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Selected Observations from the Harlem Jazz Scene By
SELECTED OBSERVATIONS FROM THE HARLEM JAZZ SCENE BY JONAH JONATHAN A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-Newark Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in Jazz History and Research Written under the direction of Dr. Lewis Porter and approved by ______________________ ______________________ Newark, NJ May 2015 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements Page 3 Abstract Page 4 Preface Page 5 Chapter 1. A Brief History and Overview of Jazz in Harlem Page 6 Chapter 2. The Harlem Race Riots of 1935 and 1943 and their relationship to Jazz Page 11 Chapter 3. The Harlem Scene with Radam Schwartz Page 30 Chapter 4. Alex Layne's Life as a Harlem Jazz Musician Page 34 Chapter 5. Some Music from Harlem, 1941 Page 50 Chapter 6. The Decline of Jazz in Harlem Page 54 Appendix A historic list of Harlem night clubs Page 56 Works Cited Page 89 Bibliography Page 91 Discography Page 98 3 Acknowledgements This thesis is dedicated to all of my teachers and mentors throughout my life who helped me learn and grow in the world of jazz and jazz history. I'd like to thank these special people from before my enrollment at Rutgers: Andy Jaffe, Dave Demsey, Mulgrew Miller, Ron Carter, and Phil Schaap. I am grateful to Alex Layne and Radam Schwartz for their friendship and their willingness to share their interviews in this thesis. I would like to thank my family and loved ones including Victoria Holmberg, my son Lucas Jonathan, my parents Darius Jonathan and Carrie Bail, and my sisters Geneva Jonathan and Orelia Jonathan. -
Los Angeles Times: Martha Tilton, 91; '40S Vocalist Know For
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-tilton12dec12,0,2930884.story?coll=la-news-obituaries OBITUARIES Martha Tilton, 91; '40s vocalist know for 'And the Angels Sing' By Dennis McLellan Times Staff Writer December 12, 2006 Martha Tilton, a popular big-band vocalist best known for her recording of "And the Angels Sing" with the Benny Goodman orchestra in 1939, has died. She was 91. Known as "Liltin' Martha Tilton" during her 1940s heyday, Tilton died of natural causes Friday at her home in Brentwood, said her granddaughter Maura Smith. In the words of George T. Simon, author of the 1967 book "The Big Bands," Tilton was "a young, pretty and effervescent lass" when she was singing with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra in the mid-1930s. Tilton didn't start recording, however, until she joined Benny Goodman in 1937. "To me, she was so unique because she didn't reinterpret the song that the composers gave her; she sang it straight, without her own styling or imprint on it," Chuck Cecil, longtime host of the Los Angeles-area radio show "The Swingin' Years," told The Times on Monday. "So many of them become song stylists and they sort of reinterpret the song," Cecil said, "but she sang it with clarity and with charm — and very successfully. I'd say one of the definitive records of the swing era was the song 'And the Angels Sing.' " During Tilton's time as vocalist with Goodman, the band made history when it performed the first-ever jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938. -
Big Band Arrangers of the Swing Era Selected List
Big Band Arrangers of the Swing Era Selected list Band leader Arrangers Tex Beneke Henry Mancini Jimmy Dorsey Tutti Camarata Sonny Burke Tommy Dorsey Paul Weston Sy Oliver Axel Stordahl Benny Goodman Eddie Sauter Buster Harding Fletcher Henderson Horace Heidt Frank DeVol Woody Herman Heil Hefti Ralph Burns Igor Stravinsky Harry James Leroy Holmes Dave Mathews Isham Jones Gordon Jenkins Hal Kemp John Scott Trotter Elliot Lawrence Gerry Mulligan Ray McKinley Eddie Sauter Red Norvo Eddie Sauter Artie Shaw Ray Conniff Johnny Mandel Buster Harding Charlie Spivak Nelson Riddle Claude Thornhill Gil Evans Leader/Arranger Arranger Count Basie Buster Smith Jimmy Mundy Andy Gibson Herschel Evans Cab Calloway Foots Thomas Harry White Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn Earl Hines Jimmy Mundy Budd Johnson Stan Kenton Pete Rugolo Bill Holman Andy Kirk Mary Lou Williams Earl Thompson Glen Miller Bill Finegan Billy May Claude Thornhill Gil Evans Bill Borden Gerry Mulligan Chick Webb Edgar Sampson Charlie Dixon Andy Gibson Herschel Evans Leader/Arranger Les Brown Benny Carter Larry Clinton Will Hudson Elliot Lawrence Russ Morgan Ray Noble Boyd Raeburn Raymond Scott Musicians in Bands that were Important Arrangers Leader Arranger Instrument Bob Crosby Bob Haggart bass Matty Matlock saxophone Deane Kincaide saxophone Jimmy Dorsey Tutti Camarata trumpet Joe Lipman piano Woody Herman Heil Hefti trumpet Ralph Burns piano Hal Kemp John Scott Trotter piano Gene Krupa Gerry Mulligan saxophone Jimmy Lunceford Sy Oliver trumpet Glen Miller Henry Mancini piano Artie Shaw Ray Conniff trombone Johnny Mandel trombone Charlie Spivak Nelson Riddle trombone . -
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And That's Jazz" Is a Hard-Driving Chicago- P.O
April 11, 2010 1:00 - 5:00 pm NVDJS NEWS NVDJS NEWS FIRST CLASS MAIL April-May 2010 And That’s Jazz Napa Valley Dixieland Jazz Society "And That's Jazz" is a hard-driving Chicago- P.O. Box 5494, Style traditional jazz ensemble that plays great Napa, CA 94581 American popular dance music of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. This six-piece group features vocals NAPA VALLEY and instrumentals by such great American song DIXIELAND JAZZ SOCIETY masters as Jellyroll Morton, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael and Sunday, April 11 Irving Berlin. The band's traditional front line Sunday, May 9 consists of Cornet, Trombone and Clarinet and is RENEWALS that are DUE 2010 supported by a classic rhythm section of Drums, 1:00-5:00 Tuba and Banjo. April pm Soren Bloch Gene Maurice Cornet, Leader Iver Egland, Catherine Harper John Soulis Trombone Jeff & Linda Green Embassy Suites Al Flood Reeds 1075 California Blvd Dave Richoux Tuba Bill & Nan Lawson Napa, CA Jack Wiecks Banjo, Charles Newman, Jutta Jacobs Bill Todd, Drums, Vocals Lynn Schloss Joan Simpkins May George & Jean Knoblauch May 9, 2010 1:00 - 5:00 pm Jack Ohringer Mission Gold Jazz Band NAPA VALLEY DIXIELAND JAZZ SOCIETY Large dance floor MEMBERSHIP With a name inspired by the golden hills Jammers Welcome above Fremont's Mission San Jose, Mis- Name_______________________________ sion Gold is an eight piece, two cornet Monthly Admission band consisting of a variety of multi- Address_____________________________ Donations talented musicians from all over the Bay City___________________Zip___________ NVDJS $8.00 Area. MGJB was formed in 1980 and has a Telephone:______________Date:________ Other Jazz Clubs $9.00 long tradition of performing the music of Other Guests $10.00 Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Lu Watters Standard Membership Single $20.00/year Youth (12-18 years) $3.00 and Turk Murphy. -
Jazzpress 0213
LUTY 2013 Gazeta internetowa poświęcona muzyce improwizowanej 2084-3143 ISSN Rozmawiają z nami Artur Dutkiewicz Cezary Konrad Oles Brothers & Theo Jörgensmann Adam Bałdych Skrzypce były mi pisane Podążam za muzyczną intuicją KONKURSY Adam Bałdych, fot. Bogdan Augustyniak i Krzysztof Wierzbowski SPIS TREŚCI 3 – Od Redakcji 40 – Publicystyka 40 Felieton muzyczny Macieja Nowotnego 4 – KONKURSY O tym, dlaczego ona tańczy NIE dla mnie... 6 – Co w RadioJAZZ.FM 42 Najciekawsze z najmniejszych w 2012 6 Jazz DO IT! 44 Claude Nobs 12 – Wydarzenia legendarny twórca Montreux Jazz Festival 46 Ravi Shankar 14 – Płyty Geniusz muzyki hinduskiej 14 RadioJAZZ.FM poleca 48 Trzeci nurt – definicja i opis (część 3) 16 Nowości płytowe 50 Lektury (nie tylko) jazzowe 22 Pod naszym patronatem Reflektorem na niebie wyświetlimy napis 52 – Wywiady Tranquillo 52 Adam Baldych 24 Recenzje Skrzypce były mi pisane Walter Norris & Leszek Możdżer Podążam za muzyczną intuicją – The Last Set Live at the a – Trane 68 Cezary Konrad W muzyce chodzi o emocje, a nie technikę 26 – Przewik koncertowy 77 Co słychać u Artura Dutkiewicza? 26 RadioJAZZ.FM i JazzPRESS zapraszają 79 Oles Brothers & Theo Jörgensmann 27 Koncerty w Polsce Transgression to znak, że wspięliśmy się na 28 Nasi zagranicą nowy poziom 31 Ulf Wakenius & AMC Trio 33 Oleś Brothers & Theo Jörgensmann tour 83 – BLUESOWY ZAUŁEK Obłędny klarnet w magicznym oświetleniu 83 29 International Blues Challenge 35 Extra Ball 2, czyli Śmietana – Olejniczak 84 Magda Piskorczyk Quartet 86 T-Bone Walker 37 Yasmin Levy w Palladium 90 – Kanon Jazzu 90 Kanon w eterze Music for K – Tomasz Stańko Quintet The Trio – Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen 95 – Sesje jazzowe 101 – Redakcja Możesz nas wesprzeć nr konta: 05 1020 1169 0000 8002 0138 6994 wpłata tytułem: Darowizna na działalność statutową Fundacji JazzPRESS, luty 2013 Od Redakcji Czas pędzi nieubłaganie i zaskakująco szybko. -
A Few of Goodman's Stellar Sidemen As the Movies Captured Them
NEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA A Few Of Goodman's Stellar Sidemen As The Movies Captured Them «itienten Gene Kruj i, Harry Jame«, and Ziggy Elman, Gootlman composition called HwW’a Dream. from left to right- Î iird picture. from the 20th Century- hi« little daughter. public interest. Chambei jazz, whetted a musical appetite that slack by expanding. His early Bouquets' To stemming from a meeting between Benny <^ahed in on. Just how far training had been in classical mu Richards Named Goodman ano Teddy Wilson at the Goodman band would have sic and now, recognized as u mas Mildred Bailey’s, became a highly gone had Fletcher Henderson not ter of his instrument, he ventured Discovery Director Benny Goodman acceptable <diom. been available to provide the back into longhair fields. Hollywood — Johnny Richard) »Jumped from Page 1) And with the introduction of bone of -ts early book is one of There was a natural inclination Wilson to his entourage—and those self-defeating question! on the part of the residents of has been named general music di studio man, and cut innumerable later, Lionel Hampton, Charlie In any event, it was with Hen- those field - to look askance at this rector of Discovery records. The skies with Pollack men and Red Christian, and Cootie Willliams «le -ion’s arrangements many of invasion. They smelled a slight spot ha> been vacant since the Nichols. -Goodman modi thi’ first effec them strait it out of Henderson’r odor of publicity stunt. But ever resignation of Phil Moore. The Goodman story, like that tive rent in the idea that musi personal library — that Goodman the years, starting with a record Richards’ first assignment will ui Bix, has bee one of the leg cians bad to be grouped accord got started and the idiom was ing with the Budapest String be to prepare a series of albums ends of jazz, sufficiently so to have ing to racial distinctions. -
The Recordings
Appendix: The Recordings These are the URLs of the original locations where I found the recordings used in this book. Those without a URL came from a cassette tape, LP or CD in my personal collection, or from now-defunct YouTube or Grooveshark web pages. I had many of the other recordings in my collection already, but searched for online sources to allow the reader to hear what I heard when writing the book. Naturally, these posted “videos” will disappear over time, although most of them then re- appear six months or a year later with a new URL. If you can’t find an alternate location, send me an e-mail and let me know. In the meantime, I have provided low-level mp3 files of the tracks that are not available or that I have modified in pitch or speed in private listening vaults where they can be heard. This way, the entire book can be verified by listening to the same re- cordings and works that I heard. For locations of these private sound vaults, please e-mail me and I will send you the links. They are not to be shared or downloaded, and the selections therein are only identified by their numbers from the complete list given below. Chapter I: 0001. Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)/Scott Joplin, piano roll (1916) listen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5iehuiYdQ 0002. Charleston Rag (a.k.a. Echoes of Africa)(Blake)/Eubie Blake, piano (1969) listen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oQfRGUOnU 0003. Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa, arr. -
(With Chick) for Two Terrific Sides!
RECORDS Chicago. February 15. 1940 Chicago tootin’ not only by the liadet but also by Jerry Jerome, and Johnny Waller Dock (With Chick) Guarmeri’s piano—heard here for the first time on records—comple ments the band well. The rhythm section rocki- along right smartly For Two Terrific Sides! in a good groove. Reverse is i>oor, Ziggj s trumpeting carboning his BY BARRELHOUSE DAN old “Bei Mir” style—a style not conducive to kicks. No vocals. The Because Fats Waller year after Unfortui ntely, however, Mr. Han dy, on the first two, occupies most entire band, except for Noni Ber- year remain« one of the moot pro nardi, is out of i.i n p group. lific of the recording artists, he too of the grooves- -vith pretty sad vo often in overlooked by those who cals. Only Madison’s ten->r breaks Mildred Bailey buy the new jau dist* In almoat through for kicks. The latter coup every weekly batch of RCA-Victor ling finds Mr. Handy blowing a trumpet, and badly. Higginbotham releases, one finds a Waller record Hardly fair samples of Miss ing. Among the current ones are gets ,i a solo on each side but hii tone is frightful. Hall’s clarinet is Bailey’s ability, these sides are “Darktown Strutter's Ball'' and “I noteworthy in that she contrasts Hot di Can't Give You Anything But Love," the only bang. Fans who are senti her new “chamber background” accused c two old evergreens that get royal mental will probably enjoy all of music of piano, drums, trumpet, musical v treatment via the Malic n»-thud these, but for those who are more bass clarinet, two clarys, English are calle and which reveal Eugene Sedric to critical, or must watch their dimes horn, bass and guitai with her be a strk'tlj 18-karal. -
Great Escape Vol. 5
THE GREAT ESCAPE!* ♪ *“Anything that is good jazz is a great escape. When you’re involved in playing or listening to great jazz, no one can get to you.” -Woody Herman Vol. 1 No. 5 November/December 2007 Presented by: www.dixieswing.com Buddy Hughes: One Night on the Stand with Thornhill By Bob Knack While rummaging through my record room recently, I the most exciting band ever.” In the review, DB magazine came across a dusty cardboard box containing a morsel of real reported that Vannerson had recently left the band leaving treasure. It was an October 21, 1946 copy of Downbeat Thornhill without a personal manager or press agent making it Magazine, with the headline, “Claude Thornhill, Band of the difficult for the band to compete for bookings. Year”. The article highly praised the Thornhill band reviewed “After playing some smaller eastern ballrooms and “live” at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. theatres,” Buddy continues, “the appearance at the It saved the highest accolades for the guy singer, Pennsylvania was a big event for the band, and had the Buddy Hughes, saying he had “the freshest, best voice to be attention of show business and band personalities who packed heard with a band”. I asked my friend and Glen Ellyn, Illinois the place for the big night”. “I was introduced by my manager resident, Buddy to reminisce about this night and his time with to Mildred Bailey, Paula Kelly and the Modernaires, Les Brown the CT band, and, as always, he brought the era back to mind (with his arranging pad in hand), singer Buddy Clark and many with his stories as if it were yesterday. -
Charlie Mariano and the Birth of Boston Bop
Charlie Mariano and the Birth of Boston Bop By Richard Vacca The tributes to alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano that have appeared since his death on June 16, 2009 have called him an explorer, an innovator, and a musical adventurer. The expatriot Mariano was all of those things—a champion of world music before anyone thought to call it that. Mariano was known for the years he spent crisscrossing Europe and Asia, but his musical career began in Boston, the city where he was born. In the years between 1945 and 1953, he was already an explorer and innovator, but his most important role was as a leader and catalyst. He helped build the founda- tion of modern jazz in Boston on three fronts: as soloist in the Nat Pierce Orchestra of the late 1940s, as a bandleader cutting the records that introduced Boston’s modern jazz talent to a wider world in the early 1950s, and as the founder of the original Jazz Workshop in 1953. Born in 1923, Mariano grew up in Boston’s Hyde Park district in a house filled with music. His father loved opera, his sister played piano, and starting in his late teens, Charlie himself played the alto saxo- phone, the instrument for which he was best known throughout his life. By 1942, Mariano was already making the rounds on Boston’s buckets of blood circuit. The following year he was drafted. It was Mariano’s good fortune to spend his two years in service playing in an Army Air Corps band, and while stationed in California, he heard Charlie Parker for the first time. -
Earshot Jazz Festival in November, P 4
A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community Nov 2005 Vol. 21, No. 11 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle, Washington Earshot Jazz Festival in November, P 4 Conversation with Randy Halberstadt, P 21 Ballard Jazz Festival Preview, P 23 Gary McFarland Revived on Film, P 25 PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN EARSHOT JAZZ A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community ROCKRGRL Music Conference Executive Director: John Gilbreath Earshot Jazz Editor: Todd Matthews Th e ROCKRGRL Music Conference Highlights of the 2005 conference Editor-at-Large: Peter Monaghan 2005, a weekend symposium of women include keynote addresses by Patti Smith Contributing Writers: Todd Matthews, working in all aspects of the music indus- and Johnette Napolitano; and a Shop Peter Monaghan, Lloyd Peterson try, will take place November 10-12 at Talk Q&A between Bonnie Raitt and Photography: Robin Laanenen, Daniel the Madison Renaissance Hotel in Seat- Ann Wilson. Th e conference will also Sheehan, Valerie Trucchia tle. Th ree thousand people from around showcase almost 250 female-led perfor- Layout: Karen Caropepe Distribution Coordinator: Jack Gold the world attended the fi rst ROCKRGRL mances in various venues throughout Mailing: Lola Pedrini Music Conference including the legend- downtown Seattle at night, and a variety Program Manager: Karen Caropepe ary Ronnie Spector and Courtney Love. of workshops and sessions. Registra- Icons Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart tion and information at: www.rockrgrl. Calendar Information: mail to 3429 were honored with the fi rst Woman of com/conference, or email info@rockrgrl. Fremont Place #309, Seattle WA Valor lifetime achievement Award. com. 98103; fax to (206) 547-6286; or email [email protected] Board of Directors: Fred Gilbert EARSHOT JAZZ presents..