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Don Rose

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first: 2017-09-04
most recent: 2017-09-04
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Sort of interested in black issues. I mentioned Vincent, Indiana. My grandmother got sick and my mother moved the family except for my father down to help her, which included our African American housekeeper made. Her name was Azeline Smith. And one day she was going to take me to a movie. There were two movies in houses in Vincent, Indiana, and there was a movie we wanted to see at the movie called The Blue Moon. And the two of us went there and the box office lady says I'm sorry we don't let colored people hear. You have to go to the pantheon up the street where there's a balcony where you sit in the balcony. Well, I was outraged. How old were you? Maybe Maybe ten, and I was truly outraged by this and It taught me a certain lesson not just that it was terrible for”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I started reading when I was eight or nine and I read about, I remember an encyclopedia I opened up to about government and I don't remember whether it was a school assignment or just my own interest and it compared fascism which was going on at the time democracy US democracy and socialism and From breeding just what was in the encyclopedia, I decided that socialism was probably the form of government that most appealed to me. Now what got me into”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was trying to write novels. I wrote a novel of all things about jazz musicians. And what I found when I got back was trying to sell it, I was writing in a very naturalistic for want of a better word, not comparing it, but a more bare bones hemingway style and by the time I was trying to sell the book the more florid what we now call beat generation poetic writers and those people were writing and they were writing about the same subject so mine really couldn't compete although I think it was a pretty good book”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Part of being a bebop musician was using heroin like Charlie Parker. Everybody used to think whether they articulated it, that that's what helped make Charlie Parker as great as he was, and a number of us used it. Fortunately, I got off of it very quickly. Some psychoanalytic help and a brain that says if this continues, I'm going to wind up being dead.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, she had been living there for three or four years, and I had previously read some of his essays, and I thought the book was marvelous. And he was part of a small group of African American exiles, which included a lot of musicians, artists, writers, and most of our conversations were not about race, but were about literature. He introduced me to Richard Wright. The great Chicago novelist. So I had already developed an interest in what we now call civil rights. We didn't use the term at the time, but I.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, actually by that time I had in the In the early 50s, I had a bike. And my next career was going to be as the great American novelist. And I went to Europe to follow the Hemingway Fitzgerald path to the great American novel. wrote it but it didn't couldn't get it published, but during that era I got to know a lot of interesting people like Jimmy Baldwin, James Baldwin who had just published Go Tell It on the Mountain. It was incredible.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that stuck with you. I thought Max was going to be a good name for my kid because there was also a family name, but he was really named after Max Roach. We told some of the family he was named after”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A jazz fisheries. Right. And Byrd looked at me when he didn't know me from Adam, but the first word he said to me was Max.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was exactly. That's a funny little story, but Charlie Parker, who was then the demigod, may still be, was playing at a place called the Argyll Lounge in the uptown neighborhood of Chicago and took a break and went to the washroom and I followed him to the washroom because I had to do it, but I also wanted to be near him. They're killing two people.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes. And in these days, in the middle forties, a new form of jazz was emerging. When I was just growing up in grammar school and starting high school, I was fortunate enough to be part of what we call the swing era, where jazz was the popular music of the time. You know, bands like Woody Herman, Count Basy, Duke Ellington were pop music. As well as something esoteric, and during the middle forties a change came over Farmer Jazz called Bebop led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and I heard this guy Dizzy Gillespie playing things that weren't supposed to be played on the trumpet and I tried like hell to play him.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Came around and passed out instruments, and I thought the trumpet was a pretty smart instrument to play, and I learned a little bit and went on and entered the jazz world in my early high school years”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“North Sidus Chicago, the far north side, and the family moved to West Rogers Park, which was to the western part of the far north side, which was a typical migratory pattern for Jews of that era in the 30s. And I didn't move to Hyde Park until some years later. I went to the University of Illinois in Chicago and then downstate and came back and went off to Europe and when I came back from Europe in the middle fifties is when I moved to High Class I see.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My grandfather had a strange history he and his brother built the first synagogue in El Paso, Texas, and then many years later I have no idea how they migrated down there well after I was seven or eight, nine moved to Vincennes, Indiana to start a dry goods business and they built the first synagogue in Vincent's Indiana.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was born in Chicago, but both parents lived there at the time. My mother was a little more parapetetic with her family. They had lived in El Paso, Texas, and they lived in a suburb, and then they got to Chicago. And my father was actually born. He was the first of his family born in the States with the name Rose. The name was originally Razowski, but he was actually they come from.”
2017-09-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 169 - Don Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source