A Quarterly ENTER Women Brea acd Bill Evans Board of Advisors: Warren Bernhardt PTs eat Le Sa natireer aura) Peter H, Larsen Ron Nethercutt July/August 1982 ___ISSN# 1056-4179 Vol 3, Number 6, Price $5.00 LFE but whose names do not appear on my suboorip- News fon fot Win tho sve, LFE wl bo seid at Tower Magazines, the sister store of Tower Records. | hope this provides even wider distrbution. I yeutind yourcof tie renowal timo again. Due to time reading the publication regularly, but not paying for it constraints and the health of my tam please consider sending me twenty bucks to subscribe. Iwill be cutting down to a quarterly This guarantoss that you will not miss an issue and that publishing schedule. All eubscription LFE will cantinue to be around a litle while longer. Those recsiv- ing a “cour Le and newsstand (aS, tesy’ sub- prices will re scription will train the same continue to do Irwil-endeaver . soritwous.be to provide more > nice if the information and “courtesy” is more pages returned in with each issue. some way, Please send whether it be a writing contribution, a CD to review, or your renewal checks promptly. | will also accept adci- a reciprocal publication to read. tional gifts should you foe! the need to eee that LFE I itis with greet reluctance that | accept the resigna survives a litte longer. Same of you have already sent aifts after hearing of the $5,000 loss. Thank you very mu MH Thanks to the readers who responded to the 'NYG’s No Lark” anagram, The answer is “Sonny Clark." The first subscriber to call with the answer was in this issue: News 2.0.0.6 Waceterccal Dave Gulickson, lowa City, lowa. He wins a CD, Ton Soott Sung Moros, featuring Bil Evans, Soot Laer, TMalaZeNOWS so - -ae n eres 2 and Paul Motian, Sunnyside, SSC 1015-D, which will Book Review: West Coast Jazz. .... 2 bbe reviewed in the next issue of LFE. The CD'sliner nctes ‘The ideal Jere Club = Fiction? “. =... . @ show a recording date of October 1858, just before the: CD Review - Andy LaVerne . . - - 7 legendary Village Vanguard recordings with Lalaro and Interview -Mark Murphy ...---. @ Motian. Peter Larson, however, in his discography Tum Transcription. - "Midnight Mood”. . 17 On The Stars, lists these culs as being recorded in the: ‘Subscription -Renewal Form ..... 19 summer of 1958, Tho recording is interesting from a historical perspective I Everycay | ‘eam of more people who are reeding Tribute Compositions List... ..Lettor from Evans, July/August 1992 ton of Jack Reilly from the LFE Board of Advisors. His unseish devotion to Evans is unique. It is hard to imagine how LFE would have gotten started without Jack's many contributions. He's busy now on a fairly comprehensive composition commission, but I hope he gets he time to dtoo LFE @ line andor an ence, Best Wises in your futuro endeevors Jack. | will not fil the Vacancy inmediaialy. Inaedto give some though. HE Unfortunately, the international Jazz Plano Camp, sponsored by Jack Reily and LFE, has beon postponed inéetiniely tor the second time. I'do not thnk il wil be reschaduled nex! year, given current economic condi ficns. This Is another need for eome euecesetul grant proposals. tis not appropriate to put allof the burden of baying for he camp on the shouklers of he participants Herb Wong recently cated to tell me how much he enjoyed LFE. He is prosently teaching a course entillad "Ine Jazz Trio” an spent about Sx weeks on various Evans iris. Evans's contrbutions te misie were many and vatied in nature but, being @ bassist, I'm naluraly drawn to the evoluton ofthe Jazz tro uncer his dominion HHer's description ofthe course was intiguing. Educators wishing fo expand ther cumiula in that dreeion should contact him fo spect information His nating across 361 Ponineuia Way, Menlo Park, CA 04025, Hh wilbo inresidence atthe 1992 Jazz CentralTribute to Evans in Los Angels. The Jazz Centrel organization folds this annualtritute on the closest Saturday te Aug 16. This year it falls on Aug. 15 at 8:90 p.m. at the American Federationot Musicians, | ocal47,on Vine Street i Holywood. Dan MeKenne, the motivational force behind this tribute can be reached at (213)257-2843. ‘Mier the tribute | wil spend afew days ravetng tothe Sen Frenciseo area for some interviews, Ibe returring to the LA. area on the 20th and back to Florida onthe 23th HH Waten tese pages for more information on another contest. Nerette Evans and | working on the details ofa iyte wing contest for 8 cerein Bill Evans composi tonis). Contest spectos and prize infermation wit be printed here ae soon es possible. HH Piariet David Benoit as recordedthe Evane's com: postion Letter To Evan on & CD scheduled fr release this fell Mr. Benoit has recorded tunes dedicated to Bil but this marks the frst time he has recorde ene o Bl’ tunes. HE Fart Two of the interview with Nenelto Evans wil ppoarin the next issue, Tl The New Jersey Jazz Society, Bernard Morris, President, along ith The Insitute of Jazz Stucies, RUC gets University, Dan Morgenstern, Chairman, inducted Bil Evans (zlong with nine cthers) into the Jazz Hall of Fame on May 1, 1882. Accepting the award for Bl's widow, Nenetio, was Bill Zavatsly Page2 LETTER FROM EVANS ie published four times a ‘year at an annual subscription rate of $20.00 (bulk fate) in the continental United States, $27.00 first lass:$27.00 (ied class) in Alaska, Hawall, Canad: ‘ané Mexico: The annual rate for Asia, Aftica, and the Pacific Rim i $60. The rete in all other countries $40 (turds in U.S. dollars) Previous Issues are avail ‘able at $7.00 each ($850 foreign). Pleaee allow eight weeks tor delivery The opinions expressed hetein are not necessarily those of the Publsher/Ed- tor. Win Hinkle, of the Board of Advisors. Letters to the editor are wecome on any subject. Advertsing ‘will be accepted from firms that have @ product of genuine interest fo the Bill Evans enthusiast. A rate Caid is availabis. on. request. Non-commercial sources of Bil Evans matorials may present rotices for possible inclusion in LFE. The final determination of suitability Wil be made at the sole discretion of the Publsher/Editor. The cover logo, based an-a photo. ‘graph by Jim Marshall, was designed by Mike Ning ‘and'is Used by permission. z ~ Board of Advisors: Warren Bernhardt Chuck fsraeis Ron Nethercutt Peter H. Larsen (vacant): Statt Win Hinkle, Publisher/Editor Ellen Hinkle, Editorial Assistant Toni Strollo, Proofreader Bill Montgomery, Editor for Asia from Evans Win Minko, Editor 2712 Cady Way Winter Park, FL. 92792-4856 USA. 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This time around, the role-model is litle mote ooially acceptable — clean-cut, athletic young blacks who wear good-looking sults rather than the more steteolypcially portrayed underdog, burnt-out, dope: fiends. Society as @ whole tends io honor and promulgate images rather than substance. In the case of the Marsalis family, their influence on younger musicians is strong and substantial, regardiess of any racial identity. | think that's @ good thing, I's too bad there aren’t enough gigs to go around ‘or all the young musicians who wear business suits and link (or have their agents link) their “images with the Marsalis Brothers. Conceming the old Tonight Show Band — Dos Se- verenson's "NEC Orchestra’ was a "jazz band” to me, even though the majority of the time it played for effect rather than substance. It will aways be remembered for its great soloists: Clark Terry, Snooky Young, and espe- cially Pete Crisiieb. Doc's occasional jazz solos always ound like somecne who chooses ta spend time keeping his poweriul lead chops up, rather than relaxing and looking for the intuitive jazz solo. I'mremindedot the tme | epent digging through the record collection of North Texas Stale University, where | discovered a precious fow cuts of Doc playing quite respectable jazz In other TV News — | happened to tune in on the closing segment of the recent PBS special featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa with Andre Provin and Ray Brown, ‘The Art Pepper Society, organising secretary. Ta: basco Pele Webb, edict of The NensPepper news: letter. | Tabasco Pete Webb, “Los Altos” 34c Dengrove Park, Caterbury Kent CT2 OPY, ENGLAND What a snobbish, phonay program! PBS (spending our tex dollars) snould have more sense than to offer such sel-cerving, elitist tripe. Listening to a moderately tat ented diva self-consciously read her way through over- done American popular songs, accompanied by a eet-stylod, popular pianis! turned under-talented sym- phony conductor, is boring tare to just about everyone. Classical singers can serve their art better by staying in ‘a medium they know something about, especially this classical singer. Te Kanawa looked bored, Previn looked asleep, and Brown looked forward to the check. It was bad art, bad programming, and bad television. | think I'd rather watch The Weather Channel. W.H. Book Review Ted Gioia: West Coast JAZZ: Modern Jazz In California, 1945-60 BE Jack Beck May 14, 1992, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10018, $27.95 (cloth), 404 pages with extensive index. ISBN 0-19-508310.4 California! Boundless, sun-drenched landscapes where Gifts and flower-covered fields meot tho balmy Pacific suri, Slick, modern jazz clubs; miles apart; where avant garde musicians, often white and cofege-trained, pur veyed a style of cool, laid-back, highly rehearsec, tightly contrapuntal music inflienced by Debussy and Ravel ang otner modernist “serious” composers. Space and ‘outdeor fun, Huge dance pavilions under starry, cloudless skies, where the mighly Kenton band blasted out its “neo- phonic’ fanfares. Hollywood—providing giz, film studio work, and a financial base for many jazz players. is that the way it tealy was? Well yes, partially, according to Ted Gicia, authorof this appeaing compen dium of West Coast jazz history. This book focuses mainly on the years 1945-60, when a hanotul of record companies promoted the image of a separate West Coast jazz style, even feeding the notion of # war be- tween the Wes! and East Coast styles. “Yet if thic was a war, it was one that the West Coast eventually lost. And the maxim that the winning side writes the history wai never more true than in this instance. Jazz writing of the last two decades leaves little doubt as to the critical consensus: ittreatsthe West Const phenomenon asan aberration—at Pege