Membership Meeting: October 2012 Tuesday, October 13th, 2012 Vol. 72 No. 9 @1:00 pm

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TRICK OR TREAT Local 10-208 of AFM AFL-CIO FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OFFICERS – DELEGATES 2011-2013 Gary Matts President Terryl Jares Vice-President Spencer Aloisio Secretary-Treasurer Terryl Jares Gary Matts BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Robert Bauchens Bob Lizik Rich Daniels Janice MacDonald Frank Donaldson Leo Murphy B.J. Levy Why File? CONTRACT DEPARTMENT One of the obligations of union membership is the filing of a union contract with the Terryl Jares – Vice-President 50th Anniversary ICSOM Conference Nancy Van Aacken local for all engagements. There are many “reasons” members chose not to file a contract, but the most frequent reason I hear is that members don’t feel it gets them anything. Last August the International Conference of Symphony and Opera benefit to work closely with our fellow local labor organizations and lend ASSISTANTS TO THE They pay work dues for nothing. Well, I have a story to share with you. PRESIDENT - JURISDICTIONS Musicians held its 50th anniversary conference in Chicago. I had the our support to those working men and women, so we will have earned Terryl Jares - Vice-President The TVK Orchestra was hired to perform at a wedding this past June at the honor of addressing the conference on this historic occasion. Below is the right, if and when such a time comes, to call upon them for support. Supervisor - Entire jurisdiction Oconomowoc Lake Club in Oconomowoc, Wi. The job was out of our jurisdiction my welcome address and a correction from ICSOM founding member And of utmost importance, we must make the effort to talk with our including theaters and most bands would think, “Well, since I’m in another state and in another local, the and retired CSO percussionist Sam Denov. fellow orchestra musicians and help them understand how crucial it is (Cell Phone: 312-310-4100) Chicago Federation of Musicians can’t do anything for me, so I won’t file a contract.” to all our well-being, theirs and ours, that they support our bargaining Dean Rolando Fortunately, Tom VanKanegan didn’t think this way. He filed a contract for the job Recordings, Transcriptions, August 22, 2012 efforts. Managements’ strategy is always to divide and conquer. in our local and we forwarded the contract to Local 193, Waukesha. He received the Solidarity is our most powerful response. We, and all our colleagues, and Documentaries, Etc. (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) deposit from the mother of the bride and put together a 7 piece band for the gig. They Chairperson Ridge, ICSOM Officers, Governing Board Members, managements alike, must understand and keep in mind that while the arrived on time, set up and waited for the reception to begin. DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE Delegates, A.F.M. President Hair, A.F.M. Officers, A.F.M. Local Officers two sides may be in an adversarial position, we are not and must never The caterer took too long getting the food served which forced the band to abbreviate and Guests of this, the 50th Conference of the International Conference be enemies. It is to our mutual benefit that we come to agreements that STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL their set. The bride’s mother didn’t hear her favorite songs. Then the caterer told the band of Symphony and Opera Musicians: enable us to provide the world with the music that is its life blood. ORGANIZATIONS they were too loud and the guests couldn’t talk! How many freelance players have heard I am honored to welcome you all to the City of Chicago, the In closing, as a native Chicagoan my civic pride requires I remind Spencer Aloisio Gary Matts that? The bride’s mother refused to pay the bill! Now what? birthplace of ICSOM, where, fifty years ago, in May of 1962, thirty you all that Chicago is a magnificent city, with a lakefront second in Terryl Jares Tom called my office. I immediately called the bride’s mother to find out what musicians met at Roosevelt University, only several blocks from where beauty to none in the world. We have extraordinary palaces of culture, DELEGATES TO CHICAGO happened. I left a message, called again, another message, but no returned phone call. we meet today, and forged what has grown to an organization of not the least of which are the Field Museum, the Art Institute, the FEDERATION OF LABOR AND At this point, I wrote her a letter asking for a response. After two weeks and no answer, it 4000 musicians from 51 orchestras. From that modest beginning, we Museum of Contemporary Art, the Adler Planetarium, the Museum of INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL was time to get our attorney involved. have experienced a veritable revolution in the relationships between Science and Industry. I could go on but won’t; they are all worth your Rich Daniels Gary Matts Mr. Robert Greenberg of Asher, Gittler & D’Alba took over. He tried calling, writing orchestras and their managements. Things we now take for granted time. And we have fantastic restaurants too numerous to mention. Terryl Jares and finally prepared the necessary paperwork to sue. When notice was sent of the were not even dreamt of fifty years ago, but through the process of I hope you will have time to avail yourselves of the wonders our city DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE impending lawsuit, guess what? Tom VanKanegan received a check for the remaining collective bargaining, and solidarity and unity between fellow musicians has to offer. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS money owed. and between orchestras, we have improved our professional lives to an And I want to thank those who have worked so hard to make Spencer Aloisio Terryl Jares Now, what would have happened if a contract wasn’t filed? I might have gotten a extraordinary extent. this conference a success, the ICSOM officers and board members, Rich Daniels Gary Matts Frank Donaldson But not all is well in our orchestral world. We are constantly on the conference coordinator Bill Buchman, assistant conference coordinator phone call from the member, offered my sympathy, and said, “There is nothing I can Alternates: do” and sent them to Pro Se Court. This becomes even more difficult when working in threshold of change. Who among those visionaries of fifty years ago Tom Reel, and Chicago orchestra delegates Matt Comerford, Rachel Leo Murphy Larry Bowen could have foreseen the changes that have occurred in our profession? Goldstein and Dale Newton. A special thanks goes to the delegates here another state. For the investment of $42.84 in work dues, Tom had the reassurance that Who among us here today foresaw the onset of the Digital Age, the EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO the union was working for him. present for having made the commitment to attend this conference. Terryl Jares Internet, the iPod and iPad, the smart phone, and the iTunes model Your service in representing your colleagues and your dedication to the of distributing our work product, that have so radically changed our mission of ICSOM has assisted musicians in making significant gains PRESIDENT EMERITUS Ed Ward Signs Agreement personal and professional lives in a single decade? in professional standards and has contributed to the growth of ICSOM On Saturday, September 15th, the musicians of the Chicago Sinfonietta Our collective bargaining successes have resulted in orchestra and enabled it to thrive during these first fifty years. VICE-PRESIDENT EMERITUS Tom Beranek overwhelmingly ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. Since last year, the managements, individually and cooperatively, attempting to win back Finally, this is Chicago’s first ICSOM conference. It took only fifty musicians voted for representation, elected an orchestra committee and bargained with our gains, both monetary and in “quality of life” working conditions, years for the Conference to make its way back to Chicago, the place of BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITUS their management. Thanks go to chairman Bob Everson, Bob Barris, John Fairfield, Carol that we fought so hard to attain. We are clearly at a crossroads, with its birth. I don’t know what took you so long, but in view of this fact, Ruth Marion Tobias Lahti, Michael Shelton and Dileep Gangolli, President Gary Matts and our attorney Pat orchestra bankruptcies, reorganizations and attacks on industry I propose to establish a tradition that you return here on each fifty year Collins of Asher, Gittler, & D’Alba. standards. We need each other now more than ever. It is crucial that anniversary, and more frequently as the opportunity presents itself. In Open Daily, except ICSOM orchestras continue to cooperate and share information, and support of that new tradition, let me be the first to invite you back to Saturday, Sunday and Holidays collectively defend and support the ICSOM orchestra family, as well as Chicago in 2062 to celebrate “ICSOM: The First One Hundred Years.” Office Hours 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. our brothers and sisters of ROPA, and OCSM. Wally [Kujala], Sam [Denov] and I look forward to being here to All Phones: 312-782-0063 (24 Hrs.) We believe it is true, as the poet proffers that no human being --- greet you. AFM WEB SITE: www.afm.org NOTICE TO MEMBERS man or woman --- is an island…..but that applies not only to us, who Thank you. CFM WEB SITE: www.cfm10208.com make the music, but also to the managements and boards who give us Address all e-mail to the Section VIII, G. 1. of the CFM By-Laws: On all engagements, whether the opportunity to do so. Both Management and Musicians now have One correction: Sam Denov informed me that ICSOM did meet in Secretary/Treasurer: single or steady, all contracts must be executed upon the appropriate the unprecedented ability to innovate cooperatively in many areas Chicago in 1970. I thank Sam for the information and stand corrected. [email protected] contract form of the Chicago Federation of Musicians and filed with the related to employment, including media, promotion, and community Secretary-Treasurer prior to the commencement of the engagement. involvement. But we must emphasize the word “cooperatively” and make clear we will strongly resist having any such contract changes unilaterally thrust upon us. To that end, as union members, it is to our Cover illustration provided by Chris Nolan Creative. 2 Intermezzo October 2012 October 2012 Intermezzo 3 The Nichol’s Concert Hall backdrop, dozens of extras, trucks band with JUNIOR WELLS, he soon programs are scheduled as follows: and trailers, costume racks, catering gained renown as a star performer. - Friday, October 26, 7:30 pm: Billy and security surrounded the building * * * * * Strayhorn: Lush Life_Film Screening on Monday, May 14 for a long day of As he celebrates his 80th year with a and Panel Discussion. filming. The episode will air as part stellar performance at Showcase - Saturday, October 27, 7:30 pm: of season two beginning August 17. and the release of Double Exposure, TERELL STAFFORD Quintet. “his best album so far,” FRANK Trumpeter Stafford is director of jazz Though the show’s main character, D’RONE’s performance at the By Ruth Marion Tobias studies at Temple University and has Mayor Tom Kane, played by 2011 earned him just released “This Side of Strayhorn.” Golden Globe winner, KELSEY great critical acclaim and a lament - Sunday, October 28, 3.00 pm: an GRAMMER was not on set, though that he “was not featured at night on afternoon concert featuring the MIC several major cast members were the main stage where he belong(ed).” GOOD OLE SUMMERTIME celebrating BILLY STRAYHORN jazz faculty which includes PAT present” (from Nichols Concert Hall Now that his 24th concert season at Nichol’s Concert Hall October MALLINGER, sax; VICTOR website.) ALSO... at the Prairie Arts Center is a fait 26-28. The Strayhorn saga is an GARCIA, trumpet; AUDREY From LAWRENCE BLOCK, who accompli, FRANK WINKLER amazing story of Billy’s three decades MORRISON, trombone; BOBBY founded the Highland Park Strings bid adieu to almost 3000 spectators as DUKE ELLINGTON’s primary BROOM, guitar; STEWART in 1979, an attorney and co-principal composer/arranger of “some of the MILLER, bass; ERNIE ADAMS, cellist as well as general manager of most gorgeous American music of drums.” Special featured guests the orchestra: “I have the beautiful this century.” Remember “Take the _ include Stafford along with vocalist book on VUILLAME by GREINER A-Train”, “Lush Life”? Classic TAMMY McCANN and clarinet/ with magnificent photos of the Strayhorn. MIC’s honorary festival saxophonist VICTOR GOINES instruments. It was published on Rich Daniels committee is co-chaired by ALYCE with the Northwestern University his 200th “Geburtstag”. There were CLAERBAUT, President of Billy BRUCE MATTEY and special guest Jazz Ensemble. only 2,000 published. I have #676. Strayhorn Songs, Inc. (a family vocalist BRADFORD NEWQUIST. Perhaps someone would like it. corporation of Strayhorn heirs) Kelsey Grammer Blankets or lawn chairs, food and In her MIC jazz studies program, If so, please contact me at: and CLARK TERRY, world- beverages were de rigueur there Audrey recently directed a week-long [email protected].” class trumpeter. The impressive Frank Winkler as well. And the performance was agenda, “The Art of the Jazz Band” IN THE NEWS roster of other committee members filmed and taped and now on at the school’s Winnetka campus. Blues musician BUDDY GUY held MENSA INVITATIONAL... who came to relish his Symphonic includes star entertainer ANN YouTube, so anyone can reprise The 21-member big band rehearsed sway at the Chicago Public Library from the Washington Post. Readers Pops Orchestra finale. On that lovely, HAMPTON CALLOWAY, bassist this summertime goody by clicking and performed music by BILL book signing, discussing his new again were invited to take any word, gentle-breeze evening in late August, JOHN CLAYTON, entrepreneur on either youtube.com/user/city HOLMAN, FRANK FOSTER, alter it and supply a new definition, we can tell you it was a very rousing (Jazz Unites) GERALDINE de lightsorchestra?feature=mhee or DUKE ELLINGTON, THAD such as: success. His forward look and promise HAAS, MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, citylightsorchestra.com/video.html JONES, JOHN CLAYTON and INTAXICATION: Euphoria at for next year’s program brought huge MANNY FOX, VICTOR GOINES, others. MIC jazz faculty members getting a tax refund which lasts until applause. This summer concert venue Strayhorn biographer DAVID GOOD STUFF FROM ERNIE ADAMS, FRED SIMON and you realize it was your money to in Schaumburg is such a perfect, HAJDU, , DR. AUDREY MORRISON VICTOR GARCIA assisted her in start with. enjoyable place to be for an open- NELSON HARISON, HERMENE Audrey is the Director of Jazz Studies working with the band. The ensemble GIRAFFITI: Vandalism spray-painted air evening of music. The program HARTMAN, QUINCY JONES, at the Music Institute of Chicago. Her included two scholarship recipients very, very high. honored our service people, it bowed ROBERT LEVI, TONIE-MARIE interesting news is the Jazz Festival of the BILL MAY (Chicago educator SARCHASM: The gulf between the to the American vaudeville stage and MONTGOMERY, TERELL and trumpeter) Jazz Education Fund author of sarcastic wit and the person never-to-be forgotten songs with sing- STAFFORD, Chicago’s WBEZ-FM established by MARIANNE MAY: who doesn’t get it. alongs when appropriate. Sandwiches, host RICHARD STEELE and DR. MATT CAPONE, trumpet (student Buddy Guy CATERPALLOR: The color you turn chips and a bottle of wine, ala RICHARD WANG. of PHIL FEO) and CARLOS after finding half a worm in the fruit Ravinia, added to our free evening of GARCIA, bari-sax (student of autobiography: When I Left Home, My you’re eating. enjoyment. DAVID ORTIZ.) For more MIC Story, co-authored with DAVID Yikes! and Tee Hee. jazz class info: go online to RITZ. Buddy came to Chicago in In the same vein, RICH DANIELS www.musicinst.org/jazz-studies the 1950s from rural Louisiana where and his City Lights Orchestra he was born in 1936. His first gigs serenaded the South Side with a AND DID YOU KNOW... as a session guitar player for Chess Concert in the Park, another annual “After scouting several locations Records were followed with work in freebee. KLEIN Park at 9700 South for the staging of a political debate the bands of MUDDY WATERS and Audrey Morrison Homan Avenue, Evergreen Park for the STARZ TV show Boss, HOWLIN’ WOLF. Later forming a hosted his 35 musicians plus vocalists Nichols Concert Hall was selected. LINDA CLIFFORD, SUZANNE With beautiful sunny weather as a PALMER, MARK MADSEN,

4 Intermezzo October 2012 October 2012 Intermezzo 5 By Jack Zimmerman

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I remember getting on the bus hearing Kenton at McCormick Place, Soon enough the lights went down, at 79th and Western. It was warm – but gradually, as the date of the concert Kenton came out, sat at the piano probably in May. It was definitely approached, their ranks thinned. On and the band started playing. All that 1962. I remember that clearly because the day of the concert, there were only sound was breathtaking. We not only it was the same year an English three of us going – an accordion player had never heard anything like this, we clarinetist named Acker Bilk recorded who could write arrangements, a tenor couldn’t even imagine anything like “Stranger on the Shore,” which for a saxophonist who eventually wound up this. And those arrangements – not at time was at the top of US pop charts. in the priesthood, and me. We all wore all like the dance band stock charts That year I was a high school junior suits because that’s what we thought we were used to playing. One tune who played trombone. This was pre- men who went to concerts did. followed another, and finally, they got rock America, so my high school dance to their treatment of West Side Story. band had arrangements of every Glenn We were young and musically Miller tune known to man. We also naïve, unsophisticated to say the least. played stock arrangements of modern And here was a band of virtuosos all stuff (modern for 1962) -- tunes fused together, not just playing the like “Theme from Exodus,” “Baby music of West Side Story but inhabiting Elephant Walk,” and David Rose’s it. We sat there in our cheap suits and “The Stripper.” let those primal rhythms and waves Although I had played plenty of sound wash over us. It was as if the of high school dances and owned band were a large, passionate animal numerous recordings, I had never heard that could charm, dazzle and inspire. a live performance by professional jazz After it was over, we were silent. Life Member Party musicians. It wasn’t anything I had Not a word passed among us. The avoided. It’s just that in the early 70s question in everyone’s mind but on Members of the Union for 50, 60, 70 and 75 years will be honored. jazz was rarely performed except in nobody’s tongue was this: how could th bars and clubs and if you were under we ever go back to our mundane Date: Friday, October 19 , 2012 21, you were out of luck. musical lives of dance band stock Time: 12:00 Noon to 3:00pm That was the whole point of getting We got into the theater, the curtain arrangements, Rubank method books, Place: Union Headquarters on the Western Ave. bus that warm went up and there on the stage was the and concert band music like “Amparito Sunday afternoon. Some of my friends biggest jazz band any of us had ever Roca?” 656 W. Randolph St., Suite 2W and I had discovered that Stan Kenton seen – five trumpets, five trombones, As I sat alone on the Western Ave. Chicago, IL and his band were to play a concert at four saxes, a full rhythm section and bus on my way home that night, I McCormick Place. I knew of Kenton – this was the most remarkable part realized that music was something vast, Featuring the music of through his recordings. Early on I – four mellophoniums. They looked deep, and wonderful. That was 50 years bought Standards in Silhouette, like bell-front French horns, but at that ago. I’ve had that same thought plenty Michael Alongi and Friends an album of slow-dance ballads time, none of us had ever seen a French of times since then. Please RSVP by Any photos or memorabilia that sounded like Jackie Gleason’s horn – at least in-person. Seeing those But that one afternoon spent in a October 5th, 2012 you care to bring with you Music for Lovers without the strings. mellophoniums that afternoon was like cheap suit listening to Kenton and his Call 312-782-0063, ext. 136 At first, many kids in my high gazing at a rare life form. For some mellophoniums has always stuck will add to the festivities! school band were enthusiastic about reason, Kenton was very big on them. with me.

6 Intermezzo October 2012 October 2012 Intermezzo 7 where young Earle Lavon Freeman -- who was born Oct. 3, Chicago immigrants, 1923, according to his birth certificate -- routinely brushed was first professionally up against them. (Discrepancies on Freeman’s age were produced by the Bailiwick widespread until the Tribune located official records in Repertory Theater in 1995. 2011.) The piece honored the selflessness of the turn “I got all this music by osmosis,” said Freeman in the of the century captains Tribune interview. and crews from Northern Freeman used that freedom from commercial pressures to Michigan and Wisconsin pursue a music that was as unorthodox as it was intellectually “ used to come by from the time I was about who risked their lives, Von Freeman demanding, as idiosyncratic as it was deeply autobiographical. 3 years old, and he’d always say to me, ‘Hi Pops,’.” recalled more for duty than profit, 1923-2012 In this sense, he represented the quintessential jazz musician, Freeman, pointing to the era when Satchmo was enjoying his on a lake they knew like first blush of success as a Chicago bandleader and emerging the backs of their hands, Chicago jazz legend, saxophonist forged his own path forging a musical voice that was unique to him, an art that was Chicago Tribune photo influential but ultimately inimitable. recording artist. “Earl Hines came over, and Fats Waller but that could easily played this (Starck) piano of mine.” ensnare them. Each holiday season – first at the Bailiwick, Revered around the world but never a major star, worshipped “You hear one note, you then at Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana, and most by critics and connoisseurs but perpetually strapped for know that’s his sound,” Howard Reich, Arts Critic recently at the Mercury Theatre on Southport Avenue – Chicago Tribune cash, the towering Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman Fred Anderson, another “Schooner” made its welcome return, captivating Chicago- practically went out of his way to avoid commercial success. iconic Chicago tenor area audiences with Shannon’s rousing, moving melodies, such When trumpeter Miles Davis phoned Freeman, in the 1950s, saxophonist, once said as “We All Have Songs,” “What Is It About the Water?” and “ looking for a replacement for John Coltrane, Freeman never of his colleague. “It’s The Blessing of the Branch (Pass It On).” It is an uncommonly returned the call. a personal sound. You Julie Shannon emotional piece and, for some, a sign that Christmas has can tell he listened to all arrived again in Chicago. Cecily Strong, who joined the When various bandleaders -- from Davis to Billy Eckstine to the guys -- he listened 1941-2012 cast of “Saturday Night Live,” got her early theatrical break King Kolax -- tried to take him on the road, where his talents to Lester Young and Composed the musical “Christmas Schooner” playing one of the young roles in the show. The show has since could be heard coast to coast, Freeman regularly turned them Charlie Parker; he took licensed and produced nationally, becoming one of the most often staged musicals to come from Chicago. There have been, down. His refusal to leave Chicago during most of his career, a lot from a whole lot of Julie Shannon, a resident of Glenview and the composer except for the briefest out-of-town engagements, cost him people and created Von Reeger said, more than 150 productions in the last few years. Chicago Tribune photo and lyricist of the beloved Chicago holiday musical incalculable fame and fortune but also enabled him to create Freeman.” “The Christmas Schooner,” died September 12th from cancer, some of the most distinctive, innovative work ever played or Shannon (who also went by Julie Shannon Geller) also said John Reeger, her longtime friend and collaborator. Also a composed a show titled “Stones” (starring Felicia P. Fields), recorded on a former schoolteacher in the Deerfield public schools, Shannon tenor . That sound seduced some listeners and puzzled others, but another collaboration with Reeger, as was her “Let the Eagle was 71. “Julie had a passion for human decency, kindness Fly: The Story of Cesar Chavez.” Their latest collaborative no one could mistake it for anything but that of the great and social justice,” said her husband, Bill Geller. “We have And his devotion to the city where he was born, 88 years ago, Vonski, as he was affectionately called by friends and admirers. musical, “The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Homes,” is in developed lifelong friends, members of our family, from the workshop process. Geller said Thursday that he hoped that made him a Chicago jazz icon honored with major tributes Sharply acidic in the top register of the instrument but full our work on Julie’s shows. For Julie, there wasn’t much of a in , Millennium and Grant parks, as well as and throaty down below, whinnying and squealing in some latest show would still reach full production. “Julie was such line between life and art.” “Julie’s shows were her children,” a sweet, sweet human,” Reeger said, noting a quality that sails standing-room-only crowds for his weekly gig at a remote bar passages, whispering tenderly in others, Freeman’s tenor work Reeger said. “She kept every word that was written about on East 75th Street, the New Apartment Lounge. This year, he utterly defied categorization. Every sweet-sour note, every every Chicago Christmas with her warm-hearted show, which them. The way “Schooner” became such a part of the Chicago will be back at the Mercury this Christmas in what now is became one of the few Chicago-based musicians to receive a intricately etched phrase, it seemed, was crafted to sound as Christmas has meant so much to her.” Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment for the unexpected and as intensely expressive as possible. likely to be an especially resonant production. In addition Arts, regarded as the nation’s highest jazz honor. Freeman died to her husband, Julie Shannon is survived by her sister, The show most certainly occupies a special place in Chicago Beverly Armant. Saturday at Kindred Chicago Lakeshore care center of heart If Freeman’s widely idolized contemporaries -- tenor gods just as its composer was beloved in the theater community. failure, said his son, Mark Freeman. such as the mighty Sonny Rollins, the charismatic James “The Christmas Schooner,” the story of the so-called Moody and the stylistically restless Coltrane -- epitomized Chris Jones Christmas tree ships that once plied the treacherous waters of Chicago Tribune Von Freeman always considered his relative obscurity -- which the classic image of the modern saxophonist, Freeman stood Lake Michigan in winter to bring Christmas trees to homesick lasted nearly until the final years of his career, when the world as the perennial outsider, working on the fringes of the jazz started to recognize his genius -- a blessing. It enabled him to mainstream. He consistently staked out an exotic but alluring forge an extremely unusual but instantly recognizable sound, artistic territory, merging elements of down-home blues, R&B to pursue off-center musical ideas that were not likely to be honking, brazenly avant-garde techniques and an utter mastery welcomed in the commercial marketplace. of the predominant jazz language of the 20th century, bebop. May they rest in peace “They said I played out of tune, played a lot of wrong notes, a He came to this startling breadth of musical resources through Obituaries lot of weird ideas,” Freeman told the Tribune in 1992. “But it remarkable good fortune, for his father was a Chicago cop didn’t matter, because I didn’t have to worry about the money detailed at the Grand Terrace Ballroom, a fabled jazz club near Last First Instrument Died Born Elected -- I wasn’t making (hardly) any. I didn’t have to worry about 35th and Calumet. An amateur jazz trombonist, Freeman’s Freeman Sr. Earl L. Saxophone 08/11/12 10/03/23 03/23/42 fame -- I didn’t have any. I was free.” father admired the masters and invited them over to the house, Kozyra Theodore M. Saxophone 08/11/12 06/25/23 05/16/46

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10 Intermezzo October 2012 October 2012 Intermezzo 11 Attend a Concert! Kathleen Edwards Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM The Theater We have many musicians performing throughout the area. 322 West Armitage Ave. Support them by attending a performance or patronizing Chicago an establishment where they work. Owl City Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM The Vic Theatre 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. Chicago Los Lobos Friday, October 12, 2012 Shot and a GOAL! at 9:00 PM Attend an Orchestra Concert or Opera! Frank Pellico FitzGerald’s per Chicago Blackhawks schedule 6615 W. Roosevelt Blvd. Berwyn Lake Forest Symphony Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1901 W. Madison St., Chicago Ray Wylie Hubbard Stephenson, and Brahms See a Show! Wednesday, October 24, 2012 October 19th and 20th, 8:00PM at 8:00 PM James Lumber Center for Jesse Case and Julie Nichols SPACE the Performing Arts 1245 Chicago Ave. 19351 West Washington St. Sunday through Saturday Evanston Grayslake, IL 1616 N. Wells St. 847-295-2135 Chicago, IL Joe Ely Thursday, October 25, 2012 Light Opera Works Bank of America Theatre at 9 PM Operetta’s Greatest Hits Kinky Boots SPACE October 5th – 14th October 2nd - November 4th, 1245 Chicago Ave. Nichols Concert Hall 312-977-1717 Evanston 1490 Chicago Ave. Broadway Playhouse at Water Friday, October 26, 2012 847-920-5360 at 8 PM Tower Place I Love Lucy Beverly Arts Center Elektra Until November 11th 2407 W. 111 St. Simon Boccanegra Chicago 312-977-1710 312-332-2244 REO Speedwagon www.lyricopera.org Drury Lane Oakbrook Thursday, October 25, 2012 Xanadu at 8:30 PM Elmhurst Symphony Music of Haydn and Mozart Until October 28th House of Blues 630-530-8300 329 N. Dearborn St. October 13, 2012 Chicago at 7:00PM Marriott Lincolnshire Elmhurst Christian Reform Dreamgirls Jackson Browne Church Until October 28th Friday, October 26, 2012 Elmhurst, IL 7:30 PM 630-941-0202 Chicago Theater 175 N. State St. Chicago Matthew Morrison Saturday, October 27, 2012 at TBA If you have future engagements that you would like listed in this column, Stephens Convention Center please send them to Vice-President Jares at [email protected]. 5555 North River Road Listings will be included provided there is a Union contract on file. Rosemont

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NOTICE TO MEMBERS Please be alerted about a traveling “band” called BUYING CLARINETS, Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra. They are scheduled to play at the Metro in Chicago AND on November 10th. An open public request has been MOUTHPIECES made on their website for local musicians in each tour stop to audition and then be selected to play with this band, in exchange - Not for a reasonable CASH PAID FOR PROFESSIONAL scale wage, but for beer, “high-fives”, and “merch”... CLARINETS & SAXOPHONES, ALL MAKES, MODELS, AND VINTAGES PROFESSIONAL MOUTHPIECES ALSO NEEDED CHICAGO LOCAL 10-208 MEMBER SINCE 1974 WITH OVER 2O YEARS DEALING IN VINTAGE WOODWINDS NOTICE TO MEMBERS INTERNET SALES AVAILABLE You are in violation of Section VIII, CALL DAVE – 773 654-1844 D.3. of the By-Laws of the Chicago Federation of Musicians by accepting, or 847 308-8676 offering to accept, paying or offering OR Email [email protected] less than the scale rate.

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18 Intermezzo October 2012 October 2012 Intermezzo 19 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND TOTAL: $2,821.00

The Musicians Relief Fund helps Local 10-208 musicians in time of need. Contributions can be made in memory of a musician that has touched your life and whose life you would like to see remembered. Or, a general contribution can be made to the fund. Your name will be added to the expanding list of generous donors.

Make checks payable to the Musicians Relief Fund to view the list of cfm and mail them to the Chicago Federation of Musicians contributors, go to 656 W. Randolph St. #2W CFM10208.COM Chicago, IL 60661 Attn: Membership Dept.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEMPO FUND

TOTAL: $2,690.00

TEMPO is the new name for the LEGISLATIVE ACTION FUND. It is the AFM’s nonpartisan, multi-candidate political action fund that is supported entirely by the voluntary contributions of AFM members. TEMPO makes disbursements to congressional candidates of either party who have a demonstrated record of support for professional musicians, issues of concern to its members and the arts in general. To make a contribution, make your check payable to TEMPO to view the list of cfm and send it c/o Chicago Federation of Musicians contributors, go to 656 W. Randolph St., #2W Chicago, IL 60661 CFM10208.COM Attn: Membership Dept. We will add your name to the list of contributors and forward your check to the AFM.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CFM SCHOLARSHIP FUND TOTAL: $1,516.00

The CFM College Scholarship Fund for Music Students has been set up in memory of Leland Baska. This fund helps the CFM continue to offer financial assistance for children of CFM members as well as students of CFM members that are currently working toward a music degree. Make checks payable to the CFM Scholarship Fund to view the list of cfm and mail them to the Chicago Federation of Musicians contributors, go to 656 W. Randolph St. #2W Chicago, IL 60661 CFM10208.COM Attn: Membership Dept. We will add your name to the list of contributors on our website.

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