Dengler (305) 763-3396 Jack Bradley, Pres. (617) 432-3416 1528 NW 10th PI. P.O. Box 333 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 Harwichport, MA 02646 Hawaii Washington Hall Jazz Society Honolulu Hot Jazz Society Bob Hamilton (413) 773-8081 Don Sharp (808) 533-1587 P.O. Box 287 941 Prospect St, Greenfield, Ma 01301 Honolulu, HI 96822 Michigan Indiana Detroit Hot Jazz Society Evansville Jazz Appreciation Soc. Jim Taylor (313) 521-3555 Bill Boyd (812) 424-0288 12311 Gratiot Ave. 5109 Sherbrooke Rd. Detroit, MI 48205 Evansville, IN 47710 Tailgate Marching Society Uliana Club of Traditional Jazz David E. Dutcher (616) 5^9-4246 Eddy Banjura (219) 923-6775 961 Princeton Blvd. 1129 Elliot Dr. Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Munster, IN 46321 Traditional Jazz Society Indianapolis Jazz Club 2060 Radcliffe, S.E, Bob 0'Friel or John Kercheval Grand Rapids MI 49506 P.O. Box 44312 (317) 849-4028 Minnesota Indianapolis, IN 46244 THE MISSISSIPPI RAG (publication) Leslie Carole Johnson (Ed. - Pub.) 5644 Morgan Ave„, South MnrmfismnUs. MN 55419 (612) 920-0312 Mississippi Long Island Traditional Jazz Soc. Howard Weinmann (518) 669-8152 New Bourbon St. Jazz Society P.O. Box 1242 R. Merrill Harris (601) 355-0216 W. Babylon, N.Y. 11704 P.O. Box 4545 Jackson, MS 39216 New Orleans Jazz Club of New York W. Ernest Lutz (716) 394-0705 Gulf Coast Jazz Club 3305 West Lake Rd. Bob Hill (601) 432-2863 Canandaigua, N.Y. 14424 523 Octave St. Biloxi MS 39532 Overseas Press Club's Jazz Club Wilma Dobie, Chairman (212) 687-2530 Missouri Hotel Biltmore, 55 E. 43rd St. St. Louis Jazz Club New York, N.Y. 10017 Jeff Leopold (314) 77I-7310 The Wings Club 3934 Flora Place Biltmore Hotel (212) 867-1770 St Louis, MO 63HO New York, N.Y. Nebraska North Carolina Lincoln Jazz Society Coon-Sanders Orig. Nighthawks Club 227 N 11th St Clyde "Pappy" Hahn Lincoln, NE 68508 Pleasant Garden, N.C. 27313 Omaha Jazz Society Dixieland Soc. of the Lower Cape Fear Howard St. Tavern (402) 342-9225 Dr. Harry Van Velsor (919) 762-4337 1112 Howard St. 1922 S. 16th St. Omaha, NE Wilmington, N.C. 28401 Nevada Jazz Footnotes Monthly Greg & Nan Cagle (919) 762-3819 N.O. Jazz Club of Virginia City 1513 Parmelee St. Box 423 Wilmington, NC 28401 Virginia City, NV 89440 Ohio Las Vegas Jazz Society Classic Jhzz Soc. of Southwestern Ohio

3459 Nakona Lane Frank Powers (513) 861-5924 Las Vegas, NV 89109 P.O. Box 653 New Jersey Cincinnati, OH 45201 New Jersey Jazz Society Cleveland Hot Jazz Assn. Warren Vache, Editor (201) 7^6-674l Ralph Grugel (216) 486-3571 836 West Inman Ave. 2570 Greenvale Rd. Rahway, N.J. 07065 Cleveland, OH 44121 New Mexico Friends of the Library Moe Klippert (216) 657-2291 Rio Grande Red Hot Chile and Jazz 6104 Riverview Rd. Box 188 Society Peninsula, OH 44264 Paul Wright (505) 268-1533 1900 Washington, N.E. Galion Jazz Appreciation Society Albuquerque, NM 87106 Charles & Evelyn Coleman New York 540 E. Brandt Rd. (419) 468-5871 Galion, OH 44833 Capital District Jazz Society P.O. Box 891 Traditional Jazz Society Albany, N.Y. 12201 John T. Bitter (216) 221-1020 14708 Bayes Ave. International Art of Jazz Lakewood, OH 44107 5 Saywood Lane (518) 246-6125 Stony Brook, N.Y. 11790 Oregon Hudson River Traditional Jazz Society Oregon City Traditional Jazz Soc. Carl Ripley P.O. Box 214 (5 0 3) 654-4240 Lake Rd., R.D. #1 Oregon City, OR 97045 Highland Falls, N.Y. 10928 Traditional Jazz Soc. of Oregon -1 Jazz Appreciation Soc. of Syracuse Cherie Otten (503) 849-2396 Richard Ames (315) 637-6398 Rt #1, Box 18 201 Euclid Dr. Yoncalla. OR 97499 Fayetteville, N.Y. 13066 Jazz Society of Oregon Jazz Heritage Society Robert J. Thompson (503) 254-6348 Vivian Yearwood (212) 658-0913 13025 N.E. Rose Parkway 16120 89th Ave. (P.O. Box 302) Portland, Ore. 97230 Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. 11423 Washington. D.C. Pennsylvania Potomac River Jazz Club Delaware Valley Jazz Fraternity Dick Baker, Pres. (703) 573-TRAD Joe Weigle (215) 637-0760 7004 Westmoreland Rd. 14303 Delaire Landing Rd. Falls Church, Va, 22042 Philadelphia, PA 11914 Washington Fugawee Jazz Cluh Parke Frankenfield (215) 868-18017 Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Soc. 4034 Easton Ave. Stephen Joseph (206) 305-2549 Bethlehem, Pa 18017 6l0-17"fch Ave. East Seattle, WA 98112 Pennsylvania Jazz Pete Pepke (8l4) 723-2810 West Virginia P.O. Box 185 N. Warren, PA 16365 Charleston Jazz Club Charles McClave (304) 342-5075 South Carolina 1430 Quarrier St. Carolina Jazz Society Charleston, WV 25301 Wes Baldwin, Pres. (803) 782-0162 Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Club Box 811 Bill Sutherland (304) 453-2254 Columbia, S.C. 29202 202 10th St. Tennessee Kenova, WV 25530 Memphis Jass and Society Wisconsin Robert DeShields, Pres. Unlimited Jazz, Ltd. 4607 Boyce St. (901) 685-6193 Memphis, TN Dorothy Gallas (4l4) 964-1392 PO Box 92012 Milwaukee, WI 53202 Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society Bruce Davidson Canada PO Box 50440 Abbotsford Jazz Society Nashville, TN 37205 Sandra J . Tait 7101 Sheffield Way Texas Abbotsford, B.C., Canada VOX 1Y0 Austin Traditional Jazz Club Climax Music, Ltd. 3805 Balcones Dr. (512) 453-7415 Box 38 3, Station F Austin, TX 78731 Toronto, Ont., Canada M4Y 2L8 Midland Jazz Assn. Harbourfront Jazz Club Max Christensen (915) 694-1304 York Quay 602 Petroleum Bldg. 235 Queens Way West Midland TX 79701 Toronto, Ont., Canada El Paso Jazz Club Bob Foskett, Dir. (915) 751-2878 Hot Jazz Club of Vancouver 8101 Magnetic 36 E. Broadway El Paso, TX 79904 Vancouver, B.C., Canada N.O. Jazz Club of California Ragtime Soc., Inc Bill Bacin, Pres. (512) 896-2285 P.O. Box 520 P0 Box 1225 Weston, Ontario, Canada M9N 3N3 Kerrville, TX 78028 Toronto Dixieland Jazz Society N.O. Jazz Record Society Bruce Bakewell, Sec'y. Box 462 40 Gerrard St., E. Suite 2409 Ingram, TX 78025 Toronto, Ont., Canada M5B 2E8 Odessa Jazz Association Dr„ 0.A . Fulcher (915) 332-2054 Duke Ellington Societies: PO Box 3668 P0 Box 31 Odessa, TX 79760 Church St. Station Virginia New York, N.Y. 10008 Goose Creek Jass and Ragtime Society Mr. Terrell Allen Nathaniel H. Morison, III 913 Hamilton St., N.E. The Windmill House (703) 687-6035 Washington, D.C. 20011 Middleburg, VA 22117

(Cont. on P 1 0 ) THE •Got a letter from a friend named Young the bench, I drew of a chair, and I from his letter 1 got terribly stung suppose that for well over an hour he said come to Uashington, D.C. he played over the old stuff. I to manage club for a woman do-ra-me called to his mind all that I could 4 said take the next train 4 leave think of, and then he let him self I suppose that most of the visitors to Sloryville enter­ it Las cold as hell 4 thot 1 freeze ramble on, playing whatever came ) ed by the way ol Basin and Iberville (('us t millions is Streets. he met me at the train to his mind out of the past. And The corner of these streets uns the nearest point to down­ in the snow 4 ice 4 rain at one p o in t in t h a t hour or so town New Orleans, ami habitues, gamblers, occasional call­ he said to me I know she will be please of s tir r i n g up my old musical mem­ ers, Idlers and slghl-seers usually meandered Into the district by that entrance. At this corner stood Turn Ander­ we went in the place, 4 the oil stove ories, Jelly Rqll played a long son’s cafe, the Arlington A Mux, a rather pretentious hit me in the face." stretch of music that was clear cut saloon with mirrors set ornately buck of the rich looking and very smooth, of a characteristic bar. Along the Iberville street side of the barroom were I don't doubt that, financially Spanish type, that sounded almost the several private booths, separated from the rest of the room speaking, the Washington night club same, if I can tr u s t my memory, as by a high partition. Musically speaking, I can't sfty that venture was unfortunate, both for what I stood and listened to that time t>y 1 ever beard much to Interest mu In the Annex', there was no Je lly Roll and the woman who went in front of Hllma Burt's. I am aware room for dancing, and practically none for an audience, and into the business with him. I always that memory Is a treacherous thing, 1 am Inclined to think that any presen­ found her agreeable, and apparently but I will always be pleased to believe tation of music was to add to the "gen­ Well lime passed, which ca n 't be teel* atmosphere of the place. Certain­ helped,--‘it's a kind of a way time lias. wall educated and informed. On that that it was Jelly Roll who was playing ly I have no recollecting of any playing World War 1 came along; Sloryville was March day I mention she and T sat by that time, long ago. there that had any claim to merit. abolished; New Orleans changed In many the oil stove and talked about cur­ In November 1939 Je lly wrote me Anderson had other saloons, outside of ways; 1 caiue to Wa s h 1 ng t on , [Hi r s nod a rent events until Jelly Roll arrived. from New York that he was going to Sloryville, at one of which (a cabaret college course, get married, almost, a c ­ As he entered the room and walked record the alhiun for General Records, on North ilaDipart Street near Canal) they quired the air of a settled married man; slowly over to where we were sitting, and that Mr. Sharles Smith would write used to dish out the re a l, raucous the old days seemed a long way off,and I he gave me the impression of a tired the book to go with It. I wrote him rhythm In large quantities, especially lost all contact with New Orleans music. man; Tie evidently felt the raw cold, and told him that I hoped he would be during festive seasons, like Mardl firas, One day In March lOJIH while a I the dinner for his overcoat collar was turned up able to record some of the smooth run­ when many tourists were In New Orleans. table 1 was glancing idly at a daily I always felt that a large part of the paper, when my eye struck the heading and he seemed to have pulled his ning Spanish type of music he had business of the Hampart Street place JKLT.Y ROM. CHARTS JA7.7., with a sub-head­ shoulders up to bring the collar played for me. I believe The Crave came from the visiting firemen, etc. 1 ing to tho effect that the "lleau of dates* closer about his throat. He really was the result,but am sure that Mssrs. understand that l.ouls Armstrong played was running a night club on 0 Street here was a sick man then, but no one knew Smith and Mercer had chosen The Crave at this place for a time. in Washington, where, despite his years, I t. As he came over, I got up and before 1 wrote. Jelly Roll had al­ I don't believe I ever heard how the be was playing with all of bis old time Introduced myself as an old friend of ready recorded The Crave and Creepy Arlington Annex git its name, but I did vigor. Toward the end of the article, Tony's from New Orleans; I told him 1 F eeling for Allen Lomax of the Libra­ hear that when the Arlington, which was Morton, in commenting on some of the had read the article about him In the ry of Congress. Creepy Feeling has down the Basin Street block from the early players lie had known, mentioned paper, and wanted to talk over the since been issued by Jazz Man Records. Annex, was temporarily put out of busi­ Tony Jackson as the "world's greatest ness by a fire, Tom Anderson graciously single handed entertainer". That was old times In New^Orleans. So we sat While these numbers have strong loaned Josle Arlington the Annex up­ enough for me. I immediately resolved to down by the oil stove that "hit me In Spanish characteristics, It Is my stairs while her place was being r e ­ Look up Jelly Roll and find out whatever the face",and warmed ourselves, more, humble opinion that there Is consider­ paired. There were several pretentious had happened to Tony. 1 made two attempts I believe, by the conversation about able Jelly Roll Morton in them. Com­ establishments In that block of Basin to find the place before I located it, the old days than by the heat of the pare their musical structure with that Street, the Arlington, Mahogany HqII, because the article called the place the stove. And to me Jelly's conversa­ of the last part of the Jelly Roll Hllma Burt'S and others. It was at the "Blue Moon Night Club", whereas the sign tion was Indeed warming; we discussed Blues which was published In 1915. I Burt house that Jelly Roll Morton spent hung up In front called It the "Music old places,old players and old tunes. don't believe that the Jelly Roll Box", and to make ll more difficult. It considerable of his ear 1y"profess orlng". Tony, he told me, had died In Chicago Blues part would be classed as Span­ 1 was not acquainted with Jelly In New was 1 oca tod on the second floor anil there "about 1911L or 1022, probably from ish, and The Crave and Creepy Feeling Orleans, I regret to say; he was there was no sign at all at the entrance. After all right, at least part of my Lime, but finding the Music Box, which Morton had drinking too much" over his many are very similar In structure. I I never met him, although 1 feel sure previously called "Jungle Inn", I galled years of entertaining. As we talked, asked Jelly Roll what kind of music that I heard him play. Perhaps the c ir ­ twice before 1 got to see him. On my he gradually became animated and lost he considered the final part of Jelly cumstantial evidence will be Interesting. second trip,Mrs. hyle, who 1 believe was the tired look he had when he came in Roll Blues, and lie replied that It was Although I made many pilgrimages his partner, told me that Jelly Roll and 1 saw that, as far as New Orleans something on the order of the Charles­ around and about Sloryville in the hope would come In shortly, and Invited me to was concerned we were congenial to n , but " i t came out before the that I might catch Tony Jackson playing wait. s p irits . Once In a while Mrs. Lyle Charleston did. where I could stand on the banquette and The Music Box was located at tlil 1 I' would comment briefly or ask a ques­ listen, many, times I was unsuccessful. Street, N.W., upstairs over a hamburger tio n . "Was Tony Jackson a lig h t So, as I strolled about I was always and soft drink stand. The entrance was ready to pause and listen to someone by a rather long stairway with a few feet colored man?" she asked. "Black", else who might be playing good music. of hallway at the street and upstairs; a said Jelly Roll, "Black as that The August Issue of the Record On one of these occasions I wus passing door opened onto the street and another stove/* On my first two visits to Changer Is before me, and 1 see that llllma Burt's when the piano could be opened Into the club. The club room was tli e Music Box, 1 never got to a.s k In a recent recollection, 1 uncon­ heard plainly from the sidewalk; usually large, and as my visit was in the after­ Jelly Roll to really play more than sciously came near achieving the high­ the sound of the Purt piano didn't reach noon, the room had a deserted look. There a few measures of music to Illustrate est pinnacle in writing, — that of sus­ that far, possibly because the little were seats all around,agaInst the walls, something we might be talking about. ta in ed su sp e n se . The Rev. J. 0. ballroom may have been two or three and .several tubles and chairs wore scat­ This seems very strange, but we had a Willowbeigh, writing under his nom de rooms back from the street. Hut on the tered about. To the right as one on to red, lot of talking to do to bring the old plume of Charles Edw. Smith, gratified night I re ca ll, the doors or windows on the opposite side of the room,was thei must have been open, and I could hear spinel and bench where Jelly Boll playud. New Orleans matters up to date. As 1 me no end by Intimating that Tony very well. The music was clear cut and The day I first got to see Morion was a was leaving after my second v is it 1 Jackson's published compositions might very smooth, and of a ch aracteristic cold,raw day In late March,and for heat said to him "Now when I come up here be of interest to someone beside my­ Spanish type, and like the well known In that large club room all they bad was the next time, Urn going to ask you self. So, if G. Gul licks on can afford brook, It Just kept running on. I lis­ a good a 1 veil oil stove; 1 L certainly - MIKTWS - OFFSFT COMPOSITION TYPE CSLO AODRESSIHG/MHILING Just to sit at the piano and play me to keep me on the payroll a l i t t l e tened for quite a while, and when the seemed totally 1 nadequato. Nerd never some of the old New Orleans tunes". longer, I promise to recollect a few playing stopped I strolled on, without told me the whole story of how bo happen­ So on my next v isit we went over to items about Tony's music,along with a trying to find out who the player might ed to land In hashlngtoii, but among l lie the spinel, Jelly seated himself on couple of. other numbers. be. Hut the beat of the music made an papers which he turned Ovor to n.e , I impression on me and kept going through found the following, apparently an Idea my head. lor a song, which Is rather Interesting: JANUARY 14, 1937 APRIL 22, 1938 (Odell Rand, clarinet, returns) (Acc. Johnnie Temple, vocal) Hallelujah Joe Ain’t Preachin’ No What is That Smells Like Gravy (63670) De 7456 DISCOGRAPHY OF M o re (C 91074) De 7299 Every Dog Must Have Its Day (63671) De 7495 What's My Baby Doin' (C 9 1 0 7 5 ) Fare You Well (6 3 6 7 2 ) “ It W as R ed (C 91076) De 7312 Stannn’ Chain (63673) Dc 7532 THE HARLEM HAMFATS County Jail Blues (63674) De 7456 MARCH 1. 1937 by ALBERT J. MCCARTHY G onna R ide 74 (63675) De 7532 I Feel-Like Gain’ to Town (C 91123) De 7339 APRIL 30, 1938 I '* Blues Jumped a Monkey and I’m So Glad (C 9 1 1 2 4 ) The story of the Harlem Ham tats was (Odell Rand returns) . . .. VO, told in a recent Jaxs Quarterly by E v elyn Run Him for a Solid Mile. Jam Jamboree (C 91125) De 7312 Featheringill. The following discography, as Mellow Little Devil (63662) De 7484* CM O ON (R e p e a t ) Down in the Shady Lane (C 91126) De 7351 far as I am able to judge, lists all the sides Barefoot Boy \ (63663) “ * i C i C v O they recorded— 117 in all. .And the Poor Fellow Lied Down APRIL 28, 1937 ♦(Also English Brunswick 03556) X to £ The output of the Hamfats was extremely I'm C uttin’ O ut ( C 91200) De 7351 And Crted Like a A alurai Child." Eri variable in quality, and it is necessary to Hoodooin’ Woman (C 91201) De 7367 OCTOBER 21, 1938 have about ten records to study every facet X ( U H I I O Morand backs McCoy beautifully in the I Love That ( C 9 1 2 0 2 ) (Acc. Rosetta Howard, vocal) of the group. The main interest lies in the secorid vocal chorus, and the drumming is Stom p it O ut G ate (91552) De 7640 o X a> xrlo'>— trumpet playing of Herb Morand, an artist first rate. MAY 12, 1937 of considerable talent, with an instinctive C andy M an (91553) De 7551 ■P >ONO\ - Of the accompaniments I prefer those to Baby, Don’t You Tear My Clothes (C 91244) De 7310 flair for the blues. He has a pleasant open Oh R id e r (9 1 5 5 4 ) De 7531 to w CM NO ON Rosetta Howard. Frankie Jaxon i$ a much You Drink Too Much (C 9 1 2 4 5 ) tone and his phrasing is reminiscent of Arm ­ better singer, but his second session has the MAY 21, 1937 Stay Avjay from My Door (91555) De 7551 ^ ^ rH strong—outside of the handful of “greats" flute-like outpourings of Bailey to divert tlie All on Account of You (9 1 5 5 6 ) De 7531 2 O.co there are few trumpeters who so ably accom­ I'm Alabama Bound (C 91268) Unissued attention. Rosetta Howard is a delightful . S H O Cs- pany blues singers. His growl style is rather VOCALION PERIOD: singer, she has a rich brazen voice, and four Empty Bed Blues (C 91269) De 7326 repetitive, but at times is effective as on such K -P H -—• .. 1 of the sides from the Oct. J. 1937, sessions (Unknown personnel. Vocals by Lil Allen, Alberta Smith records as IVeed Smoker's Dream. Odell MARCH 12, 1937 cd cd hP) cm are gems (De 7392 and De 7370). L e t y o u r and Hamfoot Ham) Rand can be moderately good on blues, but (Acc. Frankie Jaxon, vocal) Linen Hang Low with its delightfully o u O CNNO is very limited—his replacement by Buster T hat's G ain’ to R u in Y o u r Beauty S top V o 0 4 7 1 3 bawdy lyrics (M cCoy's voice trembles with Dirty Dozens (C 91130) De 7304 X TO Bailey, however, is a retrogression. The When the Sun Goes Down in Harlem anticipation as he says “I got a dollar and She Brings Me Down (C 91131) De 7286 rhythm section is competent, with John Lind­ M O CM t> - a half or more") has some wonderful work What Was You Doin’ V o 0 4 828 sey’s bass outstanding. Of the vocalists I Take It Easy Greasy (C 91132) De 7304 tp CD M n I — by Morand, and, he plays superbly on the Way Down that Lonely Road prefer Morand, who is to be heard 011 only W et It (C 91133) De 7286 other three sides. He really knows how to X X C NPi CM a few sides, particularly on the Buddy Petit JULY 20, 1937 Bartender’s Blues V o 0 4 8 7 0 a c c o m p a n y the singer. Ready for the River - P !H I ' O d tune Barefoot Boy. McCoy has an absolutely (Acc. Frankie Jaxon, vocal. Unknown trumpet and Buster toneless voice; I have seldom heard a less I do no? mean to overboost the Harlem Something Wrong with My Mind V o 0 4 925 NO Ph O Hamfats. Few of their records are really Bailey replaces Morand and Rand) musical singer; but now and then it is fitting. You’ve Had Your Last Good Time with Me •P - 3 - - - ' u Records which are fairly representative of brilliant, but in their better sides they reveal No Need Knockin’ on the Blind (62425) De 7360 1 cd • OnX -P the group are Oh’ Red, Southern Blues, a spontaneity and freshness in pleasant con­ You Certainly Look Good to M e (62426) De 7345 You Can’t Win in Here V o 0 5 1 3 6 Cd s—- r-H Jam Jamboree, Barefoot Boy and W e e d trast to the jump and jive efforts of many When My Love Has Come Down She Sends Me (6 2 4 2 7 ) > 5 > CD Smoker's Dream. The latter ,s my favorite; more famous contemporaries. O h B a b e V o 0 5 1 7 9 C/2 C hocolate to the B o n e (62428) De 7360 it has a surrealist atmosphere, and both Rami I would welcome information on the Vo­ You Brought M e Everything w Cd . . X c TO and Morand are in excellent form. McCoy's cation recordings, which I have not heard, OCTOBER 3, 1937 CD You Done Turned Salty V o 0 5 2 3 3 P X vocal is in perfect keeping with the atmos­ and on which records P. Williams and Ran­ (Acc. Rosetta Howard, vocal. Morand and Rand return) C5 to G W CD phere. Jam Jamboree is a spirited parade som Knowles replace Flynn and Lindsey. R oc kin M y s e if to S leep Let Your Linen Hang Low (62643) De 7392 L t O C i— ! - H piece, and O h ! R e d a good example of the Also any corrections on errors which may Business is Gone Away (wc 2721) Vo 05287 X Hamfats in medium tempo. Southern Blues be included. May I suggest that such infor­ I f Y o u ’r e a V ip er (62644) De 7370* Take Me in Your Alley (w c 2 7 2 5 ) M 3 -P .H CD -P has an Armstrong-like introduction by Mo­ mation should also he sent to Orin Black- Rosetta Blues (6 2 6 4 5 ) m X ttfrH .H -P rand, and then McCoy sings a slight varia­ stone for inclusion in the final version of (N ote: On certain accompaniments in the April 1938 ses­ It’s Your Turn (62646) De 7410 H C X X O tion on the well known blues verse: Index to Jaxs. sions, the clarinet does not playj Let’s Fall in Lcrve Again (6 2 6 4 7 ) o •H £ P Herb Morand (trumpet and vocals) ; Odell Rand (clar­ Worried Mind Blues (62648) De 7392 THE RECORD CHANGER X) X iH cd g inet) ; Horace Malcolm (piano); Fred Flynn (drums); ♦(Also English Vocalion 202) Pd U Sri Sri .H John Lindsey (bass); Joe McCoy (guitar and vocals); OCTOBER 6, 1937 P-t CP

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