The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 94, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 2014 Page: 2 of 12
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COMMUNITY
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World Beater Count
Basie Orchestra Plays
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IIoum hold '*ur;ev 1’iirrnf >ut-
ishiifion ln<rrtis<-s Hut Unmet Ik-
iniinJ for !/fcrsc hool Program*
Persist* in < *Uiiho>n<i
In his autobiography. ( xxd Morning Blues
(wntten with Albert Murray), Basu- desxnKd
the untorgettabk- impre>wk>n the Blue Ik-vils
first made on him I just stud lK-re listening
and looking, Kxauw I had nexer heard am
thing like tliat Kind in my lite IK-re was such
a team spirit among tixose guys and it came
out in tlie musk, and as you st<«d tiw-n- kvk
mg anti listening you |iiM couldn't K-lp wish
mg that you wen- a part ot it
and that xx ill require committing the
iisounis nnessarx to grots after
sthtiol pn<granis and treats- the up
porturxitk-s out children and couth
urgently nsvd
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business tot a dance that night Hasict^as m
r«i
o< the OK Workforce Youth ( ouncil
I he unfortunate reality is (hat
atts-r s«.hoo| programs in the state
reach only a tr.ktioo of ths- children
and families who need them Eco-
nomic growth in iHtr state ik-pends
upon a well educated and skilkd
workforce- Quality att«-r school pro
grams ate teaching kids the- skills
ixxessary k> succeed in xhtml and
are helping prepare them tor the fu-
ture W<- nwd to make sure we tan
keep up with the n-st ot the natxrn
What it really comes down to is that
youxe got fo hate the right musicians who
understand tfk- history ot tfk- musts Aou have
to haxe th*- right Kiss placet. wise knows hots
all the other Kiss placers placet! lou have to
Kiev tin- right drummer who knows Icow tfk-
other tliummers placed It * tin- same thing
with tlse ixern placers m each section lor ex
ample out lead alto Marshall Mclkmald
knows ex.i< th hots tin- lead placers in the or
shestra played up until lice time he became the
lead placer II he didn t know that Ise would
nt knots wfieri to K-nd notes He wouldnt
kntns wKn to hold not<s a certain wac ot do
vibrato or whatever We've got to hold onto
thus- things We ve got to keep doing tier right
thing Atuf tlse right thing the Basie thing
lets a lol Io do w ith tire blues
who want their child in a program
can’t tirwf <«ne tKit works tor tfk-m,
and that needs to change Quality
after sx frool programs keep kids sale,
inspire tfiem to learn, and help work
ing families Every OklaKxma family
that nc-eds an alter duel program
should h.ive .Kress to orw
“It's great that we ve made
progress on after school, but wove
still got a long way to go said
Chink Mills. Chairman of the Stale
( Tiamber oft tklahoma and(.o< hair
Making Progress On After-School Programming
Although the Count himself died in
|-*M (hr- onheMra is in the hands «»l |<eivplc
wK-know and appnx rate its historv Me In
tosh continues Ilv.it includes fixe orxK-stras
current leader trumpeter S« ottv Hamhart H<
ktH>ws how important lulsa was to I mint
Basie and so do tlie test of tfw members
IveivKsh in this onhestra Kis a re
sponsibilitv to know the whole ?**war his
tiirvof the Basietand. Barnhart sac* When
people come tn and don t have that aware
ness lik e end up leaving, or fx-ing askrsl to
leave, hex aux- it s too mu<h of a problem
IkisM- went on to join the Blue I Veils,
anti later, Brnnie Motens outfit in Kansas
( itv which eventually metamorpKistsI into
the ( ount Kish- (hi hestra the big hand that
ef'itoini/cd Kansas i itv p// And x»me
vears after Basic startis.1 his own group, it'
still an active and vibrant peart ot AmerKans
pip musk wene ( urrentlv on a iuition.il
tour the Basie (hxhestra tlup* ott Sunday at
the |azz Ih-pot placing a show onh a lew
blit ks south ot ttw stnr-t when- Basie tirst
heard the Kind that < h.ingvd his life
In important rcspeits, Okla-
homa results mirror the national
survey findings, which include:
• Parti* ipatHm in after «hool
programs is up nationally, with IN
percent ot tlx- nation s vhool.hild
ten in programs (10 2 million ihil
dn-n), up from |A pment in 2U*
(N 4 million children) and II percent
in 2t>lM in A million children)
• \t flu Mme tune unmet de
mand has uu rvax-d I he- parents of
nearly 20 million children (|u 4 mil
lion) sac thee would enroll their
i hild in an after v hool program it a
program were available to them
that nieans that tlie existing supply
ot atter-sc Kml programs is meeting
barely one third of demand
• Demand is greatest among
African Anu-ncan, Hispanic and
low iniome families Both part>i ipi
turn in after school and unmet de-
mand tor after w hool are much
higher among childn*n fn»m low-in-
come households than higlver in-
come households and higher among
• Afriran \awrican and His
pmii children than white children
I he parents of M) peicent ot the na-
tion s African American children
would enroll their ihild in a pro-
gram it one were available, as
would tlie parents ot 57 percent ot
latino children I he same is true of
15 percent ot whitechildren
• I k-spit« inc n ased partly rpa
twin in alter-whool. the number ot
childn-n unsuperv ixd tn the hours
Jazz Depot This Sunday
important punt in my musk al c ans-r an tar as
mv ncHioii alx»ut what kind ot music I really
wanted to plav was concerned
Ihe < ount Ikisic i *rx hc-stra is set to begin
at Ai»i pm Sunday Iktohrr W atthelfkla
tktm.i la/z Hall of lame ksatcsl in down
town lulsa s |azz Depot ill I f irst s«ns-t
liikets can be purchased at the lk*p>4. from
w w w ev enlbnte com ot by calling Bettie
Ikiwnmg at v|g.92H-|A// (a-neral admis
shmiis$|A reserved tabk seating $25 or \ II’
labk- x-ating tn ketscan be pur. fiaxd lot M -
(ount Basies sound wmiklnt be the
same without the Oklahoma roots sav*
lason MiIntcwh, <Oklahoma lazz Hall ot lame
(l(* \Ve are thnlksi to have- the legendary
( ount Basie (hchestra Ki< k m lulsa where it
all started
No matter what Basu- placed you could
Mill hear the- blues in it explains Barnhart
That' thx- ki-y Hast.allv it* all aKwit thr
blues No c»thef orchestra in history can play
the blues thr wav w-r plav it Basie had a very
distinct wav ot placing xiphistKates! and
pnsiw It was never sk<pp' '*■*' oc-vct
Kipfxa/atdh put togc-ther Thr orchestra kept
placing the- tight muMc and that s jurt ot mv
gib today to sv that we kes-p placing the
right things thr right wav
after whcsil remains high Airiws
thr natMNi. more than tttU.lW rle
mentarv students, and 2 2 milium
middle vtwsi! students s|x*nd timi
alone- and unsupw ixxl during the
after school hours In all II I mil
lion children one in tier are
unsup-rv imxI in the aftrrnncwv*
• Parental satndac tn
after schcml remains high Nine in
ten pirvnts iNm p-nent> say thee ate
satisfied with tfieir child s after
school program
• Support tor pubtec funding
atter-school programs remains
strong More than four in five par
cuts (M p-nvnt) report that they
favor puNk funding tor after whool
opp>rtunitk-s in tommumhes tKit
have lew opportunitk-s tor childn-n
and youth Support is bipirtisan as
well with p-nent ot parents who
identity as I Vmckrats. no pic ent In
dejx-ndents and NO p-rvent ot Re
publicans favoring public funding
tor pograms Parent* across all g«»
graphic region* support public
funding for after whool prx>gianis
Ihe national and Oklahoma
Amenca After (I’M reports, and a.
companying data, are available at
www alters^ hoolalhaiwe org A
snapshot of national participation
and demand for summer learning
programs is al*o available online
(hi (Xtotn-r 21, more than 1
million people in communities
across the nation and at I S null
tars installations worldwide will
loin the- only national rally tor
after school programs Spmsored
bv (h<- After v hool Alliance and
now m its |5th year, lights (hi
In H?s Basic was in lulsa anil heard
Walter Page and his I amous Blue Lh-vils, one
ot the fust big hatuis which featured |immv
Rushing on vocals | IN| A tew months later lie
was invited to |<>in the band, whiih played
mostly in Texas and < 'klahoma It was at this
time tfx.it K- K-gan fo be known as ( ount
Basie (xv |azz royalty )
Here thing aK>ut them really got to
me. Ik- added, and as things worked out.
hearing them that day was proKibly the- most
I tfi. night wtk-n I first tk-xamr leader
and c-xen fs-tine we ought to go Kkk |to
head arrangements| on sp> ul imasiorw. he-
rkkes )ust start a ntt going it » easy to do
when youve got the right musicians and
we ve got tin- musicians to do it I think we
can work it mil well ctknigh to make it a part
ot our tegular concerts And we |ust might In-
doing that in lulsa
"Thr cUdet I gx-t. he adds thr more I mv
that Basu- was a genius When you think
about it about what he was abb- to do and
thr tact that his orchestra » still cm the earth
k) wars after he k-tt I mean that s tntmli
blc \Mk-n you ikwc your eves and hear us
plav lot two seconds you know its u* Aou
don I say Well they kitkf ot M«und like-
No tliat s us And it s a testament to him I fc
kru-w exactly what to do
Public itv tor the group M-patales the
Basie (krihestta into two periods Ihe vMd
lestament Kind w hich existed betwesm |WW
and |m55 and the New lestanu-nt band hr
ginning tn thr (Wk- iN thr biggest dif
trniki-s in thr two wa» the fact tfxal thr i>idcr
grotip rehrd on hr ad arrange-mcrits rather
thin written charts And while thr current
Kind f.cflow s the New lest.mu-nt styk- tkirn
Kitt s.iy s hr thinks it s tinw tc> mix in a littk- ot
tfxat (*ld I'rstament apprisich as well
I ightv M-vx-n years ago this past summer
a piano placer from New lersev named
William ( ount Basie stirred in his bed at
lulsa s Kid Wing Hotel awaketkd bv what
h- first thought was a photk»graph record It
turikd exit to be a big y,i// Kind called tlx-
Oklahoma City Blue Ik-vtls. playing ott the
back ot a flatf'exl truck in order to drum up
Ilk- show is a part ot the |azz I lall s 21’14
Autumn Curovrt N-nes
town placing the Oreamland fhevTAc s»n
(■nvnwissi Avcnik- with a touring vaudi-
villc act. and he hurriedly dn-swvi and went
out to mv tfk- group tor himself
W/ASHINGION. DC High
satisfac tion with after school pro-
grams among parents is driving
progress in mw-ting the- nc-ed tor
after school programs in Okla
homa i ordmg to a new house-
hold survey c ommissioikxl bv the
Atte-r school Alliaiuc But tlie 2014
e-dition ot America Atte-r 3PM also
shows that demand tor after school
programs m < Hdahoma still tar ex-
ceeds supply and tfk- number of
children who would participate it
an after sc Koi program wen- ax ail-
able exc evds tfk- numfk-r of < hildren
currently enrolled in after school
programs in tK- state
Ihe .America Attxi 3PM survey
included M),(MX> American hmwe-
K4ds and 2(M> in depth interv ews in
OklaK-ma It tourxl tK.it II percent
ot OklaKima students. 6X.75I chil-
dren in all, an- e-nrolled in atteT-
sho>l programs, roughly tfk- same
as in 2tMW, when thx- survey was last
conducted But 110.367 (HdaKmia
students are still witKmt adult su-
(H-rv ision in tK- afternoons The par
imts ot 230.1^ OklaKima childnn
iv»t aln-ady in an after scKxil pnv
gram say tK-v would mroll their
cfuld it a program wen- available
(>klahomans have made
ptogn-ss i reating after sc Kx>l opp«i
tunities tor tK-ir childn-n, and can be
proud ot what the state has accom-
plished said After m Kxil Alliance-
I Mxutive Director Jodi Grant. "But
there'® questkm that mon- work
remains Most parent* in tK- state
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