{"id":5144,"date":"2013-10-06T23:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2013-10-11T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:26:48","slug":"odds-and-ends-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/10\/odds-and-ends-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds And Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to George Wein, who will be honored on Thursday with an award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. The honor comes from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities in recognition of Wein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/George-Wein-head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5145\" alt=\"George Wein head\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/George-Wein-head.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/George-Wein-head.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/George-Wein-head-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/George-Wein-head-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a>stewardship of the Newport Jazz Festival since 1954 and the Newport Folk Festival since 1959. The council cites his launching of what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153became the first jazz festival in America and started an era that has inspired music events around the world.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d At 87, Wein is still organizing festivals and still playing piano with his Newport All-Stars. At the celebration in downtown Providence, Christina Bevilacqua of the Providnce Athenaeum will also be awarded a prize, for Creative Achievement in the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>News has arrived that bassist Butch Warren died over the weekend in Washington, DC. He was 74. Warren was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Butch-Warren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5146\" alt=\"Butch Warren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Butch-Warren.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Butch-Warren.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Butch-Warren-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Butch-Warren-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a> a veteran of bands led by Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, and Thelonious Monk. He recorded with them, Herbie Hancock, Donald Byrd, Sonny Clark and other stalwarts of the Blue Note label at the height of its influence.&#8221;\u00a0 His years back in Washington, his home town, were marked by physical and psychiatric illness, interrupted by occasional returns to active music making. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/edward-butch-warren-washington-born-bassist-dies-at-74\/2013\/10\/06\/89a11a2e-2eb0-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post article<\/a> by Marc Fisher reprises Warren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career and recent troubles.<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strength and drive are an important element in the success of this version of Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Evidence,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d taped in Japan in 1963. Charlie Rouse is the tenor saxophonist, Frankie Dunlop the drummer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qweSlfP6BtI?rel=0\" height=\"355\" width=\"440\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trumpeter Bobby Shew sent a photograph made on a cruise in the Caribbean in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BellsonMulliganShewBetts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5147\" alt=\"Bellson,Mulligan,Shew,Betts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BellsonMulliganShewBetts.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BellsonMulliganShewBetts.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BellsonMulliganShewBetts-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From left to right, we see Louie Bellson, Gerry Mulligan, Shew and bassist Keeter Betts. Mr. Shew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note reads, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No real story re: this photo, except that we were all on a jazz cruise together for Hank O&#8217;Neal. I was with Louie&#8217;s quintet as was Keeter. Somehow we were all in conversation and someone snapped this shot, luckily! I think Gerry died shortly after this photo was taken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mulligan died in early 1996.<\/p>\n<p>(Addendum, 10\/11\/13: <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Alex Cohen writes from New Zealand, &#8220;I&#8217;m the &#8216;someone&#8217; who snapped this shot and sent it off to Mr Shew last week.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff is off to Seattle to hear the Emil Viklicky Trio tomorrow evening at a new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Viklicky-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Viklicky-small.jpg\" alt=\"Viklicky small\" width=\"93\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5150\" \/><\/a> club, The Royal Room. The Czech pianist is flying in from Prague for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.czechevents.net\/events\/details\/4631-emil-viklicky-trio\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">a one-nighter<\/a> with Clipper Anderson on bass and Don Kinney on drums. The same Pacific Northwest sidemen joined him for a Seattle appearance last year and one at The Seasons in Yakima in 2010. For <em>Rifftides<\/em> reports on those occasions, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/06\/the-lucid-emil-viklicky.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/07\/viklicky_at_the_seasons.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dave-Holland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dave-Holland.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Holland\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dave-Holland.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dave-Holland-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dave-Holland-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a>The following night, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hear bassist Dave Holland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quartet at Jazz Alley. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzalley.com\/www-home\/artist.jsp?shownum=1305\"target=\"_blank\">Holland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two-night gig<\/a> is part of a tour following the release of a new CD with his quartet known as Prism, which is also the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prism-Dave-Holland\/dp\/B00DJYK7PW\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">the album<\/a>. His regular members will be along; pianist Craig Taborn, guitarist Kevin Eubanks and drummer Eric Harland. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to remember to take a note or two on each occasion and let you know if anything interesting happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to George Wein, who will be honored on Thursday with an award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. The honor comes from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities in recognition of Wein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stewardship of the Newport Jazz Festival since 1954 and the Newport Folk Festival since 1959. The council cites his launching of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}