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...Arthur Naftalin, a brilliant mayor of Minneapolis during the '60s, points out that no single group?ethnic, religious or business?has ever been able to take control of the state. There were no Tammany machines to greet the immigrants. "With our great variety," says Naftalin, "we have always had to form coalitions...
...that time, Butterfield had surrounded himself with brilliant musicians in the form of guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield and organist Mark Naftalin. The result of which was a modern band that ventured into the confines of jazz and swing while still maintaining its identity in the blues. In the fall of 1971, right at the time when he seemed close to achieving the synthesis of jazz, swing, and blues that possessed him during the latter part of the group's history, Butterfield dissolved the band and departed from the musical world to drive stakes in the green pastures...
...found his horn section, nearly intact, backing Stevie Wonder at the Rolling Stones Concerts.) In 1965, Paul Butterfield formed the first, and maybe the best, integrated Chicago-style blues band. He had Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars, Sam Lay on drums, Jerome Arnold on bass, and Mark Naftalin on keyboards. Magnificent blues musicians all, but the instantly recongizable names are Bloomfield and Bishop. The albums they made for Electra, particularly the first, rank with the finest blues albums to come from Chicago...
...well as culturally, Minneapolis is one of the Midwest's more progressive cities. Its civic-minded businessmen like their suits conservative and their politics enlightened. Since the 1940s, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition has produced a series of dynamic liberal mayors, including Hubert Humphrey and the incumbent, Arthur Naftalin. Thus Minneapolis seemed unlikely to succumb to the mayoral campaign of a political novice whose principal pledge was "to take the handcuffs off the police." Yet that is just what happened last week...
Another factor was the continuing decay of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization. The party split over the 1966 gubernatorial nomination, then lost the election. The Humphrey-McCarthy rivalry last year helped the process along. Naftalin, a Humphrey protege 25 years ago, declined to run for a fifth two year term this year, and his withdrawal created a vacuum that left many voters without allegiance to any commanding personality...
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