From Broadway To 52nd Street
Brigadoon opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on March, 13, 1947 and had a run of 581 performances. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Leowe composed the music and lyrics for the stars David Brooks, Marion Bell, George Keane and Pamela Britton. From this musical arose to compositions to jazz standard fame – Almost Like Being In Love and The Heather On The Hill.
The Story: Two American hunters in Scotland lose their way and stumble upon the village of Brigadoon that seems to belong to another time. As they enter, a kilted swain is rejoicing his impending marriage. Tommy falls in love with Fiona, Jeff has a fling with Meg. They discover the village is bewitched coming back to life only once every hundred years. Jeff and Tommy flee but Tommy’s love for Fiona brings him back and the village appears just long enough to embrace him.
Broadway History: It was during the 20th century that the Tony Awards were established, in 1947. These awards recognized theater achievement in Broadway theaters. Other Broadway and theater awards include the Drama Desk Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Theatre World Awards and the Obie Awards. The Drama Desk Awards are the only award given to Broadway and off-Broadway productions, all competing against each other.
The Obie awards cover off Broadway and off-off Broadway productions. The Theatre World awards are given to actors for outstanding debut performances. The New York Drama Critics’ Circle award is the second oldest theater award in the U.S. with the main award for Best Play.
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Peter Ind was born July 20, 1928 in Middlesex, England who didn’t begin playing double-bass professionally until the late Forties as part of the house band on the Queen Mary. Relocating to New York in 1951 he played with Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, Buddy Rich, Booker Ervin, Mal Waldron and Slim Gaillard.
Branching into production Peter became a pioneer in stereo recording and the overdubbing of jazz in the Fifties. He produced sessions in his loft for Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan and Booker Little and founded his own “Wave” label in 1961, releasing as a leader “Looking Out” featuring Joe Puma and Dick Scott.
By 1963 Ind had moved to Big Sur, California where he remained until 1966. During this period he concentrated on performing unaccompanied, and recorded several albums of solo material. In 1965 he played with Konitz and Warne Marsh and continued to play with Marsh and Konitz into the 1970s after his return to England in 1967. Private recordings under the Wave imprint began to be issued.
In 1984 he opened a nightclub in London called the Bass Clef and after several successful years, the club had to close for tax reasons. Peter Ind continues to record and issue CDs, perform internationally and has written two books – “Jazz Visions” that explores the legacy of Lennie Tristano and “The Environment and Cosmic Metabolism” centering on energy concerns.
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Carmell Jones was born in Kansas City, Kansas on July 19, 1936 and was reared by parents how were both teachers. He became interested in music and jazz, by his own admission, at the age of two. Piano lessons began at age five, gave way to the “that’s for sissy’s attitude” and trumpet started at seven.
He spent two years in the army followed by two years at the University of Kansas as a music education and trumpet major. Leaving the Midwest for the Pacific coast, he became a California studio musician in 1960 recording with such artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, and Nelson Riddle. During this chapter in his success story, he was being compared to Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro. Carmell developed a close association with Bud Shank as a member of his quintet. He recorded with many other notables and most importantly he recorded his first album under his own name and contract with Pacific Jazz – “The Remarkable Carmell Jones”.
In ‘64 moving to New York he joined the Horace Silver Quintet recording three albums with Silver including “Song For My Father”. Down Beat Magazine awarded Jones the designation of “New Star Trumpeter” and signing with Prestige, he recorded what he considers his most successful personal album, “Jay Hawk Talk”, with pianist Barry Harris, tenor Jimmy Heath, drummer Roger Humphreys and bassist Teddy Smith. This album received the critics 5 Star Best Album Award.
The next year Carmell left the U.S. for Germany and spent the next fifteen years working with Milo Pavlovic, Herb Geller, Leo Wright and Eugene Cicero, the SFB Big Band and Radio Free Berlin recording 8 hours a day, composing and arranging for radio, TV and film. Upon his return to the States he devoted much of his time building new musicians from the ground up teaching music in his hometown elementary schools.
Carmell Jones, trumpeter, composer, arranger, music publisher, educator and recording artist with over sixty albums to his credit passed away in Kansas City, Kansas on November 7, 1996.
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Lynn Seaton was born on July 18, 1957 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and began studying classical guitar vey young but by age nine switched to the bass. By the late 70s he was performing around the state and in 19080 he moved to Ohio with the Steve Schmidt Trio and later became the house bassist at the Blue Wisp Jazz Club in Cincinnati. This gig gave him the opportunity to accompany a host of big name jazz guest soloists every week.
Seaton joined Woody Herman in 1984 followed by the Count Basie Orchestra in ’85 and after two years began touring extensively with Tony Bennett and George Shearing. He went on to spend time touring with Monty Alexander and with the Jeff Hamilton Trio. Since the early ‘90s the bebop and swing bassist has free-lanced with the likes of Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ernestine Anderson, Buck Clayton, Al Cohn, Kenny Drew Jr., Scott Hamilton, Ken Peplowski, Wynard Harper, Frank Foster, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Mark Murphy, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, Frank Wess and Blossom Dearie, just to name a few.
Rarely a leader, Lynn has recorded under his name as in 1991with “Bassman’s Basement” followed by “Solo Flights” and “Puttin’ On The Ritz” and as a sideman on over 100 recordings including Grammy-winning “Dianne Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra”. He lived in New York from 1986 to 1998 and has performed at festivals worldwide such as Newport, North Sea, Kyoto and others. He currently teaches at the University of North Texas, home to one of the world’s largest jazz program.
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Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was born July 16, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri to touring Swedish-American vaudevillians, a tap dancing father and pianist mother. At two, his parents settled in San Mateo, California, opened a dance studio where he received piano and tap instruction from his parents. Tapping alongside his father in the Bay area he landed a role in the film “The White of the Dark Cloud of Joy” tapping with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
Playing in a Dixieland band around the Bay area, at sixteen Cal entered and won a Gene Krupa solo contest but the win was dampened by Pearl Harbor. After serving in the Army, he enrolled at San Jose State College and under the G.I. Bill majoring in education. He later transferred to San Francisco State College, took timpani lessons, met Dave Brubeck who introduced him to Paul Desmond. The three formed the Dave Brubeck Octet with Tjader on drums and recorded one album.
Disbanding the octet, Tjader and Brubeck formed a trio that became a fixture in the San Francisco jazz scene. During this period he taught himself the vibraphone, alternating between it and the drums depending on the song. A diving accident in 1951 forced Brubeck’s trio to dissolve, however, Tjader continued trio work with bassist Jack Weeks and pianists John Marabuto or Vince Guaraldi, recording his first 10″ LP as a leader with them for Fantasy. He went on to work with George Shearing and continued recording for Fantasy.
After a gig at the Blackhawk Cal quit Shearing and in 1954 formed The Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet that produced Mambo with Tjader. The Mambo craze reached its peak in the late 1950s, and his band opened the second Monterey Jazz Festival in 1959. The Sixties was his most prolific period and his biggest success was the 1964 album Soul Sauce, the title track, a Dizzy Gillespie composition.
The 70s were lean years suffering like most jazz artists due to rock and roll’s explosive growth. During his later years he cut what most consider his seminal work “Onda Va Bien”, roughly translated as The Good Life, earning him a Grammy for Best Latin Recording.
Just as he was born on tour, he died touring on the road with his band in Manila, succumbing from a heart attack on May 5, 1982. Cal Tjader, who 40 year career playing vibraphone, drums, bongos, congas, timpani and piano stands alongside Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson as a vital influence and is linked with swinging freely between jazz and Latin music.
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