The Boston Jazz Chronicles
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There has always been more to music in Boston than the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. Jazz, for example, dates to the early 1900s,
but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that it truly sparkled. The
Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937-1962 is
the first book to document that city's active jazz scene at
mid-century. Boston jazz came into its own during the World War II
years, when the big bands supplied America with its popular music,
and Boston's Charlie and Cy Shribman were among the kingmakers of
the big-band era. The city produced such talents as pianist and
bandleader Sabby Lewis, the multi-instrumentalist Ray Perry, and
bassist Lloyd Trotman. The scene benefited from the extended
wartime presence of established stars, including trumpeter Frankie
Newton and trombonist Vic Dickenson, and from the start of a Sunday
afternoon jam session tradition that brought the nation's best
jazzmen into regular contact with local players. There were
opportunities for musicians, particularly young musicians, to gain
valuable experience by filling in for the older men serving in the
military. The end of the war introduced new jazz sounds to Boston,
and reintroduced a few older ones as well. Alongside those
musicians like Lewis still playing swing, there were others looking
to the past for inspiration, sparking a Dixieland revival, and
still others looking forward, spreading the new sound of bebop.
There were big-band survivors in downsized groups playing jump
blues, and others organizing new big bands along modern lines. The
end of the war also brought a surge of talented musicians, many of
them veterans and beneficiaries of the GI Bill. They were attracted
by the city's music conservatories and the new Schillinger House,
soon to be renamed the Berklee School of Music. Boston became a
destination for musicians seeking new musical direction. Here they
joined with Boston's own contingent of formidable musicians to form
a new, more modern scene, led by such luminaries as Jaki Byard, Joe
Gordon, Nat Pierce, Charlie Mariano, Herb Pomeroy, Sam Rivers, Alan
Dawson, and Dick Twardzik. They would carry Boston jazz to a
creative peak in the mid-to-late 1950s that still remains
unequaled. The music was splendid, but there was more. Boston was
home to influential jazz journalists George Frazier and Nat
Hentoff; Berklee College of Music founder Lawrence Berk; Father
Norman O'Connor, the Jazz Priest; record company executive and
producer Tom Wilson; and Storyville nightclub proprietor George
Wein, organizer of the Newport Jazz Festival. And through it all
was the music, at the Ken Club, the Savoy Cafe, the Hi-Hat, the
Stable, and other rooms both rowdy and refined. The Boston Jazz
Chronicles relates this story in reportage and personal anecdotes,
and through dozens of photographs, advertisements, and period maps.
This complete study also includes extensive notes, a bibliography,
discography, and comprehensive index. Author Richard Vacca is a
Boston-based technical writer and editor with a lifelong interest
in cultural history, and a regular presenter on the topic of Boston
jazz and nightlife. He spent seven years researching and assembling
these chronicles.
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