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February 2016 Volume 41, Number 02 CLAIRE McKENNA TO LEAD SELECT SEXTET ON FEBRUARY 21ST! By George Swinford Claire has now become a confident and Please join us at the Ballard Elks experienced jazz clarinetist. En route to the at 1:00 PM on the 21st, to hear Claire present, Claire took advantage of our youth McKenna lead five other jazzers in an program by attending Camp Heebie-Jeebies. afternoon of our kind of music. She was first a student there and later a teacher’s assistant, leading the evening jam sessions. During those years, she also attended the Sacramento jazz camp. Many will WHERE: remember that, later on, Claire was a member Ballard Elks Lodge and co-leader of “Mighty Aphrodite,” an all- 6411 Seaview Ave. NW, Seattle woman jazz band featured at PSTJS concerts WHEN: and at numerous festivals. Claire now makes 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. February 21 her home in Oklahoma with her husband ADMISSION: Ryan Piersol, where she teaches music. $12 PSTJS members As leader on the 21st, Claire has chosen $15 non-members. Pay only at door. Ian McKenna’s daughter, Claire, has Dave Holo on cornet and Dave Loomis on FURTHER INFO: a PSTJS history, which started early. With trombone to complete the combo’s front line. Carol Rippey 425-776-5072. her parents, she attended our sessions at Solomon Douglas will provide piano and Or - website: www.pstjs.org. Plenty of the Mountaineers Club some years ago. vocals. He led his own group for us just last free parking; great view & dance floor, My wife and I first saw her there as a shy October. Jennifer Hodge will be the bassist snacks, coffee, and other beverages child, barely tall enough to purchase the and the ever-reliable Mike Daugherty will available. food tickets we were selling in those days. anchor the rhythm section, playing drums. Notes from the Prez It’s time again to begin the search for The one on one time spent with the faculty student to camp, or even if you’d enjoy being this summer’s Jazz Camp students. The dates is exceptional, and meeting new friends goes a student yourself, the website for the camp is for 2016 are July 24-30. Each time we sell along with that too. www.campheebiejeebies.us Check it out, lots raffle tickets at Jazz half of the proceeds go to Twelve is the age of the youngest student, of pictures, information and a registration page the Youth Scholarship Fund. Oftentimes the and in the past we have had several students to fill out and email to me. We’ll take care of winner of the 50/50 raffle will donate all or in their 70’s. The camp requires the student the rest. As in the past the adult students pay some of the winnings back to the fund. We do to have had at least one to two years on their their own way, which is $625.00 for the week, this to pay for each student’s room and board, instrument; we are not there to teach beginning Sunday through Saturday. meals, and most of all the amazing opportunity classes. Camp Heebie Jeebies is located on If you have questions, please email me, to gain new skills and knowledge of the Lake Crescent, just off highway 101, about 35 [email protected], I’ve been at camp student’s instrument but also music theory and miles west of Port Angeles. If you are interested each year since it moved to Washington 9 years a greater understanding of Traditional Jazz. in sending your middle school or high school age ago. Cheers,Judy Jazz Soundings February 2016 Page 2 Puget Sound Gigs for Local Bands Traditional Jazz Society BELLINGHAM TRADITIONAL JAZZ SOCIETY 19031 Ocean Avenue 1st Saturday, 2 - 5 pm VFW Hall 625 N. State St Edmonds, WA 98020-2344 Feb. 6 Bob Storms’ All-Stars 425-776-5072 www.pstjs.org March 5 Clamdigger Jazz Band UPCOMING EVENTS BOB SCHULZ FRISCO JAZZ BAND Elks Lodge, Ballard, 6411 Seaview Ave N.W., Seattle Feb 11-14 Fresno Festival. For more information February 21 Claire McKenna and Friends visit: http://www.fresnodixie.com March 20 Gerry Green’s Crescent City Shakers BOURBON STREET ALL STARS April 17 Ain’t No Heaven Seven May 15 holotradband 1st Tuesday, 5-9pm at McCloud’s Grillhouse 2901 Perry Ave, June 19 New Orleans Quintet Bremerton, WA 98310 Res: 360-373-3093 DAVE HOLO TRIO PRESIDENT Judy Levy [email protected] Salty’s on Alki 1936 Harbor Avenue. SW Seattle, WA 98126 206-937-1600 425-890-6605 VICE PRESIDENT Jack Temp 425-242-0683 Feb 5 5-8pm SECRETARY Cilla Trush [email protected] Feb 19 5-8pm 206-363-9174 GRAND DOMINION JAZZ BAND TREASURER Gloria Kristovich [email protected] Feb. 11-14 “Sounds of Mardi Gras” Fresno, CA www.fresnodixie.com 425-776-7816 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Feb. 26-28 “Seaside Jazz Festival” - Seaside, OR www.jazzseaside.com Keith Baker [email protected] Verna Eriks [email protected] 206-363-6171 GREATER OLYMPIA DIXIELAND JAZZ SOCIETY Joanne Hargrave [email protected] 206-550-4664 2nd Sundays 1-4:30pm Elks Lodge. 1818 Fourth Ave., Olympia John Heinz [email protected] 425-412-0590 Feb. 14 Columbia Classic Jazz Band Edmunde Lewin 360-297-6633 March 13 Uptown Lowdown Lite George Peterson [email protected] 425-453-5218 Apr. 10 Columbia Classic Jazz Band Carol Rippey [email protected] 425-776-5072 May 1 Hume Street George Swinford [email protected] 425-869-2780 June 12 Dukes of Swing MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR PEARL DJANGO Carol Rippey [email protected] 425-776-5072 Feb. 5 8pm North City Bistro Reservations recommended. EDITOR 1520 NE 177th St; Shoreline, WA; 206-365-4447 Anita LaFranchi [email protected] 206-522-7691 Feb. 6 8pm Vashon Center for the Arts 19704 Vashon Hwy. SW; WEBMASTER Vashon Island, WA; (206) 463-5131 Feb. 20 7:30pm Tim Noah Thumbnail Theater 1211 4th Street; George Peterson [email protected] 425-453-5218 Snohomish, WA 98290; 360-568-9412 RAY SKJELBRED & THE YETI CHASERS Feb 20 5 - 7:30pm Royal Room (Seattle, WA) For more info visit: http://theroyalroomseattle.com JAZZ SOUNDINGS UPTOWN LOWDOWN JAZZ BAND Published monthly except July and August by the Feb 26-28 Seaside Dixieland Jazz Festival Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society. Anita LaFranchi, Editor, [email protected] Ads must be submitted in a jpeg or PDF format Payment in advance to: Gloria Kristovich, P.O. Box 373, Edmonds, WA 98020-0373 Advertising Rates: Full page $100. 7 1/2” wide by 9 1/2 “ tall On Your Dial........ Half Page $60. 7 1/2” wide by 4 1/4 “ tall Saturday Quarter Page $40. 3 5/8 Wide by 4 1/4 “ tall 7 - 12 pm Swing Years and Beyond KUOW 94.9 FM Sunday Deadline is the 10th of the month for the next month’s issue 3 -6 pm Art of Jazz, Ken Wiley, KPLU 88.5 FM Jazz Soundings February 2016 Page 3 GOT LPS? DON’T RUSH TO DUMP HISTORY By Duncan Schiedt A few months ago, this writer had organizations found reasons to cut our Think about this: Is that music you the rather mournful job of finding a conversations short, I decided that, love available on CD (a great deal has home for some 2,500 - 3,000 – 78 rpm given the deadline, the only thing was never been made available that way, and records needing disposal because of the to pay someone to carry them from the may never be?) Is it a chore to work your need to clear a house for new occupancy, basement and to a truck or a dumpster. way through the numerous “tracks” just the collector having passed away almost So much for the deathless records of to get to the particular number you enjoy 20 years earlier. yesteryear. most? Do you find that the CD sound The discs, mostly 1930s and 1940s Along the way, though, I began to is in any way superior to a clean LP, or big-band jazz, with scattered blues consider how closely I have held my even a clean old shellac record played on and sweet items here and there, were rather sizeable 33 1/3 rpm LP collection, the proper equipment? in varying conditions, but many were despite the introduction and proliferation Some audiophiles claim that the pristine. of the compact disc. I look at these original sound produced by a steel needle Professional jazz record dealers were LPs as gems of an era through which I on a vintage phonograph is the way it was contacted, but the bulk of the collection, fortunately lived, and that they have not intended to be heard, but we shall not get plus a lack of valuable collector items, totally been supplanted as the optimum into that. Suffice it to say that discarding failed to pique their interest. Better luck way of listening to jazz, or any other vintage, playable LPs,. Just because you was had with a sizeable collection of type of music, for that matter. can’t find a turntable (which you might jazz LPs, which were still in some vogue My message is simple: Unless you have kept) is not necessarily the way to among jazz fans. are clearing out all traces of the music go. You may be throwing away some Back to the 78s, apparently of LPs, and relying on CDs or even cassettes unique piece of history. interest only to juke box collectors, and – Holy Mackerel! – One of the latest carnival side-shows, target shooters electronic doodads you stick in your ear **Reprinted from Jazz Notes, the newsletter and discographers, that eccentric breed for your jazz listening, given a thought of the Indianapolis Jazz Club.