DB0709_001_COVER.qxd 5/18/09 4:39 PM Page 1 DOWNBEAT 75TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION 75TH ANNIVERSARY DownBeat.com $4.99 07 JULY 2009 JULY 0 09281 01493 5 JULY 2009 U.K. £3.50 DB0709_001b-001c_COVER.qxd 5/14/09 1:43 PM Page a2 DB0709_001b-001c_COVER.qxd 5/14/09 1:41 PM Page a3 DB0709_001_P4_COVER.qxd 5/14/09 1:47 PM Page a4 DB0709_002-005_MAST.qxd 5/14/09 1:50 PM Page 3 DB0709_002-005_MAST.qxd 5/14/09 1:51 PM Page 4 SEVENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY July 2009 VOLUME 76 – NUMBER 7 President Kevin Maher Publisher Frank Alkyer Editor Jason Koransky Associate Editor Aaron Cohen Art Director Ara Tirado Production Associate Andy Williams Bookkeeper Margaret Stevens Circulation Manager Kelly Grosser ADVERTISING SALES Record Companies & Schools Jennifer Ruban-Gentile 630-941-2030 [email protected] Musical Instruments & East Coast Schools Ritche Deraney 201-445-6260 [email protected] Classified Advertising Sales Sue Mahal 630-941-2030 [email protected] OFFICES 102 N. 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Benny Goodman DOWNBEAT ARCHIVES 8 First Take My Story: Artists Explore Their DownBeat Archives 12 Chords & 48 Sonny Rollins 56 Dave Brubeck 64 Marian McPartland Discords Consistent Path A Curious Relationship From Her Piano to Her Pen DownBeat By Ted Panken By Jason Koransky By Paul de Barros readers have never shied away from expressing The Archives their thoughts about the 74 Duke Ellington 92 Jimmy Dorsey 112 Lionel Hampton music and September 1939 November 1937 April 2, 1959 the magazine. Here are some 76 Mel Tormé 94 Bunny Berigan 114 Sarah Vaughan of the most April 21, 1948 May 1938 March 2, 1961 compelling letters from the 78 Stan Kenton 96 Billie Holiday 116 Harry Carney past 75 years. May 19, 1950 November 1, 1939 May 25, 1961 20 Riffs 80 Anita O’Day 100 Louis Armstrong 118 Cecil Taylor June 28, 1950 April 7, 1948 October 26, 1961 From early interviews with 82 Jimmy 102 Charlie Parker 120 Carmen McRae Roy Haynes, McPartland January 28, 1953 September 13, 1962 Mary Lou January 13, 1954 Williams and 104 Miles Davis 122 Hank Mobley Clifford Brown, 84 Count Basie November 2, 1955 March 29, 1973 to Norah April 20, 1955 Jones’ Student 106 Thelonious Monk 124 Frank Zappa Music Award 86 Jimmy Giuffre October 30, 1958 Music ’71 Annual win and Roy November 30, 1955 Yearbook Hargrove’s 108 Louis Prima/ “Auditions” 88 Chick Corea Keely Smith 130 Blindfold Test: profile, here May 10, 1973 February 19, 1959 Dizzy Gillespie & are some of the Louie Bellson first DownBeat 90 Benny Golson 110 Max Roach March 23,1967 pieces on many March 2002 May 20, 1958 of the music’s legends and current stars. Go to DownBeat.com to see larger versions of all of the archive covers featured on the cover of this issue. 6 DOWNBEAT July 2009 75th Anniversary Collector’s Issue DB0709_006-007_INSIDE.qxd 5/13/09 6:18 PM Page 7 DB0709_008-011_FT.qxd 5/14/09 6:47 PM Page 8 FIRST TAKE Seated (from left): Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, J.J. Johnson and Candido; standing A Place That Jazz Has (from left): Art Davis, Jo Jones, Victor Feldman, Roy Eldridge, Nat Adderley, Louis Hayes, Called Home for 75 Years Leo Wright, Sam Jones and Coleman Hawkins By Jason Koransky his headline in the February 1939 issue of DownBeat introduced a story that defended the merits of jazz com- Tposition. A photocopy of the story has been tacked to the wall by my desk for years. It’s always good for a laugh. But a greater significance exists to this piece. DownBeat was less than five years old in 1939. Debates raged about the merits of jazz, whether swing music had a place in decent society. For example, a headline in the December 1937 issue of DownBeat screamed, “Ellington Refutes Cry That Swing Started Sex Crimes!” Jazz needed its DOWNBEAT ARCHIVES media supporters, and DownBeat stepped in as a bold voice in the era’s Coincidentally, writing about Goodman more than 40 years ago music debates, serving as a staunch defender of jazz. offered McDonough an entree into DownBeat. Dan Morgenstern was the The fact that DownBeat is celebrating its 75th anniversary with this editor. McDonough met Morgenstern in 1967 when culling the DownBeat issue shows who won the debates. Jazz found a home in these pages, and archives for a story he was writing on John Hammond for the Chicago over the past eight decades DownBeat has helped nurture, promote, criti- Tribune’s magazine. McDonough interviewed Goodman for the story, and cize, change and honor the music. The magazine’s design, shape, paper after it came out, he received an invitation from Goodman to attend a party stock, owners, publishers, editors, writers, photographers, advertisers and in New York celebrating the 30th anniversary of the clarinetist’s classic musicians covered may have changed over the years, but at its core, the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. Morgenstern asked McDonough to write magazine has retained one simple purpose: to serve as the “Bible of jazz.” about the party for DownBeat, and ever since McDonough has served as a The photo on this page offers a glimpse into the world that DownBeat valuable contributor to the magazine. has worked so hard to cover. It appears to be a mundane event—musi- Writing for the magazine has opened doors for McDonough to become cians mulling in a lounge at New York’s Idlewild Airport (now Kennedy), part of the music. “Going to that Goodman party was like going to a pri- preparing to depart to Europe. But it’s who these musicians are that made vate party with the reunited Beatles,” said McDonough, a DownBeat it important for DownBeat to publish the photo: From Dizzy Gillespie and senior correspondent. “This was the first time I was struck with how jour- Cannonball Adderley to Coleman Hawkins and Jo Jones, the group, on its nalism gave you great access to people and events, which you otherwise way to a Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, offered a summit of some of the wouldn’t necessarily have access to. It spoils you after a while.” legends of the music.