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The Augusta News-Review - December 11, 1975 -
Playin’
The Changes
By Stan Raines
STANLEY TURRENTINE...
A Whole New Thing In Jazz
A lot of great musicians
came out of Pittsburgh: Art
Blakely, Kenny Clarke, Errol
Gamer, Mary Lou Williams and
Billy Eckstine to name a few,
but if we were to name them
all surely we would not want
tn forget Tenor Saxophonist
Stanley Turrentine.
Turrentine came from a
musical family. His father, a
construction worker, played
flute, clarinet and tenor sax
and worked with a group called
the Savoy Sultans.
In growing up, most kids
visualize themselves as being
doctors, lawyers, engineers and
in most cases they change their
minds almost daily. One day
they want to be a doctor, the
next day a lawyer and so on.
Stanley Turrentine didn’t fit
into this catagory, because he
always wanted to be a musician
and never changed his mind
even once. I guess Pittsburgh
probably produces so many
musicians because the people
of Pittsburgh really love music.
Pittsburgh is a musical town in
every sense of the word.
Next door to the Musicians
Local 471 in Pittsburgh was a
nightclub and all the good
musicians that came to town
would find themselves there
jamming no matter where they
were playing in town. They
would come directly from the
places where they were playing
and come to this club to jam.
They used to call it Club 471
but this really wasn’t the name
of it. In fact, I can’t recall what
the name really was but maybe
it will come to me later
because I have been there
many times. At any rate
Stanley had a friend named
Leroy Brown who would sneak
him into the club. Stanley
would get in a corner and stay
there in the dark for fear of
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discovery. He did this quite
often and as time passed he
had heard all of the greats that
came to Pittsburgh. Lester
Young, Art Tatum, Nat King
Cole, Ben Webster and Illinois
Jacquet they were all fantastic
and he studied every one of
them. When he became older
he got a chance to sit in with
Illinois Jacquet and Jacquet
became a very good friend.
Whenever he would come to
town he would call, “Hey
Junior, why don’t you come
out and play?” Os course this
was music to Turren tine’s ears
and he would cut out and get
right to the set where ever it
was.
Stanley’s father taught him
well and it can be said that he
owes his success to this
background. He taught him
how to play in tune, how to
control the horn, how much air
to put into the horn to get
certa in notes and how to blo ,! '
from the diaphragm.
In high school, Turrentine
had a group called the Three
Bees and a Bop. They played
for all the school affairs. At 16
he went on the road for the
first time and that experience
had a big impact on his style.
The band was led by a singer
and guitarist named Lowell
Fulsom. Ray Charles was the
featured pianist in the band, it
was a Blues band. At that time
they called it rhythm and
blues.
The band never got a chance
to go North, they stayed in the
South. That was during the
times that you couldn’t get a
hotel no place if you were
Black. That experience had a
lot of influence on how he
plays today. Not only did you
have to worry about simply
travel but your life was always
in danger for some nonsensical
reason.
They played in little towns
as well as big towns. Some of
those little towns didn’t even
have a place decent to play in.
They played in bams where a
rope was used to divide the
dance floor. The Blacks danced
on one side of the rope and the
whites danced on the other
side of it. They had a lot in
common because they both
danced to the same music, they
talked, laughed and enjoyed
themselves just on opposite
sides of the rope. Years later
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Turrentine worked with Earl
Bostic and it was then that he
got his chance to go North.
Then he played baritone sax
for James Moody’s_band. They
worked Washington, Baltimore
and New York. It was rough in
those days, in fact the folks
used to throw bottles and stuff
at Ella Fitzgerald. They did
seven shows a day and one at
the Apollo which was a
midnight show. So in all they
did eight a day.
Incidentally, the musician
whom he replaced in Earl
Bostic’s band was John
Coltrane. He learned a lot from
Bostic but the thing that he
(Bostic) really taught
Turrentine was business. Bostic
was a musician but he was also
a very good businessman.
Musicians of those days would
play but forget about the
business end of things.
Turrentine went into the
Army and thus met Max Roach
in the 158th Army Band. It
was Roach who started to play
around with 5/4 time and on a
program with Dave Brubeck, it
was noticed that Brubeck was
making notes while they
played and the next thmg you
knew there was “Take Five”
Brubeck’s tune but Max
Roach’s idea. Turrentine is
developing each and every day
and if this continues, you
could experience a whole new
thing in jazz.
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Juvenile Sports?
Instead of instilling good
habits, many organized sports
for children are squeezing the
youngsters into “highly
structured leagues run by
hypertensive adults, urged on
by overenthusiastic fathers and
mothers,” according to Pulitzer
Prize-winning author James A.
Michener.
In a December Reader’s
Digest article, “The Jungle
World of Juvenile Sports,”
Michener notes that
professional athletes,
physicians and sociologists all
agree that the present,
team-oriented trend in juvenile
sports shortchanges rather than
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Aquinas Breaks Two Year Hex
By Charles Vaughn
In a closely matched contest
at Glenn Hills, the Aquinas
Shamrocks broke the two year
hex of losing their first game to
Glenn Hills’ Spartans Friday
night by defeating them 70 to
59.
Glenn Hills, expecting a lot
of damage out of Aquinas’
Bernie Norris, went to work
with a box and one defense on
him. Aquinas was able to get
the insdie on Glenn Hills and
scored most of their points
there. While Glenn Hills’ Stan
Cothran (15 pts.) and company
scored from outside.
Aquinas led at the end of
the first quarter 12 to 10 and
traded baskets with Glenn
Hills' outside shooting to keep
the lead at the half 33 to 28. In
the 3rd. period Aquinas came
out smoking and the margin
increase to 13 pts. with all the
Irish contributing on the fast
break, led by Norris and David
Conley.
It seemed as though Aquinas
benefits the youngsters that
participate. For example,
Jonathan S. Brower, assistant
professor of sociology at
California State University,
studied 28 different
playground-league teams for
ten months, then concluded
that the program probably had
no effect on character building
and produced more tension
than fun.
Parents all too frequently
influence the tension
-producing aspects of the game,
says Michener. Joe Tomlin,
who organized the Pop Warner
Junior League Football,
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had the game in control but a
lot of walking calls by the
referees and the good eye of
Cothran at the free throw line
lessened the lead to four
points.
The teams traded baskets
with Glenn Hills controlling
the rebounds. They got many
shots during flurries, but to no
avail, since Aquinas would
come up with the ball.
Aquinas went into a stall
with 1:14 left in the game and
leading 61-53. David Conley
really put the game out of
reach when he was fouled
twice on one and one
situations and made them good
(65 to 59 with 20 seconds
left).
Leading scorers for Aquinas
were: D. Conley 16 pts., Grady
Leanard 14 pts., Sheldon
Cooper 12 pts., B. Norris 1?
pts. and G. Vaughn 10 pts.
Leading scorers for Glenn
Hills were: S. Cothran 15 pts.,
F. Geiger 10 pts., and D.
Freeman 11 pts.
The Glenn Hills girls beat
the Aquinas lassies by a margin
of 49-48 on a last second layup
by Pam Gibson. They were
paced by Ann Henderson and
whenever a team was leading
by 18 points, all of its
substitutes had to go into the
game -a chance for more boys
to play, and for the opposing
team to catch up. “We couldn’t
enforce the rule,” Tomlin says.
“Mothers especially wanted
their gifted sons to play the
whole game and score the
maximum points.”
Ironically, the emphasis in
juvenile sports is on games that
seldom carry on into
adulthood. “We just don’t
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Parents who want the best
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on Little League and Pop
Warner activities, to ensure
that the games are not
dominated by adults who are
too competitive. “They must
keep in mind that the objective
is fun and exercise for their
children as an aid to growth
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share of emphasis and support,
since these are the activities
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“Unless we shift the
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will continue to shortchange
the physical and psychological
health of our children,”
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