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On this MLK Jr Day in the United States, let us go back to when the holiday was established, from the Phil Schaap Jazz Collection at Vanderbilt.   In this broadcast of Out to Lunch (January 19, 2015), Phil confuses the year, guessing that it was 1980 or 1981 and that it was for the Federal or NY State establishment of the holiday. But it was October 20, 1983 that President Reagan announced that he would sign the bill, November 2 was the signing ceremony, and the Federal Holiday went into effect in 1986 (If you're wondering, NY State followed the feds lead and adopted the holiday in 1984). So this would have in all likelihood been October 20 or November 2, 1983, or else the first actual celebration in 1986 (and I don't think Jabbo Smith was still performing at the West End by then).   Anyway ... let's let Phil set the stage:   "Now it really is a moment in which he needs to make a statement and what Jabbo Smith did was he took the spiritual, "Marching with the King" or Marching for the King" the king being our lord, and turned it into marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Singing the spirituals lyrics, faking words that he couldn't really articulate, and yes also creating stanzas that were Martin Luther King Jr. specific, and he turned the West End into a parade.   And I don't know how many of you listening even remember the uptown home for swing as it was sometimes called. Last year its remnants were completely gutted and it now no longer has any connection, physical remnant connection to what had been there for so many years, but it was a good place. And there were these two long aisles that went back towards the bar in the rear, and there was a long sort of like family style table that was in between the two, and Jabbo got us parading."   Schaap ID's Percy France and Shelton Gary by their playing, and thinks Jim Roberts was the pianist.  

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Last night, Jonathan Fisher Quartet at the Balcony Club (Shelley Carrol/Peter Rioux/Andrew Griffith).

Wednesday - Jenny Scheinman All Species Parade