Colin Hancock: Bolden and Beyond
Joe Bebco
February 1, 2018
Dick Ames fell in love with jazz when it was America’s popular music in the 1930s, went on to play cornet with a college dance
During the original heyday of ragtime music in the very late 1800s and the very early 1900s, banjos were in common use in minstrel shows
Marlene VerPlanck, one of the best-known interpreters of the American Popular Songbook died Sunday, January 14, 2018, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital after a brief illness.
Benny Goodman’s jazz concert at Carnegie Hall on January 16, 1938, was the first jazz concert to be held there. It was historic in a
Writing in his The Age of Roosevelt three-volume series, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. referred to the Depression days of the early 1930s as
Mildred Eleanor Rinker was born February 16, 1900 (according to researcher Albert Haim), in Tekoa, Washington. Her mother, Josephine, was a member of the Coeur
Each month when I begin work on the following month’s issue of The Syncopated Times I often think of Sisyphus, king of Ephyra, condemned for
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” This line, credited to Andy Warhol from a Stockholm exhibit catalog in 1968, has gone
Red Nichols was one of the finest cornet players to emerge during the 1920s—yet, for various reasons, he was underrated throughout much of his career
This is The Festival Roundup as printed in our February 2018 issue, the Roundup for the current month can be found in the site menu.
Pensacola? Vout-O-Reenie! To the Editor: I’ve worked with the Public History Department at UWF in Pensacola and have helped the students do some research about
My brain delights in unraveling when it should be sleeping. Rarely are these sessions productive. Occasionally, the brain spin cycle leads to an epiphany. No
A solitary trooper Was cruising one fine day And saw a driver pitch Headlong into a ditch; The cop investigated And to his great surprise
Ask any jazz musician worthy of their craft, and they’ll tell you “you can’t have jazz without the blues.” While I believe this to be
History is not only about wars and revolutions, disasters and discoveries, the famous and the infamous. No, it’s also about
Clarinetist Jim Beatty is one of the last living links to the jazz revival of the 1940s and ’50s. Remarkably
Marlene VerPlanck, 84, Jan. 14, of pancreatic cancer. Diagnosed in November she continued to perform up to the end. As a jazz vocalist, she began
Maurice Peress, 87, Dec. 31, of Leukemia, in Manhattan. A conductor who worked closely with both Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington. He considered himself a
Richard Ames, 97, Dec. 28, near Fayetteville, NY. He played in the brass sections of bands during high school and college during the ’30s and
Dr. Robert Edward Shanahan, 86, Christmas Day, Sylvania, OH. Bob was a surgeon, a private pilot, an accomplished gardener, and a beloved Dixieland Jazz musician.
Alan Joseph, 62, from a heart attack on Dec. 20 in Colorado Springs. Originally from Detroit, he moved to Colorado Springs in the late 1970’s
Vol.3, No.2 February 2018
Colin Hancock: Bolden and Beyond, Joe Bebco
Banjos in Traditional Jazz and Ragtime, by Eliot Kenin
Remembering Dick Ames, by Russ Tarby
“A Crisis of the Old Order”, by Lew Shaw
Some Reflections on Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, by.F. Norman Vickers
Marlene VerPlanck, 1933-2018, photographs by John Herr
Static from my Attic, by Andy Senior
Jazz Birthday of the Month: Mildred Bailey, illustration by Gary Price
Blowing off the Dust: Sedalia’s 15 Minutes, by Larry Melton
Jazz Travels: The Chicken Fat Ball, by Bill Hoffman (Photographs by Lynn Redmile)
Jazz Profiles: Red Nichols, by Scott Yanow
Festival Roundup, compiled by Andy Senior
Final Chorus, compiled by Joe Bebco
The Professor in IN: The Professor’s Guide to the Blues, by Adrian Cunningham
Anatomy of a House Concert, by Randi Cee
“I Was Asleep at the Wheel” (song), by Andy Senior
Life’s Little Jokes (1919), Cartoon by Rube Goldberg
Albums:
Nights at the Turntable, Reviews by Scott Yanow
Off the Beaten Tracks, Reviews by Joe Bebco
The Syncopated Bookshelf
Still Ramblin’, The Life and Times of Jim Beatty review by Rick Campbell
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, by Larry Tye review by Russ Tarby
STJS Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, by Lew Shaw
Final Capital City Jazz Fest Set for April 27-29, 2018, Press Release
Jazz Pensacola Seeks Entrants for Student Jazz Competition, Press Release