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1949-1959 Hagood
the York jazz
follOVlmut
T dd. 0, J MOody,
Frank Foster, Milt Jackson.,
Charlie "Yar . d" Parker, Joe
Hender 0 , Dexter Gordon, .
Yu ef Lateef, Fats Navarro, ,HAGOOD
Miles D . Sarah Va d
a score of other U- jazz, Charles Band me'mber a d
artists. When Normal Granz trumpel-master Marcus'
G TO Jazz H - formed bistoricaI -Jazz At Be lgr aves, nd long time
The Phil ar oaic" co cert . Detroit Org aist, Lyn an
tours, H ood cbooIeD Woodard and jazz promo er
the first . au bired. J Sincla' . Cobbs then
Dur' era recorded owed by WSU professor
with Jobn Le ·'s bi band, Henry Nor ile and became
Mary Lou Williams' bi band. me what of a Detro' breeding
He reoorded "In Thc Land of ground . i ort, bu rich
14. Oo-BI -Dee", and -I Sbould musical . ory. After the trag-
He launched . career at ', Care", a tune he cu t ith gic death of owner onnile in
e 17 . the Beamy Carter Thelonious Monk, and stand- 1979 - 0 e oftbe pin-offs be:
B d. He later joi ed the.Dizzy ardsli e"AUofMe-and'1lOund c'ame known the Detroi Jazz
"G· . d featured idnight". He also -Darn Center, under the continued
vocalist, f . the footsteps That Dream" on Miles Davi Detroiter, and pianist-h pi , director-ship of John Sinclaire,
of tbcr Iepldary jazzsiager, famous "Birth of the Cool" ses- " Alice McCloud - 0 be- Sam Sanders, and Herb Boyd,
the I te Johnny Hartman of sions. . came Alice Coltrane. in aris f 0 u n de r - d ire c tor - J a z z
Joim Co f me. 1 By the end of the 1950' · 'nothing changed much but Research Institute,
. F 1 -1948 Hagood, Bebop had star ed.to ·decline. Hagood did make an important Hagood, ting or ceding
toured Europe with Dizzy's s itch to pper dub - DO to be "back in touch . hi be-
band,just Hagood mp,g bop roots", frequently m de the
at t e piano. . I wee end trips downtown fter
his ubruban gig to it in tone
AFTE S I X YEARS in of Detroit's after-hour jazz
Europe H good returned t the re ivals; Roy BJOO "Music
, states and moved to the t Station", "Oub Con Brio", Mar-
COaJ t supper club circuit QI5 Belgrave' New Detroit Jazz
things fanally began to "eli Ense le, d The Detroit Jazz
:him. Hagood spent the ne 14 Center,
years performing the su per After meeting with
club circuit'in and around the band der David Swain of the
Los Ange ea. Center's Repertory Orch tr
. Returning to Detroit in 1980 Hagood coaseated to� inging
to his family, friends, and co t- .� a bi b d, with a bi hom
Ies musicians and ass . tes, sectio - thiIig e h d no
Hagood continued his pper- done for 20 years. During the
club performance route, by set- eo cut, several of Hagood' old
tlin into the Duglas Re - bebop tunes were recreated -
taurant· in thfaeld. He �Iso "in splendid be-bop style".
playe� the Orchard Lake Road- According to published
Confetti Supper Club' West reports Hagood a come
Bloomfield in 1982, I h e first, for family reaso
. When Hagood remr ed to daughter and three
Detroit e arriYed on the tail- grandchildren and secoed, be- -
end of t co to be ca he so uch ted to
own am· i-Detroi jazz sa' b d-singer com-
, renaissance. During the iddle back", bu more so to meet the
to late 1910' Detroit x- challenge in "trying to re tore a
perienced .several jazz-revi 1- tr dition" ... A tr dition long
tages viewed by many jazz embedded in bebop, a tradition
critics, writers d lesser known that the Detroit Jazz Bebop' t­
jazz hi tor' "jazz ren ' - singer (P cho Hood) had
sauces; 0 e of ose jazz re ' helped to innovate.
centered around Detroi ' Hopefully, H ood who had
Cobbs Corner Bar, a for been, pri r to . "sudden ill-
obscure Cooridor b • rehearsing and sit· in
cated OD the south edge ith Detroit J zz legend,
W S U" pian' t-eomposer, Teddy Har-
beea e 0 c r' Jr., d h' ba d of e
U lei -b BreedJazzBebopper ,wiUcqn- .
melta' • DOt for tinue 0 the road to a complete
5teUar juz recovery and once again b -
I CO come aD i. tegral part f
De tr 0 it'
ricbljazzJbebop'lepcy, . ,
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