Archives of the University of Notre Dame Archives of the University of Notre Dame 'i1 1WEN1Y-NINTH ANNUAL COLLEGIATE JAZZ FESTIVAL Chairman Kevin Cronin Producer David Thornton Applications Director Kathryn Kager Assistant Paul Bonadies Advertising Director Paul Giorgianni Publicity Director Paul Giorglannl Production Crew Manager Mary Marchal Stage Manager Matt Snyder Faculty Advisor Fr. George Wiskirchen, C.S.C. Cultural Arts Advisor Ceil Paulsen Cover/T-Shirt Design Mark Weimholt Printer Harmony Press, Inc., Bourbon, IN - Portions of CJF '87 will be broadcast live on WSND, 88.9FM • Sponsored by the Notre Dame Student Activities Board Cultural Arts Commission 1 Archives of the University of Notre Dame ~ NASSER & SONS HOME OF WORLD FAMOUS GRAND PIANOS AlJ o UNIVERSITY FOOD SERVICES - NOTRE DAME ~~~ your Complele 7J. 71. 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Stanley Cowell, Bob James, Paul and his bass to the South ShoreStation. behind the CJF - the promotion of Looking Back: Winter, Al Jarreau. Oscar Brashear, We had the times wrong. and he had to America's sole claim to musical art. And David Sanborn, Jim McNeely, Peter Ers­ wait an hour for the train. I offered to CJF does It with class: no hype, no com­ kine, and Chico Freeman, to name but a take him somewhere for coffee, but he mercialism. just a sincere dedication to few. Also on that list would be Pat Said. 'No, that's cool. rn just practice a providing that special moment when A BriefHistoIY oftile CJF Metheny Group bassist Steve Rodby, bit,' I left him In the deserted waiting musician and idea and Instrument and and the Founding Fathers of Chicago room qUietly playing. It was great," sound and audience are one. That spe­ (James Pankow) and Earth Wind and There Is no question that the judges cial moment called jazz," Fire (Maurice White. Don Myrick, and add a special dimension to the CJF. The CJF '87 staff, and many more to Louis Satterfield). making It unique among festivals and a come, we hope. will continue to provide After nearly three full decades ofexist­ slon station WGN music director Robert bookings. Judge Stan Kenton referred While these and other college per­ real treat to attend. However. what really that "speCial moment". Our hope Is kept ence, it continues: the oldest. longest­ TrendIer, and popularjazz accordionist to that second CJFas "the most magn1f­ formers are the primary focus of CJF, makes this Festival speCial Is the wealth alive through the same dedication and running, most prestigious college jazz Art Van Damme. The first place award, icent. clean-cut, swlngin' affair I've ever another aspect of the Festival that has ofcollegiate talent. "One of the most sig­ commitment which have brought us festival in the country. This year, fifteen $200 cash and a 3-week Blue Note attended," In just two short years. CJF continued to gain prominence Is the nificant observations I made at the this far. We cannot merely continue. of the country's best collegiate groups. engagement. went to theUntversltyJazz had gained the reputation It still carries Judges' Jam. The 60's saw the advent of twentieth Collegiate Jazz Festival:' though: we have not been successful for from nine states, will gather In Stepan Workshop Quartet of the Untverslty of today: a forum presenting the best in judge/student jams, which spotlighted wrote Observer reporter Frank laurino twenty-nine years by being satisfied Center for the twenty-ninth annual Minnesota. college jazz. top Festival solOiSts on stage with the l'n 1978, "was the Incredible amount of with past accomplishments. By always Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival. From these humble beginnings, the That reputation continued to grow. It musician judges In attendance. That talent on stage. This Is a tribute to the attempting to make CJF better. we wUl Whlle all of us on this year's committee CJF grew at an astonishing rate. which kept growing as CJF developed Its own led, In 1977, to a group ofjudgesselected many fine jazz programs at major unl­ further Its past tradition of greatness, can only hope that the Festival wlllllve was exactly what Its originators had logo In 1963 (recently updated In 1984). not only to critique. but specifically to up to Its own legacy over the next dreamed of. The prologue ofthe first CJF It kept on growing as CJF moved out of perform well together In a Friday night twenty-nine years, we cannot help but to program began with the follOwing state­ the Old Fieldhouse and Into Stepan jam session. It Is a great thrill to I1sten to look back over those past with a lot of ment: "From an embryonic Idea has Center for the '67 Festival. 1967also saw five profeSSionals. some of whom have pride and a bit ofawe at what ourefforts grown what mayweU become. within the the Introduction ofthe High School Fes­ never met. get together on stage and are perpetuating. span ofa few shortyears, the ultimate In tival, which would be held for eighteen of blend so well. TheJam often turnsout to Exactly twenty-eight years ago, on collegiate jazz competition." In fact. the the next nineteen CJFs (It was dropped be the highlight of the weekend - not April 11. 1959, the Midwest Collegiate first CJF met with such acclaim that the for one year In 1980. temporarily only for the audience. but for thejudges Jazz Festival gave birth to one of the second annual Collegiate Jazz Festival revived, and then scrapped In 1986 for as well. Just three years ago, the judges greatest traditions In the jazz world. had no trouble at all In lining up bands budgetary reasons). And as CJFgrew, so enjoyed playing together so mUCh. that Notre Dame senior Tom Cahill had orjudges. CJF '60 expanded to two days. did the accompllshments ofltspast par­ after the awards were decided and an­ searched for a way to relieve the dol­ and attracted not fifteen, but twenty-six ticipants - not the judges, but those nounced on Saturday night. they took drums of a South Bend winter: some­ bands and combos. The prizes included who had been there as student per­ the stage again for an unheard-of thing big, but at the same time not oruy cash, but trophies. instru­ formers. A llst of Festival alumni com­ second Jam. Theseveral hundred people down-to-earth and entertaining; "some­ ments, scholarships. and Blue Note piled today would Include Cecll, Dee Dee. remaining in Stepan Centerwere treated thing collegiate for collegians" ... music, to a show as spectacular as that of the he reallzed,just might be the key. Cahill night before, and listened and cheered spoke of his Idea to Bill Graham, who as the judges Improvised energetically eventually became chairman of that until theearly hoursofSunday morning. first CJF. Their original concept of the Those of us on the CJF staff find It Festival was a showcase for Notre Dame very easy to get motivated and excited talent only. But their thinking soon about the event. We find that there Is a broadened to Include all collegiate musi­ lot given up (most notably sleep and stu­ cians from across the Midwest In a dies), but a lot to be gained. Some of the "Newport-llke" setting. memories provided by CJF will last a To make their Idea a reality, they llfetlme, as onewould expectofanything sought the assistance ofCharles Suber, which generates such Intense Involve­ then publisher of down beat magazine. ment - memories ofthe quiet moments and Frank Hol:z;fiend. owner of the Blue as well as the hectic ones. Damian Note Jazz Room, the premier downtown Leader. Chairman of CJF '76, relates ChIcagojazz spot. They procured a small some of his memories In a paragraph budget from the Student Government which may well sum up what the Notre (Bill Graham also happened to be the Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival Is all student body vice-president), and per­ about: mission to hold the one-dayevent In the "What I really remember of the Festi­ Old Fieldhouse (even more ofan acousti­ vals probably never changes: the hectic cal nightmare than Stepan Center). days. the late nights. the craziness. the That historic beginning saw fifteen people.