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	Side Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Narrated by fleeing son Clifford, Side Man tells the story of gifted trumpeter Gene Glimmer, his besotted and later just sotted wife Terry, and Gene's personable, irresponsible horn-blowing buddies as they float from the golden age of the big bands into a limbo of lame gigs and unemployment.
		But Side Man is less lament than paean to a nocturnal, hand-to-mouth artists' life that, once Elvis wiggled on Ed Sullivan, went the way of the woolly mammoth.
		One thing Side Man conveys without spelling it out is how the wives and lovers of its world -- probably the only niche of the 1950s that was hip -- were doomed to play second fiddle.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/09/21/SIDE_MAN.html (877 words)

	village voice > music > Side Man, the soundtrack: played out by Francis Davis
		The irony is that Side Man is playing at the Golden, the site of the first New York production of Waiting for Godot, the show that supposedly put an end to this sort of overwrought nonsense more than 40 years ago.
		Side Man's lone flash of originality is its jazz milieu, but for those of us who know the turf, the very same musical performances that thrill us in their original context are the show's falsest touch of all.
		CD shoppers are presumably another story, and Side Man's companion album appeals to the most casual of them with a random assortment of great performances by names they're likely to recognize.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/9917,davis,5138,22.html (736 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		With the advent of Warren Leight's successful play "Side Man" and a few articles in the press, the history of these remarkable performers has suddenly poured forth and the jazz world is celebrating.
		Because the focus has been historical, some of the present day side men residing in Gotham have not been included in the windfall of hype, but their contribution continues to be as important as that of their forebears.
		Saxophonist Jed Levy, a longtime side man with jazz luminaries Cedar Walton, Toots Thielemans, Kevin Mahogany and a host of others is carving out new improvisational territory these days in dual appearances with guitarist Peter Leitch.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /articles/nycb1298_2.htm (606 words)

	Kant, Scheler and Bediuzzaman on Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Man, who consists of the union of natural and mental existences, does not come to this world in possession of the opportunities and positions that he will gain, in contrast to animals.
		The instincts forming the second level of man"s physical life should be meaningful for himself, be in harmony, fulfill the function of serving the continuation of the species, carry a character that can develop naturally in time, and not consist of the sum of man"s experiences.
		One side of this duality is "the side showing qualities", which has been a subject of sciences, that is, the side endowed with definite and known specific attributes, and the other side composed of "pure existence", which is a subject of metaphysics.
	www.nur.org /treatise/articles/kant_schler_and_bediuzzaman_on_man.htm (4067 words)

	London theatre guide play Side Man on stage in London's West End Apollo theatre - ticket buying and theater guide
		Set in New York, Side Man is about jazz musicians from their heyday in the 1950's to their dark years in the 1980's.
		Side Man is both a lovely lament and a glorious celebration.
		although Side Man never falls into the mawkish Neil Simon formula of wisecracks 'n' heartache, it is often genuinely funny, most notably in its depiction of the obsessive jazz sidemen in the father's band.
	www.albemarle-london.com /sideman.html (1111 words)

	Show - Side Man
		In jazz parlance, a side man is a paragon of dependability, a player for hire who can blend in or stand out, play backup or solo, according to what is required.
		SIDE MAN is a family story spanning 32 years, as well as a tribute to big band jazz.
		SIDE MAN garnered the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
	www.carpentersquare.com /shows/show_sideman.htm (434 words)

	BBC News \| Talking Point \| Are Man Utd the best ever club side?
		Man U were lucky to win yesterday, and they admit it.
		Man Utd won the European Championship this season courtesy of the thickness of the post and the width of the crossbar.
		Both sides were evenly matched in strength, style and (lack of) creativity; maybe the result was predestined to be decided with a bit of help from Lady Luck.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/353585.stm (3689 words)

	Theatre Reviews Limited: "Side Man (Robb)"
		"Side Man," winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play is a fine example of one of the theater's most enduring forms of drama: the memory play.
		However, while Clifford may be "Side Man's" central figure, the focus of the story is on his parents and his father's jazz playing buddies.
		So while "Side Man" focuses on the extinction of the trumpet player, it could just as easily be an ode to Silent Movies or the golden age of radio.
	www.theatrereviews.com /pastreviews/sideman2.htm (773 words)

	Warm Jazz
		A "Side Man" (a term known to jazz aficionados) is a musician who can be relied on for first-class music-making, but is not a solo star.
		In Leight’s autobiographical play, the Side Man is Gene Glimmer, a trumpeter, and the play tracks 32 years (1953-1985) of his life and career.
		Broadway’s Side Man may have boasted stronger directing and acting, but Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production pays some of its own rewards, and I predict it will be a crowd-pleaser.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/060800/ae.theater.shtml (669 words)

	Side Man Center
		Elegiac, heart-wrenching, and funny, Warren Leight’s Tony award-winning (Best Play) hit Side Man is triumphant writing that tightly binds the arc of jazz history to Clifford (named after trumpet great Clifford Brown), the son of a burned-out jazz trumpeter.
		A memory play that traces Clifford’s father’s career—and, ultimately, its effects on the family—Side Man is a touching, humorous eulogy for the ghosts, some-times living, in the galls of the American family and the spirits that have given their lives for music.
		The world of loss in Side Man also laments the dying breed of jazz musicians represented by Gene and his good-ol-days jazz buddies Al and Ziggy, all of them acutely aware they are soon to become the extinct species of the big band.
	andrewmccarthy.net /kennedycen.htm (433 words)

	In Clifford’s Name
		That and the fact that Brown, who was born and raised in Wilmington’s east side, is the city’s most prominent jazz alumnus.
		Clifford Brown serves as an obvious foil in Side Man; his sobriety and his sheer incandescence contrast sharply with the lukewarm careers and substance dependencies of Gene’s cohorts.
		Side Man opens Fri., May 26 and runs through June 25, at the Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., 215-735-0631.
	citypaper.net /articles/052500/ae.critmass.brown.shtml (1083 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Review - Side Man
		Side Man, the Tony Award-winning play by Warren Leight, experiments with this concept of theatrical distance, with mixed results.
		In Side Man, Leight attempts to illustrate the professional marginalization these men experience while also showing how they've brushed aside their own families for the love of their craft.
		While the rest of Side Man's impact is dulled by the distance that Leight has created between viewer and actor, this scene provides a sharp example of live theatre's power to pierce the heart of a moment, when an audience and cast is able to truly share it.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-06-06/arts_exhibitionism.html (833 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| North Side man killed by police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A Richmond man who was shot early yesterday by a police officer died not long after being transported to VCU Medical Center.
		Richmond police identified the man as 28-year old Billy Thigpen III of the 3100 block of Napoleon Street on the city's North Side.
		Police said the man was struck in the chest area by a bullet from an officer's gun during a struggle, just minutes after leading police on a short car chase.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137833732574 (554 words)

	Side Man , a CurtainUp review
		The side seating sections have been removed to accommodate the restaurant, bar and house where the lives of the title character and his family and friends play out for us.
		A side man, in case you never heard the expression, was a type of journeyman musician who in the 1940s the heyday of the big bands, played backup to the "star" bandleaders.
		When those stars could no longer provide steady employment, the side men who did not move on to more mundane careers, kept their instruments packed ready to do a gig wherever an extra player was needed.
	www.curtainup.com /sideman.html (630 words)

	Drive-by shooting kills South Side man
		An-18-year-old man was killed and a 26-year-old man slightly injured in a gang-related drive-by shooting on the South Side early Sunday.
		Killed was Joshua Saucedo, 18, of the 5600 block of S. Richmond St., according to a report from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
		The 26-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his right shoulder and refused medical treatment on the scene, according to Wentworth Area Sgt. Kevin Duffin.
	www.suntimes.com /output/news/sside09.html (242 words)

	Officer justified in killing armed S. Side man, cops say
		Chicago Police said a 10-year veteran officer was justified in fatally shooting a man Wednesday night after the off-duty cop parked in a South Side neighborhood to show off his new BMW to a female acquaintance.
		When the officer stepped out of the BMW and announced he was a police officer, the man pushed the officer and ran toward a house with people sitting on a porch, Bond said.
		The Cook County medical examiner's office identified the man as Brian Keller, 30, of the 9500 block of South Peoria.
	www.suntimes.com /output/news/cst-nws-cop14.html (433 words)

	South Side man dies - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		A South Side man shot himself in the head early Tuesday during a struggle with police who had responded to a street fight, Pittsburgh police said.
		Gestrich had fought with the man, whom police did not identify, because he believed the man had stolen tools from his home, police said.
		They chased him from the side of his home in the 1600 block of St. Patrick to a rear porch, where they found him sitting and holding the pistol.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_193713.html (398 words)

	JS Online: South side man uses guillotine to sever arm
		Never was that more evident than Tuesday when a 53-year-old south side man used a guillotine he'd built from instructions he found on the Internet to sever his arm.
		The man was released from Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital on Wednesday and was being psychologically evaluated as authorities tried to determine why he harmed himself.
		Doctors at Froedtert told the man his arm could be reattached, but he refused treatment beyond the bandaging of the wound and told hospital authorities that if they reattached his arm, he'd re-amputate it and sue the hospital.
	www.jsonline.com /news/metro/oct99/arm07100699a.asp (516 words)

	South Side man shot in argument - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Police were looking for a young fl man, about 5 feet, 5 inches, 140 pounds and with a thin mustache.
		Nina Lewis, 18, said the shooter was being followed by four other men who appeared to be in their early 20s and were making comments directed at him.
		The other men carried the victim, who was bleeding from his side, to a car and drove away as she was calling the police, she said.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/kqvradio/s_345735.html (353 words)

	'Side Man' puts playwright up front
		Side Man came to be because he had joined a playwright's lab five years ago and had to come in every week with six pages.
		He was offered a deal to develop Side Man for prime time TV, “but I turned it down.
		Leight isn't quite hearing the advice of his friend the chef or his friend the cynic, he is listening to the guy who runs the cheese store in his neighborhood.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/09/15/loc_side_man_puts.html (772 words)

	FirstCall - FC- 'Side Man'
		CSU’s production of "Side Man," presented by the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance, has been selected as one of five plays to be presented at the 37th annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional conference on Feb. 19 at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.
		Directed by Laura Jones, Colorado State's production of "Side Man" brings the stage to life by portraying an era when jazzmen were as heroic as baseball players.
		"Side Man" was Playwright Warren Leight's first full-length work and received the 1999 Tony Award for Best New Play.
	www.firstcall-vc.org /calendar/viewEvent.php?eventID=3582 (315 words)

	Playbill Features: ON THE RECORD: a Side Man, a Robber Bridegroom, & an Anthologizer
		Listening to "Side Man,: Jazz Classics from the Broadway Play," though, you think maybe this is not such a bad idea.
		Side Man, of course, is Warren Leight's play at the Golden, which is still perhaps the best of the season (although stiff competition is coming between now and the Tonys).
		I've seen Side Man three times now, and there's one thing I don't quite understand: Early on someone asks for the stunning Kern Hammerstein song "Why Was I Born?", which could indeed be the theme of the whole play.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/65858.html (1266 words)

	Theatre Reviews Limited: "Side Man" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		"Side Man," now a Tony award nominee for Best Play, is more than worth the price of Broadway admission.
		While all the performances in "Side Man" are solid, special note should be taken with Frank Wood's depiction of Gene, the jazzman at the heart of the story.
		Frank succeeds in creating a wonderfully complex character that is at once a modern day hollow man and a musician full of life.
	www.theatrereviews.com /pastreviews/sideman.html (248 words)

	Lincoln Community Playhouse presents "Side Man"
		This spring’s Gallery Series production is the award-winning SIDE MAN, Warren Leight’s comic and tender story of Clifford, a young man looking back on his family life.
		Smoothly gliding between past and present, the play spans 32 years, harking back to a time before the Beatles and Elvis, when jazzmen were as heroic as ball players and there was no shortage of Saturday night gigs.
		SIDE MAN is a tribute to men whose lives were their music, and a sober look at the family drama that churned in the wake of that passion.
	www.lincolnplayhouse.com /schedule/play_details.html?titleid=574 (162 words)

	Side Man
		"The memories dramatized here are those of a man recalling a treacherous childhood spent in the company of emotionally untrustworthy parents, and the itinerant jazz musicians whose world they all shared," said New York Times critic Peter Marks in June 1998, when the play moved Off Broadway for a short run in the Roundabout Theater.
		A play with an unusual history, Side Man also was presented at the Classic Stage Company (CSC) theater before moving to Broadway in late 1998 for a successful run with Christian Slater in the central role of the play's conflicted son and narrator.
		Side Man sound designers are Staab of Elsheim, Germany and Daniel Ronco '03 of Lexington, Massachusetts.
	www.oberlin.edu /newserv/01apr/side_man.html (640 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Side Man"
		Side Man, by Warren Leight, opened Friday night, May 4, at Players' Ring, Portsmouth NH.
		Side Man is a story of jazz, art, devotion to art, human frailty and strength, served up with neither judgment nor glamour, but with a helpful helping of humor.
		Basically this is a hard story to take; a completely self indulgent trumpeter; an unusual talent for even the jazz world where talent abounds, meets and beds a naive young woman.
	www.theatermirror.com /smprcg.htm (728 words)

	Side Man Front
		“Side Man”, a new comedic drama, is about the musicians who backed up the big-band greats of the 1940’s, and will feature music from the period.
		He has participated in upcoming articles related to his work in theater, and has recently appeared on one of the top morning shows “Regis and Kathy Lee” promoting the now successful hit “Side Man”.
		For those of you are out there looking for Andrew McCarthy to appear in that Oscar winning film, you may just have to wait a little while longer.
	andrewmccarthy.net /side_man.htm (242 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Side Man'
		The play won the 1999 Tony award for best play, and no wonder: it's not only a shockingly frank family drama but also a tender homage to a lost art.
		Clifford recounts his family's story, from Gene's early successes as a side man in 1950s New York to the decline of the big band and, consequently, the Glimmer family, through the '60s to the '80s.
		Side Man plays Tuesday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3 and 8pm, Sunday at 2 and 7pm at the San José Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.21.00/sideman-0038.html (603 words)

	JazzWest: Warren Leight's "Side Man" Debuts at San Jose Rep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the Broadway production of "Side Man," the role of Clifford (named after Brownie), the narrator and son of the title character, was played by film and television actors Christian Slater, Andrew McCarthy and Scott Wolf.
		It's just like in "Side Man," when rock and roll came in with the Beatles and the Stones and how that eclipsed jazz and sent it into the dark ages.
		She likes to open the season that's strong in some way, really got a strong sense of theatricality to it, which "Side Man" does.
	www.jazzwest.com /archive/articles/sideman.html (1211 words)

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