Show rmr mMrjGk rAiiui imm Saturday September 14 2002 A4 The Herald Journal Commentary Jazz great had two types of good vibes By Ward Morehouse III For The Christian Science Monitor L Hampton an extraordinary musician who was “King of the Vibraphone" for 60 years and a star of the Swing era earned all the praise given him at a service last at New York’s Riverside Church And not just for his groundbreaking music many awards and role in black-whi- te relations in the musical Sat-uid- ay ’ longtime friend former President George Bush said that Mr Hampton not only “helped shape and even define an era in jazz but to know Lionel was to know joy — pure simple joy" Indeed in three interviews with him over the past several years I was struck by his radiance and love of music and especially his humor In one interview he talked about playing at Harlem’s renovated Apollo Theatre where Hampton holds the record for playing 10 shows a day “If you got a standing ovation from people sitting in the second balcony you knew you had made it!” he said Another jazz great Illinois Jaquct who was an early member of the Lionel Hampton band told the story at the funeral of how “Hamp” one time rehearsed all day and all night and finally went to change his clothes before a performance “AH of a sudden he comes running up on the bandstand and he had forgotten to put on his pants!” That brought smiles to others at the service which included jazz legends Hank Jones OiNcONONMAn Clark Terry and Wynton Marsalis as well as the full Lionel Hampton Orchestra One story not told at the Riverside Church was about a New York firefighter who was at the Apollo in the 1940s when Hampton often ended a show with his rousing “Flyin’ Home” The firefighter was worried that because he found what he thought was a crack in the second balcony Hampton shouldn't play that song But the musician walked on stage and said “Our last number will be Tales of the Vienna Woods" and proceeded to play “Flyin’ Home!" anyway The balcony held and the fans who waited hours in die heat got to hear their favorite On a much mote serious note bandleader Benny Goodman heard ' Hampton play in the 1930s and suddenly the Benny Goodman Trio became the Benny Goodman Quar- ' tet That made history by being the first racially integrated group of jazz musicians in America In the early ' 1940s Hampton formed his own band after the release of his hit single “Sunny Side of the Street" on which he sang as well as played the foot-stompi- ng Charting a path through history To the editor: I want to applaud the County Council’s efforts in attempting to improve the FR40 zone although I believe updated and stricter “overlays" would have been a mote appropriate solution than the new R&R zone The council is currently holding the key to Pandora’s box They can’t take their decision lightly on allowing Brent Ferrin his rezone The effects arc far reaching and beyond anyone’s predictions Long after their term in office is over — maybe long after our lives have passed — the future of Cache Valley’s landscape Will be affected by the decisions they make today If it were possible to visit the future 1 would ask the council to step into the valley 30 years from now Instead I would graciously request that the council take time to visit Park City Utah — a place built on dreams of money taxes and “recreation" What I see is development gone mad From the Park Gly “developed" recreation area the growth (sprawl) has crept toward the corridors that lead to the major urban centers of Salt Lake City and Heber As they look over the vast tracts of homes and strip malls they need to ask themsdvfes this: If Logan is the ' closest urban center to Powder Mountain will the “recreation creep” move toward the center of Cache Valley? turn My generation and those that have come after have never had to hold ourselyes accountable for drafting our young men into a protracted war hen people talk about how We weren’t alive during World War much we’ve changed since Sept 11 I wonder how they can see it We’re Ilor Korea We came of age at the very end of still going to the movies still dialing the pizza guy on Friday night still or after Vietnam It wasn’t our war We had liothing to do with supportwondering how we’ll pay for colincre-' Real so ing or opposing it or with examining lege change happens later what part we played in returnmentally that you can’t map it until much later when you can see how ing home so many sons in caskets '' So for us patriotism has always one thing led to another : belonged to another time It has been a word in a book a then Only from a dis- concept trotted out on the Fourth of tance can you July with tire picnic baskets and see how we sparklers Patriotism meant reciting the have Pledge of Allegiance at school might and taking off your cap during the changed the national anthem before the first course of events — if pitch It was a collection of social rituals more than anything — symbols we had taken a arid language and music that loosely right instead of a left if we had divined the signals that this decision connect us to one‘ vast American tribe or that would be the turning points that Jed us down the wrong path But there was nothing personal about patriotism We never had to I’ve bran having this vision My define what it means to us as a guid- son and his classmates are young men in uniform They’re on a miliing principle tary air base on the Eastern r Until now The time is prat when we can roll Seaboard climbing into a plane headed for the Middle East In the our eyes at political decisions and vision I’m watching and wondering respond to new policies with dismissive jokes as if the goings-o- n in how it got to this How did the story “ of Sept 1 1 lead here to a line of Washington woe a bad TV show crew-cWhose who should be holed plot we only loosely fol- boys lowed America is not some Them up in the library with Faulkner or over there shaping the future It is fixing transmissions at the comer ' Us right here making a million indigarage? vidual thoughtful decisions — deciAs we mark the tragedy’s one-yesions to pay close attention to what anniversary I don’t fear for our safety today as much as I fear for it down our leaden are saying and doing to the road I fear hillsides striped with consider consequences to reason and fresh rows of headstones I fear we’ll question and examine forget all we have learned in the last Maybe the Bush administration is two centuries about the march to war right to go into Iraq Maybe that — how it begins and unfolds how would turn out to be the safer path than not invading Maybe the war on it momenits can own build easily w ‘Vibes” “Benny and I were close friends” Hampton told me before his passing “The first time blacks and whites I played together was with Benny had such respect for his musician-shi- p I liked him too as a person Some people thought he was hard he had a good heart” but ' Hampton wrote some 200 original If Ferrin is allowed to build his recreation Mecca will other developers follow? Will other landowners in the path of the “rccrcational creep” allow “trophy homes” and strip malls to be built? Could a collection of landowners decide to build a highway on the south end of the vriky to accommodate their money interests? If the council opens the box do “sprawl they think the crawl” will lead to a Park City look-a-likUltimately their decision will be responsible My second concern is this new zoning ordinance does not bode well for Braver Mountain The state’s School Institutional Trust Lands or SITLA now owns this land after a huge 1998 land swap SITLA is mandated by the State Legislature to manage their lands for maximum returns SITLA can now apply for the new more' dense R&R zone thereby making the land much more developable and valuable It wouldn't surprise me if a SITLA representative has been meeting with Ferrin developing a strategy to coerce the Council into making favorable decisions If these lands succumb to million-doll“trophy homes” access for all recreationists including hikers skiers horseman anglers and snowmobiles will be affected Once the key has bran turned and Pandora's box opened for the R&R zone it can never be closed We will have tq live with the affects of their decisions now and into the future e? Dan Miller Richmond ' ' ' fcftA nae atoiepltep fO2 iBatSWVNP jx Of Joan Ryan Is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle Send comments to her in care of this newspaper or send her at ail private clubs and good ol’ boys The Island Packet Hilton Head SC golf club such as Augusta has women members or not after all it’s not as if they are banned from foot in the place or as if women golfers are at a loss for places to play Still to the extent that the “boys will be boys” mentality is a handmaiden of more insidious prejudices it is to be hoped that one day Augusta will care less about privacy and more about fairness A 1 Is the saying goes birds of a feather flock together — and if their perches are in private clubs they have a legal right to do so That doesn’t mean the prevailing ' winds of social change can’t ruffle their feathers Such is the casie with the male members of the Augusta — K it? 1 wma HP flSAP ths community with a totum tor Mr views Rational coiunins cartoons and Mtan from nr wnwn mo iitisci m opram 01 EdtotWs under the headtog 'Our vwwi w vw norap jouma repreMni tfboard Members of tha edttorial boar i 1 n DARRELL EHRUCKdty edNor CINDY YURTHfaaluras edttor BRUCE SMUHpuNteher CHARLES MoCOlDMmanaging edtor ImWm to 6cgathered out of 1 multitude A of tongues than tfirvugfr any fjndof autumtative selection — Mian to toe adlor Potential ftaloua or odansiva letters wN not be published however and tie edtor teieivee the right to adtt al Mara to oontoim to He langth and atyta requirements of the i Tbs Opinion page is Mended to acquaint readers with a variety oi viewpoints on rattan of pubic Inipoftsnci tnd provkta fTMrnbttft of IN 1 lZ!!L Herald Journal cto&e wepoip M ed Other views V&axeep a one of us We are at this moment a dot somewhere along a time line in our history books We are mating the decisions that will determine what ends up on future dots on that time line In these future history books the terrorist attacks won’t merit even a chapter They will take up a page maybe two the way Pearl Harbor does or the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand The main history lesson will be about what happened next When the twin towers collapsed people were asking “Where was God? How could he let this happen?" Years from now if we’re unloading our children from military caskets airplanes in entrenched in a war With no end the only question then will bq “Where were we?” flag-drap- ar Mallard Fillmore MWWlfc- - And to do that we have to answer for ourselves what patriotism is and what it now calls on each of us to do We have to figure out the balance between trust and skepticism between questioning and supporting between action and acceptance Because whatever events unfold from that September day last year we will be accountable every single - ut ar i - - 30-ye- ar i firstanniversaryofSeptil r lace-trimm- ed See VIBES on A8 t terrorism can be won’in some mra- surable way Maybe Maybe Maybe How can we make decisions ' whose consequences are impossible to predict with real certainty? Yet that — more than recovery more than rebuilding more than presenting a united front — is our most important challenge as we mark the Joan Ryan Newspaper Enterprise Association By -- Your view Rezone could open Pandora’s box fter - Letters should be: Typewritten and double-space- d No mote than 450 wads In length Addreseed end Include daytime phone number tar purposes or verification Signed by the autor IndMAjals ate Imbed to one publatied latter wilhta any 30-da-y period Address tetters to hjlettarOhnews£om Guest com-manlariee ate also waioome and ate run M the editor's (Secretion Judge Learned Hatul American jurist (1872-1X- 1) |