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Iverson on Sandke and Race in Jazz
Recently my friend who shares a Hall Overton jones, Ethan Iverson, posted two long blog entries about race and jazz, based on Randy Sandke's recent book. I'll let Ethan's pieces speak for themselves. The discussion is important. I admire Ethan's willingness to stick his neck out. I don't know Sandke—I've enjoyed his trumpet work on a ...
Dr. Billy Taylor (1921-2010)
I had only two opportunities to chat with Dr. Billy Taylor. The first time I called him about 821 Sixth Avenue. I asked him if he knew Hall Overton and he said, “Of course." He didn't remember taking part in any jam sessions at the loft but he fondly remembered Overton as a congenial colleague and ...
All Roads Lead to Newton Grove
All Roads Lead to Newton Grove. By Pamela Monk Kelley. 2010. All Roads Lead to Newton Grove is a new book on the Monk family history by Pamela Monk Kelley. Her grandfather, Theodore Babe Monk, and Thelonious Monk's father, Thelonious, Sr., were brothers. They were born and raised in Newton Grove, North Carolina. Thelonious, Sr. moved ...
Needle Park: Mad Men and JLP
There are many ways in which the TV show Mad Men overlaps with our decade-plus of research on the Jazz Loft Project. This past Sunday night Midge, Don Draper's Village girlfriend from the first season, reappeared as a Village heroin junkie with a junkie “husband" (most junkie couples weren't legally married) willing to prostitute Midge for ...
Report from Monterey
The Jazz Loft Project was a success at the 53rd annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Many kudos and deep gratitude are due Tim Jackson, Mary Piazza, and Bill Wagner, among many others. Mary approached us many months ago about having some kind of JLP exhibition in their Coffee House Gallery over the weekend. We couldn't use Smith's ...
Branford Marsalis in Conversation with Sam Stephenson
public conversation between saxophonist Branford Marsalis and JLP director Sam Stephenson has been confirmed for the evening of February 10, 2011 at Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, N.C. in association with the Center for Documentary Studies and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (the JLP show opens at Nasher on February 3). As a ...
Celebrities Don't Dig Jazz
Tuesday afternoon I had a meeting at the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the Harvard's Beth Israel complex and I spent that night at a hotel nearby. Fenway Park was three blocks away. The Tampa Bay Rays are my team because their AAA club is the Durham Bulls, who might be better than some bottom feeding MLB ...
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