in huge ballrooms like the Gray-
stone.

Elliot
said
he
searches

through record stores to listen to
new “old” musicians all the time.
As a Detroit jazz artist, under-
standing his predecessors is
crucial, he said, because it helps
contextualize his creative devel-
opment.

“This music’s been passed

down and passed down and
passed down, and it would be
foolish for me to think what I’m
doing is new,” Elliot said.

Detroit’s greatest contribution

to jazz, according to historian
Lars Bjorn’s “Before Motown,” is
its role in developing “modern”
or “bebop” jazz.

In the 1950s, much of the

innovation in jazz was com-
ing out of predominantly Black
communities establishing their
own
entertainment
districts

like Paradise Valley. The former
intersection of Adams and St.
Antoine fostered clusters of bars
and “jazz spots,” giving musi-
cians a community to jam and
experiment. While in Detroit,
artists like Milt Jackson and
Yusef Lateef worked to further
elevate the technical difficulty
and artistry of their style. Bjorn
describes the shift as moving

from “jazz for listeners” to “jazz
for musicians.”

While Paradise Valley was one

of the areas destroyed by free-
way construction in the 1960s,
the community of music has sur-
vived.

Elliot met his bandmate and

pianist Michael Malis while the
two were both still in high school
playing in the Detroit Civic Jazz
Ensemble. The Civic gave them
the opportunity to start gigging
— performing professionally — at
a young age, and with that came
the opportunity to play with
musicians that “define the tradi-
tion,” Malis said.

Malis said the “king” of nur-

turing young jazz talent is Mar-
cus Belgrave, trumpet player and
Detroit’s Jazz Master Laureate.
Malis remembered auditioning
for Belgrave at age 13, but said
he was wholly underprepared to
play in a jazz band at the time.

“I thought he was just going

to send me home with my tail
between my legs,” he remem-
bered. “He looked down at me
from above the piano and ‘Yeah,
you’ll do.’ ”

And that meant Malis “was

in” even though the group
already had a piano player. Malis
said Belgrave even played with
him that day. That willingness of
a seasoned professional taking
the time to play with a kid exem-
plifies the culture of mentor-
ship that exists in Detroit jazz.
The culture can be traced back
almost like a family tree.

“The people who he’s come

from directly are people who
define what the word jazz
means,” Malis said.

Ian Finkelstein, a pianist that

was already in the group that
Malis joined, said the weight of
that lineage is important.

“We had the privilege of com-

ing up in that lineage and by
extension we are continuing it,”
he said.

All of these young musicians

have, at one point or another,
thought about leaving Detroit
for a bigger city like New York
or Chicago, but they all stuck
around because of the people
they’ve met. The connections
and opportunities are great,
they said, but so is the opportu-
nity to continue the legacy that
raised them.

Punk, rock, Detroit,

Ann Arbor

At the outset of the 1960s, the

sound of Detroit ballrooms began
shifting to something a little
bit harder. Bands like Iggy, the
Stooges and the Motor City Five
were
bringing
suburban-spun

discontent and an entirely new
music scene into the city.

“(It is) a scene that screams

for its righteous recognition
every weekend at every ballroom,
every shopping center teen club,
every free concert in the park,
every time the music is heard
anywhere,” MC5 manager John
Sinclair wrote in an early manu-
script now housed at the Bentley
Historical Library.

The MC5 were staples of the

punk scene in Detroit throughout
the ‘60s and the ‘70s, though much
of their development occurred in
Ann Arbor. Their music was fast
and loud, their practice space was
1510 Hill Street, the location of
Luther Co-Op, and their first gigs
were at fraternity houses. They
were managed by John Sinclair, a
legendary poet and activist, who
started managing bands under
the label “Trans-love Interna-
tional.”

Bands on Trans-love served as

some of PJ Ryder’s first introduc-
tion to Detroit’s rock scene. Ryder
now owns PJ’s Lager House, a bar
at the edge of Detroit’s Corktown
that showcases live music on deck
almost every night. He remem-
bers discovering Detroit’s music
scene growing up in the nearby

suburb Lathrup Village.

“Do you know what a transis-

tor radio is?” he asked during
a recent interview in the Lager
House—a narrow space with
layers of posters on the wall and
deep stage that has hosted the
White Stripes and The Von Bond-
ies, among countless local bands.

“With a transistor Radio and

a 9 volt battery underneath your
pillow at night you could listen
to WKNR and CKLW,” he said.
“And I listened to those things
religiously.”

Ryder remembers seeing his

some of favorite rock musicians
like The Frost and The UP, anoth-
er band on Sinclair’s label, play
at high school dances and sock
hops.

“The thought of it now is just

so mind boggling,” he said.

The suburbs were brimming

with anti-establishment music,
but bands flocked in to play gigs
in the same ballrooms that had
been hosting big-band jazz con-
certs a few years earlier.

“I never got out to the Grande

to the East Town or Punch and
Judy any of that stuff. I was a sub-
urban white kid,” Ryder said.

The Grande Ballroom (pro-

nounced Grand-eee) served as
a hotspot for teenagers to dance
to jazz until 1961— hanging on to
swing even as its audience flow
trickled as music tastes changed.

In 1966, the Grande finally

made the switch after Russ Gibb,
a middle school social studies
teacher, bought the ballroom. At

the urging of John Sinclair, he let
the MC5 play the first show. The
group became a mainstay at the
Grande and filled the venue up
regularly.

But like the jazz musicians

before them, Detroit’s rock scene
was facing a hard fight to win
over the mainstream.

“The established critics had

a hard time ‘recognizing’ the
‘value’ of the new long-haired
low down music,” Sinclair wrote
from Marquette Branch Prison,
after being sentenced for posses-
sion of marijuana, “just as it had
taken them almost 30 years to
reconcile themselves to jazz art-
ists that had taken the forefront
in the 20s.”

The mainstream didn’t catch

on in time, Ryder said, and con-
cerned
governments
started

shutting down the scene’s life-
blood—the venues. He remem-
bered that the Talking Heads
were going to play a show at the
Punch and Judy in nearby Grosse
Pointe.

“The City of Grosse Pointe—

this is Talking Heads mind you—
went to court and tried to get a
stop because they said they didn’t
want to have punk bands playing
in Grosse Pointe,” he recalled.
“And it’s like—punk bands? Real-
ly? Talking Heads?”

This crackdown included some

drug busts, Ryder explained, and
ultimately put the “scene on life
support.” Shows were still pop-
ping in in “oddball kind of plac-

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Barry
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general

manager at Treetops Resort,
reported
that
all
damages

have been repaired after the
University chapter of fraternity
Sigma Alpha Mu stayed there
last month.

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