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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1992

THE JEWISH NEWS

hile going to dental
school, Chet Bogan
began playing his
high/low coronet notes with
the Mickey Woolf band years
back . . . and as a practicing
dentist kept his rhythms in
the family with Mickey's Un-
cle Sammy Woolf's orchestra
for 15 years.
A dentist since 1951, Chet
retired in 1988 and, as one of
the area's leading proponents
of Dixieland jazz, will begin
his 15th year this October
playing every Tuesday even-
ing at Lido On The Lake own-
ed by Joe Vicari (also An-
diamo) and Jim LeFebre, in
St. Clair Shores.
His Wolverine Jazz Band is
more than just a Dixieland
aggregation . . . big also on
conventional jazz that's easy
to listen to and dance to plus
playing many standards and
jazz classics.
The musical history retain-
ed by Chet is capsuled into lit-
tle tidbits which he very in-
terestingly and matter-of-
factly offers the audience bet-
ween numbers.
With Chet since the
Wolverine Jazz Band started
at Lido On The Lake is a
classic in herself . . . popular
songstress Dixiebelle, whose
effervescent personality is au-
dience captivating as she
walks around the room with
her remote mike, telling folks
of her next song dedicated to
the Detroit Symphony, "I'm
Not Going To Play No Second
Fiddle, I'm Used To Playing
Lead" popularized by Bessie
Smith, or "Rose Of Washing-
ton Square" and "Sam, You
Made The Pants Too Long."
Dixiebelle has had quite a
career in her own right, play-
ing most of the country clubs
in town and conventions
around the country with her
accordion and vocals . . .
Dixiebelle's strolling group,
"The Redheads," she and two
other gals, was a hit wherever
it played . . . as was another
of her groups called "The
Strolling Strings". . . Dixie-
belle on accordion and vocals
with three violins and the on-
ly male being its bass player.
She sang with Chet's band
back in 1973 and 1976 when
it was noted mostly as a
dance group . . . and went
with him to Club Lido in 1977
. . . As a member of Chet's ag-
gregation, Dixiebelle has
been at oodles of jazz festivals
around the country and in

1982 was with Chet for the
pre-game Super Bowl here in
the Pontiac Silverdome .. .
and '83 and '84 did pre-game
shows for the Detroit Lions.
The versatility of Chet's
present group is exemplified
with numbers played for the
dancers who come out to hear
him on Tuesday nights .. .
"Poor Butterfly," "Satin
Doll," "Jersey Bounce," "Un-
forgettable" and more . . .
Chet on Bunny Berrigan's "I
Can't Get Started With You"
is another example of high
talent as he points his coronet
out and plays the beautiful
magic of this wonderful
melody.
Give the boys in the band
their due credit . . . Fritz
Moore, clarinet/sax; Ron
Kischuik, trombone; Dan
Maslanka, drums; Rich
Kowalewsky, bass; and Chuck
Shermatero, piano . . . Play-
ing the arrangements of
Chet, who likes to revitalize
almost forgotten tunes, no
easy chore because of his
seemingly intricate demand
for unified diversification .. .
many on tunes written before
some of his group were born.

When Chet's first album
came out in 1978, it was to
cater to all earfuls . . . and
since he was a practicing den-
tist, what better than to lead
off with "My Sweet Tooth
Says I Wanna But My
Wisdom 'Thoth Says No" by
Fletcher Henderson . . . It
also included "Blues For Bix"
which Chet composed follow-
ing a "Bix Biederbecke
Festival" in Davenport, Iowa
. . . Dixiebelle's "All That
Jazz" is an example of her
ability to embrace a variety of
moods . . . And Chet's ar-
rangement of "Body And
Soul" is choice . . . Other
numbers included "Dixieland
One Step," "Rhythm King,"
"Jazz Band Ball," "Rose of
Washington Square," "Put It
Right Here," "The Chant"
and "Cake Walking Babies."
Album number two in 1982
was called "Painless Jazz" .. .
and in 1987 came a highly
favored cassette by
"Wolverine Jazz Band featur-
ing Dixiebelle" . . . with
"Miss Mud," "Waiting 18
Years," "Gimme Some Of
That," "Happy Feet," "Lime-
house Blues," "Everybody
Loves My Baby," "After
You've Gone," "Poor Butter-
fly," "2nd Fiddle' and "Roll
On Mississippi."
The capability of today's
Wolverine Jazz Band to inter-
mingle jazz music in time

with solo improvisations
(Dixieland) alongside good
solid jazz as it should be
played rather than wanting
unison makes for good listen-
ing fun . . . And when you get
down to it, this is really what
this kind of music is all about.
By the way, that first album
put out by the Wolverine Jazz
Band, led by Dr. Chet Bogan,
then a practicing dentist, was
on the Bicuspid Label.
NOW THAT pizza is being
sold at Pearl City . . . does it
mean that pizza places will be
going into Chinese food?
HE HAS BEEN listed in
Best Lawyers In America for
the past 12 years . . . and
named one of the "10 Most In-
fluential Lawyers In
Michigan" by Lawyers Weekly.
Now Henry Baskin, whose
biography as an attorney is
quite a distinguished one, has

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Chet Bogan has
mixed jazz and
dentistry since the
'40s.

been reappointed to co-chair
the Judicial Qualification
Committee and the Annual
Meeting committee of the
State Bar of Michigan . . . Not
bad for my former paperboy,
guest columnist and all-
around good guy, who also
comes across with high marks
as a TV and radio host, plus
being a nationally syndicated
columnist, lecturer and
author.
Another notch in the pride
belt of Hank's parents, Max
and Gladys Baskin, in
Florida.
Get well wishes . . . to Max.
IF SOME OF the gals at
The Jewish News are
criterions . . . and when it
comes to chocolate, believe
me, they are . . . then the
"Sweet Temptation" cake by
Helen Grushko and Lynda
Krasnik is another winner
. . . Ed and John Jonna of
Merchant of Vino picked
theirs as the victor among 50
entries on a recent Kelly &
Co. WXYZ-TV show.
But take it from experts .. .
Leslie Kantor ("Mmm-won-
derful. Chocolate heaven!")
. . . Bonnie Thgal ("Oh, so
good!") . . . Patty Zorlen
("Gosh! It's heavenly!") .. .
Dharlene Norris ("Totally
scrumptious!') . . . and Betsy
Leemon ("Sheer ecstasy!") .. .
that sampling the two-layer
chocolate cake of amaretto
chocolate mousse filling, top-
ped with a swirl of chocolate

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