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Featuring pianist Hans Ryckelynck. at the club Downtown, You’re Legendary Now eighty, a look back at the Village Vanguard’s unlikely path By Jed Distler AVAILABLE APRIL 14 AVAILABLE APRIL 14 AVAILABLE APRIL 14 VLAD RECORDS 9 ALIUD 75 (SACD) ROYAL FLEMISH PHILHARMONIC 9 (2xCD) ROYAL ROYAL FLEMISH PHILHARMONIC TERRA NOVA MARINE BAND OF THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS NAVY BENOIT: DE SCHELDE TOBI: PREMIERE OEUVRE: SIX CLARINET TRIOS, OP. 1 …PLAYS SAMMY NESTICO World premiere recording of a Dutch-language Part of a project about a contemporary of Mozart With characteristic “sound & drive,” this band has oratorio about the Scheldt River, dated 1867. who lived in Antwerp, composer and virtuoso won the hearts of a large public and has substantially As one of the pioneers of the Flemish music scene, clarinetist Henri Joseph Tobi (1741–1809), this is contributed to the development and appreciation of OF THE VILLAGECOURTESY VANGUARD Peter Benoit was a rarity in the predominantly charming music probably intended for playing in the military music in the Netherlands. French-speaking cultural landscape of Belgium. gilded salons of Antwerp’s grand houses. LISTEN: LIFE WITH MUSIC & CULTURE • 57 AD Listeis n0215 Resolution to swing. Wynton Marsalis at New York’s Village Vanguard, November 30, 1993 hanges come and go in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, but the basement club occupying 178 Seventh Avenue South since 1935 remains a C stable and revered New York City landmark. It’s been tweaked for upkeep over the years, but never to the point where you wouldn’t recognize it. You enter the Village Vanguard as you did speakers who defined the club’s first twenty politics. MC Eli Siegel moved when it first opened in April 1935, by walking years, along in great part with its owner, the show along, kept hecklers fifteen steps down what might be described as Max Gordon. In his 1980 memoir Live at the at bay, and tried to maintain a cross between a staircase and a chute. Then Village Vanguard, Gordon described how he order over the chaos. A few you find yourself in room shaped like a piece essentially fell into the nightclub business. years later, Max auditioned an of pie. A small stage lives at the widest end. Born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1903, Gordon untried teenage actress/singer The room gets narrower as you move back. As grew up in Portland, Oregon, and graduated named Judy Holliday, along with you get close to the back, you’ll find the bar on with a literature major from Reed College. fellow aspirants Adolph Green, one side. Tables and chairs occupy the center He moved to New York City in 1926, not sure Betty Comden, John Frank and floor. The room officially seats one hundred of what to do, but attracted to Greenwich Alvin Hammer, who had been twenty three people. Sightlines are good, Village’s Bohemian atmosphere and nightlife. collaborating on “skits and songs except for the tables near big pillars. He got to know all kinds of neighborhood of satire and social significance.” Most importantly, the sound is good. You characters and personalities, including a Max liked what he heard, and hear everything clearly from each corner of friend who suggested that if she and Max hired them on the spot. They the room, whether it’s the big band presiding opened a place together, her poet friends named themselves The Revuers, on Monday nights, a typical hard bop quintet would help attract a following. and worked the Vanguard nearly every night. came to one of Leadbelly’s shows. A few years would return off and on for another decade, reads like a who’s who of stand-up comedy’s or the more unusual guitar–viola–drums The Village Fair lasted only three months, Sometimes a young music student named earlier, she and her brother tried to get in the and, in fact, served as best man at Max and formative years, from longtime regular Phil lineup of Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers. And but Gordon’s following grew. Losing no Leonard Bernstein helped out at the piano. Vanguard, but were too young to legally enter Lorraine’s wedding. Leeds, (who became better known as a film the musicians can usually hear each other, momentum, he had designs on the Village Word got around, and a rave review by Dick a bar. She told the Wall Street Journal’s Will Lorraine Gordon elaborated on the and television character actor), Wally Cox and which is important because of the intensely Vanguard in February 1934. But to get a Mason in the New York Post put both the Friedwald that the first words she ever heard eclectic bill of fare characterizing the club’s Jack Gilford to several memorable early sixties interactive nature of jazz. In a 2003 interview cabaret license, Gordon had to meet certain Revuers and the Vanguard on the New York runs with Lenny Bruce. One still can see Nat with Thomas Conrad, recording engineer Jim requirements. He found a former basement nightclub map. From then on, the Vanguard’s Hentoff’s 1963 interview with the controversial Anderson described the room as “big and speakeasy called The Golden Triangle, “closed programming agenda came into focus. IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES, THE VANGUARD WAS MORE comedian; Bruce appears high and disheveled quiet and fairly dead. When you put the mikes for alterations.” The place offered exactly what Although regular Monday-night jam SUPPER-CLUB FORMAL IN ITS PRESENTATION, WITH WHITE as he randomly pounds upon the Vanguard’s up, you forget that you are in this cave in the he needed: “two johns, two exits, two hundred sessions offered a broad range of jazz luminar- TABLECLOTHS, WAITERS IN TUXEDOS AND FOOD SERVED. baby grand. Bruce’s mentor, Professor Irwin middle of New York. It’s sort of like a womb feet away from a church or synagogue or ies, it was folk singers, blues artists and Corey, the “World’s Foremost Authority,” that you enter.” school, and with rent under $100 a month.” entertainers who dominated the Vanguard honed his unique absurdist brand of social “With minimal amplification in there, By April 1935 the new Village Vanguard at 178 bandstand during the 1940s. Fellow Village uttered by Max Gordon, her future husband, early years in her 2005 memoir, Alive at the commentary at the Vanguard, where he shared when you play very, very quietly, it has Seventh Avenue South was open for business, denizen and future film director Nicholas Ray were “Get rid of those kids!” Another early Village Vanguard. She remembered calypso a bill with Pearl Bailey in the early forties. presence throughout the entire room,” says and still is. recommended teaming up Josh White and Vanguard performer, Burl Ives, recommended acts who made good use of the little wooden In several respects, the Vanguard was a pianist Fred Hersch, a longtime regular on In the club’s early, pre-liquor-license days, Leadbelly for an act. White’s urbane and suave Richard Dyer-Bennet, the noted tenor who dance floor, like Enid Mosier and the Trinidad training ground for Max Gordon to break in the club’s roster. “There’s a certain kind of clientele ordered glasses, ice and soda and singing and playing style and Leadbelly’s rug- sang ancient Scottish, Irish and English Steel Band, and the Haitian actress and singer new talent before booking them into the Blue stillness, a kind of hush, that you don’t get brought in their own booze. Each evening’s ged, elemental projection couldn’t have been ballads to his own lute accompaniment. Josephine Premice, who later appeared on Angel, the high-end supper club he opened anywhere else.” agenda was fairly loose, and mainly focused more different, yet somehow they meshed.