Red Allen Chapters 9 - The Jazz Archive

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- 93a - Addenda 4/28-4/30/61, N.Y.C. at the 143rd St.Armory "Indoor Jazz Festival for the benefit of the NAACP Freedom Fund" – NYAN-3/11/61p17: The N.Y. Branch NAACP's Down Beat 4/13/6l: ... A brainchild of pianist Sammy Price, it will benefit Fund Raising Committee is behind Harlem's first from his long experience in almost every field of entertainment. In five Jazz Festival, set for April 28, 29 and 30 at the or six different locations in the armory, Sammy plans what he calls "side 369th Armory. Tentative lineup is as follows: First shows," featuring small groups playing prior to the main program. (These night – Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, musicians will eventually join the mammoth "forty-man jam session" Henry”Red”Allen and the Modern Jazz Quartet. which will end each concert.) More than loo musicians are scheduled to Second night-Duke Ellington (it's his birthday, perform, among them Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Duke too), Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan and Sonny Ellington, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Red Allen, the Stitt. Third night-Louis Armstrong, Cannonball Modern Jazz Quartet, and Horace Silver. A Cadillac will serve as a door Adderley, Horace Silver, Jimmy Giuffre and Oscar price, and other prices will awarded to the winners of an international jazz Brown Jr. There'll be more on this. competition in which at least eight countries will have entries. 5/26/61 Fr., NYC., Apollo Theatre – Mammoth Midnight Show – Red Allen & his Combo, Buddy Allen & His Combo, Dizzy Gillespie , Sarah Vaughan, Thelma Carpenter, Nipsey Russell, The Drifters, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake,etc. NYAN-5/27p19: Huge Midnight Show To Benefit Church A huge Midnite Show, for the benefit of the Abyssinian Baptist Church building program, is being held at the Apollo Theatre on Friday, May 26. Among the top stars scheduled in appear are Nipsey Russell, Ed Sullivan, Jackie Wilson, Sarah Vaughan, The Drifters, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Timmie Rogers, John Bubbles, George Wilshire, Bo Didley, Noble Sissle, and Eubie Blake. Also Dizzy Gillespie, Sugar Ray Robinson, Roy smeck, Lord Westbrook, Thelma Carpenter, Bennie Benjamin, Mortin Dalton, Laurence above due to p89 (60/8/6) & p90 (60/11/21) 5/30 – 6/18/61, Chicago, London House – Red Allen & his Quartet; also recorded (88) Keya, Steve Pulliams Jazz quartet, Buddy Allen and Faye Adams. Also Red Allen & his Combo, Jackie (Moms) Mabley, Sonny Greer, the Copasetics and Dottie Salters. Abyssinian has recently purchased the YWCA building which is adjacent to the church at a cost of $450.000. The building will be used to house the church´s Senior Citizens. It will also be used as a recreational and educational center for the young members.
- 94 - between 5/30 -6/18 or 7/1-7/15/61 Chic.-London House; 9/15/61 WBBM "THE BEST BANDS IN THE LAND ON ONE NIGHT STAND" - HENRY RED ALLEN QUARTET: Red Allen (t,v) Sammy Price(p) Frank Skeete (b) Jerry Potter (d) /Fanfare Rec./ ONS-5433 1:04 theme: ALGIERS BOUNCE -ann.by ……. (H.Allen) / No.24-124 /RA-CD-22 3:58 LOVER COME BACK TO ME (S.Romberg) --- /RA-CD-22/ 3:54 DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS (L.Alter) --- /RA-CD-22 4:22 TENDERLY (W.Gross) --- /RA-CD-22 5:51 BILL BAILEY, WON´T YOU PLEASE COME HOME (Cannon) --- /RA-CD-22 6:41 ROSETTA (E.Hines-H.Wood) --- /RA-CD-22 2:06 ALL OF ME (Simon-Mark) --- /RA-CD-22 0:36 theme: ALGIERS BOUNCE -ann.by --- /RA-CD-22 same date & location; 9/22/61 WBBM-ONS: same as above ONS-5438 0:24 theme: ALGIERS BOUNCE -ann.by …...... --- / RA-CD-22 3:23 BALLIN´ THE JACK (Smith-Burris) --- / RA-CD-22 4.16 SNOWY MORNING BLUES (James P.Johnson) --- / RA-CD-22 4:41 AUTUMN LEAVES (J.Kosma) --- / RA-CD-22 7:30 LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER (L.Robin-L.Gensler) --- / RA-CD-22 6:52 BASIN STREET BLUES (Spencer Williams) --- / RA-CD-22 1:26 theme.- ALGIERS BOUNCE (H.Allen) --- / RA-CD-22 Gilbert M.Erskine - "RED ALLEN AT LONDON HOUSE, Chicago" in Down Beat 8/3/61: Chicago's London House is, like the Embers and the Round-table in New York, one of those places where the talk is usually louder than the music. Most musicians react to such surroundings with different degrees of detachment. But Allen, somewhere along the way, has learned to cope successfully with this, and he does so without compromising his music and without going into a gaudy vaudeville act. Physically, Allen is a massive man. On the bandstand, towering over everyone, he leans over and pelts the audience with rhythmic shouts and roars, compelling attention and making conversation all but impossible. The net effect is that the crowd is drawn into each performance and is constrained to make a response. Of all the recent trumpet quartets, this is easily the most interesting. Allen's trumpet lines, played usually with cloth-draped bell or with mute, are warm, flowing, and tasty. He restricts himself almost entirely to the middle and low registers; his trumpet conception, in fact, may be described as the antithesis of his flamboyant stage manner. Price was an excellent choice for this group. Whether he is soloing or accompanying, he plays in a remarkable chordal style: thick clusters of notes bolting up in his swinging, almost stomplike, approach to the piano. One of the numbers the group features is The Price Is Right (recorded 1/9/62), a tune with a Tin Pan Alley title, but which is really an old Kansas City boogie woogie. In Price's hands it became something of a tour de force that transformed the room into a down-home camp meeting. Skeete and Potter are strong and alert rhythm men, and both solo with good sense and good taste. Skeete has a big, vibrant sound that cuts through everything. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Esposito on Fanfare 24-124: (incl. also session at 9/22): To begin with, Chicago's London House is a great spot, whether or not you want a drink or a steak, and when Henry "Red" Allen played there, as this recording captured, it was, you could say, a few steps in the general direction of heaven. "Red"Allen is one of the distinct and deft voices in jazz, a man whose trumpet stylings crossed over several lines and many territories. Unfortunately for him, such a "catholic" approach, and mind that small "c" for a full understanding, lent him to considerable criticism over the years. He was stamped as a New Orleans man, a Dixieland man, a traditionalist and while he was at home in these waters, he could and did swim swiftly and successfully in other ponds. Indeed, I recall a well known critic and author, Rudi Blesh, once describing Red's efforts as "the S.S,52nd St.," meaning that Red, appearing at a Dixieland concert or some such bash, was out of place. Just looming into 52nd St., or Swing Street at the time Blesh wrote that, were Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and the beboppers and other citizens such as Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Art Tatum, Tiny Grimes, et al. Allen thus suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous critics and more outrageous critique. He was dammed with faint praise (or is that praised with faint damns) by both sides of jazz's famous war, which bounced up on the pages of music magazins and in various books, pamphlets and publications as World War II ended. The intellectual had discovered jazz, had read into a social message and had injected into it something that was never there, a racial overtone. The egghead discussed it by tapping his shell in deep thought and not just tapping his toe and ordering another beer. Thus we had the progressive colony, the first elements of the avantegarde jazz (“I play shoes, Daddy, my solo work is The quartet features a variety of tunes from the back years of jazz and will play almost anything from traditional and mainstream schools. A lot of it is swinging fun. on firm ground, man") and the entrance into jazz of the far-out thinker, the poet and the revolutionary whose contribution was a flock of four letter obsceneties met with gushing approval by the guilt ridden gaggle ... and we had the mouldy fugges, those who thought jazz ended somewhere before the stock market crash, people who would not listen to a record made after 1930 unless it was a Bunk Johnson revivel or Turk Murphy playing note for note something like "Snake Rag." No one paid attention to the great music of the time and even today you'll hear jazz buffs say that jazz was on the
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impeccably cool as always, and said
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