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Artist: Noah Howard
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Similar Artists:

Sam Rivers, Arthur Jones, Han Bennink, Arthur Doyle, Eve Packer, Marzette Watts

Influenced By:

Dewey Redman, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Simmons, Byron Allen

Formal Connection With:

Zusaan Kali Fasteau
  • Born: April 06, 1943, New Orleans, LA
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Jazz
  • Instrument: Sax (Alto)
  • Representative Albums: "Berlin Concert", "Patterns/Message to South Africa", "At Judson Hall

Biography

One of free jazz's more enigmatic figures, alto saxophonist Noah Howard was documented so infrequently on record and spent so much time living in Europe that the course of his career and development as a musician remain difficult to trace, despite a late-'90s renewal of interest in his music. Howard was born in New Orleans in 1943 and began playing music in church as a child. He started out on trumpet (the instrument he played in the military during the early '60s) but subsequently switched to alto, and got in on the ground floor of the early free jazz movement. Most influenced by Albert Ayler, Howard made his debut as a leader for the groundbreaking ESP label, recording a pair of dates in 1966 (Noah Howard Quartet and At Judson Hall). Dissatisfied with the reception accorded his music -- and the avant-garde movement in general -- in America, Howard relocated to Europe, where he initially lived in France. He played with Frank Wright in 1969, and in 1971, he recorded with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink (among others) on Patterns, which was issued on his own AltSax label. Howard recorded a bit for FMP in the mid-'70s, and in 1979 also did a track for France's Mercury division, "Message to South Africa," that went unissued due to its militancy. Howard flirted with jazz-funk sometime in the '80s and early '90s, a phase that went largely undocumented. He returned to free jazz in the late '90s and began recording for labels other than AltSax, including CIMP (1997's Expatriate Kin), Cadence (1999's Between Two Eternities), Ayler (Live at the Unity Temple), and Boxholder (2001's Red Star). Thanks to the relative increase in visibility, Howard began to get more of his due as an early avant-garde innovator. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
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Howard
Howard CTA 080816.jpg
Station statistics
Address 1649 W. Howard Street
Chicago, IL 60626
Coordinates 7600N, 1700W
Lines      Red Line

     Yellow Line

     Purple Line
Connections CTA Buses
Pace Buses
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 island platforms
Tracks 4
Parking 44 parking inv.png 634 spaces
Bicycle facilities Yes
Other information
Opened May 16, 1908
Rebuilt 1921, 1964, 2007-2009
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2008) 1,929,125[1] ▲ 1.4%

Howard is a station on the Chicago 'L' system, located at 1649 West Howard Street in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 7600 north, 1700 west). It is the northernmost station on the CTA Red Line (and the outlying terminus of the North Side Main Line), and also has connections with the Yellow Line and the Purple Line; incidentally, the Yellow Line has one of its two termini here, while the Purple Line does not go south of this station outside of weekday rush hours. The station was also a stop on the North Shore Line until that line quit in early 1963.

The station is located in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the border with the city of Evanston. It was originally opened in 1908 and was rebuilt in 1921. An escalator was added in 1964. A Park and Ride with 634 spaces is provided at this station. The Rogers Park neighborhood, located in the far northeast corner of Chicago, has four 'L' stations (N to S): Howard, Jarvis, Morse, and Loyola.

View looking north from the since-demolished station crossover bridge into the Howard yard

A large maintenance yard and rolling stock storage facility, known as Howard Yard, is just north of the station. Northbound Purple and Yellow Line trains pass through the yard on the way to their respective branches, and Red Line trains travel from the north-bound platform to the south-bound platform via a balloon loop in the yard.

Starting in 2007 the station was rebuilt to improve disabled access and provide an additional entrance from the adjacent bus terminal. A new, accessible entrance on Paulina Street was opened on June 9, 2008. Construction on the rest of the station is expected to proceed through 2009.[2] The Howard Street entrance is temporarily closed for six months of renovation. The new Paulina entrance will serve as the main entrance during the renovation of the main entrance.[3] On March 20, 2009, the main entrance on Howard Street reopened for service after a thorough renovation.[4]


Bus Connections

CTA

  • #22 Clark
  • #N22 Clark (Owl Service)
  • #97 Skokie
  • #147 Outer Drive Express
  • #151 Sheridan (Sunday Morning & Evening Only)
  • #201 Central/Ridge
  • #N201 Central/Sherman (Owl Service)
  • #205 Chicago/Golf
  • #206 Evanston Circulator

Pace

  • #215 Crawford-Howard
  • #290 Touhy Avenue
  • #422 Linden CTA/Glenview/Northbrook Court (Overnight UPS Service)
Red Destination sign
Purple destination sign
Yellow destination sign

References

  1. ^ "Rail Ridership by Branch and Entrance: December 2008" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority. http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/ridership_reports/2008-12.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 
  2. ^ Renovated South Entrance at Howard Station Opens to Customers Monday, June 9. Chicago Transit Authority. 2008-06-06. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  3. ^ Renovation of Old Howard Red Line Station Begins Saturday. Chicago Transit Authority. 2008-08-14. Retrieved on 2008-08-17.
  4. ^ http://www.transitchicago.com/news/default.aspx?Month=&Year=&Category=2&ArticleId=2307

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Coordinates: 42°01′09″N 87°40′23″W / 42.019161°N 87.673093°W / 42.019161; -87.673093

Preceding station   Chicago 'L'   Following station
Terminus Red Line
Terminus
 Yellow Line Terminus
toward Linden
 Purple Line
Non-rushhour service
terminates at Howard
toward Howard or The Loop
(Cubs game days only)
toward Howard or The Loop

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