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Howard McGhee oral history interview
No full textPage numbers here indicate page numbers for "Read Online" interface. Page numbers listed on transcripts may differ.
Tape 1 Side 1...pp. 1-37
Tape 1 Side 2...pp. 37-77
Tape 2 Side 1...pp. 78-114
Tape 2 Side 2...pp. 114-147
Tape 3 Side 1...pp. 148-170
Tape 3 Side 2...pp. 170-191
Tape 3 Side 1...pp. 191-213
Tape 3 Side 2...pp. 213-247(b Tulsa, OK, 6 March 1918; d New York, 17 July 1987). American trumpeter and composer. He grew up in Oklahoma, and played clarinet and tenor saxophone before taking up trumpet in 1935; he lost an eye in a childhood accident and thereafter nearly always wore dark glasses to hide the facial deformity. After working with territory bands in the Mid- and Northwest in the late 1930s he joined Lionel Hampton (September 1941), then played as a principal soloist with Andy Kirk (c January - August 1942), whose band recorded McGhee Special (originally written for McGhee’s own band in 1940). He continued in big bands with Charlie Barnet (August 1942 - January 1943, March - August 1943), Kirk (February 1943; December 1943 for recordings only; February - June 1944), Count Basie (deputizing from late November to early December 1943), Georgie Auld (from June 1944), and Billy Eckstine (deputizing in August and December 1944). At the end of 1944 he joined Coleman Hawkins’s quintet and in January 1945 traveled to Los Angeles, where he worked with Hawkins until April. McGhee remained in California for two years, co-leading a group with Teddy Edwards from mid-1945 to early 1946 and then forming an octet that included Edwards, Charlie Parker, Sonny Criss, Bob Kesterson, and Roy Porter. He appeared, but did not play, in the film The Crimson Canary (1945; his part on the soundtrack is ghosted by a lesser player), recorded How High the Moon with Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP), took part in Parker’s recording sessions for Lover Man (originally issued under McGhee’s name) and Relaxin’ at Camarillo, and was a featured soloist at Gene Norman’s Just Jazz concert in 1947. In 1947 McGhee joined the JATP touring group, and thereafter toured frequently and recorded prolifically as the leader of his own groups, with such sidemen as James Moody, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and J. C. Heard. He worked briefly with Chubby Jackson in April 1948, took a sextet including Jimmy and Percy Heath to the Festival International de Jazz in Paris the following month, and performed and recorded with Machito in spring 1949. By the end of the decade he was one of the most highly regarded musicians in the bop movement, and he was named “best trumpeter” by Down Beat in 1949. From late 1951 to early 1952 he participated in a USO tour of the Pacific and Far East with Oscar Pettiford. Although he worked occasionally with Parker in Boston and in 1953 recorded as the leader of a group that included Horace Silver and Tal Farlow, during the remainder of the 1950s he was inactive on account of problems resulting from his addiction to heroin. However, in 1960 he joined Woody Herman, and thereafter worked frequently, recording with Edwards as a co-leader and with his own quartet (with Phineas Newborn, Jr., Leroy Vinnegar, and Shelly Manne), performing with Moody in Los Angeles, and briefly joining Duke Ellington (all 1961). In 1963 he appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. He formed a big band in the mid-1960s, and participated in jazz services at St. Peter’s Lutheran church in New York into the 1980s, as documented in the film Shepherd of the Night Flock (1977). From the 1970s he also appeared regularly at European festivals. McGhee had a thin tone and an agile style, which he traced to his early familiarity with the clarinet. He was one of the few trumpeters to become fluent in the bop style during the 1940s. While he was not quite a match for Gillespie or Navarro in creativity and dexterity, at his best he came close, as may be gathered from confusion in liner notes to reissues over the identification of soloists on Double Talk: almost certainly Navarro plays the first 32 bars, McGhee has the next 32, and then the two men continue in this order for alternating segments, variously 8 and 16 bars long. He also wrote several pieces for his own groups, among them Dorothy and Night Mist
Untitled letter from George McGhee to Secretary Udall , April 20 1962
No full textCarbon copy of a letter (2 p) that outlines the need for a swift solution to the Salinity problem in the water from the Lower Colorado. Mr. McGhee points to several stressors which exacerbates the need for a solution.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bi
Deportation, detention & torture by proxy: foreign national terror suspects in the UK
No full textIn many ways his article confronts the Sociologist C. Wright Mills’s famous injunction on turning private troubles into public issues. However, this is a trickier process than usual as the victims at the centre of these private troubles are not children, women, lesbian, gays, the elderly, or the disabled. The victims here are what Stan Cohen has described as ‘impure victims’, in that they are individuals who are suspected of being ‘involved’ in ‘terrorist’ activities. The private troubles these impure victims are experiencing are the loss of many of the rights most of us enjoy (for example, the right to liberty and the right to a fair trial). The public issue that will be examined here is what Étienne Balibar refers to as the reality of the extreme violence of the State in contemporary societies against ‘radically excluded’ individuals. This chapter is an examination of the long and winding road to the Government achieving its over-riding ambition in the war on terror in the UK: the deportation of terror suspects to regimes where (despite diplomatic assurances) torture is inevitable
Letter in Connection with the Salinity Problem in the Delivery of Colorado River Water to Mexico
No full textLetter: From George C. McGhee, to Stewart Udall, April 20, 1962 (carbon copy
Letter on Study of the Colorado River Salinity Problem
No full textLetter: From George C. McGhee, Under Secretary for Political Affairs to Stewart Udall, April 12, 196
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from George C. McGhee to Harris Leon Kempner congratulation on his election into The Philosophical Society of Texas. He mentions that Herbert Gambrell haven't heard from him yet about his presence in the next meeting at Fort Clark. And he also adds that George will enter Duke next year after completing serving six months in the Army
The combination of insider and outsider strategies in VSO - government partnerships - the relationship between refugee action and the home office in the UK
No full textIn this article we examine the relationship between Refugee Action (a UK non-governmental organisation [NGO] in the refugee and asylum seeker sector) and the Home Office, which funds it to deliver the Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programme for asylum seekers and irregular migrants in the UK. We explore: (a) the different drivers that exist between the Home Office and Refugee Action, (b) the perceptions of the funder and service deliverer about advocacy, relevance and independence in the context of this state-NGO 'relationship' and (c) the themes of dominance, resistance and freedom to look at the contested space between these two organisations. The primary contribution the article makes is to examine the centrality of 'evidence' (through service delivery) in both Refugee Action's 'insider' influencing activities as a partner working with the Home Office and its 'outsider' strategies in terms of its campaigning and judicial review works versus the Home Office
Correction to: Exploring multi-level system factors facilitating educator training and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP): a study protocol
No full textAfter publication of the original article [1] it was brought to our attention that author Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick was erroneously included as Elizabeth McGee Hassrick. The correct spelling of the author’s name is included in the author list of this erratum
Data for: Mosquitofish use the past experiences of others with risk to make shoaling decisions
No full textThese are lab collected data on F1 lab-born juvenile mosquitofish. Focal individuals could choose to associate with 2 different partners that had either been exposed to cues of predation in the past (alarm cue) or not (water control). Trials were 3 minutes before alarm cue was added and 3 minutes after alarm cue was added. Data are presented in ‘long-format’.Column headingsA. Focal individual = the individual identity of the naive lab-born focal individuals whose association patterns are being measured (n=29 focal fish)B. left_trt = which partner was located in the left box in the tank (A = alarm cue partner, C = control partner). Determined by coin toss and then alternated.C. time = shoaling was measured at two time periods for each focal individual —> “before” means the 3 minutes before any alarm cue was added and “during” means the 3 minutes after 1ml of alarm cue was added to the center of the preference tankD. partner_treatment = refers to the previous predator-exposure of the partner (“alarm” = partner exposed to alarm cue repeatedly, “control” = partner exposed to water cues only)E. num_enters = the number of times over the 180 second trial that the focal fish entered the partner fish zoneI. total_num_enters = the number of times that the focal fish entered a partner fish zone (alarm+control) during the 180 time period. Note that while this value appears twice (once for alarm partner and once for the control partner), it should only count a single time “before” and “during” alarm cue since it is a sum of the two partners during a time period. G. time_spent = the amount of time (of a maximum of 180 seconds) that the focal fish spent with the partner fish indicted during the 3 minute trialH. prop_time_spent = the proportion of time that the focal fish spent with the partner fish indicted out of the 180 second trialI. total_preftime_sec = the total amount of time spent with either partner (alarm+control) during the time period. Note that while this value appears twice (once for alarm partner and once for the control partner), it should only count a single time “before” and “during” alarm cue since it is a sum of the two partners during a time period. J. active_partner_time = the amount of time (of a maximum of 180 seconds) that the partner fish spent moving around during the 3 minute trialK. partner_prop_active = the proportion of time that the partner spent active out of the 180 second tria
The return of citizenship? An empirical assessment of legal integration in times of radical sociolegal transformation
No full textIntra-EU migrants have traditionally faced few pressures or incentives to formalize their “permanent” residence or to naturalize in their EU host countries. Focusing on the United Kingdom and combining an analysis of secondary administrative data and primary online survey data (N = 1,413), this article examines practices and attitudes toward such legal integration in the context of the 2016 EU Referendum among five major EU nationality groups. The analysis reveals that British citizenship is the main legal mechanism of integration among intra-EU migrants in the United Kingdom and that while there is continuity in this respect with pre-Brexit processes, Brexit also has a strong but differential effect as a driver of legal integration. The article identifies some of the main decision-influencing factors shaping legal integration, making a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of integrative processes in times of radical structural change.</p
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