Historical
Notes
[Members of the Englewood High
School football team sitting in three rows in front of a building].
Chicago Daily News, Inc.,
photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1918.
Informal full-length group portrait of members of the Englewood High
School football team sitting in three rows in front of a building in Chicago,
Illinois. One of the team members is
African American. Included are: Vickers, Johnston, Kirkhoff, Bryson,
Atkinson, Carroll, Epstein, Freed, C. Johnson, Sims, Pavlik, Jandecek. Chicago
Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL
60614-6071.
Bronzeville conversation with Ernest Outlaw, Englewood Eagle
by Charles
Walton
Ernest
Outlaw, bass, died on July 12, 2003. He performed for more than 50 years
throughout the US, including 25 years at the Playboy Club in downtown Chicago. I
knew Outlaw before his Playboy years and we hung out together and talked about
music, musicians, and many things. Believe me, he had many stories about
everything and everyone.
I was born in Chicago in 1928 on June 28. I discovered later, that was the
same day Louis Armstrong recorded ‘West End Blues.’ I began taking
clarinet lessons while attending the Betsy Ross elementary school. During those
days I met Jay Peters, saxophone, and John Avant, trombone, who were older and
attending Englewood High School. We were
studying with the same music teacher and became good
friends.
When it was time for me to go to high school, I had been taking lessons so
I could already play the clarinet somewhat. Jay and John advised on me how to
fill out my school program so I could get in the Englewood High School senior band. Fortunately, I
was accepted. There I got to know Jimmy Taylor, alto sax, who played in the
Rhumboogie Club after high school. He was the first to tell me how well Charlie
Parker played. Parker was with the Jay McShann
Band.
A relative of Jay McShann, Teresa McShann, lived in my apartment building
in Chicago on the third floor. I also met others who knew the band members and
they would relate many stories about the band. Early on, I heard recordings of
Charlie Parker and copied some of his solos, but I had no idea of what he would
become. I thought of him as a giant behind Johnny Hodges and Benny
Carter…
President Bill Clinton visits
Englewood 1999
http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19991108_1.html
