Ich dachte, um den Thread etwas weniger einschuechternd zu machen, koennten Bilder helfen… :D in diesem Sinne, hier zwei Bilder:
das hier ist zB aus der Zeitung Mirror News vom 15 Februar 1958, Werbung fuer den Hampton Hawes Auftritt „Strip City“ an den sich Clifford Solomon hier erinnert, es gab das Konzept danach ein paar Wochen… die Werbung macht recht deutlich, dass die Musik hier eher nicht im Vordergrund stand.
SOLOMON: [..] At Western and Pico [Boulevard] there was Strip City. It was a strip joint, but they hired jazz bands to play for the dancers. Hampton Hawes worked there and Frank Butler, Chuck Thompson. Chuck and Frank were drummers and they played those hip bebop drums so the girls liked to do their thing. [laughs] Strip City. They would have music other than the strippers. ISOARDI: So they’d have like acts, and then they might have–? SOLOMON: No, it wasn’t like a burlesque joint. They might have a jazz band playing maybe fifteen or twenty minutes, and then they’d bring a dancer or two on, and then there would be a break, and then they would play some more and then bring on a couple more dancers. It wasn’t like it is now where they have a hundred girls working there dancing in laps and tables and all. You’d have a couple of strippers, and they would strip and then go back to their dressing room. They weren’t mingling out with the guys.
und dann dacht ich noch das hier, ein Artikel ueber Mingus Band mit Chuck Thompson aus dem California Eagle vom 4 November 1948
die Aufnahme von These Foolish Things, die da erwaehnt wird, kann man sich natuerlich anhoeren, es ist nicht Mingus Ah Um, aber natuerlich trotzdem interessant
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