[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Fw: delanceyplace.com 12/9/11 - the magic of ahmet ertegun and duke ellington

Fri Dec 9 09:30:34 PST 2011

Hello listymates,
This arrived from Delanceyplace today.  It might be of interest to at least
ome of you.
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       [image: delanceyplace header]  In today's* * excerpt - Ahmet Ertegun
was the legendary founder and president of Atlantic Records who signed Led
Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Rolling Stones, and countless
others. He was the ten-year-old son of the Turkish ambassador to Britain
when he was first confronted with the overwhelming energy and power of of
the Duke Ellington Orchestra. For him it was "real jazz ... not this
bullshit thing we hear on a record player":

"Ahmet was ten years old when Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington, 'the King
of Jazz,' came to London for the first time on June 12, 1933, to perform
with 'His Famous Orchestra' at the London Palladium. The grandson of a
former slave, Ellington was then thirty-four years old. Raised in
Washington, D.C., he had begun taking piano lessons when he was seven
years old, written his first composition at the age of fourteen, and begun
his career as a professional musician four years later.

"Duke Ellington's two-week engagement at the Palladium was a cultural event
of major proportions, changing not only how he performed but also the way
in which his music was perceived. ... On Ellington's opening night in the
Palladium, the curtain opened to reveal an expansive stage decorated with
three huge cardboard cutouts of cartoonlike black musicians, all of which
would now be considered racist. In a pearl gray suit, white shirt, and tie,
the impossibly elegant and regal-looking Duke sat behind a concert grand
piano. ...

"The 'scores of smartly dressed young English people' in the expensive
seats, among them the Duke of Kent, the third son of King George V, stomped
their feet, shouted, whistled, and applauded in approval as did the
'hundreds in the hinterlands of the Palladium.' After the show, 'a small
army of autograph seekers,' sixty women among them, 'besieged the Duke and
his musicians' outside the stage door.

"In what one English jazz scholar would later call 'a precursor to
Beatlemania,' fans clung to Ellington's limousine as he was driven from the
BBC extended the program for five minutes so Ellington could play 'Mood
Indigo' in its entirety.

"For Ahmet, who was taken to the show by his brother, the evening was an
ear-shattering, life-changing experience he would never forget. 'It was
nothing like hearing the records,' Ahmet would later say. 'The engineers at
the time were afraid that too much bass or too much drums would crack the
grooves on the 78s so they recorded them very low. And when you heard these
bands in person, it was explosive. This boom-boom-boom incredible rhythm.
It went through your body. I went, 'Oh my God, this is jazz. This is not
this bullshit thing we hear on a record player. This is real jazz.' ... The
very loudness of the sound, the reverberation of the bass and drum in the
theater frightened me, it was so powerful... I'd never heard music with
that kind of strength ... For the first time, I saw these beautiful black
men wearing shining white tuxedos and these brass instruments gleaming. It
was an incredible sight.' "

Author: Robert Greenfield
Title:* The Last Sultan*
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date: Copyright 2011 by Simon & Schuster
Pages: 12-14

 The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
by Robert Greenfield by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2011-11-08
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