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TR 1980-10.Pdf TAILGATE RAMBLINGS We Shall Return! Volume 10, Number 10 Your errant president and editor is now October 1980 inhaling the scents of the Isles of Greece, whilst floating on the wine dark sea. All this has nothing to do with tra­ Editor: Ken Kramer ditional jazz. Two reactions came from club members. Contributing Editors: Most common was "Why, you're going to miss the picnic!" and so we are. George Kay Joe Godfrey Harold Gray indignantly cried, "How can you possibly George Kay Dick Baker go to Rome and Athens when you could go to Floyd Levin Vivienne Brownfield the Wilmington, N.C., Jazz Festival?" I have one major reaction: gratitude Cover Artist: Harry Roland! for Dick Baker's serving as editor for this and last month's issues, and equal PRJC President: Ken Kramer gratitude for Ray West's willingness to (70S) 354-7844 act in my stead at the two Board meetings I will miss. And, candidly, I am very The Potomac River Jazz Club is affiliated sorry to miss the picnic and the Wilming­ with the Cultural Alliance of Greater ton bash. It is going to be hard for the Washington bouzouki bands to match our Potomac River ********** Jazz Club stalwarts, no matter how much ouzo and retsina I take on beforehand. THE REAL EDITOR’S CORNER: - Ken Kramer We recently picked up a comment we liked from Andre Previn. Previn is a distin­ THE SUBSTITUTE'S ECKE: guished symphony conductor, and a scintil­ lating jazz pianist as well. In the cur­ When Fearless Leader Kramer charged me rent Stereo Review he admits there is one with producing two issues of TR, he left kind of music he doesn't like: "I have a behind only one cover, which gives me the blind spot about rock. I used to fall for opportunity to repeat one of my all-time what I'd read on record liners about how favorite TR covers, drawn by Harry Roland it was the key to the absolute and the for the May 1975 issue. Harry drew beau­ greatest thing since the 12-tone system, tiful covers for the newsletter every and I'd take the records home and find it other month for most of my tenure as edi­ the same old nonsense except for one more tor (March '74 - August '76), and most of chord added." them deserve framing and hanging on one's Traditional jazz fans do not go so far music room wall! as to take rock records home. But we Harry Roland is still drawing for a liv­ hear them, oh, how we hear them. Carry ing and playing cornet for fun in Balti­ on, Andre! more. His Brass Rail Jazz Band plays oc­ casional gigs there, mostly for private $200^ and Don't Forget to Tip parties. While I picked this cover because it was One of our far-flung correspondents one of those I found esthetically most tells us that in London a night out at a pleasing, it will also serve to announce jazz club costs at least $50 a person in a the fact that the PRJC will soon have a modestly priced saloon and at least $100 marching band, prepared to represent the each in the more gilded resorts. That club in parades and at other suitable occa­ $100 included 2 smallish drinks of lower- sions . At its September meeting the Board proof Scotch and one set of the likes of of Directors voted funds to purchase cer­ Ella and other luminaries. Gratuities tain uniform items and special instru­ extra. ments for the band, which will be under Puff's, the Warehouse, Charlie's, Blues the leadership of a keen student of the Alley, Springfield Hilton and above all, classical New Orleans marching bands— the Bratwursthaus are the world's best Bill Riddle. No word yet as to when jazz bargains. they'll be ready for their debut! 1 - Dick Baker The Potomac River Jazz Club Proudly Presents Live! From the Green Room of the Hotel DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware Tex Wyndham and his RED LION JAZZ BAND Tex Wyndham cornet, vocals Mike Mills — trombone Bud Ahern — banjo Jack DeFrenes — clarinet AI Back — tuba Rick Cordrey — piano Jon Williams — washboard HOLIDAY INN #2 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 9 PM - 1 AM (TELEGRAPH ROAD JUST NO RESERVATIONS INSIDE CAPITAL BELTWAY) ADMISSION: PRJC MEMBERS: $6 NON-MEMBERS: $8 For more information on this and other area jazz activities, Call 573-TRAD RED LION JB AT OCTOBER SPECIAL PICNIC POSTMORTEM Tex Wyndham and his Red Lion Jazz Band Sunday, September 14: Last night when will return to Washington for the first I shut the doors on the van and Fat Cat's time since 1977 for play for the PRJC's piano, 10 picnic survivors continued a October special, on Saturday the 11th at sing-along they had started at 10:30. the Alexandria Holiday Inn, on Telegraph They just didn't want the day to end, and Rd just inside the Capital Beltway. frankly— neither did I. The Red Lions are one of the country's Before proceeding with the credits, a oldest jazz bands— they played their first brief comment on the schedule is appro­ public gig under that name in 1964, after priate. Because the program ran an hour a lengthy period of informal basement ses­ late, it created a serious problem for sions. And their employment record would the Bay City 7, who had an evening gig. have to be the envy of any band, anywhere: Special thanks are due to the next-to- since 1967 they've only had eight months last band, the Rosebud Ragtime Ensemble, in which they were not regularly employed which tried to switch with the BC7; when somewhere. By far the longest-running gig they couldn't because of their own sched­ was the Surrey Restaurant in Wilmington, uling problems, they graciously cut their where they played once a month from July own set short to accommodate the BC7, who 1968 until July 1976. Until the sheiks of themselves tarried longer than prudence Araby quadrupled the price of our petrol, would normally dictate, all in the name you could usually find a sizable contin­ of making the picnic a complete success. gent of local PRJCers in the audience We've promised them prime time next year there. Since January 1977 the band has in atonement. played in the famous Green Room of the Thanks to the generous support of many Hotel DuPont in Wilmington. volunteers, more than 1600 fans heard 125 The Red Lion JB has had only one person­ excellent musicians deliver 10 hours of nel change since they last played for us: America's special music— and loved every long-time clarinetist Jim Weaver recently minute of it. Special thanks are due to: retired, and has been replaced by Jack - Arnold Benz, who used his divine pow­ DeFrenes. ers to park 600 cars, then pushed his As well as a superb pianist and cornet- luck to resupply the ladies' room! ist, Tex Wyndham is a serious musicologist - John Gable and his Explorer Scouts, and one of the East Coast's leading col­ who rounded up 17 antique cars. lectors of records and sheet music. And - Red Tannen, who dressed in a phone he is the jazz world's leading enemy of booth to emerge as a nine-foot stilt- repetition. By using his vast knowledge walker! of early jazz and pop tunes, he constantly - John Eggerl, manager of Blob's Park, adds new material to the band's extensive who kept his patience to help us solve a book. It is his policy at the Green Room variety of problems and slaked our thirst never to play a given tune twice in any one with 46 kegs of beer and 270 gallons of one year. And he has promised that the soft drinks. band will not repeat any of the tunes they - The MCs--Ken Underwood, Dick Baker, played here in their two previous appear­ Chuck Brown, Ray West and Joe Shepherd— ances before the PRJC, in 1973 and 1977. who stayed intelligible all day long. - The crew from Sound Truck Audio, who YANKEE RHYTHM KINGS - November 8. Ne re­ arrived at 6:30 am to set up for the day. mind you here to mark your calendars for To all those mentioned and so many next month's special. Because that event others, such as the gate volunteers, who comes early in the month, the November TR made the day a success— a very warm thank will be able to give only a week's advance you. Let's do it again next year...any­ of this important concert. Since last one got a truck to move a piano? playing for the PRJC in 1978, the YRK have been "discovered" by the national jazz Bill Meisel community and invited to play all the 1980 Picnic Director major jazz festivals. Also in November: elections to the Board of Directors (you'll get ballots in the mail) and our annual Membership Meet­ ing on the 29th. OF PEOPLE, PLACES AND PLEASURES of variety and improvisations. INTERESTING GIGS. Ed Flshel's BAND FROM By Harold Gray TIN PAN ALLEY played for the Oktoberfest of the Historic Preservation Society of JAZZMEN OF NOTE. The person: Earl Winchester at the Winchester Racquet & "Fatha" Hines, in his 74th year. The Swim Club. This versatile band gave them place: Carter Barron Amphitheater in Rock some oom-pah music and polkas, then Creek Park. The pleasure: to hear the switched to jazz for most of the evening.
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