Volume 44 • Issue 6 June 2016 Journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society Dedicated to the performance, promotion and preservation of jazz. The eye can almost hear the music that swirls through this photographic study of Roy Haynes intent at his craft at the Village Vanguard in the early 1960s, one of 144 vintage photographs in the new book RebiRth of the Cool: Discovering the Art of Robert James Campbell. Born The story of how Jessica Ferber, a young University of Vermont graduate, stumbled on the archive Again of forgotten photographer Robert Campbell and saved a piece of jazz history from destiny’s scrap heap. See story and photos on page 26. New JerseyJazzSociety in this issue: New Jersey Jazz socIety Prez Sez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bulletin Board ......................2 NJJS Calendar ......................3 Prez Sez Jazz Trivia .........................4 Editor’s Pick/Deadlines/NJJS Info .......6 Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 By Mike Katz President, NJJS Change of Address/Support NJJS/ Volunteer/Join NJJS. . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 NJJS/Pee Wee T-shirts ...............48 Now that summer is fast approaching, I would Central Jersey Jazz Festival. This program will New/Renewed Members ............48 like to inform our readers about several take place in Deer Path Park in Readington storIes events the New Jersey Jazz Society will be Township near Flemington. The artists so far Robert Campbell’s Photography ....cover co-sponsoring in the upcoming months. All are assembled by NJJS Vice President Sandy Big Band in the Sky ..................8 outdoors and free and open to the public. Josephson, will include New Jersey natives Central Park Summerstage ...........10 trumpeter Freddie Hendrix (from Teaneck) and Sarasota Jazz Festival ...............12 n On Saturday, August 20, the sixth annual banjoist Cynthia Sayer (Scotch Plains). As this is Talking Jazz: Matt Wilson ............16 Morristown Jazz and Blues Festival will be Noteworthy ......................25 presented on the Morristown Green. Once again, written, they are awaiting confirmation for French Quarter Jazz Festival .........30 another jazz artist and a blues band. Watch Jersey I have been asked to emcee the jazz portion of the Dan’s Den ........................32 Jazz and the NJJS website and E-blasts for further event, consisting of three 90-minute sets from Anat Cohen Tentet .................33 information as it becomes available. noon to 6 pm. Two blues acts will follow on into Bucky’s Back .....................34 Rhythm & Rhyme ..................35 the evening. The festival will include a tribute to n Two days later, on September 18, beginning at Les Paul’s son Rusty, who passed away earlier this noon, Palmer Square Management will again host reVIews year. The first jazz group that will be appearing is the long-running Princeton Jazzfeast, Other Views. ......................36 Caught in the Act ..................40 the George Gee Swing Orchestra, which has programmed by jazz musician Ed Polcer. This Jazz Socials .......................43 performed for NJJS in the past at Jazzfest and the year’s lineup will include Alan Dale and the New eVeNts Pee Wee Stomp. Following George will be a Legacy Jazz Band, the Chuck Redd Quintet, ’Round Jersey: Morris, Ocean .........44 group consisting of Bucky Pizzarelli, who is Spanglish Fly (a latin jazz group), the saxophonist Institute of Jazz Studies .............45 celebrating his 90th birthday this year, along with Anderson twins, Peter and Will, and Professor Jazz Gallery Awards ................47 guitarist Ed Laub, jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein [Adrian] Cunningham and his Old School band. Somewhere There’s Music ...........50 and bassist and Bucky’s son Martin Pizzarelli. Come to one or better yet, all of these events! The Name Dropper .................51 After Bucky et al. will be Louis Prima Jr. and the n Last Saturday evening, April 30, we attended a adVertIsers Witnesses, playing the music of Louis Sr. This fundraiser for Morristown’s Bickford Theater, Marlene VerPlanck ..................4 should be a great event, as it has been for the past which took place in the theater lobby and Diane Moser .......................4 several years. NJJS will have a membership table included dinner and a lovely cabaret-style Shanghai Jazz ......................5 WBGO ............................7 on the Green at which we will greet present performance by Broadway singer/actress Loni William Paterson University ...........9 members and hopefully sign up some new ones! Ackerman, who was featured in a play at the Ocean County College ..............11 n Friday evening, September 16, is the date for Bickford during the previous two weeks. Her Jazzdagen ........................13 the Hunterdon County portion of the 3-day credits include Evita, Cats, No, No, Nanette and Phyllis Blanford ....................15 other Broadway shows. Also performing during Jazzfest at Sea ....................17 NJPAC ...........................19 Stay tuned to www.njjs.org for updates and details. Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival ......21 Nick Scheuble .....................22 Suncoast Jazz Festival ..............23 NJJS Bulletin Board Centenary College ..................29 Tunes of the 20s ...................31 Roseanna Vitro & Pete McGuinness ....31 Member discount Claim your member privilege! Get free admission to NJJS socials, discounts Jim Eigo ..........................33 to music events, discounts from partners! Swingadelic .......................36 Jersey Jazz Jams ..................37 NJJs Members discounts Hibiscus Restaurant, Morristown and The Crossroads, Garwood Diane Perry .......................38 offer NJJS members a discount of 10% off their check. The Berrie Center at Ramapo College offers NJJS CTS Images .......................40 members 5% off event tickets. $5 ticket discount for monthly Salem Roadhouse Cafe jazz nights. Arbors Records ....................42 Sandy Sasso ......................43 Free Jazz socials…ongoing. Join us for music and mingling. Free for members, $10 non-members LauRio ...........................43 (applicable to membership) with just a $10 venue minimum. Watch calendar page 3 for upcoming dates Shelly Productions .................46 and details. Beyond the schmooze, there are some serious musical prizes raffled off at our socials!! Cadence Magazine .................49 Princeton Record Exchange ..........52 ___________________________________ 2 June 2016 New JerseyJazzSociety Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses headline the Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival on Aug. 20. Moving? Please e-mail your new address to: [email protected]; or mail to: NJJS c/o 382 Springfield Ave., Suite 217, the evening was a fine since 2011, and had her Summit, NJ 07901. jazz piano trio led by first cover story published Stephen Teti, a in the March 2012 issue. professional musician She has been the editor for who is the son of Vince the NJJS website since Like this issue Teti, our host for the November 2014. of Jersey Jazz? evening and a member Introduced to many of the Morris Museum’s genres of music and dance Have it delivered (of which the Bickford is a constituent) at a very young age, Lynn has always loved right to your mailbox Board of Trustees, and who recently joined the syncopation of jazz. Originally from NJJS. As many of our members who Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), she lived in 11 times a year. regularly come to them know, for quite a South Africa for many years before coming Simply join NJJS to get few years the Bickford has put on an to the USA. your subscription. outstanding once or twice a month weekday A 7-year stint of living in Manhattan evening jazz series featuring many favorite immersed her in the New York City jazz See page 47 for details musicians, including Rio Clemente, Dan scene, and she often attended multiple or visit www.njjs.org. Levinson, the Midiri Brothers, Randy events in an evening, dancing and Reinhardt and Bria Skonberg. It is my hope photographing whenever possible. that this series will continue for a long time Previously an executive assistant for two to come, but to do so it needs the strong decades, her transition to professional support of our members by way of regular photography provides her opportunities to attendance (tickets are only $18, $15 if enjoy even more jazz. Lynn is passionately A New Jersey Jazz Society ordered in advance). NJJS proudly committed to promoting jazz and growing membership supports the Bickford jazz series by way of the audience for jazz musicians. She now makes a great gift! articles in Jersey Jazz each month about its lives in Hamilton, NJ, with her husband, upcoming concerts. trumpeter Danny Tobias. She will serve on Plus, if you are already n We were very pleased to welcome Lynn the Board until the end of this year, a member, a gift membership following which she will be nominated for Redmile as a new member of the NJJS costs just $25! election by the membership at the annual Board of Directors. Lynn has been a meeting to a full three-year term. JJ See page 47 for details! contributing photographer for Jersey Jazz Stay tuned to www.njjs.org for updates and details. August 20 September 16 September 18 MORRISTOWN JAzz & BLUES FESTIVAL CENTRAL JERSEy JAzz FESTIVAL 25th ANNUAL JAzzFEAST George Gee Orchestra, Bucky Pizzarelli Quartet at FLEMINGTON Alan Dale and the New Legacy Jazz Band, with Aaron Weinstein, Louis Prima Jr. and the Freddie Hendrix, Alexis Suter, Chuck Redd Quintet, Spanglish Fly, Peter Witnesses, Quinn Sullivan, Cynthia Sayer and Charlie Apicella and Will Anderson Quintet, Professor Robert Randolph & the Family Band Cunningham And His Old School FREE admission FREE admission Food Trucks, Wine & Beer Bar FREE admission Morristown Green | Noon – 5:30 pm and Merchants Gourmet Food Court www.morristownjazzandbluess.com Deer Path Park | Flemington | 6 – 10 pm Palmer Square | Princeton Noon – 6:00 pm | www.palmersquare.com NJJS Calendar www. morristownjazzandbluess.com ____________________________________ June 2016 3 New JerseyJazzSociety Jazz trivia HeLP waNted By O. Howie Ponder (answers on page 45) VOluntEEr OppOrtunitiEs at tHE nEW JErsEy Jazz sOciEty HITS, HOOPS AND HONEY As a member of the New Jersey Jazz Society we invite you to volunteer for one of several positions that currently To start off your summer Howie offers a trivia potpourri. need to be filled. No experience required. We ask only that you attend most of our monthly Board meetings (Directors 1. In what tune — originally 4. On his fatal trip to France during only) and our annual events, and that you share a little bit recorded by Bob Crosby and World War II, Glenn Miller brought of your time, your ideas and your talents. reprised by Kenny Davern — along a case of empty wine 4 appears the immortal line: bottles. Why? Become a member of our Board of Directors “She was fat, but she got leaner, 5. What was the last instrumental 4 pushing on her concertina”? recording to win the Grammy Help manage our Web site 2. Who was Bon Bon? 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Dunham was the founder and leader 28, 1932, Rosario, third World (Philips: of the Grove Street Stompers, a traditional Argentina – April 2, 1969) and Fenix jazz band that has been playing on Monday 2016, New York. (Philips: 1971).” the nights at Arthur’s Tavern on Greenwich While still living in third World, Village’s Grove Street since 1962. Buenos Aires, Barbieri’s according to a review In a 2013 article in the West View News, a first big break came by Al Campbell on West Village community newspaper, when he earned a spot the allmusic.com Dunham explained how it all started. “In in the orchestra of Lalo website, “mixed Gato 1962 I started a band with a wonderful Schifrin, an Argentinian Barbieri’s free jazz Gato Barbieri cornet player named Jimmy Gribbon,” he pianist who later played tenor playing with recalled. “One day we walked into Arthur’s with and arranged for Dizzy Gillespie. His Latin and Brazilian influences. It’s also the Tavern on Grove Street and talked to the biggest break, however, occurred in 1972, album that brought Barbieri positive owner — an irascible fellow named Jerry six years after he had moved to New York, attention from the college crowds of the late Maisano — who said we could play on when he was asked to write and perform ’60s.” Mondays for no pay. So we split the tip music for the film, Last tango in Paris, Barbieri’s nickname, “Gato” (Spanish for bowl, and we’ve been there ever since.” The starring Marlon Brando. He won a Grammy cat) developed from his tendency to club was eventually sold, but Dunham said Award for instrumental composition, and scamper with his saxophone from one nothing changed, except that, “We actually that led to a contract with Impulse Records, Buenos Aires nightclub to another in the get paid now!” one of the leading jazz labels. 1950s. His greatest musical influence was In an article in the Wall Street Journal Barbieri left Argentina for Rome in 1962 John Coltrane, but he was also inspired by (April 17, 2012), Richard Morgan called the and connected with several avant-garde Charlie Parker, Carlos Santana, and classical Stompers’ run at Arthur’s Tavern as “a American jazz musicians such as trumpeter composers Erik Satie and Tschaikovsky. His 50-year feat of endurance and consistency Don Cherry and pianist Carla Bley. He sound, though, was clearly his own. “When virtually unmatched in the city’s musical moved to New York in 1966 and eventually he plays a melody,” wrote the Washington history…In the New York jazz world, few transitioned from Cherry’s brand of Post’s Larry Rohter in 1976, “it is with a acts have approached the Stompers’ staying experimental music to a more melodic sense of lyricism and grace that few other power.” In a review 30 years ago (April 17, approach to jazz, incorporating his Latin saxophonists can rival.” Reviewing one of 1986), the New York times’ John Wilson roots. His first four albums for Impulse his performances in 1983, the New York described the Stompers’ playing as “the were titled Chapter one through Chapter times’ Jon Pareles wrote that he, “makes loose, relaxed swing of a jamming group Four, and according to an article in the New some of the most raucous sounds ever to with ensemble playing that was surprisingly York times by Peter Keepnews and emerge from a tenor saxophone. His horn crisp for combos that always included some Christopher Mele (April 2, 2016), they screams, grunts, honks, bleats, groans. Even visitors.” Wilson also mentioned that “blended jazz with various strains of Latin in ballads, he works up to a hefty, throbbing Arthur’s Tavern was, “one of the few American folk music.” Later albums for tone that sounds like it could burst at any remaining places where musicians gather A&M and other labels combined a Latin moment.” regularly for traditional jam sessions.” flavor with a more pop-oriented In 2015, Barbieri received a Latin Recording commercial slant. Trombonist Peter Ballance, in a Jazz Lives Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. blog post, recalled Dunham as, “the In a 1976 interview with the Washington The citation described his playing as, “a enthusiastic jazz lover who turned up at Post, Barbieri talked about the incorporation rebellious but highly accessible musical gigs, always beautifully dressed, the man of his Latin heritage into his music. “I style, combining contemporary jazz with who marveled at the music and the realized that there was something else in me Latin American genres and incorporating musicians…I don’t remember whether I that wasn’t being used,” he said, referring to elements of instrumental pop.” In recent first met Bill at Arthur’s Tavern and then at a chance meeting with Brazilian filmmaker years he played regularly at New York’s Blue gigs or the reverse, but our early Glauber Rocha, who told him: “You have Note jazz club, making his last appearance correspondence was often his urging me to your roots. Why don’t you use them?” on November 23, 2015. come down to hear the Grove Street According the the Post’s Harrison Smith Cause of death was pneumonia. Survivors Stompers on a Monday night, or telling me (April 4, 2016), “The remark turned out to include his wife Laura; a son, Christian; and what wonderful things had happened the be a breakthrough, as Mr. Barbieri began a sister, Raquel Barbieri. His first wife, previous Monday.” incorporating the Latin styles he had heard Michelle, died in 1995. continued on page 10 ___________________________________ 8 June 2016 ____________________________________ June 2016 9 JerseystoriesJazz BIG BAND IN THE SKy When Yellin suffered a stroke in 2011, Mintzer posted this tribute continued from page 8 on his blog: “Pete Yellin has only to play a few notes, and you know it is Pete who is playing. He is of the generation where each player Dunham earned his living as a real estate broker, and Balance is a had a distinctive sound and spent more time developing a personal banker, but trumpeter Wild Bill Davison played with the group in vocabulary than copying other players…The best way to describe the ’70s, and the current edition of the Stompers includes full-time his playing is free flowing, expressive, quirky and personal. There is clarinetist Joe Licari. No one, however, is getting rich from playing only one Pete Yellin!” Corea, also in a blog post, called Yellin “a true there. In the WSJ article, Morgan pointed out that though the friend and so kind to help me get to know the Big City where I Stompers’ run, “has kept the band together, it’s never been enough found my musical heroes, my musical home, and my musical self.” to sustain the members. At the end of each show, Mr. Dunham takes home $35 and hands $30 to his comrades. The musicians split Yellin studied at the Juilliard School of Music and received his the tip jar.” master’s degree in saxophone from Brooklyn College. In 1984, he founded the jazz program at Long Island University and served as Survivors include Dunham’s wife, Sonja; daughter, Amy; son-in-law coordinator of jazz studies there until the late 1990s. He moved Richard Lyman; and three grandchildren. from the New York area to northern California in 2006. n Pete Yellin, 74, alto saxophonist, educator, July 18, 1941, New Although he mostly played in other people’s bands, Yellin recorded York – April 13, 2016, berkeley, CA. Inspired by the saxophone a few albums as a leader, most notably the 1999 Metropolitan playing of Art Pepper, Yellin began playing professionally in the Records release, Mellow Soul, which included Corea on keyboards, New York area in the early ’60s, appearing with such artists as trumpeter Eddie Henderson, saxophonist Vincent Herring, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton and drummer Buddy Rich. He also drummer Carl Allen, and bassist Harvey S. In a review on the began a long professional and personal relationship with allaboutjazz.com website, Jack Bowers described the album as “a keyboardist Chick Corea. In the early ’70s, he was part of Joe lively blowing session by veteran saxophonist Pete Yellin and an all- Henderson’s band and then formed his own band in 1974. star supporting cast who seem perfectly happy to close ranks behind In the ’80s and ’90s, he worked with bandleader Eddie Palmieri and the leader and let him take the lion’s share of the bows.” guitarist George Benson. His longest running connection, though, Survivors include his wife, Jane Oriel; his daughter and son-in-law, was with saxophonist Bob Mintzer, who formed a big band in 1984. Allegra Yellin and Jordan Ruyle; two granddaughters; a sister, Jill Yellin was part of Mintzer’s group from its beginning until 2007. Fischer; and two brothers, Bob and Gene Yellin. JJ Jazz takes center stage at summerstage The NYC Parks also in Central Park; multiple Hot 9 (with New Orleans piano legend Foundation’s Grammy winning jazz Henry Butler), The Hot Sardines, and Bria SummerStage brings more trumpeter Terence Blanchard Skonberg & The New York Hot Jazz Festival than 100 free (a 1982 NJJS scholarship All-Stars, featuring Wycliffe Gordon, Vince performances to Central winner) in Staten Island’s Giordano, Anat Cohen and more. Park and 15 other parks Clove Lakes Park, performing The annual, three-day Charlie Parker Jazz this year, ranging from “Breathless,” a work based on Festival will feature performances from pop, Yiddish, soul and the final words of borough Breeding Ground, the 11-piece band led by Taiwanese music to dance, native Eric Garner; soul jazz keyboardist Jason Lindner, the Randy comedy and theater vocalist and winner of the Weston African Rhythms Sextet and presentations, all free of 2015 Grammy for Best Jazz DeJohnette-Moran-Holland, the charge. Having highlighted Vocal Album, Dianne Reeves, collaboration of drummer Jack DeJohnette, hip-hop in and Latin in Queensbridge Park; and pianist Jason Moran and bassist Dave music in recent years, this Stefanie Batten Bland Holland. year’s festival honors presenting an another distinctly New interdisciplinary dance The final show of the 2016 season celebrates Terence Blanchard and the York music — jazz, with collaboration with jazz the 20th anniversary of the Jazz Age E-Collective perform a free show more jazz events than ever in Cloves Lake Park, Staten Island ensemble Burnt Sugar and Broadway musical, Chicago, with a before. on Aug. 5. the Arkestra Chamber also in performance by the current cast. Queensbridge Park. Legends McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter and Roy For up-to-date scheduling and lineup for Haynes kick off the festival in Central Park Trad jazz gets its own day in the sun on the all SummerStage programming visit on June 4. Other notable performances Central Park stage on June 25 with a trio of www.SummerStage.org. JJ include saxophonist Kamasi Washington, performances by Butler, Bernstein & The ___________________________________ 10 June 2016