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Building of a red brick campus : the growth of Purdue as recalled by Walter Scholer
No full textTranscription of a meeting held Jan. 14, 1971 between Walter Scholer, Roy A. Smith, and Verne Freeman. Original published by Tippecanoe County Historical Associatio
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Interview with Russ Freeman
No full textInterview with Russ Freeman about jazz in Los Angeles. Freeman discusses his family's arrival in Los Angeles when he was 5, his early musical development, discovering bebop with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on record in 1945 and at Billy Berg's in 1946, bandleader Dean Benedetti and other musicians forming the "nucleus" of one of first West Coast bebop bands (Jim Knepper, Dale Snow, Ray Rosser, Roy Hall), the venue Jack's Basket Room and other venues across Los Angeles, musicians working 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. or 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., house bands for jam sessions, the local influence of Charlie Parker working with the Howard McGhee band, Hampton Hawes replacing Freeman in the McGhee band, the Hi De Ho Club on 52nd and Western, Dean Benedetti following Parker around with a recorder and owning a black lacquered alto saxophone, Freeman's comparison of Howard McGhee to Roy Eldridge, incipient bebop players in the 1950s (Art Pepper, Steve White, Johnny Barbera, Tommy Magagon) before Chet Baker, other piano players (Ray Rosser, Joe Albany, Hampton Hawes), drummers Roy Hall, Roy Porter, Lawrence Marable and Frank Butler, bassist Bob Whitlock, Teddy Edwards, Sonny Criss, The Treniers, Howard McGhee's place as a hangout, working day and night, whether Dean Benedetti was mentioned by Jack Kerouac, Benedetti dying in Italy after relocating, other local bands (Les Hite, Buddy Collette, Charles Mingus, Britt Woodman, what Charles Mingus was like, the revolution in bass playing in the preceding 25 years, the reception of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie at Billy Berg's, other bands Freeman went on tour with and getting stranded in Quincy, Illinois, Paul Martin, Skinny Ennis, Will Osburn, working with Benny Goodman in the late 1950s, a band led by Cee Pee Johnson, the Al Adams band, Stan Kenton's influence in that time period, bebop as a reaction (or not) to swing, Art Tatum in Los Angeles, Nat "King Cole," more on Jimmy Knepper, his general impressions of Central Avenue in the late 1940s, not being on the Dial sessions with Parker, his first record with Art Pepper, other Central Avenue musicians, Gerald Wilson's big band, Benny Carter's band, more on Joe Albany, Lester Young's Aladdin recordings, Dodo Marmarosa, more on Hampton Hawes, the influence of Bud Powell, meeting Carl Perkins, working with Dexter Gordon, one-nighters, steady gigs, and jam sessions
Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/446378No YFA Job No.308746
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Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
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Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
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Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
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Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
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Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
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Roy Simpson house Mount Macedon
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Jan Freeman, 35th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJan Freeman is the author of Hyena, Autumn Sequence, and Simon Says, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and several anthologies. She co-edited the acclaimed Sisters: An Anthology (2009). Freeman founded Paris Press in 1995 in order to bring into print Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry. She has been its director and publisher since. Paris Press educates the public about groundbreaking yet overlooked literature by women and has also championed the work of Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ruth Stone and numerous other women writers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
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