Oggi il leggendario club newyorkese Village Vanguard celebra il 75° anniversario dell'apertura, avvenuta il 23 febbraio 1935. Grandi del jazz come John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk e Cannonball Adderley, solo per citarne alcuni, hanno tutti suonato nel piccolo seminterrato della 7 Avenue, e più di 100 album sono stati registrati qui.
Per onorare l'occasione stasera suonerà Joe Lovano con il suo gruppo "Us Five" con James Weidman (piano), Esperanza Spalding (basso), Otis Brown III e Francisco Mela (batteria).
In rete si moltiplicano le celebrazioni a quello che viene considerato il più importante jazz club del mondo.
Tra questi voglio segnalare l'intervista, nel sito della WNYC, a Lorraine Gordon, moglie di Max, mitico fondatore del club, ed attuale proprietaria sin dalla morte del marito avvenuta nel 1989.
Have you always been a jazz enthusiast?
Well, that was the lucky thing I had in my favor because you have to like something in order to do it. There was a big cult of us in Newark, N.J., where I grew up. We had the Newark Hot Club and all these young kids, not a lot, a few formed this club and we just loved jazz and that’s the kinds of people I hung out with…you know, I wasn’t a Jersey Shore person. I used to go hang out at the bar (Vanguard). You know, Max didn’t look at us too favorably. We had no money. We’d buy one beer or two and pass it around and he’d say, ”Get rid of those kids!” and I vowed revenge.
But I met Max -- I didn’t meet him, I saw him in a restaurant and accosted him. He said sit down, I sat down. I said I have a great artist. He said who? He never heard of him. I have an opening in September…I said great, I’ll take it. And so now I was a booking manager. Anyway, that’s how I met Max.
Did [Thelonious] Monk play in September?
Yes, yes he did, indeed he did. He came down with a wonderful group…and nobody came, nobody knew him. And Max thought I was surely ruining his business, what was I doing –- there’s nobody here. I said, Max, Mr. Gordon I called him, wait, wait, you’ll see, you’ll find out someday. Many years later, I’d hear Max say to other people this man is a genius, he’s great artist. I said where have I heard those words before?
Molto bello è anche il servizio video pubblicato oggi sul sito della BBC per celebrare l'importante anniversario, che è possibile vedere qui.
Per onorare l'occasione stasera suonerà Joe Lovano con il suo gruppo "Us Five" con James Weidman (piano), Esperanza Spalding (basso), Otis Brown III e Francisco Mela (batteria).
In rete si moltiplicano le celebrazioni a quello che viene considerato il più importante jazz club del mondo.
Tra questi voglio segnalare l'intervista, nel sito della WNYC, a Lorraine Gordon, moglie di Max, mitico fondatore del club, ed attuale proprietaria sin dalla morte del marito avvenuta nel 1989.
Have you always been a jazz enthusiast?
Well, that was the lucky thing I had in my favor because you have to like something in order to do it. There was a big cult of us in Newark, N.J., where I grew up. We had the Newark Hot Club and all these young kids, not a lot, a few formed this club and we just loved jazz and that’s the kinds of people I hung out with…you know, I wasn’t a Jersey Shore person. I used to go hang out at the bar (Vanguard). You know, Max didn’t look at us too favorably. We had no money. We’d buy one beer or two and pass it around and he’d say, ”Get rid of those kids!” and I vowed revenge.
But I met Max -- I didn’t meet him, I saw him in a restaurant and accosted him. He said sit down, I sat down. I said I have a great artist. He said who? He never heard of him. I have an opening in September…I said great, I’ll take it. And so now I was a booking manager. Anyway, that’s how I met Max.
Did [Thelonious] Monk play in September?
Yes, yes he did, indeed he did. He came down with a wonderful group…and nobody came, nobody knew him. And Max thought I was surely ruining his business, what was I doing –- there’s nobody here. I said, Max, Mr. Gordon I called him, wait, wait, you’ll see, you’ll find out someday. Many years later, I’d hear Max say to other people this man is a genius, he’s great artist. I said where have I heard those words before?
Molto bello è anche il servizio video pubblicato oggi sul sito della BBC per celebrare l'importante anniversario, che è possibile vedere qui.
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