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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Nat Hentoff, Freedom Fighter
Monday, January 9, 2017
RIP Nat Hentoff
RIP Nat Hentoff. My 2009 JazzWax interview... https://t.co/Dr1208o7BQ pic.twitter.com/0ZIiU5SSqi— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 9 de janeiro de 2017
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Nat Hentoff on Dizzy Gillespie....
Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com/
Nat Hentoff on Dizzy Gillespie
"In the 1980s, there was to be a concert at Lincoln Center 
honoring [trumpeter] Dizzy Gillespie. He and a big band were, of course, to be at the center of the celebration. A few days before, I went to a rehearsal. Everyone was there except Dizzy. [Photo of Dizzy Gillespie in 1963]
honoring [trumpeter] Dizzy Gillespie. He and a big band were, of course, to be at the center of the celebration. A few days before, I went to a rehearsal. Everyone was there except Dizzy. [Photo of Dizzy Gillespie in 1963]"No music was played. The only sounds were a bitter argument between Max 
Roach and Gerry Mulligan [pictured]. Each had some compositions on the program, and at the start the argument was about who was to have more of his pieces played. Then it became very personal and poisonous.
Roach and Gerry Mulligan [pictured]. Each had some compositions on the program, and at the start the argument was about who was to have more of his pieces played. Then it became very personal and poisonous."The other musicians, all of them renowned, either looked 
down at the their music in embarrassment or found a place on the ceiling in order to avoid, God forbid, meeting the eyes of the combatants. The tension in the room got fiercer and fiercer. [Photo: Nat Hentoff]
down at the their music in embarrassment or found a place on the ceiling in order to avoid, God forbid, meeting the eyes of the combatants. The tension in the room got fiercer and fiercer. [Photo: Nat Hentoff]"In the back, Dizzy, who had not moved, was watching. Then he strode to the front of the band, spread out a score, and said 'Letter B, we'll start at letter B.'
"He had filled the room with reasonableness without getting involved in the battle. Most of the leaders I've known through 
the years would have scolded the antagonists for wasting valuable rehearsal time and acting like children. But Dizzy, by his very presence, had broken the tension. [Photo: Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie]
the years would have scolded the antagonists for wasting valuable rehearsal time and acting like children. But Dizzy, by his very presence, had broken the tension. [Photo: Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie]"Of course, he had for so many years earned the respect of the musicians, but so had other leaders, who would have 
added to the tension. Softly, being able to relax now, an alto saxophonist blew the rest of the bad feelings out the door, as he played, I'll Always Be in Love With You. Even Max and Gerry laughed." [Photo of Max Roach by Richard Laird]
added to the tension. Softly, being able to relax now, an alto saxophonist blew the rest of the bad feelings out the door, as he played, I'll Always Be in Love With You. Even Max and Gerry laughed." [Photo of Max Roach by Richard Laird]—Nat Hentoff in 1995 from "Dizzy in the Sunlight" from The Nat Hentoff Reader (Da Capo Press)
Used with permission by Marc Myers
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Six Decades Of Jazz With Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff was 11 years old, strolling along a street in Boston, when he heard jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw's famous composition "Nightmare" through the open door of a record store. Hentoff was hooked.
By 19, he had his own jazz show on a local radio station, and he was getting career advice from none other than Duke Ellington. Hentoff played the clarinet back then, but he knew he wasn't going to be the next Artie Shaw, so he joined the staff of the music magazine Down Beat as a columnist and eventual New York editor.
Hentoff has spent roughly six decades covering the world of jazz, and he's collected his thoughts and memories in a new book, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene. Hentoff recently joined Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz to discuss the book, as well as the best way to get into jazz music.
Complete on >> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129634017&sc=nl&cc=jn-20100912
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Jazz Writer Nat Hentoff Laid Off....
by Jacob Teichroew
Esteemed jazz writer Nat Hentoff has been laid off by the Village Voice, the weekly paper for which he has been writing since 1958. New Times Media, a large publisher of weekly publications, bought the Village Voice in 2005, and has laid off about half of its staff since the sale. It has been having advertising revenue problems, perhaps exacerbated by the troubled economy.
Hentoff began his career in jazz journalism as an associate editor of Down Beat magazine in 1953. His far-flung support for the music has involved producing albums as A&R director for the Candid label in the early 1960s, writing liner notes for dozens of artists, authoring books on jazz, and writing columns in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Jazz Times.
Hentoff, who is 83, is awaiting the publication of his new book, “At the Jazz Band Ball: 60 Years on the Jazz Scene," and will contribute columns to the Wall Street Journal and the United Media syndicate.
http://jazz.about.com/b/2009/01/04/65.htm
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