Английская Википедия:Dallas Jazz Orchestra
The Dallas Jazz Orchestra (DJO) is an American jazz big band based in Dallas, Texas. Founded by Galen Jeter and Thom Mason in 1973,[1] the DJO was once called "the only community-supported jazz orchestra in the world" by radio show host Dr. Cone Johnson.[2] The DJO performed internationally, twice at the Montreux Jazz Festival, at the Seville Expo '92 in Spain, and on SS Norway Caribbean jazz cruises.[3][4][5] The twenty-piece jazz orchestra also played for two United States presidents,[5][6] including an impromptu performance of "Georgia on my Mind" for President Jimmy Carter,[5] and a performance on the campaign trail for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush.[7] The original band recorded eleven albums, and released Scrapbook: The Best of the First 25 Years, a retrospective, in 1998.[8]
In the early 2000s, Jeter left the DJO to form the Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra (DOJO), taking nearly the entire band with him.[3] In 2004, Galen Jeter and Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra recorded "The Big 3-0", commemorating their 30th anniversary.[8]
Origins
Co-founder Galen Jeter played trumpet in the University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band and in the Woody Herman Orchestra.[3][8] In the late 1960s, Jeter moved to Dallas and worked as a high school biology teacher in Garland, Texas.[8][3] In 1973, Jeter and Thom Mason, then a professor at Southern Methodist University, decided to look for local musicians to jam with and "help keep the big-band spirit alive".[1] Forming the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, they held rehearsals at the SMU band hall,[8] which they quickly outgrew, and performed live for the first time the following year.[1]
Co-founder and saxophonist Thom Mason was musical director through 1977.[9][10] As the band gained momentum, many accomplished musicians joined DJO,[8] including instrumentalists who had performed with jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and Stan Getz.[11] Leon Breeden, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas College of Music, who had taught Jeter as a student, served on the governing board of DJO.[2] He helped the jazz orchestra find musicians, and was a guest clarinetist.[2] Wayne Morgan, a long-time proprietor of several Dallas nightclubs, became chairman of the board.[1][12] Over three decades, Galen Jeter also encouraged hundreds of talented young musicians from UNT and other schools to join the DJO or play alongside them.[13][1]
Performances and recordings
Dallas Jazz Orchestra held its first concert at Joe Miller's club in 1974.[1] Later that year, the DJO started playing at jazz singer Maxine Kent's Club on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas once a month and attracted standing-room-only crowds.[1] They eventually moved to performing there twice a month, with rehearsals during alternating weeks, for a period of four years.[1]
The DJO recorded its first album, Hey Man!, live at Maxine Kent's in Dallas on February 9, 1975.[14] Its second album, Tuesday the 15th, was also recorded at Maxine Kent's in 1976.[14] In a review published in D Magazine, David Ritz characterized the band as "first-rate Dallas musicians who play together, not for profit, but sheer pleasure. The results are uneven, loose, spontaneous and whimsical."[15]
From 1978 through the most of the 1980s, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra played every Sunday night at Popsicle Toes, a club owned by Wayne Morgan, who became more involved with the group and served as chairman.[1][16] In 1982, Popsicle Toes's listing in the Texas Monthly said that the DJO "rallies the fans of Kenton, Herman, and Ferguson, many of whose alumni staff the band."[17]
The Dallas Jazz Orchestra was invited to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1985 and 1989.[3] By January 1989, the DJO had moved to Poor David's Pub,[18] before becoming regulars at the Village Country Club for many years.[6][8]
In October 1989, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra was featured on the SS Norway jazz cruise, described by Norwegian Cruise Line as its "seventh annual floating jazz festival".[4] In 1992, the DJO was invited to perform at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain.[1] On tour and at jazz festivals, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra accompanied a long list of celebrity artists, including Diahann Carroll, Billy Eckstine, Doc Severinsen, Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Mel Tormé, Joe Williams and the Four Freshmen.[19]
In 1998, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra released its twelfth album, Scrapbook: The First 25 Years.[8] Its 1990 album, Thank You, Leon, was a tribute to Leon Breeden, with a title track commissioned by Abilene, Texas, radio personality Cone Johnson, also known as "Dr. Jazz", a major supporter of the DJO who attended nearly all of their performances.[1][2]
Organization
As a nonprofit organization, the band struggled at times to stay afloat.[1] Band members would typically take home $10 each after a weekly performance, and then put any remainder of earnings from the $5-per-person door charge toward a travel fund.[1] Otherwise, the DJO relied on donor contributions and sales of CDs and t-shirts.[1] To finance the group's trip to Switzerland in 1989, Galen Jeter took out a loan for $23,000; for the trip to Spain, he helped to raise $50,000.[1]
In the early 2000s, Galen Jeter left the DJO to form the Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra, taking most band members with him.[3] The Dallas Jazz Orchestra continues to perform concerts as a separate entity.[3]
Discography
Dallas Jazz Orchestra:
- Hey Man! (1975)
- Tuesday the 15th (1976)
- North Garland Jazz Live (1980)
- Super Chicken (1980)
- Morning Glory (1982)
- Fat Mamma's Revenge (1984)
- Live at Montreaux (1985)
- Romeo and Juliet (1988)
- Thank You, Leon (1990)
- Turning Twenty (1992)
- Dallas Jazz Orchestra Plays Dee Barton (1994), featuring Don MenzaШаблон:Efn
- Scrapbook (1996)
Galen Jeter and Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra:
- The Big 3-0 (2004)[8]
- Messin' with Texas (2006)
- Where There's Smoke (2009), featuring Drenda Barnett
Dallas Jazz Orchestra directed by Curtis Bradshaw:
- The Dallas Jazz Orchestra Presents Victor Cager (2006)
Notes
References
External links
- DJO: Thirty Years and Counting at AllAboutJazz.com
- Review of DOJO's CD, "Messin' With Texas," at AllAboutJazz.com
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