Re: Teen-age Jazz Club?

["Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>]

I can't remember whether McLellan was his air name or his real name. If it
was his air name, his real name _could_ have been an air name. In fact, it
was _somebody else's_ air name, so he took (I believe) his mom's maiden name
as his air name. He could still be living. He'd be just about 70. He was
(is?) an MIT almumnus (in Electrical Engineering, I think) and a classmate
of one of my former bosses. If I recall, in addition to his gigs at WHDH, he
hosted a TV show on science and technologiy on WGBH.
--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:45 AM
Subject: Teen-age Jazz Club?


> I was reading through an old issue of Downbeat magazine from November of
> 1956 and in it, there is an article about the "Teen-Age Jazz Club," which
> was founded in April of 1955 by WHDH jock John McLellan-- now, if memory
> serves me, didn't he do a jazz show on WHDH for a while?  Anyway, the club
> met at Storyville, which I believe was in the Hotel Buckminster in Kenmore
> Square, and evidently the Rev. Norman O'Connor was involved with the club
> too.  Does this ring any bells with anyone on the list?  I wrote to Bill
> Buchanan, former Boston Globe radio editor and a big jazz fan from those
> days (he did a jazz show on WBZ in 1956, in fact), but I thought some of
> you might also know something about the Teen-age Jazz Club.  The article
> claimed the club was up to a membership of 700 young people by late summer
> of 1956, and a few well-known jazz musicians had already entertained at
> meetings; many of them were performing elsewhere in Boston and dropped in
> to perform for the young jazz fans.  Among those who had entertained were
> Teddi King, Shelly Manne, Herb Pomeroy, Roy Haynes, and Woody
> Herman...While I am sure musical tastes were different in the big band
era,
> I can't imagine a time in the 50s when teenagers would have been
interested
> in jazz-- when I was growing up, everybody I knew liked rock and roll and
> was listening to top 40.
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