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In This Issue IN THIS ISSUE THE MAGAZINE OF THE FEBRUARY 2021 NEW JERSEY JAZZ SOCIETY JerseyJazz VOLUME 49 ISSUE 02 MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM DEFINING the BLUES NJJS.ORG JERSEY JAZZ FEBRUARY • 2021 01 IN THIS ISSUE ARTICLES/REVIEWS COLUMNS 09 Jazz at William Paterson 03 All That’s Jazz 13 News from WBGO: 05 Editor’s Choice New CEO Steve Williams 35 From the Crow’s Nest 15 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 52 Not Without You! 20 Talking Jazz: Kurt Elling 26 Pizzarelli Painting: Highest Bidder 28 Book Review: Life in E Flat 30 Phil Woods’ Legacy ON THE COVER _ Viola Davis as Ma Rainey with, from left, 37 Other Views Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, and Glynn Turman. (All Ma Rainey photos courtesy of Netflix). 43 Big Band in the Sky NJJS.ORG JERSEY JAZZ FEBRUARY • 2021 02 ALL THAT’S JAZZ BY CYDNEY HALPIN f you’re reading this message, wishes to enjoy it—members and dvertisers are the sustaining e can’t do what we do with- you’ve you’ve embraced our new non-members alike. 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I thought, Arts near Lincoln Center. Adeylotte ‘We have to do something to cement heads a group called the Bowery Jazz this.’ I called James Polsky (Jazz Stan- Messengers, and on Saturday, October hen word spread that the Jazz people who didn’t want this program dard Co-Founder/Owner) and asked 10, 2020, World Homeless Day, the BJM Standard jazz club was clos- to go away. Ryan Maloney (NJMH if there was any chance we could start performed outside The Bowery Mis- W ing, there was concern that Director of Education and Program- a series at the Jazz Standard. He said, sion. The audience, said O’Rourke, con- the Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra ming) said, ‘Look, we’ll do this which- ‘We’re all on the same page here. Mark sisted of “people who were strung out program, directed by bassist David ever way you want to do it.’ So, when (Mark Maynard, Co-Founder and but still needed something positive.” O’Rourke and tenor saxophonist An- the Covid lockdown is over, we have a Director of Operations) wants to do Born and raised in Dublin, O’Ro- toine Roney, would perish as well. place to go. Just being able to go back something for kids.’ We started doing urke leads and writes for his own Trumpeter James Haddad, now a Juil- to the kids and tell them we have a four weeks in 2002; now, we go through 20-piece band, The O’Rourkestra, liard student, performed regularly for very significant offer was fantastic.” the school year.” Musicians must audi- which ordinarily would be perform- a few years in the JSYO, and he told The JSYO provided young jazz tion to be accepted into the program. ing at the Zinc Bar in New York. me it was an experience he greatly musicians the opportunity to perform During the pandemic, the program Through the years he has played with valued (Jersey Jazz, January 2021). regularly on Sunday afternoons at has been continued online. “I get guitarists Les Paul and Bucky Pizza- Fortunately, according to O’Ro- the New York club, often with guest the kids to work on transcriptions,” relli and pianists Tommy Flanagan urke, the program has been rescued.
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