SARASOTA JAZZ

SoundsWinter 2021

Drummer Al Hixon Photo courtesy of Carol LoRicco

Inside Al Hixon Retires

330 S. Pineapple Ave, Suite 111 2021 Sarasota Jazz Festival Sarasota, FL 34236 941.284.2176 Ken Franckling’s Jazz Notes www.jazzclubsarasota.org and much more! Sounds Staff SARASOTA JAZZ Sounds Editor Susan Leavis Contributors More ambitiously the Jazz Club recently Carol LoRicco From the President announced preliminary plans to produce an outdoor jazz festival, Swinging Club Photographer Under the Stars, in collaboration with Ken Franckling of The Jazz Club Nathan Benderson Park on May 9th-13th. Ed Linehan The festival will feature The Manhattan Nancy Roucher Transfer and Ken Peplowski will curate a lineup of international stars. Carlos Pagån Dear Members and Friends of The Jazz Club of Sarasota, Yes, we know it might be too soon. That is why a final decision to hold the festival Board of t Last! Our Jazz Club has finally returned to planning will not be made until March 31st. We will Directors and presenting jazz events. On Thursday February have everything in place and organized 11th, exactly eleven months since our last event, Ed Linehan to start selling tickets then, but only if The Bridge Series will be launched with the first President the virus numbers are way down and of four monthly live-streamed concerts. That night if vaccine inoculations are way up. We George McLain will feature two excellent area have engaged expert guidance from groups: ARIELLA with Ariella Vice President the Public Health College at USF and McManus and Nicolaas Kraster; Debbie Silver* from Sarasota health officials. A final and THE BARKER PROJECT, a Secretary "Go / No Go" decision will be based on new seven-member group lead scientific health safety standards and Peter Anderson by bassist Johnnie Barker. The local conditions as we approach March Bridge Series is a collaborative Treasurer 31st. Care will also be taken to keep at a effort of Fogartyville/WSLR and bare minimum the Jazz Club’s financial Peg Pluto the Jazz Club. However, the exposure. With all that in mind, we Immediate Past series was the brainchild of are happy to ask you to SAVE THESE President three people – Peter Anderson, DATES for Swinging Under the Stars, Louise Coogan & Mark Lourie Directors the 2021 Sarasota Jazz Festival. More – who saw the need for more Louise Coogan detailed information is available on the live jazz in Sarasota to help Jazz Club Website. Mark Gruder “bridge” the gap created by the Prince Knight corona-virus. They brought all At this point I cannot predict the Don Levine Ariella and Nicholaas the pieces and people together likelihood that this event will actually and made the series happen. happen. I am, however, confident that Carlos Pagan We are grateful that they did. if conditions have sufficiently improved, we will be ready to enjoy a safe and Nancy Roucher* While these concerts are essentially live-stream successful Sarasota Jazz Festival. Taylor Wald events, the plan is to offer a limited number of in- Dave Walrath* person seats on future nights if the community health Lenore Walsh* risks are sufficiently diminished. You can find ticket Respectfully, and other information inside this edition of Sarasota Johnnie Barker Bob Weitz Jazz Sounds. Tickets are available now on Eventbrite.

Honorary Board Ed Linehan, President Members Dick Hyman Please note: The new phone number for The Jazz Club is 941.284.2176. Bob Seymour* *Life Members 941.284.2176 • www.jazzclubsarasota.org WINTER 2021 3

Jazz Club of Sarasota any of us have wondered how

we would have done in college if an upsetting pandemic had happened in our time. We askedM some students about this during the Tribute Concert for Blake Bennett and " via email to our current students. We were relieved to get good reports. There is the usual “given” – not the college experience they expected, especially David Mason Christopher Faison due to personal interaction with other in the Era of a Pandemic students being severely limited. Academic courses are fine on Zoom and Erik Hempel music classes and music performances are different but worthwhile. What the students have noticed is that they are learning a lot about music composition Joshua Platt and their own performing skills have improved greatly. Life is very confining but concentration on their learning is free I have been able to learn some Anthony Ingle from distractions. The colleges are doing unbelievably valuable lessons over their best to fully educate the students. Some students even felt that their musical Zoom, and my playing has gotten better, knowledge and performances have been even better than expected by this time. although it is not as efficient or rewarding Young people can be so positive. We have Luca Stine students at five Florida Universities. One as in-person performances. It is a work in answered our inquiry, “I have been able to learn some unbelievably valuable lessons progress, and I believe there are positive over Zoom, and my playing has gotten things to be learned from this different better, although it is not as efficient or rewarding as in-person performances. It experience. We all must adapt to the is a work in progress, and I believe there are positive things to be learned from this times, which is easier to accept now that different experience. We all must adapt Noah Charles Liam Kaiser to the times, which is easier to accept we know the vaccine is our light at the now that we know the vaccine is our light at the end of the tunnel.” Another student end of the tunnel. commented that their school has been free of corona virus cases this whole year, which was a comforting thing to hear. ” Dylan McHann Bob & Vern Weitz

Co-chairs, Scholarship Committee Jason Charos

4 WINTER 2021 941.284.2176 • www.jazzclubsarasota.org WINTER 2021 5 BROUGHT TO YOU BY WSLR and Fogartyville in collaboration with Blake Bennett The Jazz Club of Sarasota The Tribute Concert Bridge

Virtual Gates open at 7:00 pm Series Performances begin at 7:30 pm ast fall, one of our scholarship students, Blake Bennett, was killed in a hit- and-run accident. He was riding his scooter in Tallahassee when a speeding car hit him. He Ldied in an instant. Later, the police were able to apprehend the driver. February 11, 2021 Blake graduated from Pine View High School and was a resident of Sarasota. He received a scholarship Ariella/The Barker Project for each of his four years at Florida State University. Blake was admired and liked by both teachers March 11, 2021 and students. He was admired for his relationship Berimbau/Hot Club SRQ with others, his thoughtfulness, and his kindness. In addition to our scholarship students, we heard One example was when he was rehearsing in a music from Blake’s old high school friends, a large April 15, 2021 small practice room and noticed a young lady group from Florida State, previous Jazz Club Michael Ross Trio visibly upset and pacing around. He inquired scholarship students, and current Pine View jazz about her situation and learned that she had an combo students. Blake had been a member of the featuring Fred Johnson/TBA audition coming up and was not prepared. She Pine View Jazz combo during his high school years. could not rehearse because all the rehearsal The concert was the idea of Isaac Mingus, a May 20, 2021 rooms were full. Upon hearing this, Blake said current student at New College, who knew and Gumbi Ortiz and Groove City/Synia Carroll she could use the rest of his reserved time. In admired Blake from when they both attended addition, he offered to stay and listen to her and Pine View. He did a masterful job of organizing TICKETS: give her guidance so she could pass her audition. the concert, contacting all our current and former $10 Sarasota Jazz Club/Fogartyville/WSLR members Being a freshman away from home can at times be scholarship students, and other musicians in $15 Non-members Florida, by telephone. Those who were available a lonely and frightening experience. His generosity, $25 for those that will host a watch party! kindness, and sound advice brought back her performed brilliantly. Without a rehearsal, the A limited number of rain or shine outdoor tables of four will confidence and her audition was successful. various musicians played amazingly well together in groups and as an ensemble. It was a brilliant be available for $40 members/$60 non-members. Blake’s reputation as a musician and a fine success and provided those of us who were young man were well known among his peers. (March - May shows only) Blake’s admirers a closure of sorts. We are grateful At the tribute concert were students from all over to Isaac for his work on this meaningful tribute. the state. Our Jazz Club scholarship students from other colleges throughout Florida came to Bob & Vern Weitz play at the outdoor concert, which was held on Co-chairs, Scholarship Committee CLICK HERE FOR December 27 on the Pine View campus with plenty of space for safe distancing. TICKETS

6 WINTER 2021 Presented by The Jazz Club of Sarasota in collaboration with Jazzlinks Nathan Benderson Park gin win g under the stars Goes Virtual! S Sarasota This Joint Is Jumping by Nancy Roucher esival Nathan Benderson Park

he Covid-19 Pandemic has changed – but teaching materials and saw a sample Tnot stopped – Jazzlinks, the Jazz Club’s of the performance which is focused on MAY collaboration with the Westcoast Black The Harlem Renaissance, including the 9-13 Theatre Troupe to bring history to life Great Migration and the opportunity for Save the Dates! for 11th grade high school students in freedom in the North, in contrast with 2021 Sarasota and Manatee County. the struggles African Americans were Schools have eliminated field trips and facing in the South. outside groups coming into schools. So The performance will feature the “stars” this year’s version of Jazzlinks has been of the Harlem Renaissance , featuring modified and will be “Zoomed” for a portrayals of Langston Hughes, W.E.B. classroom session and a performance DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Billie with the technology making it possible to Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway FEATURING include a discussion with students. Josephine Baker, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, The project couldn’t be more timely in Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. The Manhattan Transfer view of the national discussion on equality Individual schools will schedule their class- and recognition of the contributions of room sessions and performances in February. Ken Peplowski and many more! African Americans in U.S. History. “I am delighted that Jazzlinks is happening A Teacher Workshop for language this year, in spite of the virus, and that arts and social studies teachers was our students will learn more about Jazz,” held from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. on said Nancy Roucher, coordinator and Tickets on sale April 1, 2021 January 20th. Teachers previewed the founder of Jazzlinks.

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Around that same time, maybe 1941, the guy who took care of the bands that came through town made sure that I got taken out of school to hear the Gene Krupa band play in the early afternoon. When the set was over, he took me backstage to meet Krupa. He took me over to his drum set and asked me to play it for him. Al Hixon I remember the drums were full of water because of the metal rim on them. It was By Ed Linehan his sweat from finishing with his big drum boogie finish. He gave me a picture and signed it. I don't know where it is now. It said, "Every good wish for your complete success, Gene Krupa." 1947 University of Massachusetts Orchestra EL: Al how did you first get introduced to Jazz? During the down time of the last ten AH: In seventh grade they didn't have months Al made the decision to retire a drummer in the high school band, so from performing. He felt that after nearly they would have me go to the high school 85 years of playing and lugging his drum and play the percussion parts. That was kit around (since the age of seven) it was always fun. My interest in jazz really came time to let others continue the jam when from the high school marching bands. live performances resume. Those bands played with a 6/8 tempo. It has been said that the only constant When you play 6/8 music, you swing, 4/4 in life is change. While that may well be doesn't swing. I would love to play that true, it is difficult to believe we won’t be stuff. Also, like most high schools, there listening to Al lead his band and guest was a little swing band formed. They or the last thirty years or so if you were newly relocated to the Sarasota area, or a artists on Monday nights anymore. We played at proms and sock hops and all snowbird or a tourist and you wanted to know where you could hear some great jazz it are very pleased that Al agreed to be that sort of thing. I was their drummer. interviewed for this month’s Sarasota wouldn’t take long before you were told about Al Hixon’s Jazz Jam. That’s exactly how I There I was in junior high, playing with Sounds Magazine. learned about Al’s Monday night jam held on the second floor of the old 15 South Ristorante high school guys and getting paid. That located just a few feet off of St. Armands Circle. EL: Al I am sure people would like to know was pretty good. What a scene. A hundred or so people sitting or standing shoulder to shoulder for three more about your personal history. Where did hours struggling to get the attention of a waitperson. Al’s house band tunning up while Al you grow up? Was your family involved in adjusted the antique sound system. The band frequently included Billy Marcus on keys, music? John Lamb on bass and Al pulling double duty on drums and serving as emcee. On any AH: Worcester, Massachusetts. No, my given night a dozen or so guest musicians and vocalists were invited to join the band for family was not at all musically inclined. But a tune or two. Those players represented a wide range of talent including active or semi- we had a family friend who played in the retired professionals, young players looking to jump start their nascent careers, and a few house band at the movie theater. He would amateurs just excited to be to be on stage with some of the best local musicians. do the horses hoofs and the goose whistle This weekly, in season event was a little like going to church. The crowd was mostly made- and all of that stuff to the silent screen. up regulars sitting in the same seats each week. People “caught-up” with each other as When talking movies came in, in the mid they waited for the music to begin; and if you missed a night or two they wanted to know '30s, he got laid off and he gave me all of where you had been and if you were okay. These jazz congregants where much more than his equipment. I was just a young kid at an audience, they were a community. that point. I would say age seven. In those days, you practiced on a wood block. So, Last season new ownership took over the restaurant with new ideas for the space, and I sat in front of the window and there was then the pandemic hit and everything came to a halt. The jazz scene since then has been a thing there that we put the wood block relegated to CDs, radio and streamed events on the internet. Not bad, but not the same as on. I would practice away, looking out the sitting with friends and listening to or making live music. window at the kids playing football. continued 10 Recent photos courtesy of Carol LoRicco 941.284.2176 • www.jazzclubsarasota.org WINTER 2021 11 SARASOTA JAZZ Sounds

AH: Gosh, it’s difficult to remember. EL: Al, that’s a good segue to my last question. I think I put a band together for some In addition to your musicianship, you are well event, and I had a tape of it. I drove known for your bandstand humor. Some to the Buccaneer Inn, which no longer might say infamous. Do you have a story you exists. I got the owner to come out and would like to share with us here? sit in my car and listen to the tape. I told AH: Yes, yes. Here goes. It was a dark him I wanted to try to run a jazz jam on and rainy evening, and I was driving in Monday nights. We were there for many, Colorado. I saw this old Indian walking many years at the Buccaneer. The place along the side of the highway. I pulled was sold out. over and opened the EL: As you think door. I asked him if back to all those he would like a ride. Left to right - Dan McMillion (trumpet), Judi Glover (piano), Al Hixon (drums), Terry Plumeri (bass) and Alex Glover (vocals) years that you did He said, "Ugh," and the Monday Night he got in. Well, I EL: Did those experiences lead to the area. Their drawings were destroyed jams, who are some wanted to know becoming a professional musician? because their office was right beside the of the players that about life on the made up your core reservation. Did he AH: No, my mother wouldn't let me go on river. They asked me to help restore the group? have a squaw? Did the road as a musician. It's a good thing. drawings. I would drive to Simsbury once he have children? She knew that was not a good future for a week from the university and I'd drop off AH: Well, of course, What was it like? her son. I had an uncle 14 years older everything that I had done, and I'd pick Billy Marcus and Dick I couldn't get him than me and I just loved that man. He up another batch of work and take it back Corn and Charlie to say anything. was a landscape architect. That's why I with me. After I graduated with honors Prawdzick. Mark Finally, he looks went into that field at the University of from my master's program, they hired Neuenschwander down between us Massachusetts. But I stayed involved with me full time. That got me into Simsbury, would play, and on the seat and he music. In 1947, when I was a freshman, Connecticut. John Lamb, Barry says, "What's in I rolled my drum case up to the music It wasn’t long before I went off to establish Backus, Bruce Wallace and Dominic bag?" I said, "Oh. It's a bottle of wine. I department on campus when I got there. my own firm. Within a year I was doing Mancini. Then there were countless players got it for my wife." He looked me straight And this guy opened the door. He had just very well. Most landscape architects who would sit in like Dave Morgan, James in the eye and said, "Good trade." gotten off the road with Jerry Wald. He work in a two or three town area, but I Suggs, Pete Barenbregge and a great said, "You're a drummer?" And I said, worked from Miami to Montreal. I was trombone player from Colorado, Louise EL: LOL! That my friend is a classic Al "Yes, and I need to store my very fortunate. The harder you work, the Wilson to mention just a few. Hixon story. Thank you. I know I speak stuff." He said, "You and I are luckier you get. I didn’t play much music EL: Al, you know one of my reasons for for all your audiences over the years that going to form the UMass during the time of my landscape career. calling you to do this interview was that I have shared Monday nights with you when "The I say thank you for the music and for the dance band." That resulted EL: When did you first start to live in the recently learned that you decided to retire community you helped build. harder you in the orchestra that I Sarasota area? from playing and as a band leader. Could played with throughout you tell us a little bit about that decision? AH: Thank you, it has been my sincere AH: In the early '60s, I had a satellite work, the my time at college. pleasure. office on St. Armands Circle. Have you AH: After 77 years of lugging drums all luckier you After graduation, I joined heard of the Burnt Store Marina? Well, I around, don't you think it's time? I said get." the UMass faculty and designed that. Before that, there was an to Dave Morgan, "Dave, you play this gig taught graduate design and apartment project. I had an apartment and keep it going. I'm going to retire. I'd The Blue Groove the advanced senior design here for my crew that were doing projects like you to take over my gigs." So, I did course, which was all good. It paid in Florida. I was doing a round trip every it on my terms. A week later the virus Sunday’s my way through my master's degree. 10 days between the office in Connecticut hit and everything started to close. I During that time Dottie and I were married and the office in Florida. Many year’s later, would’ve been fired. It's all about timing. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm and began to have a family. And hopefully, once we get beyond these as I retired, we started living here during WSLR 96.5 FM or stream WSLR.org It just so happened that the head of the the season, returning to New England for health issues and we get to a new normal, landscape architecture department came the summer months. Dave will be able to resume a jazz jam at Featuring Blue Note era jazz from the late some location. He'll do a fine job. If he out of an office in Connecticut and in '55, EL: When did start playing music in the 50’s through the 70’s as well as choice needs me on a stool with a microphone there was a terrible flood through Avon Sarasota area? and Farmington and all of those towns in occasionally to help MC or do the voice R&B and Blues classics. stuff or whatever, that's fine.

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The Jazz Club of Sarasota is a proud supporter of online! You’recontinued continued 14 Metropics Radio 15 invited to explore its daily 24/7 program schedule with just a click on the site’s home page; www.MetropicsRadio.org SARASOTA JAZZ Sounds Click to pay membership JAZZ CLUB OF SARASOTA PANDEMIC BLUES BECAME THE NEW STANDARD MEMBERSHIP renewal now! othing in jazz performance venues. The seemed untouched National Endowment for the Arts, APPLICATION Nby the novel corona Jazz Foundation of America, the virus, aka COVID-19. Louis Armstrong Educational In short, freelance Foundation, the New Orleans musicians, live music Jazz & Heritage Foundation, venues of all sizes and Germany's Musikfonds, and the locales, promoters and National Independent Venue artist reps took a big hit Association created relief funds During this diffi cult time with Corona Virus Pandemic placing all the Jazz Club live economically because of to assist arts organizations, the lockdowns. presenters and musicians who events on hold for the foreseeable future your continued membership is vitally lost work due to the pandemic. important to the Jazz Club. Please continue to support the Jazz Club with your Virtually all jazz festivals Arts philanthropists and record scheduled after mid-March companies also pitched in. A membership so the club can continue to Keep Jazz Alive in Sarasota! were cancelled. That few clubs helped keep musicians meant no New Orleans, afloat by streaming remote no Newport, no Monterey, performances to audiences no Montreal, among many sitting at home. Others, most others. A few, including notably Jazz Standard in MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION / one person per form the Detroit Jazz Festival, New York and Twins Jazz in Bucky Pizzarelli It’s Your Way to Support Jazz in Sarasota live-streamed via the Washington DC, closed their internet without in-person doors permanently due to the audiences. Spain's San pandemic's economic impact. Membership $75.00 per person for 12 months based on the date of enrollment Sebastian Jazz Festival, Norway's Oslo Jazz Festival More than 60 musicians and Please remit check to: Jazz Club of Sarasota, 330 South Pineapple Ave. Suite 111, Sarasota, Florida 34236 and Austria's International industry-associated figures Jazz festival Saalfelden succumbed to the virus, or Pay Online at: www.jazzclubsarasota.org/join-now were scaled down with including, most notably, Henry strictly controlled smaller Grimes, Lee Konitz, Mike MEMBERSHIP DUES $ 75.00 audiences and precautions Longo, Ellis Marsalis, Bucky In addition to membership, I would like to support young jazz musicians with a donation to the scholarship fund. $______in place. Pizzarelli and Wallace Roney. TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $______Performers who recovered Musicians, many of whom from COVID-19 included live a gig-to-gig existence brothers Chris Brubeck, Dan Name: ______unless they had teaching Brubeck and Darius Brubeck, income, felt the pinch most who caught it on a European Street Address: ______City: ______State: ______Zip: ______acutely. Most live concerts tour; pianist Nachito Herrera, and club dates evaporated, saxophonists Bobby Porcelli with very few resuming and Carol Sudhalter, and Phone Number: ______E-Mail Address______when safe-distancing and trombonist Ron Wilkins. other precautions could be taken. On the bright side, players embraced Lee Konitz ______I would like to volunteer for the Jazz Club of Sarasota. Please select one or more areas below. new technology, including Zoom and Facebook ______Membership ______Jazz at Two ______Jazz Festival or Outdoor Concerts ______Offi ce Help broadcasts, to perform and sometimes Ken Franckling is a veteran arts writer record from their living rooms as much and freelance photographer specializing in Please also list any special expertise (i.e., tech, speaking, etc.). ______to maintain some artful sanity as use music photography. ______virtual tip jars to collect contributions kenfrancklingjazznotes. from supportive listeners. Driveways, blogspot.com/ front steps and nearby parks also became The Jazz Club of Sarasota, offi cial registration SC-03656, meets all requirements specifi ed by the Florida Solicitation of Contributions Act. The Jazz Club of Sarasota does not contract professional solicitors and 100% of funds received go directly to programs of the organization. A copy of the offi cial registration and fi nancial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer Services by calling toll-free, (800-435-7351), within the State. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the State. 16 WINTER 2021 WHERE STARS SHINE, NIGHT & DAY.

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