Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are only two large clubs in Boston proper which feature jazz, but they don't make a habit of doing so weekly. The clubs, Paul's Mall and Jazz Workshop on 733 Boylston St. will sport the headliners. It won't be unusual to see McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, or even Charles Mingus playing at these jointly--owned establishments. But these bookings are about as innovative as the management gets...
...then there's Sandy's Jazz Revival out on Rte. 128 in Beverly--quite a drive and virtually non-existent without wheels. They book more exotic names than the clubs in town, but again, just for short visits--restricting the best people to one night stands...
...course there are the rock clubs that turn into one night jazz stands when they care to, and a couple of local and collegiate talents that occasionally get booked in obscure auditoriums. All that I can say about those is keep your eyes open. And your ears attuned to WBUR at 90.9--the best jazz in Boston. Without it you would never know what's going on, in terms of clubs and the latest albums...
This production accepts Treemonisha's old-fashioned charm and innocence without embarrassment. Says Schuller, an expert on ragtime and jazz: "There are certain kinds of primitive art works that must be preserved as they originally were. Treemonisha is one of them. It just won't work if you try to sass it up or modernize it for Broadway." This is easier said than done, especially in scoring the work; only Joplin's piano edition has survived. Schuller's orchestration radiates not just the ring of authenticity but the growl and wail as well...
Schuller in his book Early Jazz, the first volume of his The History of Jazz, makes a convincing case for the European march as a source of the rag. A typical Joplin rag has a disciplined arrangement of repeats and returns not unlike that of the march, and a similar duple tune signature. Jazz probably got its start, Schuller believes, when saloon pianists who could not read music began improvising rags they had heard...