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FOLLOW US Get Hundreds Of Media Placements — ONLINE — Major Network Media & www.twitter.com/ JazzInsideMag Authority Sites & OFFLINE — Distribution To 1000’s of Print & Broadcast Networks To Promote Your Music, Products & Performances In As Little As 24 Hours To Generate Traffic, Sales & Expanded Media Coverage! WATCH US www.PressToRelease.com | MusicPressReleaseDistribution.com | 215-600-1733 www.youtube.com/ JazzInsideMedia 2 November-December 2017 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 November-December 2017 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com 3 LarryLarry McKennaMcKenna Feature Interview & Photos by Eric Nemeyer “Yeah, I want to play the guitar.” I approached my the whole thing again: Now I’m going to be a saxo- mother and said, “I want to play the guitar.” And I phone player. At school, I asked if I could get into JI: What inspired you to get into music? got a cheap guitar from the Sears cata- the band because they would give me an instrument logue...seriously! And then I took lessons at Zapf’s and teach me how to play it. The first thing they LM: I started when I was about ten years old. I Music Store in Philadelphia. The only thing was, gave me was a clarinet because they didn’t have actually took guitar lessons for a little while. I the teacher I had, who played mandolin, and banjo, any saxophones left. They gave me the clarinet and guess I had an interest in music without even real- and guitar, wanted to teach me classical guitar. said that it would be an easy switch for me to go izing it. There used to be a TV show—and this is After a while, I couldn’t remember why I had got- over to saxophone. way back—it was Johnny Desmond. He was a big ten interested in it to begin with, because the les- band singer. He had a TV show, and I think it was sons were boring, and I wasn’t able to play any JI: That was in the Philadelphia school system? on three times a week. It might have only been for tunes. I finally quit. I wandered for a little bit. Then fifteen minutes each time. They didn’t have many I had heard some records of Jazz At The Philhar- LM: At first, I went to LaSalle High School. I programs on TV—I’m talking about 1950, or monic, with Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Howard joined the marching band. They put you in the something like that. Tony Mottola was a guitar McGee, and guys like that. That was where I really marching band right away, without learning how to player on the show. Johnny Desmond would come got interested. I didn’t really know what it was. It play, because they wanted to have a whole bunch out and he’d sing standard tunes. When I first heard was just music that I had never heard before. I of kids on the football field to make it look impres- that, I didn’t really know what they were doing, but immediately was drawn toward the two saxophone sive. They actually gave me a clarinet and a uni- it was something that interested me. I thought, players, Jacquet and Phillips. Then I went through (Continued on page 6) 4 November-December 2017 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 November-December 2017 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com 5 had the same name as the famous vocalist: Antonio nouncer for horse racing. At the time, he was a Larry McKenna Benedetta. But he probably started to use that name young guy and had a jazz show on the radio...a half before Tony Bennett was ever heard of. By this hour. He got this thing down on Broad Street called time I was already copying what I had heard on the “Jazz Workshop.” Somehow he was able to talk records. Not so much copying the licks, but more all these big name jazz players, when they came to (Continued from page 4) or less trying to play in the same style. I was imitat- town on Friday afternoons, to play at this place so form. I learned how to play the melodies to the ing the style of what I heard, trying to get the kind that the kids could go to hear it. On Friday after- marches by ear because I couldn’t really read the of sounds that the saxophone players got—and then noon after school we would take the subway down- stuff. I listened to what was going on, and I’d hear maybe stealing a lick here and there. But more or town. It cost fifty cents. We’d go in, and they’d whatever seemed like the trumpets were playing— less just trying to internalize, assimilate, all the have Clifford Brown, Buddy DeFranco, Art Bla- the melody. I would kind of fake that on the clari- things that I heard. I was able to do it really suc- key. All these guys came and played. They’d play a net. I was fourteen years old by that time, but it cessfully if they weren’t really difficult tunes— set, and then they would get the kids up to play. These guys would critique you and then they would give you some pointers. Then they’d go back and play. It was a good thing for half a buck. I saw so “This teacher was convinced that I many people there. Erroll Garner, Bird. I got to meet Bird there. He showed up after the whole thing was over, and I got to meet him. would never be able to play. He said to JI: How do you account for him showing up after it was over? I mean, he was booked for the gig, he me, ‘You can’t get blood from a stone. didn’t show up on time.