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Ilgihletter 93024-0240 December 1990 V01 P.O. Box 240 Ojai, Calif. ilgihletter 93024-0240 December 1990 V01. 9 N0. 12 brochures, newspaper cuttings, handbills, etc. Mail Bag At the risk of overstretching your generosity, if you have copies of any of your books available, these would also help During the Great Depression, a man came into a soup kitchen the cause. and, because he couldn’t see very well, needed help filling out If we can reciprocate in any way, do let me know. the forms. The next day, a volimteer brought him an old pair Kind regards, of magnifying glasses. The next week she brought a shoebox Graham Langley fiill of discarded glasses. Librarian This was the start of what is now known as New Eyes for British Institute of Jazz Studies the Needy. Based in Short Hills, New Jersey, they supply 17 The Chase, Edgcumbe Park qlilions of glasses to people _all over the world. They don’t Crowthorn, Berkshire, RG11 6HT cit money, only discarded jewehy, glasses, and old trmkets. England In my work, I visit schools all over Maine presenting a jazz improvisation workshop. I’ve recently been to Vinalhaven with If anybody on our side of the Atlantic has anything to a talented, spirited group of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade kids, contribute, I know that Graham will deeply appreciate it. who are determined to have a band. There, as in most other schools in Maine, there are kids who want to play an instru- ment and whose families can’t afford it. Rental to purchase plans are available, but for a lot of families, $20 to $40 per The Good Gray Fox month for a musical instrument just isn’t possible, so another kid falls through the cracks. Part Two I would like to ask the readers to look in their attics and storage places. If Uncle Harry’s old trombone is there, maybe I told Lou Levy, "I heard once that somebody asked Stan Getz we can polish it up and get it into the hands of some deserv- for his defmition of a perfect saxophonist, and he replied, ‘My ing kid. It won’t do the squirrels much good, and besides, technique, Zoot’s time, and Al Cohn’s ideas.’ I don’t know if Uncle Harry might be pleased to know that, thanks to him, it’s apocryphal or true." some kid was making music. "That’s true," Lou said. "Stan told me that. And I’ve told I can fmd good homes for almost any instrument. it to other people. Stan’s a fantastic musician. He’s like a If this works, we may need help collecting and even storing Yascha Heifetz with the saxophone. As Stan Levey once said, instruments, establishing nonprofit status, etc. the instrument is like an extension of his head. But he speaks Perhaps people would contact me directly at 149 Maine reverently of Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. He loves them forever ‘eet, Brunswick, Maine 04011, or phone me at 207 725-5825. and ever. This is a very new idea as far as musical instruments are "I think of Al a lot. I miss him so much. He was a special concerned. But it certainly is not a new concept. New Eyes person, as well as a special musician. There’s no one left to has been going strong since 1932. play with. That’s why I like to play with Stan Getz. With all I don’t know who the man was who needed the glasses. But due respect to the younger guys, it’s different. Something’s the volunteer who found him a pair was my grandmother, Mrs. different. I don’t know whether the tradition is missing or Arthur Terry. what, but something’s different. Facility they’ve got. They’ve Brad Terry got all of that. We still have Hank Jones and Tommy Brunswick, Maine Flanagan. Kenny Barron plays great. Tommy is wonderful. He is so understated. Perfect taste. No effort. Brad Terry is a fine clarinetist and, in addition, is one of the "But I miss Al Cohn. And I remember how all the guys in world’s unbreakable idealists. And here’s another oganization Woody’s band looked at him." that can use help: "That band was pretty strung out when you joined it," I said. "Woody told me some stories about it. Some of them funny, Many thanks for your continued support. I hope it doesn’t some of them not so funny. And both Zoot and Al told me sound sycophantic to say that the Jazzletter is probably the about it too. That’s how Al lost his eye, he told me. An most valid jazz periodical available anywhere and I consider it infection from a bad needle. He said, ‘Losing your eye, that’s to be a most valuable addition to our collection. a pretty good reason to quit.’ And Zoot told me he got into The BIJS has been going since the mid-60s and serves to a car with a girl he was going with and drove to California. provide a resource for students, discographers, researchers and He said he withdrew in the motel rooms along the way. And just the plain enthusiasts who want to read about jazz in all its they both stayed straight." forms. Unfunded, we struggle on with generous help from "Well," Lou said. "Heroin was the drug of the period. Pot people like you and now have almost certainly the largest was already old hat. Cab Callaway was singing songs about it collection of material in the United Kingdom: 1,700 books, and making jokes about pot. And Harry the Hipster. Heroin about 10,000 periodicals plus masses of material like concert was a serious habit, but that was the drug that everybody was using at the time. I got into it." of ballrooms in the middle of nowhere. The guys were either "The guys who got into it either got out of it or they aren’t playing baseball or playing music. That was the big thing. We here." had a damn good baseball team for guys who used to be not "Pretty much. There are a few who are still around who are so healthy. We beat a lot of people, including the Harry into it. We don’t have to name names, we all know who they James band. He was real serious about baseball. Not just, are. I was not serious about it, not serious like some of the ‘What instrument do you play?‘ but ‘What position do you guys who aren’t here any more. l got out. It took me a la ?’ while. I fmally just got disgusted with myself and gave it up." P "ii/Ve played Les Brown’s band. We’d get to a town and we’d "Do you want me to leave this out of the conversation?" play the Legionnaires or the Boy Scouts. We had games "Oh no, it’s okay," Lou said. "I don’t mind talking about it." everywhere. It was great, I loved it, staying in hotels, eating "Woody told me once that he was so naive he couldn’t figure in joints. I played left field. Not a very good hitter, but a out why his band kept falling asleep." pretty good fielder, and I could throw pretty good. Until I got Lou laughed. "Oh Woody! I remember Woody’s expression. arthritis‘ in my arm. , He’d just look at us! He didn’t even shake his head. He’d "Woody was very good to me. He gave me plenty of rooy just look. He never said anything to anybody that I can to learn the book, to learn how to fit in. I didn’t realize tha recall." I was learning without realizing the process. I learned how to "I know he tangled with Serge Chaloff about it once," I said. do it. I learned how to play Summer Sequence and the little "Serge being the band druggist. And yet it never affected the things in the intros. I’d heard the records enough to know. quality of the music in that band." When a new thing would come in, he’d say, ‘Make an intro.’ "Oh! The quality of the music was very important to them. He’d give the guys in the band an approving look without They were very conscious of their image. What they were looking at me. doing in their hotel rooms or on the bus or at intermissions "They’d already done Four Brothers. I didn’t do the Colum- was one thing, but on the bandstand they were real music- bia sessions, I just did the Capitol sessions. Lemon Drop and conscious. We’d all look for the opportunities to play. Early Autumn and those things. Not Really the Blues. Sometimes Woody would get off the bandstand for the last set "I roomed with Terry Gibbs. and go home. We’d drag out all the arrangements we really "I lucked out when I was with Woody when we went on a loved to play, Johnny Mandel’s Not Really the Blues, and play national tour with the Nat Cole Trio. So I got to hang out them. There was so much we loved to play in the band with Nat a lot. He’d just got married to Marie. We played anyway, Neal Hefti and Al Cohn stuff. The soloists were a theater with him in Toronto. I took him shopping. I found always at their best. In a theater, we’d find a piano in some a clothes shop, the English Clothes Shop on Bay Street.
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