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‘Jazz was the catalyst for change’: Jim Marshall’s images of 60s festivals
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** ‘Jazz was the catalyst for change’: Jim Marshall’s images of 60s festivals
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Photographer Jim Marshall is known for iconic images of 60s rock stars. But his first great portraits were of the giants of jazz, captured on the eve of the civil rights era
Miles Davis in conversation with actor Steve McQueen, backstage at the 1963 Monterey jazz festival. Photograph: © Jim Marshall Photography LLC
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Charles Davis obituary | Music | The Guardian
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Charles Davis obituary
By Peter Vacher
Charles Davis said he was ‘brought up on Basie and Ellington’
The saxophonist Charles Davis, who has died aged 83, forged his bracing, bebop tenor saxophone style in Chicago’s clubs and jam sessions, but it was only when he began to specialise on the more cumbersome baritone that he found his true voice and gained wider international recognition.
It was his instrumental command and solo fluency on baritone that brought Davis several recording opportunities and led band leaders as varied as the trumpeter Clark Terry (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/22/clark-terry) and jazz mystic Sun Ra to recruit him for their touring orchestras. It also led to Davis combining with Gary Smulyan and Ronnie Cuber in the memorable Three Baritone Saxophone Band which played Ronnie Scott’s in 1998 – my own first encounter with the majesty of his playing.
Latterly, Davis had returned to the tenor saxophone as his main instrument, fronting his own quartet and playing with the all-star Jimmy Heath big band while still taking the occasional tour with Marshall Allen’s Sun Ra Arkestra.
Davis was born in Goodman, Mississippi, during a period of marked African- American repression and unrest, to Lindsey Davis and his wife, Vernell (nee Coleman). By 1936 he had relocated with his mother to Chicago’s South Side, then the destination of choice for black southerners seeking a better life.
Initially Davis was sent away to St Benedict’s, a Catholic boarding school in Milwaukee, before entering the celebrated DuSable high school in Chicago in 1949. There he came under the eagle eye of Captain Walter Dyett, whose music instruction had been crucial in shaping the careers of many African-American musicians and entertainers including Dinah Washington and Nat Cole. Davis said he was “brought up on Basie and Ellington”, and recalled his mother taking him to see all the great black bands of the day at the city’s Regal theater, citing her enthusiasm for Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton, while he stayed starry-eyed at the sight of the bebop pioneer Charlie Parker with Jay McShann’s band in 1942.
“I remember him playing a solo and it brought down the house,” he told me in 2008. Davis also studied formally at the Chicago School of Music for three years and received private tuition from John Hauser from 1951 onwards.
Charles Davis Quintet – For us – Jamboree, Barcelona (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI55PihrCH0)
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Having already worked with the organist Brother Jack McDuff, Davis was called by a local bandleader, Al Smith, in 1956 to back the singer Billie Holiday at Budland in Chicago, alongside the featured tenor saxophonist and former Ellington star Ben Webster. This prestigious job lasted two months, after which Davis went on the road with the New Orleans R&B singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry. As a result he gained his first glimpse of New York. “He was a protege of Fats Domino,” Davis recalled. He then spent the next two years touring and recording with Washington, then riding high, in a band stuffed with graduates of DuSable and run by the tenor saxophonist Eddie Chamblee.
It was during this time that he started collaborating with Sun Ra (formerly Sonny Blount) – he told me that they shared a common interest in bebop. He was in and out of the space man’s ensemble ever after, appearing in London with the band (now under the saxophonist Allen’s direction) and broadcasting on the BBC as recently as in June 2014.
By 1959, Davis had relocated permanently to New York, then as now the jazz musicians’ mecca, and formed an enduring association with the innovative hard-bop trumpeter Kenny Dorham, their quintets gaining lengthy residencies and recording regularly. When I asked him which musicians he missed most, it was Dorham, who died in 1972, who came to mind instantly.
In what was both a halcyon period for modern jazz in New York and for Davis personally, he began to play or record with every soloist of consequence, including John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, while taking extended European tours with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, the Clark Terry Big Bad Band (playing London memorably in 1977) and with Abdullah Ibrahim in both Europe and Africa, and making an array of solo appearances at international festivals and clubs. He also formed many short-lived combos to play club dates in New York, one critic describing him as “getting a gurgling, darkly tinged sound” on the baritone.
“The most impressive of the handful of important new baritone saxophonists who have come to prominence during the 1960s,” according to the critic Leonard Feather, Davis won the DownBeat International Jazz Critics Poll for baritone saxophone in 1964. Jazz (https://www.theguardian.com/music/jazz) performance was, he said, “a way of life. You can’t fake your way through it.”
Davis is survived by the children and grandchildren from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. His second wife, Lori Davis (nee Samet), died in 2012. His final recording, issued in 2014, was named For the Love of Lori.
• Charles Davis, jazz saxophonist, composer and educator, born 20 May 1933; died 15 July 2016
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Charles Davis obituary | Music | The Guardian
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Charles Davis obituary
By Peter Vacher
Charles Davis said he was ‘brought up on Basie and Ellington’
The saxophonist Charles Davis, who has died aged 83, forged his bracing, bebop tenor saxophone style in Chicago’s clubs and jam sessions, but it was only when he began to specialise on the more cumbersome baritone that he found his true voice and gained wider international recognition.
It was his instrumental command and solo fluency on baritone that brought Davis several recording opportunities and led band leaders as varied as the trumpeter Clark Terry (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/22/clark-terry) and jazz mystic Sun Ra to recruit him for their touring orchestras. It also led to Davis combining with Gary Smulyan and Ronnie Cuber in the memorable Three Baritone Saxophone Band which played Ronnie Scott’s in 1998 – my own first encounter with the majesty of his playing.
Latterly, Davis had returned to the tenor saxophone as his main instrument, fronting his own quartet and playing with the all-star Jimmy Heath big band while still taking the occasional tour with Marshall Allen’s Sun Ra Arkestra.
Davis was born in Goodman, Mississippi, during a period of marked African- American repression and unrest, to Lindsey Davis and his wife, Vernell (nee Coleman). By 1936 he had relocated with his mother to Chicago’s South Side, then the destination of choice for black southerners seeking a better life.
Initially Davis was sent away to St Benedict’s, a Catholic boarding school in Milwaukee, before entering the celebrated DuSable high school in Chicago in 1949. There he came under the eagle eye of Captain Walter Dyett, whose music instruction had been crucial in shaping the careers of many African-American musicians and entertainers including Dinah Washington and Nat Cole. Davis said he was “brought up on Basie and Ellington”, and recalled his mother taking him to see all the great black bands of the day at the city’s Regal theater, citing her enthusiasm for Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton, while he stayed starry-eyed at the sight of the bebop pioneer Charlie Parker with Jay McShann’s band in 1942.
“I remember him playing a solo and it brought down the house,” he told me in 2008. Davis also studied formally at the Chicago School of Music for three years and received private tuition from John Hauser from 1951 onwards.
Charles Davis Quintet – For us – Jamboree, Barcelona (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI55PihrCH0)
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Having already worked with the organist Brother Jack McDuff, Davis was called by a local bandleader, Al Smith, in 1956 to back the singer Billie Holiday at Budland in Chicago, alongside the featured tenor saxophonist and former Ellington star Ben Webster. This prestigious job lasted two months, after which Davis went on the road with the New Orleans R&B singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry. As a result he gained his first glimpse of New York. “He was a protege of Fats Domino,” Davis recalled. He then spent the next two years touring and recording with Washington, then riding high, in a band stuffed with graduates of DuSable and run by the tenor saxophonist Eddie Chamblee.
It was during this time that he started collaborating with Sun Ra (formerly Sonny Blount) – he told me that they shared a common interest in bebop. He was in and out of the space man’s ensemble ever after, appearing in London with the band (now under the saxophonist Allen’s direction) and broadcasting on the BBC as recently as in June 2014.
By 1959, Davis had relocated permanently to New York, then as now the jazz musicians’ mecca, and formed an enduring association with the innovative hard-bop trumpeter Kenny Dorham, their quintets gaining lengthy residencies and recording regularly. When I asked him which musicians he missed most, it was Dorham, who died in 1972, who came to mind instantly.
In what was both a halcyon period for modern jazz in New York and for Davis personally, he began to play or record with every soloist of consequence, including John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, while taking extended European tours with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, the Clark Terry Big Bad Band (playing London memorably in 1977) and with Abdullah Ibrahim in both Europe and Africa, and making an array of solo appearances at international festivals and clubs. He also formed many short-lived combos to play club dates in New York, one critic describing him as “getting a gurgling, darkly tinged sound” on the baritone.
“The most impressive of the handful of important new baritone saxophonists who have come to prominence during the 1960s,” according to the critic Leonard Feather, Davis won the DownBeat International Jazz Critics Poll for baritone saxophone in 1964. Jazz (https://www.theguardian.com/music/jazz) performance was, he said, “a way of life. You can’t fake your way through it.”
Davis is survived by the children and grandchildren from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. His second wife, Lori Davis (nee Samet), died in 2012. His final recording, issued in 2014, was named For the Love of Lori.
• Charles Davis, jazz saxophonist, composer and educator, born 20 May 1933; died 15 July 2016
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Jazz saxophonist Bob Kindred dead at age 76
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Bob Kindred
Jazz saxophonist Bob Kindred died August 15th in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 76. Kindred was well known in the Ketchikan jazz community, performing at First City Players Jazz and Cabaret Festival for more than a dozen years. Several Ketchikanites who knew Kindred shared their memories of him.
Bob Kindred was best known as a tenor saxophone player, but his first instrument was the clarinet. His father did not want him to pursue a career in music, so Kindred studied business and had a successful business career. At the age of 30, he heard Phil Woods in concert and decided to take up playing again. He studied with Woods for several years. At a time when the popularity of big band music was fading, Kindred was able to succeed, playing with the Glenn Miller and Woody Herman tribute bands, among others.
Since the early ‘90s, local theater group, First City Players, has held jazz and cabaret workshops. Elizabeth Nelson, Artistic Director of First City Players, says Anne Phillips was brought in about 1999 or 2000 to conduct vocal workshops. Phillips was married to Kindred at the time, and suggested he come the next year to conduct instrumental workshops. Nelson says the instrumental workshops lasted only a few years, but Kindred continued to return, backing vocalists.
“It was an astounding thing to listen to. When he was at his best, to sing with him, it was really having a conversation. It was just a musical conversation and he would listen to every single way you would inflect a lyric and he could answer that back sensitively. Really just beautiful in that way.”
Nelson says during jazz and cabaret week, guest artists visit the local elementary schools.
“He could be so much fun. He could make the kids laugh. The last day, when we do the concert for the school, we always bring our guest artists in, so Bob would be part of that, and would just make the kids giggle with the sounds he could make through his saxophone and then they would just be rapt when he would play.”
In 2010, guest artists Bob Kindred, Anne Phillips, Paul Meyers and Matt Perri were recognized as honorary citizens of Ketchikan for their work in the schools and contributions to the jazz community. The proclamation was signed by City Mayor Lew Williams III.
Baritone saxophonist Lynn Caldwell recalls first meeting Kindred. Caldwell was in his garage playing when there was a knock on the door at about 9 pm.
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A copy of the proclamation honoring Jazz and Cabaret Week and guest artists.
“He said, ‘I heard some baritone sax in here. Are you kidding me?’ Those were his exact words. ‘Are you kidding me?’ He was truly blown away by the fact that he comes to Ketchikan, he’s living right there, no clue at all there was even a baritone sax player in town.”
Kindred was staying at a bed and breakfast across the street and had heard Caldwell playing. They became fast friends and played together often, Kindred on the tenor saxophone, and Caldwell on the baritone. Caldwell says he had never played with a professional musician before, and learned a lot from Kindred.
“He taught me so much about the instrument – about mouth pieces, about reeds, about breath control. He couldn’t practice for me, and I was still being lazy about learning scales and chords, but it really improved my playing. Particularly the sound. That’s all I really cared about anyway. I loved the sound of the baritone.”
Caldwell says Kindred had cancer about 20 years ago and wasn’t expected to live more than 10 years. He says Kindred had many other health issues, made worse by a drinking problem and bad habits.
“He didn’t complain much. A lot of people didn’t even know those things about him. But it seems like it was such a waste for this great man to not be able to make more of a contribution than he was by getting his life under control.”
Trumpet player Dale Curtis met Bob Kindred and Anne Phillips at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. When they came to Ketchikan, Curtis played with Kindred in the Jazz and Cabaret Festival band. They also would just get together to play.
“I’ve been playing my whole life, and I’ve got a lot of professional experience, and I know a lot of tunes, and so does he. We’d just get together and play these tunes that we both know, and we both had such a similar style. For me it was really easy, phrasing, and I kind of knew what he was going to do. It made it easy.”
In 2011, Curtis recorded an album “Bridge to Nowhere,” at Bennett Studios in New Jersey. The members of the Dale Curtis Quintet were Curtis, guitarist Paul Meyers, bass player Christian Fabian, drummer Ed Littlefield, and Kindred on saxophone and clarinet.
“He asked me if he could do this song called ‘Tenderly’ by himself. So I let him do that and I’m glad I did because it’s just amazing, his approach to that. Such a beautiful player and beautiful guy. He will be missed.”
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“He was always so gracious and so kind to other musicians. A good man.”
Kindred lived in New York for many years but moved to Nashville about two years ago. Curtis says he spoke with Kindred about a month ago and, despite his health problems, Kindred continued playing and was still booking gigs.
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Jazz saxophonist Bob Kindred dead at age 76
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Bob Kindred
Jazz saxophonist Bob Kindred died August 15th in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 76. Kindred was well known in the Ketchikan jazz community, performing at First City Players Jazz and Cabaret Festival for more than a dozen years. Several Ketchikanites who knew Kindred shared their memories of him.
Bob Kindred was best known as a tenor saxophone player, but his first instrument was the clarinet. His father did not want him to pursue a career in music, so Kindred studied business and had a successful business career. At the age of 30, he heard Phil Woods in concert and decided to take up playing again. He studied with Woods for several years. At a time when the popularity of big band music was fading, Kindred was able to succeed, playing with the Glenn Miller and Woody Herman tribute bands, among others.
Since the early ‘90s, local theater group, First City Players, has held jazz and cabaret workshops. Elizabeth Nelson, Artistic Director of First City Players, says Anne Phillips was brought in about 1999 or 2000 to conduct vocal workshops. Phillips was married to Kindred at the time, and suggested he come the next year to conduct instrumental workshops. Nelson says the instrumental workshops lasted only a few years, but Kindred continued to return, backing vocalists.
“It was an astounding thing to listen to. When he was at his best, to sing with him, it was really having a conversation. It was just a musical conversation and he would listen to every single way you would inflect a lyric and he could answer that back sensitively. Really just beautiful in that way.”
Nelson says during jazz and cabaret week, guest artists visit the local elementary schools.
“He could be so much fun. He could make the kids laugh. The last day, when we do the concert for the school, we always bring our guest artists in, so Bob would be part of that, and would just make the kids giggle with the sounds he could make through his saxophone and then they would just be rapt when he would play.”
In 2010, guest artists Bob Kindred, Anne Phillips, Paul Meyers and Matt Perri were recognized as honorary citizens of Ketchikan for their work in the schools and contributions to the jazz community. The proclamation was signed by City Mayor Lew Williams III.
Baritone saxophonist Lynn Caldwell recalls first meeting Kindred. Caldwell was in his garage playing when there was a knock on the door at about 9 pm.
http://krbd-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Proclamation-e1472075468761.jpg
A copy of the proclamation honoring Jazz and Cabaret Week and guest artists.
“He said, ‘I heard some baritone sax in here. Are you kidding me?’ Those were his exact words. ‘Are you kidding me?’ He was truly blown away by the fact that he comes to Ketchikan, he’s living right there, no clue at all there was even a baritone sax player in town.”
Kindred was staying at a bed and breakfast across the street and had heard Caldwell playing. They became fast friends and played together often, Kindred on the tenor saxophone, and Caldwell on the baritone. Caldwell says he had never played with a professional musician before, and learned a lot from Kindred.
“He taught me so much about the instrument – about mouth pieces, about reeds, about breath control. He couldn’t practice for me, and I was still being lazy about learning scales and chords, but it really improved my playing. Particularly the sound. That’s all I really cared about anyway. I loved the sound of the baritone.”
Caldwell says Kindred had cancer about 20 years ago and wasn’t expected to live more than 10 years. He says Kindred had many other health issues, made worse by a drinking problem and bad habits.
“He didn’t complain much. A lot of people didn’t even know those things about him. But it seems like it was such a waste for this great man to not be able to make more of a contribution than he was by getting his life under control.”
Trumpet player Dale Curtis met Bob Kindred and Anne Phillips at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. When they came to Ketchikan, Curtis played with Kindred in the Jazz and Cabaret Festival band. They also would just get together to play.
“I’ve been playing my whole life, and I’ve got a lot of professional experience, and I know a lot of tunes, and so does he. We’d just get together and play these tunes that we both know, and we both had such a similar style. For me it was really easy, phrasing, and I kind of knew what he was going to do. It made it easy.”
In 2011, Curtis recorded an album “Bridge to Nowhere,” at Bennett Studios in New Jersey. The members of the Dale Curtis Quintet were Curtis, guitarist Paul Meyers, bass player Christian Fabian, drummer Ed Littlefield, and Kindred on saxophone and clarinet.
“He asked me if he could do this song called ‘Tenderly’ by himself. So I let him do that and I’m glad I did because it’s just amazing, his approach to that. Such a beautiful player and beautiful guy. He will be missed.”
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“He was always so gracious and so kind to other musicians. A good man.”
Kindred lived in New York for many years but moved to Nashville about two years ago. Curtis says he spoke with Kindred about a month ago and, despite his health problems, Kindred continued playing and was still booking gigs.
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How a Court Decision on Remastering Could Completely Change Copyright Law
Record companies and recording artists should take heed – according to at least one federal judge, sound engineers are performing copyrightable work when they digitally remaster old recordings.
Michael Poster (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/author/mposter/) August 29, 2016
The following guest post comes from Michelman & Robinson attorney Michael Poster, as well as Victor Sapphire, Joshua Blechner. Michelman is one of two firms originally launching class action lawsuits against Spotify for failure to pay mechanical licenses.
A Federal District Court in California has determined (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/06/02/cbs-wins-lawsuit-over-pre-1972-songs/) that remastered versions of pre-1972 recordings are entitled to federal copyright protection separate from the original recording. The Court found that there was enough originality in the remastering process for a remastered digital version of a pre-1972 recording to be copyrightable as a “derivative work.”
The case in question is ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp. et al., case number 2:15-cv- 06257, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. CBS, one of the largest radio operators in the country, is one of several companies to be sued in recent years for refusing to pay royalties to the owners of pre-1972 recordings. This has long been a legal gray area because songs recorded prior to 1972 are protected by a patchwork of state laws rather than federal copyright law.
As such, this decision was probably intended to clarify a murky corner of the music copyright landscape. However, the significant implications of this decision generate a host of new questions regarding the future of music copyright law.
The Curious Case of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
The Sound Recording Act of 1971 (Pub. L. No. 92-140, 85 Stat. 391) (the “Act”) granted new copyright protection to sound recordings made after February 15, 1972, separate from the underlying compositions which had long received copyright protection (see 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102). Following passage of the Act, post-1972 sound recording copyright holders were required to grant a compulsory license for the performance of these recordings (see 17 U.S.C. § 114). However, there were no royalties payable for the use of these recordings in terrestrial radio. Later changes to U.S. copyright law resulted in royalties for compulsory licenses for performances via satellite radio, Internet-based webcasting, and certain other streaming uses.
Pre-1972 sound recordings were not granted federal protection nor were they included in the compulsory license scheme. Instead, these recordings were only protected under non-uniform state laws. In California, for example, these rights are protected by Cal. Civ. Code § 980(a)(2), which protects an exclusive public performance right in the sound recordings. The implication is that radio stations that broadcast pre-1972 songs without permission could be liable for copyright infringement under state law.
In ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp, CBS Radio was sued by four record companies in relation to 175 songs for violation of California copyrights.
(1) ABS Entertainment, Inc. (“ABS”), the owner of sound recordings made by Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Ace Cannon, and Otis Clay;
(2) Barnaby Records, Inc. (“Barnaby”) the owner of sound recordings made by Andy Williams, Johnny Tillotson, The Everly Brothers, Lenny Welch, Ray Stevens, and The Chordettes;
(3) Brunswick Record Corporation (“Brunswick”), the owner of sound recordings made by Jackie Wilson, The Chi-Lites, The Lost Generation, The Young-Holy Unlimited, and Tyrone Davis; and
(4) Malaco, Inc. (“Malaco”), the owner of sound recordings made by King Floyd, Mahalia Jackson, and The Cellos.
A Question of Originality
CBS argued that it was not performing the plaintiffs’ pre-1972 sound recordings, but rather post-1972 remastered digital versions of these recordings. These remastered versions, according to CBS, were separately copyrightable works created after 1972 and were therefore subject to the compulsory licensing system created under the Act (and therefore not subject to state law protections).
The court framed the central questions of the case as “whether a sound engineer’s remastering of a pre-1972 sound recording – through subjectively and artistically altering the work’s timbre, spatial imagery, sound balance, and loudness range, but otherwise leaving the work unedited – is entitled to federal copyright protection.”
To resolve this dispute, the Court relied on bedrock principles of copyright law. “The sine qua non of copyright is originality.” (Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 345, 111 S. Ct. 1282, 1287, 113 L. Ed. 2d 358 (1991)). The degree of creativity need only be “minimal” or “extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice.” Id. The requisite originality does not increase when the new copyrightable work is derivative of a pre-existing work (see Schrock v. Learning Curve Int’l, Inc., 586 F.3d 513, 521 (7th Cir. 2009) (holding that “the originality requirement for derivative works is not more demanding than the originality requirement for other works”).
However, “the variation from the original must be sufficient to render the derivative work distinguishable from its prior work in a [] meaningful manner (Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art Found., Inc. v. Buchel, 593 F.3d 38, 65 (1st Cir. 2010) (internal quotations omitted)).
To ascertain “whether a derivative work meets copyright law’s fundamental requirement of originality,” the Ninth Circuit requires a showing that: “(1) the original aspects of a derivative work must be more than trivial and (2) the original aspects of a derivative work must reflect the degree to which it relies on preexisting material and must not in any way affect the scope of any copyright protection in that preexisting material.” (U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. v. Parts Geek, LLC, 692 F.3d 1009, 1016 (9th Cir 2012)). “In some cases, the editing of a previously recorded work may in itself involve such originality as to command copyright, as where it involves such acts as equalizing, changing the highs and lows, providing more bass and treble, adding echo, or abridging by making discretionary and not obvious internal cuts.” (Pryor v. Jean, No. CV 13-02867 DDP (AJWx), 2014 WL 5023088 at *4 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 8, 2014) (quoting 1 Melville B. Nimmer and David Nimmer, Nimmer on
Copyright § 2.10[A][2][b])).
The focus of the Court’s analysis of originality was United States Copyright Office’s Circular No. 56, Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings (“Circular 56”), which details derivative works for sound recordings. The pamphlet notes, in part, that “The preexisting recorded sounds must have been rearranged, remixed, or otherwise altered in sequence or character, or there must be some additional new sounds. Further, the new or revised sounds must contain at least a minimum amount of original sound recording authorship,” and “Mechanical changes or processes applied to a sound recording, such as a change in format, declicking, and noise reduction, generally do not represent enough original authorship to be registered.”
Significant Alterations
Plaintiffs focused their argument on the language requiring a minimum amount of original authorship. CBS focused instead on the fact that sound recordings can be altered in character. Based on this phrase, CBS argued that the sound recordings they broadcast were not the original pre-1972 recordings, but were in fact post-1972 remastered recordings that were entitled to post-1972 federal copyright protection. The remastered recording, CBS argued, were altered in character enough to be considered a derivative work.
To bolster their argument, CBS introduced evidence that the recordings played on air were actually not pre-1972 recordings. They introduced expert testimony from a sound engineer that worked on remastering some of the songs as well as a forensic audiologist. The sound engineer explained that each remastering has its own unique take on the original song, including making “significant and noticeable alterations and modifications to the acoustic properties of the recordings.”
The forensic audiologist agreed that remastering does involve a level of creativity that creates new works. He examined 57 works that CBS had saved on their server of the actual recordings they broadcast. He found that each one of them differed from the original sound recordings by “ timbre, spatial imagery, sound balance, and loudness range.” In fact, he found that CBS had at times even played different remastered recordings of the same songs.
The court also knocked Plaintiffs’ expert’s method of examining the recordings “by performing waveform and spectral analysis, as well as critically listening to them – a technique which is unexplained in Mr. Geluso’s declaration but appears to involve listening while also paying attention.” Plaintiffs’ expert seemed to switch methodology mid-testing and could not provide concrete examples during his deposition. The court found that his methodology was not scientific and he could not be considered an adequate expert.
Without the benefit of their expert, plaintiffs were unable to show a genuine issue of material fact so as to block summary judgment. The court also noted that the Plaintiffs’ expert agreed with CBS’s expert that the “remastering process requires subjective choices, involving matters of taste, which alter perceptible aspects of a sound recording.” Plaintiffs even agreed “that a sound engineer’s choices made during the remastering process are creative and subjective.”
The Court decided the case on summary judgment without oral argument, ultimately siding with CBS that the remastering was unique enough to warrant new copyright protection under the post-1972 regime. “For example, for Ace Cannon’s “Tuff,” Dr. Begault found that the CBS version had additional reverberation, was played in a different musical key and at a faster tempo, and differed in the musical performance. Additionally, many of the remastered versions included different channel assignments and adjustments in equalization.”
The court did caution, however, that the ultimate rights do sit with the holder of the copyright in a sound recording. This means the copyright holder has the control when having a work remastered to restrict and maintain the copyright of the remastered version of the song.
A New Frontier
This decision raises many questions, and the music industry will no doubt keep a close eye on this case (should it be appealed), as well as matters in other jurisdictions. For instance, does this mean that copyright holders of sound recordings can extend their copyrights indefinitely by simply remastering the recordings at some point before the works become public domain?
Similarly, does this decision present a defense to accused infringers that the alleged infringement involved a “recording” that was actually a remastered work, and thus there is no standing to sue? Moreover, it raises fundamental questions about whether mastering or remastering engineers can be considered “authors,” raising issues about joint ownership, licensing authority and other concerns.
In addition, the implications of the decision may affect the exercise of termination rights regarding sound recordings (which has not been tested in the courts to date) since the remastering of a sound recording may call into question the date of the copyright (which affects the timing of termination rights) and the scope of the termination.
Cases currently pending could test this unique theory: CBS has filed a summary judgment motion in another case brought by ABS and the three other plaintiffs in the Southern District of New York. The same plaintiffs also have suits pending against iHeartMedia and Cumulus Media.
Some critics are already weighing in that this federal decision offers a playbook for radio companies regarding how to publicly perform older sound recordings without liability. The true impact of this ruling remains to be seen. For example, when is remastering sufficient to constitute creative authorship?
Different courts are likely to approach this question from contrasting perspectives. Finally, record producers and studio engineers now have stronger footing with regard to any efforts to share in SoundExchange income, because they may assert that they are involved in the “performance.”
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How a Court Decision on Remastering Could Completely Change Copyright Law
Record companies and recording artists should take heed – according to at least one federal judge, sound engineers are performing copyrightable work when they digitally remaster old recordings.
Michael Poster (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/author/mposter/) August 29, 2016
The following guest post comes from Michelman & Robinson attorney Michael Poster, as well as Victor Sapphire, Joshua Blechner. Michelman is one of two firms originally launching class action lawsuits against Spotify for failure to pay mechanical licenses.
A Federal District Court in California has determined (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/06/02/cbs-wins-lawsuit-over-pre-1972-songs/) that remastered versions of pre-1972 recordings are entitled to federal copyright protection separate from the original recording. The Court found that there was enough originality in the remastering process for a remastered digital version of a pre-1972 recording to be copyrightable as a “derivative work.”
The case in question is ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp. et al., case number 2:15-cv- 06257, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. CBS, one of the largest radio operators in the country, is one of several companies to be sued in recent years for refusing to pay royalties to the owners of pre-1972 recordings. This has long been a legal gray area because songs recorded prior to 1972 are protected by a patchwork of state laws rather than federal copyright law.
As such, this decision was probably intended to clarify a murky corner of the music copyright landscape. However, the significant implications of this decision generate a host of new questions regarding the future of music copyright law.
The Curious Case of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
The Sound Recording Act of 1971 (Pub. L. No. 92-140, 85 Stat. 391) (the “Act”) granted new copyright protection to sound recordings made after February 15, 1972, separate from the underlying compositions which had long received copyright protection (see 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102). Following passage of the Act, post-1972 sound recording copyright holders were required to grant a compulsory license for the performance of these recordings (see 17 U.S.C. § 114). However, there were no royalties payable for the use of these recordings in terrestrial radio. Later changes to U.S. copyright law resulted in royalties for compulsory licenses for performances via satellite radio, Internet-based webcasting, and certain other streaming uses.
Pre-1972 sound recordings were not granted federal protection nor were they included in the compulsory license scheme. Instead, these recordings were only protected under non-uniform state laws. In California, for example, these rights are protected by Cal. Civ. Code § 980(a)(2), which protects an exclusive public performance right in the sound recordings. The implication is that radio stations that broadcast pre-1972 songs without permission could be liable for copyright infringement under state law.
In ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp, CBS Radio was sued by four record companies in relation to 175 songs for violation of California copyrights.
(1) ABS Entertainment, Inc. (“ABS”), the owner of sound recordings made by Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Ace Cannon, and Otis Clay;
(2) Barnaby Records, Inc. (“Barnaby”) the owner of sound recordings made by Andy Williams, Johnny Tillotson, The Everly Brothers, Lenny Welch, Ray Stevens, and The Chordettes;
(3) Brunswick Record Corporation (“Brunswick”), the owner of sound recordings made by Jackie Wilson, The Chi-Lites, The Lost Generation, The Young-Holy Unlimited, and Tyrone Davis; and
(4) Malaco, Inc. (“Malaco”), the owner of sound recordings made by King Floyd, Mahalia Jackson, and The Cellos.
A Question of Originality
CBS argued that it was not performing the plaintiffs’ pre-1972 sound recordings, but rather post-1972 remastered digital versions of these recordings. These remastered versions, according to CBS, were separately copyrightable works created after 1972 and were therefore subject to the compulsory licensing system created under the Act (and therefore not subject to state law protections).
The court framed the central questions of the case as “whether a sound engineer’s remastering of a pre-1972 sound recording – through subjectively and artistically altering the work’s timbre, spatial imagery, sound balance, and loudness range, but otherwise leaving the work unedited – is entitled to federal copyright protection.”
To resolve this dispute, the Court relied on bedrock principles of copyright law. “The sine qua non of copyright is originality.” (Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 345, 111 S. Ct. 1282, 1287, 113 L. Ed. 2d 358 (1991)). The degree of creativity need only be “minimal” or “extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice.” Id. The requisite originality does not increase when the new copyrightable work is derivative of a pre-existing work (see Schrock v. Learning Curve Int’l, Inc., 586 F.3d 513, 521 (7th Cir. 2009) (holding that “the originality requirement for derivative works is not more demanding than the originality requirement for other works”).
However, “the variation from the original must be sufficient to render the derivative work distinguishable from its prior work in a [] meaningful manner (Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art Found., Inc. v. Buchel, 593 F.3d 38, 65 (1st Cir. 2010) (internal quotations omitted)).
To ascertain “whether a derivative work meets copyright law’s fundamental requirement of originality,” the Ninth Circuit requires a showing that: “(1) the original aspects of a derivative work must be more than trivial and (2) the original aspects of a derivative work must reflect the degree to which it relies on preexisting material and must not in any way affect the scope of any copyright protection in that preexisting material.” (U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. v. Parts Geek, LLC, 692 F.3d 1009, 1016 (9th Cir 2012)). “In some cases, the editing of a previously recorded work may in itself involve such originality as to command copyright, as where it involves such acts as equalizing, changing the highs and lows, providing more bass and treble, adding echo, or abridging by making discretionary and not obvious internal cuts.” (Pryor v. Jean, No. CV 13-02867 DDP (AJWx), 2014 WL 5023088 at *4 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 8, 2014) (quoting 1 Melville B. Nimmer and David Nimmer, Nimmer on
Copyright § 2.10[A][2][b])).
The focus of the Court’s analysis of originality was United States Copyright Office’s Circular No. 56, Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings (“Circular 56”), which details derivative works for sound recordings. The pamphlet notes, in part, that “The preexisting recorded sounds must have been rearranged, remixed, or otherwise altered in sequence or character, or there must be some additional new sounds. Further, the new or revised sounds must contain at least a minimum amount of original sound recording authorship,” and “Mechanical changes or processes applied to a sound recording, such as a change in format, declicking, and noise reduction, generally do not represent enough original authorship to be registered.”
Significant Alterations
Plaintiffs focused their argument on the language requiring a minimum amount of original authorship. CBS focused instead on the fact that sound recordings can be altered in character. Based on this phrase, CBS argued that the sound recordings they broadcast were not the original pre-1972 recordings, but were in fact post-1972 remastered recordings that were entitled to post-1972 federal copyright protection. The remastered recording, CBS argued, were altered in character enough to be considered a derivative work.
To bolster their argument, CBS introduced evidence that the recordings played on air were actually not pre-1972 recordings. They introduced expert testimony from a sound engineer that worked on remastering some of the songs as well as a forensic audiologist. The sound engineer explained that each remastering has its own unique take on the original song, including making “significant and noticeable alterations and modifications to the acoustic properties of the recordings.”
The forensic audiologist agreed that remastering does involve a level of creativity that creates new works. He examined 57 works that CBS had saved on their server of the actual recordings they broadcast. He found that each one of them differed from the original sound recordings by “ timbre, spatial imagery, sound balance, and loudness range.” In fact, he found that CBS had at times even played different remastered recordings of the same songs.
The court also knocked Plaintiffs’ expert’s method of examining the recordings “by performing waveform and spectral analysis, as well as critically listening to them – a technique which is unexplained in Mr. Geluso’s declaration but appears to involve listening while also paying attention.” Plaintiffs’ expert seemed to switch methodology mid-testing and could not provide concrete examples during his deposition. The court found that his methodology was not scientific and he could not be considered an adequate expert.
Without the benefit of their expert, plaintiffs were unable to show a genuine issue of material fact so as to block summary judgment. The court also noted that the Plaintiffs’ expert agreed with CBS’s expert that the “remastering process requires subjective choices, involving matters of taste, which alter perceptible aspects of a sound recording.” Plaintiffs even agreed “that a sound engineer’s choices made during the remastering process are creative and subjective.”
The Court decided the case on summary judgment without oral argument, ultimately siding with CBS that the remastering was unique enough to warrant new copyright protection under the post-1972 regime. “For example, for Ace Cannon’s “Tuff,” Dr. Begault found that the CBS version had additional reverberation, was played in a different musical key and at a faster tempo, and differed in the musical performance. Additionally, many of the remastered versions included different channel assignments and adjustments in equalization.”
The court did caution, however, that the ultimate rights do sit with the holder of the copyright in a sound recording. This means the copyright holder has the control when having a work remastered to restrict and maintain the copyright of the remastered version of the song.
A New Frontier
This decision raises many questions, and the music industry will no doubt keep a close eye on this case (should it be appealed), as well as matters in other jurisdictions. For instance, does this mean that copyright holders of sound recordings can extend their copyrights indefinitely by simply remastering the recordings at some point before the works become public domain?
Similarly, does this decision present a defense to accused infringers that the alleged infringement involved a “recording” that was actually a remastered work, and thus there is no standing to sue? Moreover, it raises fundamental questions about whether mastering or remastering engineers can be considered “authors,” raising issues about joint ownership, licensing authority and other concerns.
In addition, the implications of the decision may affect the exercise of termination rights regarding sound recordings (which has not been tested in the courts to date) since the remastering of a sound recording may call into question the date of the copyright (which affects the timing of termination rights) and the scope of the termination.
Cases currently pending could test this unique theory: CBS has filed a summary judgment motion in another case brought by ABS and the three other plaintiffs in the Southern District of New York. The same plaintiffs also have suits pending against iHeartMedia and Cumulus Media.
Some critics are already weighing in that this federal decision offers a playbook for radio companies regarding how to publicly perform older sound recordings without liability. The true impact of this ruling remains to be seen. For example, when is remastering sufficient to constitute creative authorship?
Different courts are likely to approach this question from contrasting perspectives. Finally, record producers and studio engineers now have stronger footing with regard to any efforts to share in SoundExchange income, because they may assert that they are involved in the “performance.”
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How a Court Decision on Remastering Could Completely Change Copyright Law
Record companies and recording artists should take heed – according to at least one federal judge, sound engineers are performing copyrightable work when they digitally remaster old recordings.
Michael Poster (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/author/mposter/) August 29, 2016
The following guest post comes from Michelman & Robinson attorney Michael Poster, as well as Victor Sapphire, Joshua Blechner. Michelman is one of two firms originally launching class action lawsuits against Spotify for failure to pay mechanical licenses.
A Federal District Court in California has determined (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/06/02/cbs-wins-lawsuit-over-pre-1972-songs/) that remastered versions of pre-1972 recordings are entitled to federal copyright protection separate from the original recording. The Court found that there was enough originality in the remastering process for a remastered digital version of a pre-1972 recording to be copyrightable as a “derivative work.”
The case in question is ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp. et al., case number 2:15-cv- 06257, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. CBS, one of the largest radio operators in the country, is one of several companies to be sued in recent years for refusing to pay royalties to the owners of pre-1972 recordings. This has long been a legal gray area because songs recorded prior to 1972 are protected by a patchwork of state laws rather than federal copyright law.
As such, this decision was probably intended to clarify a murky corner of the music copyright landscape. However, the significant implications of this decision generate a host of new questions regarding the future of music copyright law.
The Curious Case of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
The Sound Recording Act of 1971 (Pub. L. No. 92-140, 85 Stat. 391) (the “Act”) granted new copyright protection to sound recordings made after February 15, 1972, separate from the underlying compositions which had long received copyright protection (see 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102). Following passage of the Act, post-1972 sound recording copyright holders were required to grant a compulsory license for the performance of these recordings (see 17 U.S.C. § 114). However, there were no royalties payable for the use of these recordings in terrestrial radio. Later changes to U.S. copyright law resulted in royalties for compulsory licenses for performances via satellite radio, Internet-based webcasting, and certain other streaming uses.
Pre-1972 sound recordings were not granted federal protection nor were they included in the compulsory license scheme. Instead, these recordings were only protected under non-uniform state laws. In California, for example, these rights are protected by Cal. Civ. Code § 980(a)(2), which protects an exclusive public performance right in the sound recordings. The implication is that radio stations that broadcast pre-1972 songs without permission could be liable for copyright infringement under state law.
In ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp, CBS Radio was sued by four record companies in relation to 175 songs for violation of California copyrights.
(1) ABS Entertainment, Inc. (“ABS”), the owner of sound recordings made by Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Ace Cannon, and Otis Clay;
(2) Barnaby Records, Inc. (“Barnaby”) the owner of sound recordings made by Andy Williams, Johnny Tillotson, The Everly Brothers, Lenny Welch, Ray Stevens, and The Chordettes;
(3) Brunswick Record Corporation (“Brunswick”), the owner of sound recordings made by Jackie Wilson, The Chi-Lites, The Lost Generation, The Young-Holy Unlimited, and Tyrone Davis; and
(4) Malaco, Inc. (“Malaco”), the owner of sound recordings made by King Floyd, Mahalia Jackson, and The Cellos.
A Question of Originality
CBS argued that it was not performing the plaintiffs’ pre-1972 sound recordings, but rather post-1972 remastered digital versions of these recordings. These remastered versions, according to CBS, were separately copyrightable works created after 1972 and were therefore subject to the compulsory licensing system created under the Act (and therefore not subject to state law protections).
The court framed the central questions of the case as “whether a sound engineer’s remastering of a pre-1972 sound recording – through subjectively and artistically altering the work’s timbre, spatial imagery, sound balance, and loudness range, but otherwise leaving the work unedited – is entitled to federal copyright protection.”
To resolve this dispute, the Court relied on bedrock principles of copyright law. “The sine qua non of copyright is originality.” (Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 345, 111 S. Ct. 1282, 1287, 113 L. Ed. 2d 358 (1991)). The degree of creativity need only be “minimal” or “extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice.” Id. The requisite originality does not increase when the new copyrightable work is derivative of a pre-existing work (see Schrock v. Learning Curve Int’l, Inc., 586 F.3d 513, 521 (7th Cir. 2009) (holding that “the originality requirement for derivative works is not more demanding than the originality requirement for other works”).
However, “the variation from the original must be sufficient to render the derivative work distinguishable from its prior work in a [] meaningful manner (Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art Found., Inc. v. Buchel, 593 F.3d 38, 65 (1st Cir. 2010) (internal quotations omitted)).
To ascertain “whether a derivative work meets copyright law’s fundamental requirement of originality,” the Ninth Circuit requires a showing that: “(1) the original aspects of a derivative work must be more than trivial and (2) the original aspects of a derivative work must reflect the degree to which it relies on preexisting material and must not in any way affect the scope of any copyright protection in that preexisting material.” (U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. v. Parts Geek, LLC, 692 F.3d 1009, 1016 (9th Cir 2012)). “In some cases, the editing of a previously recorded work may in itself involve such originality as to command copyright, as where it involves such acts as equalizing, changing the highs and lows, providing more bass and treble, adding echo, or abridging by making discretionary and not obvious internal cuts.” (Pryor v. Jean, No. CV 13-02867 DDP (AJWx), 2014 WL 5023088 at *4 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 8, 2014) (quoting 1 Melville B. Nimmer and David Nimmer, Nimmer on
Copyright § 2.10[A][2][b])).
The focus of the Court’s analysis of originality was United States Copyright Office’s Circular No. 56, Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings (“Circular 56”), which details derivative works for sound recordings. The pamphlet notes, in part, that “The preexisting recorded sounds must have been rearranged, remixed, or otherwise altered in sequence or character, or there must be some additional new sounds. Further, the new or revised sounds must contain at least a minimum amount of original sound recording authorship,” and “Mechanical changes or processes applied to a sound recording, such as a change in format, declicking, and noise reduction, generally do not represent enough original authorship to be registered.”
Significant Alterations
Plaintiffs focused their argument on the language requiring a minimum amount of original authorship. CBS focused instead on the fact that sound recordings can be altered in character. Based on this phrase, CBS argued that the sound recordings they broadcast were not the original pre-1972 recordings, but were in fact post-1972 remastered recordings that were entitled to post-1972 federal copyright protection. The remastered recording, CBS argued, were altered in character enough to be considered a derivative work.
To bolster their argument, CBS introduced evidence that the recordings played on air were actually not pre-1972 recordings. They introduced expert testimony from a sound engineer that worked on remastering some of the songs as well as a forensic audiologist. The sound engineer explained that each remastering has its own unique take on the original song, including making “significant and noticeable alterations and modifications to the acoustic properties of the recordings.”
The forensic audiologist agreed that remastering does involve a level of creativity that creates new works. He examined 57 works that CBS had saved on their server of the actual recordings they broadcast. He found that each one of them differed from the original sound recordings by “ timbre, spatial imagery, sound balance, and loudness range.” In fact, he found that CBS had at times even played different remastered recordings of the same songs.
The court also knocked Plaintiffs’ expert’s method of examining the recordings “by performing waveform and spectral analysis, as well as critically listening to them – a technique which is unexplained in Mr. Geluso’s declaration but appears to involve listening while also paying attention.” Plaintiffs’ expert seemed to switch methodology mid-testing and could not provide concrete examples during his deposition. The court found that his methodology was not scientific and he could not be considered an adequate expert.
Without the benefit of their expert, plaintiffs were unable to show a genuine issue of material fact so as to block summary judgment. The court also noted that the Plaintiffs’ expert agreed with CBS’s expert that the “remastering process requires subjective choices, involving matters of taste, which alter perceptible aspects of a sound recording.” Plaintiffs even agreed “that a sound engineer’s choices made during the remastering process are creative and subjective.”
The Court decided the case on summary judgment without oral argument, ultimately siding with CBS that the remastering was unique enough to warrant new copyright protection under the post-1972 regime. “For example, for Ace Cannon’s “Tuff,” Dr. Begault found that the CBS version had additional reverberation, was played in a different musical key and at a faster tempo, and differed in the musical performance. Additionally, many of the remastered versions included different channel assignments and adjustments in equalization.”
The court did caution, however, that the ultimate rights do sit with the holder of the copyright in a sound recording. This means the copyright holder has the control when having a work remastered to restrict and maintain the copyright of the remastered version of the song.
A New Frontier
This decision raises many questions, and the music industry will no doubt keep a close eye on this case (should it be appealed), as well as matters in other jurisdictions. For instance, does this mean that copyright holders of sound recordings can extend their copyrights indefinitely by simply remastering the recordings at some point before the works become public domain?
Similarly, does this decision present a defense to accused infringers that the alleged infringement involved a “recording” that was actually a remastered work, and thus there is no standing to sue? Moreover, it raises fundamental questions about whether mastering or remastering engineers can be considered “authors,” raising issues about joint ownership, licensing authority and other concerns.
In addition, the implications of the decision may affect the exercise of termination rights regarding sound recordings (which has not been tested in the courts to date) since the remastering of a sound recording may call into question the date of the copyright (which affects the timing of termination rights) and the scope of the termination.
Cases currently pending could test this unique theory: CBS has filed a summary judgment motion in another case brought by ABS and the three other plaintiffs in the Southern District of New York. The same plaintiffs also have suits pending against iHeartMedia and Cumulus Media.
Some critics are already weighing in that this federal decision offers a playbook for radio companies regarding how to publicly perform older sound recordings without liability. The true impact of this ruling remains to be seen. For example, when is remastering sufficient to constitute creative authorship?
Different courts are likely to approach this question from contrasting perspectives. Finally, record producers and studio engineers now have stronger footing with regard to any efforts to share in SoundExchange income, because they may assert that they are involved in the “performance.”
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Juan Gabriel, superstar Mexican singer and songwriter, dies at 66
By Kate Linthicum
Juan Gabriel, the beloved top-selling Mexican singer who wooed crowds on both sides of the border with ballads of love and heartbreak for more than four decades, died Sunday at his home in Santa Monica.
Juan Gabriel, who had suffered from health problems in recent years, died of natural causes, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 66.
The flamboyant performer’s sudden death spurred an outpouring of grief across Mexico, with back-to-back television tributes to Juan Gabriel replacing regularly scheduled programming and the Mexican government offering to host an event honoring the singer at the national opera house in Mexico City.
“A voice and talent that represented Mexico,” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote of Juan Gabriel on Twitter. “His music is a legacy for the world.”
News of Juan Gabriel’s death also rippled across Los Angeles Sunday, where Spanish-language radio stations played his songs and fans mourned over text messages and social media.
“If you live in a Mexican family, you know about Juan Gabriel,” said Joanna Franco, 25, of the South Bay, who said her mother used to put on Juan Gabriel’s albums as she cleaned the house. “He’s a staple. One of the legends.”
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The ballad of Juan Gabriel (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-gabriel-retrospective-20160828-snap-story.html)
Sent to live at an orphanage at age four, Juan Gabriel’s rags-to-riches story was as well-known as his glittery outfits and his unrelentingly romantic lyrics.
It was not uncommon for fans to cry at his shows, which sometimes stretched as long as five hours.
Sporting a perfectly coiffed pompadour — and sometimes a flowing cape — Juan Gabriel was known for his epic stage performances, where he was often accompanied by an orchestra, dancers and dozens of mariachis dressed in tight jackets and sombreros.
Juan Gabriel was in the middle of a tour and performed for the last time on Friday night, in front of thousands of fans at the Forum in Inglewood, a testament to his popularity among Spanish speakers outside of Mexico.
Adriana Peña, a Burbank homemaker, said Juan Gabriel was the first musician she ever saw in concert, alongside her mother at the age of seven or eight. She remembers being in awe of the flamboyant singer.
“He was very humble — but he put on a great show,” she said. “He was like the Michael Jackson of Mexico.”
Born Alberto Aguilera Valadez in Parácuaro, Michoacán, but better known by his stage name, Juan Gabriel spent most of his final decades living in the United States. But unlike other Latin music stars, such as Enrique Iglesias or Marc Anthony, he shied away from recording music in English and fiercely guarded his Mexican identity.
“American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is,” he told a Times reporter in 1999. “Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.… My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.”
Juan Gabriel was born in 1950, the youngest of 10 children. He said his first memory in life was of his mother leaving him at an orphanage in the border city of Juarez.
“You don’t know the word for ‘abandon’ at that age,” he told The Times. “But you know what is happening. You know you want to be with your mother, and she is not there.”
As a teenager, Juan Gabriel wrote songs in his head and sang them as he sold tortillas in the street. His voice turned heads, and soon he moved to Mexico City, where he scored his first recording contract. In 1971 he released his first gold record, “No Tengo Dinero” (I’ve Got No Money).
Juan Gabriel went on to become the best-selling artist in Mexican history, writing more than 1,000 songs for himself and other performers in a variety of styles that stretched from rock to disco and ranchera.Gabriel also dabbled in acting. But he is best remembered for his ballads, such as Querida (“My Dear”), a 1984 love letter to a former lover considered by many fans to be his greatest hit.
“Look at my loneliness,” he sings in Spanish, his voice quivering. “I want to see light in my house again.”
Juan Gabriel credited his simple, soulful lyrics with his upbringing.
“I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets and people have been my books,” he said after his induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame.
His songs were soundtracks for the lives of generations of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
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‘No, that can’t be true’: Angelenos react to the death of Mexican crooner Juan Gabriel (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juan-gabriel-reax-20160828-snap-story.html)
“I think all of us, Mexican or not, have scenes in our lives linked to Juan Gabriel’s songs,” Mexican journalist Peniley Ramirez wrote on Twitter. She said she remembered singing his songs in her house while she was pregnant.
Frank Marez, an Arroyo Grande resident who was in Los Angeles on Sunday for a Dodgers game, said Juan Gabriel made him proud to be Mexican-American.
“You knew a Juan Gabriel song when you heard it,” he said. “It’s hard when one of yours is gone.”
Although he continued to perform, Juan Gabriel suffered from health problems in recent years. In 2014, he was hospitalized with pneumonia after a Las Vegas show. Juan Gabriel, who had four children, never married.
His colorful outfits and flamboyant dance moves drew speculation about his sexuality, but Juan Gabriel preferred to remain coy on the issue.
He was never coy when talking about music. At lunch with a Times reporter in Malibu in 1999, he said he wouldn’t care if he lost all his money.
Making music is all he needed to be happy, he said.
“To make it, you have to be fully alive,” he said. “I do my best to do that. I enjoy every moment, because I believe that once we die, that’s it. We’re not coming back. Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.”
Times staff writers Matt Stevens and Emily Alpert Reyes and Cecilia Sanchez of The Times’ Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.
As news of Juan Gabriel’s death spread, fans gathered Monday at the Malinow and Silverman Mortuary in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the singer.
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By Kate Linthicum
Juan Gabriel, the beloved top-selling Mexican singer who wooed crowds on both sides of the border with ballads of love and heartbreak for more than four decades, died Sunday at his home in Santa Monica.
Juan Gabriel, who had suffered from health problems in recent years, died of natural causes, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 66.
The flamboyant performer’s sudden death spurred an outpouring of grief across Mexico, with back-to-back television tributes to Juan Gabriel replacing regularly scheduled programming and the Mexican government offering to host an event honoring the singer at the national opera house in Mexico City.
“A voice and talent that represented Mexico,” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote of Juan Gabriel on Twitter. “His music is a legacy for the world.”
News of Juan Gabriel’s death also rippled across Los Angeles Sunday, where Spanish-language radio stations played his songs and fans mourned over text messages and social media.
“If you live in a Mexican family, you know about Juan Gabriel,” said Joanna Franco, 25, of the South Bay, who said her mother used to put on Juan Gabriel’s albums as she cleaned the house. “He’s a staple. One of the legends.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-gabriel-retrospective-20160828-snap-story.html
The ballad of Juan Gabriel (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-gabriel-retrospective-20160828-snap-story.html)
Sent to live at an orphanage at age four, Juan Gabriel’s rags-to-riches story was as well-known as his glittery outfits and his unrelentingly romantic lyrics.
It was not uncommon for fans to cry at his shows, which sometimes stretched as long as five hours.
Sporting a perfectly coiffed pompadour — and sometimes a flowing cape — Juan Gabriel was known for his epic stage performances, where he was often accompanied by an orchestra, dancers and dozens of mariachis dressed in tight jackets and sombreros.
Juan Gabriel was in the middle of a tour and performed for the last time on Friday night, in front of thousands of fans at the Forum in Inglewood, a testament to his popularity among Spanish speakers outside of Mexico.
Adriana Peña, a Burbank homemaker, said Juan Gabriel was the first musician she ever saw in concert, alongside her mother at the age of seven or eight. She remembers being in awe of the flamboyant singer.
“He was very humble — but he put on a great show,” she said. “He was like the Michael Jackson of Mexico.”
Born Alberto Aguilera Valadez in Parácuaro, Michoacán, but better known by his stage name, Juan Gabriel spent most of his final decades living in the United States. But unlike other Latin music stars, such as Enrique Iglesias or Marc Anthony, he shied away from recording music in English and fiercely guarded his Mexican identity.
“American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is,” he told a Times reporter in 1999. “Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.… My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.”
Juan Gabriel was born in 1950, the youngest of 10 children. He said his first memory in life was of his mother leaving him at an orphanage in the border city of Juarez.
“You don’t know the word for ‘abandon’ at that age,” he told The Times. “But you know what is happening. You know you want to be with your mother, and she is not there.”
As a teenager, Juan Gabriel wrote songs in his head and sang them as he sold tortillas in the street. His voice turned heads, and soon he moved to Mexico City, where he scored his first recording contract. In 1971 he released his first gold record, “No Tengo Dinero” (I’ve Got No Money).
Juan Gabriel went on to become the best-selling artist in Mexican history, writing more than 1,000 songs for himself and other performers in a variety of styles that stretched from rock to disco and ranchera.Gabriel also dabbled in acting. But he is best remembered for his ballads, such as Querida (“My Dear”), a 1984 love letter to a former lover considered by many fans to be his greatest hit.
“Look at my loneliness,” he sings in Spanish, his voice quivering. “I want to see light in my house again.”
Juan Gabriel credited his simple, soulful lyrics with his upbringing.
“I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets and people have been my books,” he said after his induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame.
His songs were soundtracks for the lives of generations of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juan-gabriel-reax-20160828-snap-story.html
‘No, that can’t be true’: Angelenos react to the death of Mexican crooner Juan Gabriel (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juan-gabriel-reax-20160828-snap-story.html)
“I think all of us, Mexican or not, have scenes in our lives linked to Juan Gabriel’s songs,” Mexican journalist Peniley Ramirez wrote on Twitter. She said she remembered singing his songs in her house while she was pregnant.
Frank Marez, an Arroyo Grande resident who was in Los Angeles on Sunday for a Dodgers game, said Juan Gabriel made him proud to be Mexican-American.
“You knew a Juan Gabriel song when you heard it,” he said. “It’s hard when one of yours is gone.”
Although he continued to perform, Juan Gabriel suffered from health problems in recent years. In 2014, he was hospitalized with pneumonia after a Las Vegas show. Juan Gabriel, who had four children, never married.
His colorful outfits and flamboyant dance moves drew speculation about his sexuality, but Juan Gabriel preferred to remain coy on the issue.
He was never coy when talking about music. At lunch with a Times reporter in Malibu in 1999, he said he wouldn’t care if he lost all his money.
Making music is all he needed to be happy, he said.
“To make it, you have to be fully alive,” he said. “I do my best to do that. I enjoy every moment, because I believe that once we die, that’s it. We’re not coming back. Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.”
Times staff writers Matt Stevens and Emily Alpert Reyes and Cecilia Sanchez of The Times’ Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.
As news of Juan Gabriel’s death spread, fans gathered Monday at the Malinow and Silverman Mortuary in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the singer.
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Juan Gabriel, superstar Mexican singer and songwriter, dies at 66 – LA Times
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Juan Gabriel, superstar Mexican singer and songwriter, dies at 66
By Kate Linthicum
Juan Gabriel, the beloved top-selling Mexican singer who wooed crowds on both sides of the border with ballads of love and heartbreak for more than four decades, died Sunday at his home in Santa Monica.
Juan Gabriel, who had suffered from health problems in recent years, died of natural causes, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 66.
The flamboyant performer’s sudden death spurred an outpouring of grief across Mexico, with back-to-back television tributes to Juan Gabriel replacing regularly scheduled programming and the Mexican government offering to host an event honoring the singer at the national opera house in Mexico City.
“A voice and talent that represented Mexico,” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote of Juan Gabriel on Twitter. “His music is a legacy for the world.”
News of Juan Gabriel’s death also rippled across Los Angeles Sunday, where Spanish-language radio stations played his songs and fans mourned over text messages and social media.
“If you live in a Mexican family, you know about Juan Gabriel,” said Joanna Franco, 25, of the South Bay, who said her mother used to put on Juan Gabriel’s albums as she cleaned the house. “He’s a staple. One of the legends.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-gabriel-retrospective-20160828-snap-story.html
The ballad of Juan Gabriel (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-gabriel-retrospective-20160828-snap-story.html)
Sent to live at an orphanage at age four, Juan Gabriel’s rags-to-riches story was as well-known as his glittery outfits and his unrelentingly romantic lyrics.
It was not uncommon for fans to cry at his shows, which sometimes stretched as long as five hours.
Sporting a perfectly coiffed pompadour — and sometimes a flowing cape — Juan Gabriel was known for his epic stage performances, where he was often accompanied by an orchestra, dancers and dozens of mariachis dressed in tight jackets and sombreros.
Juan Gabriel was in the middle of a tour and performed for the last time on Friday night, in front of thousands of fans at the Forum in Inglewood, a testament to his popularity among Spanish speakers outside of Mexico.
Adriana Peña, a Burbank homemaker, said Juan Gabriel was the first musician she ever saw in concert, alongside her mother at the age of seven or eight. She remembers being in awe of the flamboyant singer.
“He was very humble — but he put on a great show,” she said. “He was like the Michael Jackson of Mexico.”
Born Alberto Aguilera Valadez in Parácuaro, Michoacán, but better known by his stage name, Juan Gabriel spent most of his final decades living in the United States. But unlike other Latin music stars, such as Enrique Iglesias or Marc Anthony, he shied away from recording music in English and fiercely guarded his Mexican identity.
“American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is,” he told a Times reporter in 1999. “Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.… My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.”
Juan Gabriel was born in 1950, the youngest of 10 children. He said his first memory in life was of his mother leaving him at an orphanage in the border city of Juarez.
“You don’t know the word for ‘abandon’ at that age,” he told The Times. “But you know what is happening. You know you want to be with your mother, and she is not there.”
As a teenager, Juan Gabriel wrote songs in his head and sang them as he sold tortillas in the street. His voice turned heads, and soon he moved to Mexico City, where he scored his first recording contract. In 1971 he released his first gold record, “No Tengo Dinero” (I’ve Got No Money).
Juan Gabriel went on to become the best-selling artist in Mexican history, writing more than 1,000 songs for himself and other performers in a variety of styles that stretched from rock to disco and ranchera.Gabriel also dabbled in acting. But he is best remembered for his ballads, such as Querida (“My Dear”), a 1984 love letter to a former lover considered by many fans to be his greatest hit.
“Look at my loneliness,” he sings in Spanish, his voice quivering. “I want to see light in my house again.”
Juan Gabriel credited his simple, soulful lyrics with his upbringing.
“I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets and people have been my books,” he said after his induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame.
His songs were soundtracks for the lives of generations of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juan-gabriel-reax-20160828-snap-story.html
‘No, that can’t be true’: Angelenos react to the death of Mexican crooner Juan Gabriel (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juan-gabriel-reax-20160828-snap-story.html)
“I think all of us, Mexican or not, have scenes in our lives linked to Juan Gabriel’s songs,” Mexican journalist Peniley Ramirez wrote on Twitter. She said she remembered singing his songs in her house while she was pregnant.
Frank Marez, an Arroyo Grande resident who was in Los Angeles on Sunday for a Dodgers game, said Juan Gabriel made him proud to be Mexican-American.
“You knew a Juan Gabriel song when you heard it,” he said. “It’s hard when one of yours is gone.”
Although he continued to perform, Juan Gabriel suffered from health problems in recent years. In 2014, he was hospitalized with pneumonia after a Las Vegas show. Juan Gabriel, who had four children, never married.
His colorful outfits and flamboyant dance moves drew speculation about his sexuality, but Juan Gabriel preferred to remain coy on the issue.
He was never coy when talking about music. At lunch with a Times reporter in Malibu in 1999, he said he wouldn’t care if he lost all his money.
Making music is all he needed to be happy, he said.
“To make it, you have to be fully alive,” he said. “I do my best to do that. I enjoy every moment, because I believe that once we die, that’s it. We’re not coming back. Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.”
Times staff writers Matt Stevens and Emily Alpert Reyes and Cecilia Sanchez of The Times’ Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.
As news of Juan Gabriel’s death spread, fans gathered Monday at the Malinow and Silverman Mortuary in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the singer.
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With the recent deaths of Bobby Hutcherson, Toots Thielemans, and Rudy Van Gelder, the passing on August 20 of Louis Smith has gone almost completely unreported beyond a notice in the Ann Arbor News and a fine tribute on Facebook by Randy Napoleon. Here’s my appreciation of the Memphis-born trumpet legend who released a pair of great sessions for Blue Notein the fifties, and in more recent years a dozen select dates for Steeplechase.
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Lulu and Louis Smith in 2008; photo by Alan Warren, Ann Arbor News
Louis Smith, R.I.P.
A TRUMPET LEGEND WITH A CALLING TO TEACH
by: Tom Reney (http://nepr.net/music/author/tom-reney/)
AUGUST 23, 2016
Louis Smith died on August 20 at age 85. Smith was in the front ranks of modern jazz players who emerged from Memphis in the 1950s, though his 1931 birth year made him slightly older than most of the players he was showcased with on the 1959 album Young Men From Memphis. The United Artists release marked the virtual recording debut of his cousin, 21-year-old Booker Little, and 22-year-old Frank Strozier, and it was among the earliest recordings by Calvin Newborn, Phineas Newborn, Jr., and George Coleman.
Louis Smith – Tribute to Brownie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15w2hKlfGI)
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By 1959, Smith already had two outstanding Blue Note releases to his credit, Here Comes Louis Smith and Smithville; the former was recorded in 1957 for Transition Records but released on Blue Note. It featured Cannonball Adderley under the nom de disque, Buckshot Le Funke, a name that Branford Marsalis revived as an album title in 1994. Smith made his devotion to Clifford Brown evident right out of the gate as Hear Comes opens with “Tribute to Brownie.” He was the lone trumpeter on Kenny Burrell’s marathon blowing session, Blue Lights, Volumes 1 and 2, and his confident attack and melodic conception made him an ideal choice as Donald Byrd’s successor in Horace Silver’s popular quintet. For 50 years, Smith fans were frustrated by the lack of studio recordings by Silver during the trumpeter’s tenure, but in 2008 Blue Note released Horace Silver’s Newport ’58, a performance that confirmed how perfectly placed he was in the group.
HORACE SILVER, Señor Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmtVVRXVvM)
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Notwithstanding his promising start on the hotly competitive New York scene, Smith left after three months with Silver to begin a career as a teacher, first in the public schools in Atlanta, then on to his alma mater Tennessee State University, and finally to the University of Michigan, where he taught music and served as band director. He moved to Ann Arbor around 1968, and was associated with both the university and a junior high school in town. He went nearly 20 years between his early sessions and the resumption of his recording career with Steeplechase Records in 1978. Just Friends was his first release for the Danish jazz label, and it reunited him with Memphis colleagues George Coleman, Jamil Nasser, and Harold Mabern. It was followed by Prancin’, which marked a reunion between Smith and Junior Cook, his front-line mate in Silver’s quintet. They were back together again in 1991 for Strike Up the Band and this thrilling take on “Lover.”
Louis Smith Strike Up The Band Lover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro2iiNiWSU)
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Throughout the nineties, Smith made one fine album after another (12 altogether for Steeplechase), all distinguished by his mellifluous tone and accurate pitch. My favorites include The Very Thought of You, a marvelously intuitive duo session with Chicago piano legend Jodie Christian. and Once in a While, which features guitarist Doug Raney. Recorded in 1998, it appears to be Smith’s only outing with a guitarist as his front-line partner. Sadly, Doug preceded Louis in passing earlier this year on May 1 at age 59. (YouTube doesn’t have anything posted by Raney and Smith together but there’s plenty by the guitarist, including duo sessions with his legendary father Jimmy, and this 1996 recording of “Giant Steps.”)
DOUG RANEY QUARTET Giant Steps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fcl_XJ48E)
0:02 / 7:40
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As an almost complete absence of obituaries indicates, Smith was largely unknown to American audiences beyond Ann Arbor, but he’s left a substantial legacy. Randy Napoleon (https://www.facebook.com/randy.napoleon.7) , who plays guitar with Freddy Cole’s quartet, was 14 when he first encountered Smith in the Ann Arbor public schools and continued his studies with him at Michigan. He told me, “Louis was truly a great role model. The essence of class and good taste! I’ll never forget him.” Napolean teaches at Michigan State; his recent release for Mack Avenue, Soon, features drummer Gregory Hutchinson and his Michigan State colleagues trumpeter Etienne Charles and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here’s a taste with reflections by the guitarist on the “Rodney-Hutch groove.”
“Soon” by Randy Napoleon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgn9JI-rAs)
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Napolean wrote movingly of Smith as both a teacher and player on Facebook. “He made it clear that musical freedom in Jazz comes from absorption of fundamentals. His advice to me that first year was, ‘Randy! Chunk Chunk Chunk (Freddie Green)’ and ‘Randy! Too loud!!!’ He was never harsh, always kind, but he wouldn’t let his students get away with any foolishness musical or otherwise. Mr. Smith impressed upon us the importance of taste and editing in music. He exemplified this in his person as well as his playing. His playing is focused and clear with no gimmicks or fluff. These days, I’m a teacher. I start my sophomore improv class with Mr. Smith’s solo on ‘Au Privave’ from the record Smithville. As usual, there isn’t a note or ornament out of place; this is a model of how to play Bebop.”
Louis Smith – Au Privave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMqBbSm1QY)
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References
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15w2hKlfGI
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmtVVRXVvM
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro2iiNiWSU
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fcl_XJ48E
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgn9JI-rAs
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMqBbSm1QY
Tom Reney Jazz Blog: Louis Smith, R.I.P.
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http://nepr.net/music/2016/08/23/louis-smith-r-i-p/
With the recent deaths of Bobby Hutcherson, Toots Thielemans, and Rudy Van Gelder, the passing on August 20 of Louis Smith has gone almost completely unreported beyond a notice in the Ann Arbor News and a fine tribute on Facebook by Randy Napoleon. Here’s my appreciation of the Memphis-born trumpet legend who released a pair of great sessions for Blue Notein the fifties, and in more recent years a dozen select dates for Steeplechase.
—
Tom Reney
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Lulu and Louis Smith in 2008; photo by Alan Warren, Ann Arbor News
Louis Smith, R.I.P.
A TRUMPET LEGEND WITH A CALLING TO TEACH
by: Tom Reney (http://nepr.net/music/author/tom-reney/)
AUGUST 23, 2016
Louis Smith died on August 20 at age 85. Smith was in the front ranks of modern jazz players who emerged from Memphis in the 1950s, though his 1931 birth year made him slightly older than most of the players he was showcased with on the 1959 album Young Men From Memphis. The United Artists release marked the virtual recording debut of his cousin, 21-year-old Booker Little, and 22-year-old Frank Strozier, and it was among the earliest recordings by Calvin Newborn, Phineas Newborn, Jr., and George Coleman.
Louis Smith – Tribute to Brownie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15w2hKlfGI)
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By 1959, Smith already had two outstanding Blue Note releases to his credit, Here Comes Louis Smith and Smithville; the former was recorded in 1957 for Transition Records but released on Blue Note. It featured Cannonball Adderley under the nom de disque, Buckshot Le Funke, a name that Branford Marsalis revived as an album title in 1994. Smith made his devotion to Clifford Brown evident right out of the gate as Hear Comes opens with “Tribute to Brownie.” He was the lone trumpeter on Kenny Burrell’s marathon blowing session, Blue Lights, Volumes 1 and 2, and his confident attack and melodic conception made him an ideal choice as Donald Byrd’s successor in Horace Silver’s popular quintet. For 50 years, Smith fans were frustrated by the lack of studio recordings by Silver during the trumpeter’s tenure, but in 2008 Blue Note released Horace Silver’s Newport ’58, a performance that confirmed how perfectly placed he was in the group.
HORACE SILVER, Señor Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmtVVRXVvM)
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Notwithstanding his promising start on the hotly competitive New York scene, Smith left after three months with Silver to begin a career as a teacher, first in the public schools in Atlanta, then on to his alma mater Tennessee State University, and finally to the University of Michigan, where he taught music and served as band director. He moved to Ann Arbor around 1968, and was associated with both the university and a junior high school in town. He went nearly 20 years between his early sessions and the resumption of his recording career with Steeplechase Records in 1978. Just Friends was his first release for the Danish jazz label, and it reunited him with Memphis colleagues George Coleman, Jamil Nasser, and Harold Mabern. It was followed by Prancin’, which marked a reunion between Smith and Junior Cook, his front-line mate in Silver’s quintet. They were back together again in 1991 for Strike Up the Band and this thrilling take on “Lover.”
Louis Smith Strike Up The Band Lover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro2iiNiWSU)
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Throughout the nineties, Smith made one fine album after another (12 altogether for Steeplechase), all distinguished by his mellifluous tone and accurate pitch. My favorites include The Very Thought of You, a marvelously intuitive duo session with Chicago piano legend Jodie Christian. and Once in a While, which features guitarist Doug Raney. Recorded in 1998, it appears to be Smith’s only outing with a guitarist as his front-line partner. Sadly, Doug preceded Louis in passing earlier this year on May 1 at age 59. (YouTube doesn’t have anything posted by Raney and Smith together but there’s plenty by the guitarist, including duo sessions with his legendary father Jimmy, and this 1996 recording of “Giant Steps.”)
DOUG RANEY QUARTET Giant Steps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fcl_XJ48E)
0:02 / 7:40
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As an almost complete absence of obituaries indicates, Smith was largely unknown to American audiences beyond Ann Arbor, but he’s left a substantial legacy. Randy Napoleon (https://www.facebook.com/randy.napoleon.7) , who plays guitar with Freddy Cole’s quartet, was 14 when he first encountered Smith in the Ann Arbor public schools and continued his studies with him at Michigan. He told me, “Louis was truly a great role model. The essence of class and good taste! I’ll never forget him.” Napolean teaches at Michigan State; his recent release for Mack Avenue, Soon, features drummer Gregory Hutchinson and his Michigan State colleagues trumpeter Etienne Charles and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here’s a taste with reflections by the guitarist on the “Rodney-Hutch groove.”
“Soon” by Randy Napoleon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgn9JI-rAs)
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Napolean wrote movingly of Smith as both a teacher and player on Facebook. “He made it clear that musical freedom in Jazz comes from absorption of fundamentals. His advice to me that first year was, ‘Randy! Chunk Chunk Chunk (Freddie Green)’ and ‘Randy! Too loud!!!’ He was never harsh, always kind, but he wouldn’t let his students get away with any foolishness musical or otherwise. Mr. Smith impressed upon us the importance of taste and editing in music. He exemplified this in his person as well as his playing. His playing is focused and clear with no gimmicks or fluff. These days, I’m a teacher. I start my sophomore improv class with Mr. Smith’s solo on ‘Au Privave’ from the record Smithville. As usual, there isn’t a note or ornament out of place; this is a model of how to play Bebop.”
Louis Smith – Au Privave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMqBbSm1QY)
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2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmtVVRXVvM
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro2iiNiWSU
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fcl_XJ48E
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgn9JI-rAs
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMqBbSm1QY
Tom Reney Jazz Blog: Louis Smith, R.I.P.
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With the recent deaths of Bobby Hutcherson, Toots Thielemans, and Rudy Van Gelder, the passing on August 20 of Louis Smith has gone almost completely unreported beyond a notice in the Ann Arbor News and a fine tribute on Facebook by Randy Napoleon. Here’s my appreciation of the Memphis-born trumpet legend who released a pair of great sessions for Blue Notein the fifties, and in more recent years a dozen select dates for Steeplechase.
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Lulu and Louis Smith in 2008; photo by Alan Warren, Ann Arbor News
Louis Smith, R.I.P.
A TRUMPET LEGEND WITH A CALLING TO TEACH
by: Tom Reney (http://nepr.net/music/author/tom-reney/)
AUGUST 23, 2016
Louis Smith died on August 20 at age 85. Smith was in the front ranks of modern jazz players who emerged from Memphis in the 1950s, though his 1931 birth year made him slightly older than most of the players he was showcased with on the 1959 album Young Men From Memphis. The United Artists release marked the virtual recording debut of his cousin, 21-year-old Booker Little, and 22-year-old Frank Strozier, and it was among the earliest recordings by Calvin Newborn, Phineas Newborn, Jr., and George Coleman.
Louis Smith – Tribute to Brownie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15w2hKlfGI)
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By 1959, Smith already had two outstanding Blue Note releases to his credit, Here Comes Louis Smith and Smithville; the former was recorded in 1957 for Transition Records but released on Blue Note. It featured Cannonball Adderley under the nom de disque, Buckshot Le Funke, a name that Branford Marsalis revived as an album title in 1994. Smith made his devotion to Clifford Brown evident right out of the gate as Hear Comes opens with “Tribute to Brownie.” He was the lone trumpeter on Kenny Burrell’s marathon blowing session, Blue Lights, Volumes 1 and 2, and his confident attack and melodic conception made him an ideal choice as Donald Byrd’s successor in Horace Silver’s popular quintet. For 50 years, Smith fans were frustrated by the lack of studio recordings by Silver during the trumpeter’s tenure, but in 2008 Blue Note released Horace Silver’s Newport ’58, a performance that confirmed how perfectly placed he was in the group.
HORACE SILVER, Señor Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmtVVRXVvM)
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Notwithstanding his promising start on the hotly competitive New York scene, Smith left after three months with Silver to begin a career as a teacher, first in the public schools in Atlanta, then on to his alma mater Tennessee State University, and finally to the University of Michigan, where he taught music and served as band director. He moved to Ann Arbor around 1968, and was associated with both the university and a junior high school in town. He went nearly 20 years between his early sessions and the resumption of his recording career with Steeplechase Records in 1978. Just Friends was his first release for the Danish jazz label, and it reunited him with Memphis colleagues George Coleman, Jamil Nasser, and Harold Mabern. It was followed by Prancin’, which marked a reunion between Smith and Junior Cook, his front-line mate in Silver’s quintet. They were back together again in 1991 for Strike Up the Band and this thrilling take on “Lover.”
Louis Smith Strike Up The Band Lover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro2iiNiWSU)
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Throughout the nineties, Smith made one fine album after another (12 altogether for Steeplechase), all distinguished by his mellifluous tone and accurate pitch. My favorites include The Very Thought of You, a marvelously intuitive duo session with Chicago piano legend Jodie Christian. and Once in a While, which features guitarist Doug Raney. Recorded in 1998, it appears to be Smith’s only outing with a guitarist as his front-line partner. Sadly, Doug preceded Louis in passing earlier this year on May 1 at age 59. (YouTube doesn’t have anything posted by Raney and Smith together but there’s plenty by the guitarist, including duo sessions with his legendary father Jimmy, and this 1996 recording of “Giant Steps.”)
DOUG RANEY QUARTET Giant Steps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fcl_XJ48E)
0:02 / 7:40
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As an almost complete absence of obituaries indicates, Smith was largely unknown to American audiences beyond Ann Arbor, but he’s left a substantial legacy. Randy Napoleon (https://www.facebook.com/randy.napoleon.7) , who plays guitar with Freddy Cole’s quartet, was 14 when he first encountered Smith in the Ann Arbor public schools and continued his studies with him at Michigan. He told me, “Louis was truly a great role model. The essence of class and good taste! I’ll never forget him.” Napolean teaches at Michigan State; his recent release for Mack Avenue, Soon, features drummer Gregory Hutchinson and his Michigan State colleagues trumpeter Etienne Charles and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here’s a taste with reflections by the guitarist on the “Rodney-Hutch groove.”
“Soon” by Randy Napoleon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgn9JI-rAs)
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Napolean wrote movingly of Smith as both a teacher and player on Facebook. “He made it clear that musical freedom in Jazz comes from absorption of fundamentals. His advice to me that first year was, ‘Randy! Chunk Chunk Chunk (Freddie Green)’ and ‘Randy! Too loud!!!’ He was never harsh, always kind, but he wouldn’t let his students get away with any foolishness musical or otherwise. Mr. Smith impressed upon us the importance of taste and editing in music. He exemplified this in his person as well as his playing. His playing is focused and clear with no gimmicks or fluff. These days, I’m a teacher. I start my sophomore improv class with Mr. Smith’s solo on ‘Au Privave’ from the record Smithville. As usual, there isn’t a note or ornament out of place; this is a model of how to play Bebop.”
Louis Smith – Au Privave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMqBbSm1QY)
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3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro2iiNiWSU
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fcl_XJ48E
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgn9JI-rAs
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David Honeyboy Edwards, Delta Bluesman, Dies at 96 – The New York Times
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David Honeyboy Edwards, Delta Bluesman, Dies at 96
By BILL FRISKICS-WARRE AUG. 29, 2011
David Honeyboy Edwards performing in New York in 1991. Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos
David Honeyboy Edwards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgg_9TmI-w) , believed to have been the oldest surviving member of the first generation of Delta blues singers, died on Monday at his home in Chicago. He was 96.
His death was announced by his manager, Michael Frank.
Mr. Edwards’s career spanned nearly the entire recorded history of the blues, from its early years in the Mississippi Delta to its migration to the nightclubs of Chicago and its emergence as an international phenomenon.
Over eight decades Mr. Edwards (http://davidhoneyboyedwards.com/) knew or played with virtually every major figure who worked in the idiom, including Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. He was probably best known, though, as the last living link to Robert Johnson, widely hailed as the King of the Delta Blues. The two traveled together, performing on street corners and at picnics, dances and fish fries during the 1930s.
“We would walk through the country with our guitars on our shoulders, stop at people’s houses, play a little music, walk on,” Mr. Edwards said in an interview with the blues historian Robert Palmer, recalling his peripatetic years with Johnson. “We could hitchhike, transfer from truck to truck, or, if we couldn’t catch one of them, we’d go to the train yard, ’cause the railroad was all through that part of the country then.” He added, “Man, we played for a lot of peoples.”
Mr. Edwards had earlier apprenticed with the country bluesman Big Joe Williams. Unlike Williams and many of his other peers, however, Mr. Edwards did not record commercially until after World War II. Field recordings he made for the Library of Congress under the supervision of the folklorist Alan Lomax in 1942 are the only documents of Mr. Edwards’s music from his years in the Delta.
Citing the interplay between his coarse, keening vocals and his syncopated “talking” guitar on recordings like “Wind Howling Blues,” many historians regard these performances as classic examples of the deep, down-home blues that shaped rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll.
Mr. Edwards was especially renowned for his intricate fingerpicking and his slashing bottleneck-slide guitar work. Though he played in much the same traditional style throughout his career, he also enjoyed the distinction of being one of the first Delta blues musicians to perform with a saxophonist and drummer.
David Edwards was born June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Miss., in the Delta region. His parents, who worked as sharecroppers, gave him the nickname Honey, which later became Honeyboy. His mother played the guitar; his father, a fiddler and guitarist, performed at local social events. Mr. Edwards’s father bought him his first guitar and taught him to play traditional folk ballads.
His first real exposure to the blues came in 1929, when the celebrated country bluesman Tommy Johnson came to pick cotton at Wildwood Plantation, the farm near Greenwood where the Edwards family lived at the time.
“They’d pick cotton all through the day, and at night they’d sit around and play the guitars,” Mr. Edwards recalled in his autobiography, “The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing” (Chicago Review Press, 1997). “Drinking that white whiskey, that moonshine, I’d just sit and look at them. I’d say, ‘I wish I could play.’ ”
After spending the better part of two decades as an itinerant musician, Mr. Edwards made Chicago his permanent home in the 1950s. He performed frequently in its clubs and at the open-air market on Maxwell Street, but he recorded only sporadically during his first years there, notably for the independent Artist and Chess labels.
Mr. Edwards achieved new popularity during the blues revival of the 1960s. Near the end of the decade he appeared with Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy on sessions that produced both volumes of the album “Blues Jam in Chicago” by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac.
In 1972 Mr. Edwards met Mr. Frank, a blues aficionado and harmonica player, who would be his booking agent, manager and collaborator, on both stage and record, for the rest of his life.
Mr. Edwards was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996 and named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. In 2007 he appeared as himself in the movie “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.”
Survivors include a daughter, a stepdaughter and several grandchildren.
Mr. Edwards won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) in 2008 for the album “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas,” a collaboration with Henry Townsend, Pinetop Perkins (who died in March) and Robert Lockwood Jr., and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2010.
He was still playing as many as 100 shows a year when he stopped touring, in 2008, and he continued to perform occasionally until this year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKMQlYN_TQ) . His last appearance was at a blues festival in Clarksdale, Miss., in April.
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David Honeyboy Edwards, Delta Bluesman, Dies at 96 – The New York Times
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David Honeyboy Edwards, Delta Bluesman, Dies at 96
By BILL FRISKICS-WARRE AUG. 29, 2011
David Honeyboy Edwards performing in New York in 1991. Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos
David Honeyboy Edwards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgg_9TmI-w) , believed to have been the oldest surviving member of the first generation of Delta blues singers, died on Monday at his home in Chicago. He was 96.
His death was announced by his manager, Michael Frank.
Mr. Edwards’s career spanned nearly the entire recorded history of the blues, from its early years in the Mississippi Delta to its migration to the nightclubs of Chicago and its emergence as an international phenomenon.
Over eight decades Mr. Edwards (http://davidhoneyboyedwards.com/) knew or played with virtually every major figure who worked in the idiom, including Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. He was probably best known, though, as the last living link to Robert Johnson, widely hailed as the King of the Delta Blues. The two traveled together, performing on street corners and at picnics, dances and fish fries during the 1930s.
“We would walk through the country with our guitars on our shoulders, stop at people’s houses, play a little music, walk on,” Mr. Edwards said in an interview with the blues historian Robert Palmer, recalling his peripatetic years with Johnson. “We could hitchhike, transfer from truck to truck, or, if we couldn’t catch one of them, we’d go to the train yard, ’cause the railroad was all through that part of the country then.” He added, “Man, we played for a lot of peoples.”
Mr. Edwards had earlier apprenticed with the country bluesman Big Joe Williams. Unlike Williams and many of his other peers, however, Mr. Edwards did not record commercially until after World War II. Field recordings he made for the Library of Congress under the supervision of the folklorist Alan Lomax in 1942 are the only documents of Mr. Edwards’s music from his years in the Delta.
Citing the interplay between his coarse, keening vocals and his syncopated “talking” guitar on recordings like “Wind Howling Blues,” many historians regard these performances as classic examples of the deep, down-home blues that shaped rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll.
Mr. Edwards was especially renowned for his intricate fingerpicking and his slashing bottleneck-slide guitar work. Though he played in much the same traditional style throughout his career, he also enjoyed the distinction of being one of the first Delta blues musicians to perform with a saxophonist and drummer.
David Edwards was born June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Miss., in the Delta region. His parents, who worked as sharecroppers, gave him the nickname Honey, which later became Honeyboy. His mother played the guitar; his father, a fiddler and guitarist, performed at local social events. Mr. Edwards’s father bought him his first guitar and taught him to play traditional folk ballads.
His first real exposure to the blues came in 1929, when the celebrated country bluesman Tommy Johnson came to pick cotton at Wildwood Plantation, the farm near Greenwood where the Edwards family lived at the time.
“They’d pick cotton all through the day, and at night they’d sit around and play the guitars,” Mr. Edwards recalled in his autobiography, “The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing” (Chicago Review Press, 1997). “Drinking that white whiskey, that moonshine, I’d just sit and look at them. I’d say, ‘I wish I could play.’ ”
After spending the better part of two decades as an itinerant musician, Mr. Edwards made Chicago his permanent home in the 1950s. He performed frequently in its clubs and at the open-air market on Maxwell Street, but he recorded only sporadically during his first years there, notably for the independent Artist and Chess labels.
Mr. Edwards achieved new popularity during the blues revival of the 1960s. Near the end of the decade he appeared with Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy on sessions that produced both volumes of the album “Blues Jam in Chicago” by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac.
In 1972 Mr. Edwards met Mr. Frank, a blues aficionado and harmonica player, who would be his booking agent, manager and collaborator, on both stage and record, for the rest of his life.
Mr. Edwards was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996 and named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. In 2007 he appeared as himself in the movie “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.”
Survivors include a daughter, a stepdaughter and several grandchildren.
Mr. Edwards won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) in 2008 for the album “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas,” a collaboration with Henry Townsend, Pinetop Perkins (who died in March) and Robert Lockwood Jr., and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2010.
He was still playing as many as 100 shows a year when he stopped touring, in 2008, and he continued to perform occasionally until this year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKMQlYN_TQ) . His last appearance was at a blues festival in Clarksdale, Miss., in April.
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David Honeyboy Edwards, Delta Bluesman, Dies at 96 – The New York Times
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David Honeyboy Edwards, Delta Bluesman, Dies at 96
By BILL FRISKICS-WARRE AUG. 29, 2011
David Honeyboy Edwards performing in New York in 1991. Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos
David Honeyboy Edwards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgg_9TmI-w) , believed to have been the oldest surviving member of the first generation of Delta blues singers, died on Monday at his home in Chicago. He was 96.
His death was announced by his manager, Michael Frank.
Mr. Edwards’s career spanned nearly the entire recorded history of the blues, from its early years in the Mississippi Delta to its migration to the nightclubs of Chicago and its emergence as an international phenomenon.
Over eight decades Mr. Edwards (http://davidhoneyboyedwards.com/) knew or played with virtually every major figure who worked in the idiom, including Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. He was probably best known, though, as the last living link to Robert Johnson, widely hailed as the King of the Delta Blues. The two traveled together, performing on street corners and at picnics, dances and fish fries during the 1930s.
“We would walk through the country with our guitars on our shoulders, stop at people’s houses, play a little music, walk on,” Mr. Edwards said in an interview with the blues historian Robert Palmer, recalling his peripatetic years with Johnson. “We could hitchhike, transfer from truck to truck, or, if we couldn’t catch one of them, we’d go to the train yard, ’cause the railroad was all through that part of the country then.” He added, “Man, we played for a lot of peoples.”
Mr. Edwards had earlier apprenticed with the country bluesman Big Joe Williams. Unlike Williams and many of his other peers, however, Mr. Edwards did not record commercially until after World War II. Field recordings he made for the Library of Congress under the supervision of the folklorist Alan Lomax in 1942 are the only documents of Mr. Edwards’s music from his years in the Delta.
Citing the interplay between his coarse, keening vocals and his syncopated “talking” guitar on recordings like “Wind Howling Blues,” many historians regard these performances as classic examples of the deep, down-home blues that shaped rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll.
Mr. Edwards was especially renowned for his intricate fingerpicking and his slashing bottleneck-slide guitar work. Though he played in much the same traditional style throughout his career, he also enjoyed the distinction of being one of the first Delta blues musicians to perform with a saxophonist and drummer.
David Edwards was born June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Miss., in the Delta region. His parents, who worked as sharecroppers, gave him the nickname Honey, which later became Honeyboy. His mother played the guitar; his father, a fiddler and guitarist, performed at local social events. Mr. Edwards’s father bought him his first guitar and taught him to play traditional folk ballads.
His first real exposure to the blues came in 1929, when the celebrated country bluesman Tommy Johnson came to pick cotton at Wildwood Plantation, the farm near Greenwood where the Edwards family lived at the time.
“They’d pick cotton all through the day, and at night they’d sit around and play the guitars,” Mr. Edwards recalled in his autobiography, “The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing” (Chicago Review Press, 1997). “Drinking that white whiskey, that moonshine, I’d just sit and look at them. I’d say, ‘I wish I could play.’ ”
After spending the better part of two decades as an itinerant musician, Mr. Edwards made Chicago his permanent home in the 1950s. He performed frequently in its clubs and at the open-air market on Maxwell Street, but he recorded only sporadically during his first years there, notably for the independent Artist and Chess labels.
Mr. Edwards achieved new popularity during the blues revival of the 1960s. Near the end of the decade he appeared with Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy on sessions that produced both volumes of the album “Blues Jam in Chicago” by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac.
In 1972 Mr. Edwards met Mr. Frank, a blues aficionado and harmonica player, who would be his booking agent, manager and collaborator, on both stage and record, for the rest of his life.
Mr. Edwards was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996 and named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. In 2007 he appeared as himself in the movie “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.”
Survivors include a daughter, a stepdaughter and several grandchildren.
Mr. Edwards won a Grammy Award (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/grammy_awards/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) in 2008 for the album “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas,” a collaboration with Henry Townsend, Pinetop Perkins (who died in March) and Robert Lockwood Jr., and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2010.
He was still playing as many as 100 shows a year when he stopped touring, in 2008, and he continued to perform occasionally until this year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKMQlYN_TQ) . His last appearance was at a blues festival in Clarksdale, Miss., in April.
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Local jazz legend Louis Smith remembered for deep love of music
By Martin Slagter | mslagter@mlive.com (http://connect.mlive.com/staff/mslagter/posts.html)
ANN ARBOR, MI – Whether it was playing with jazz giants like Cannonball Adderly and Horace Silver, Motown artists like The Temptations and Marvin Gaye or instructing children at Ann Arbor Public Schools, Louis Smith was always surrounded by music.
That is ultimately how Smith — who recorded with Blue Note Records — will be remembered, WEMU Music Director Linda Yohn said.
Smith, who died on Aug. 20, leaves behind a legacy embedded in performing, teaching and appreciating music, Yohn said.
“He never practiced false modesty – he was proud of his accomplishments but he didn’t brag about them,” said Yohn, who has been at WEMU for 29 years. “He would also always share with you what he was working on and how he was learning and growing. He was an example of how we all should live.”
Smith was born May 20, 1931, in Memphis, to Walter Smith and Betty Little-Smith. Although his father was an ice delivery man, he instilled a love of music in Louis at a young age, purchasing an old used trumpet and he would practice playing his every day after school.
His father would take him to the famous Beale Street for nightly jam sessions where Louis would spend a great deal of time watching, listening and sitting in with the great jazz and blues musicians of the time.
Music would remain at the center of Smith’s life after graduating from Manassas High School in 1948, where he was a member of the Manassas High School Rhythm Bombers.
He went on to attend Tennessee State University, where he was a member of the Tennessee State Collegians, and performed at Carnegie Hall with Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstein and Sarah Vaughn. Smith graduated from Tennessee State with a Bachelor of Science in Music and was drafted into the United States Army where he played in the Special Services Band.
In 1955, following his tour of duty, Smith decided to pursue a more stable career as an educator in Atlanta. Since then he went on to teach music as a band director at Tennessee State University, Kentucky State University and the University of Michigan, where he served as the Director of Jazz Bands from 1971 to 1987.
Smith also served as a music teacher, and band instructor with Ann Arbor Public Schools from 1968 to 1993.
Yohn said it was difficult to separate Smith’s life as a musician from his life as an educator, because the two almost always went hand in hand.
“I think it’s really hard, as his career rolled on, to separate the teacher from the performer and recording artist,” she said. “I recall hearing Louis in concert and you would be so entertained, but you would also learn something because he had a really comfortable way of sharing information about his music. Whether it was about the song structure, a story about a song’s composer or something from his life that inspired a song, you ended up learning something even if you didn’t intend to.”
He signed his first recording contract with titan jazz label Blue Note Records in 1957, releasing “Here Comes Louis Smith,” which featured Adderley. Shortly after the release of his second album, “Smithville,” he joined the Horace Silver Quintet, in 1958.
Smith’s daughter Edwaa Smith was born Aug. 2, 1962. In 1968, while teaching music and band at Forsythe Junior High School in Ann Arbor, he met teaching colleague, Harriet L. Halpern, aka Lulu. The couple eventually married in 1976.
Smith performed as a staff musician with Motown Records, traveled and recorded with greats such as the Temptations and Marvin Gaye and Ashford and Simpson. He was featured on the classic R&B recordings like “Papa was a Rolling Stone,” and “What’s Going On.”
In 1978, Louis signed his next recording contract with Steeplechase Records, where he released a total of 12 albums. He performed at the Montreux (Switzerland) and Nice (France) jazz festivals and the International Detroit Jazz Festival for 25 consecutive years. He is a former president of the Michigan Chapter of the International Association Jazz Educators and was in charge of adjudications for the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival.
Smith performed in live concerts at numerous venues including Carnegie Hall and the Birdland, as well as the Newport Jazz Festival, Grande Parade du Jazz, St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Netherlands. In 2005 while vacationing in Hilton Head, Virginia, Louis suffered a massive stroke leaving him partially paralyzed and aphasic. The stroke forced his career as a musician and educator to come to an end.
Ultimately, Yohn said, he’ll be remembered as a man who passed on a love of music to everyone he encountered in one way or another.
“Honesty, integrity, truth, strength and responsibility are some of the things that I recall hearing from everybody who studied with Louis Smith,” Yohn said. “He is just so important, not only for his musicianship, but in making sure he gave life lessons to those who studied with him.”
Smith is survived by his wife Harriet L. Smith (Lulu); daughter, Edwaa Smith; son, Michael D. Collins, Sr.; grandson, Maurice Cumberbatch; grandson, Michael D. Collins, Jr.; granddaughter, Tiffany Collins; and great-granddaughters, Louise “Lulu” Collins and Alexia Cumberbatch.
Smith’s family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, at the Nie Family Funeral Home, 2400 Carpenter Road, Ann Arbor, MI. A funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the funeral home, with visitation one hour prior.
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By Martin Slagter | mslagter@mlive.com (http://connect.mlive.com/staff/mslagter/posts.html)
ANN ARBOR, MI – Whether it was playing with jazz giants like Cannonball Adderly and Horace Silver, Motown artists like The Temptations and Marvin Gaye or instructing children at Ann Arbor Public Schools, Louis Smith was always surrounded by music.
That is ultimately how Smith — who recorded with Blue Note Records — will be remembered, WEMU Music Director Linda Yohn said.
Smith, who died on Aug. 20, leaves behind a legacy embedded in performing, teaching and appreciating music, Yohn said.
“He never practiced false modesty – he was proud of his accomplishments but he didn’t brag about them,” said Yohn, who has been at WEMU for 29 years. “He would also always share with you what he was working on and how he was learning and growing. He was an example of how we all should live.”
Smith was born May 20, 1931, in Memphis, to Walter Smith and Betty Little-Smith. Although his father was an ice delivery man, he instilled a love of music in Louis at a young age, purchasing an old used trumpet and he would practice playing his every day after school.
His father would take him to the famous Beale Street for nightly jam sessions where Louis would spend a great deal of time watching, listening and sitting in with the great jazz and blues musicians of the time.
Music would remain at the center of Smith’s life after graduating from Manassas High School in 1948, where he was a member of the Manassas High School Rhythm Bombers.
He went on to attend Tennessee State University, where he was a member of the Tennessee State Collegians, and performed at Carnegie Hall with Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstein and Sarah Vaughn. Smith graduated from Tennessee State with a Bachelor of Science in Music and was drafted into the United States Army where he played in the Special Services Band.
In 1955, following his tour of duty, Smith decided to pursue a more stable career as an educator in Atlanta. Since then he went on to teach music as a band director at Tennessee State University, Kentucky State University and the University of Michigan, where he served as the Director of Jazz Bands from 1971 to 1987.
Smith also served as a music teacher, and band instructor with Ann Arbor Public Schools from 1968 to 1993.
Yohn said it was difficult to separate Smith’s life as a musician from his life as an educator, because the two almost always went hand in hand.
“I think it’s really hard, as his career rolled on, to separate the teacher from the performer and recording artist,” she said. “I recall hearing Louis in concert and you would be so entertained, but you would also learn something because he had a really comfortable way of sharing information about his music. Whether it was about the song structure, a story about a song’s composer or something from his life that inspired a song, you ended up learning something even if you didn’t intend to.”
He signed his first recording contract with titan jazz label Blue Note Records in 1957, releasing “Here Comes Louis Smith,” which featured Adderley. Shortly after the release of his second album, “Smithville,” he joined the Horace Silver Quintet, in 1958.
Smith’s daughter Edwaa Smith was born Aug. 2, 1962. In 1968, while teaching music and band at Forsythe Junior High School in Ann Arbor, he met teaching colleague, Harriet L. Halpern, aka Lulu. The couple eventually married in 1976.
Smith performed as a staff musician with Motown Records, traveled and recorded with greats such as the Temptations and Marvin Gaye and Ashford and Simpson. He was featured on the classic R&B recordings like “Papa was a Rolling Stone,” and “What’s Going On.”
In 1978, Louis signed his next recording contract with Steeplechase Records, where he released a total of 12 albums. He performed at the Montreux (Switzerland) and Nice (France) jazz festivals and the International Detroit Jazz Festival for 25 consecutive years. He is a former president of the Michigan Chapter of the International Association Jazz Educators and was in charge of adjudications for the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival.
Smith performed in live concerts at numerous venues including Carnegie Hall and the Birdland, as well as the Newport Jazz Festival, Grande Parade du Jazz, St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Netherlands. In 2005 while vacationing in Hilton Head, Virginia, Louis suffered a massive stroke leaving him partially paralyzed and aphasic. The stroke forced his career as a musician and educator to come to an end.
Ultimately, Yohn said, he’ll be remembered as a man who passed on a love of music to everyone he encountered in one way or another.
“Honesty, integrity, truth, strength and responsibility are some of the things that I recall hearing from everybody who studied with Louis Smith,” Yohn said. “He is just so important, not only for his musicianship, but in making sure he gave life lessons to those who studied with him.”
Smith is survived by his wife Harriet L. Smith (Lulu); daughter, Edwaa Smith; son, Michael D. Collins, Sr.; grandson, Maurice Cumberbatch; grandson, Michael D. Collins, Jr.; granddaughter, Tiffany Collins; and great-granddaughters, Louise “Lulu” Collins and Alexia Cumberbatch.
Smith’s family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, at the Nie Family Funeral Home, 2400 Carpenter Road, Ann Arbor, MI. A funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the funeral home, with visitation one hour prior.
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ANN ARBOR, MI – Whether it was playing with jazz giants like Cannonball Adderly and Horace Silver, Motown artists like The Temptations and Marvin Gaye or instructing children at Ann Arbor Public Schools, Louis Smith was always surrounded by music.
That is ultimately how Smith — who recorded with Blue Note Records — will be remembered, WEMU Music Director Linda Yohn said.
Smith, who died on Aug. 20, leaves behind a legacy embedded in performing, teaching and appreciating music, Yohn said.
“He never practiced false modesty – he was proud of his accomplishments but he didn’t brag about them,” said Yohn, who has been at WEMU for 29 years. “He would also always share with you what he was working on and how he was learning and growing. He was an example of how we all should live.”
Smith was born May 20, 1931, in Memphis, to Walter Smith and Betty Little-Smith. Although his father was an ice delivery man, he instilled a love of music in Louis at a young age, purchasing an old used trumpet and he would practice playing his every day after school.
His father would take him to the famous Beale Street for nightly jam sessions where Louis would spend a great deal of time watching, listening and sitting in with the great jazz and blues musicians of the time.
Music would remain at the center of Smith’s life after graduating from Manassas High School in 1948, where he was a member of the Manassas High School Rhythm Bombers.
He went on to attend Tennessee State University, where he was a member of the Tennessee State Collegians, and performed at Carnegie Hall with Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstein and Sarah Vaughn. Smith graduated from Tennessee State with a Bachelor of Science in Music and was drafted into the United States Army where he played in the Special Services Band.
In 1955, following his tour of duty, Smith decided to pursue a more stable career as an educator in Atlanta. Since then he went on to teach music as a band director at Tennessee State University, Kentucky State University and the University of Michigan, where he served as the Director of Jazz Bands from 1971 to 1987.
Smith also served as a music teacher, and band instructor with Ann Arbor Public Schools from 1968 to 1993.
Yohn said it was difficult to separate Smith’s life as a musician from his life as an educator, because the two almost always went hand in hand.
“I think it’s really hard, as his career rolled on, to separate the teacher from the performer and recording artist,” she said. “I recall hearing Louis in concert and you would be so entertained, but you would also learn something because he had a really comfortable way of sharing information about his music. Whether it was about the song structure, a story about a song’s composer or something from his life that inspired a song, you ended up learning something even if you didn’t intend to.”
He signed his first recording contract with titan jazz label Blue Note Records in 1957, releasing “Here Comes Louis Smith,” which featured Adderley. Shortly after the release of his second album, “Smithville,” he joined the Horace Silver Quintet, in 1958.
Smith’s daughter Edwaa Smith was born Aug. 2, 1962. In 1968, while teaching music and band at Forsythe Junior High School in Ann Arbor, he met teaching colleague, Harriet L. Halpern, aka Lulu. The couple eventually married in 1976.
Smith performed as a staff musician with Motown Records, traveled and recorded with greats such as the Temptations and Marvin Gaye and Ashford and Simpson. He was featured on the classic R&B recordings like “Papa was a Rolling Stone,” and “What’s Going On.”
In 1978, Louis signed his next recording contract with Steeplechase Records, where he released a total of 12 albums. He performed at the Montreux (Switzerland) and Nice (France) jazz festivals and the International Detroit Jazz Festival for 25 consecutive years. He is a former president of the Michigan Chapter of the International Association Jazz Educators and was in charge of adjudications for the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival.
Smith performed in live concerts at numerous venues including Carnegie Hall and the Birdland, as well as the Newport Jazz Festival, Grande Parade du Jazz, St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Netherlands. In 2005 while vacationing in Hilton Head, Virginia, Louis suffered a massive stroke leaving him partially paralyzed and aphasic. The stroke forced his career as a musician and educator to come to an end.
Ultimately, Yohn said, he’ll be remembered as a man who passed on a love of music to everyone he encountered in one way or another.
“Honesty, integrity, truth, strength and responsibility are some of the things that I recall hearing from everybody who studied with Louis Smith,” Yohn said. “He is just so important, not only for his musicianship, but in making sure he gave life lessons to those who studied with him.”
Smith is survived by his wife Harriet L. Smith (Lulu); daughter, Edwaa Smith; son, Michael D. Collins, Sr.; grandson, Maurice Cumberbatch; grandson, Michael D. Collins, Jr.; granddaughter, Tiffany Collins; and great-granddaughters, Louise “Lulu” Collins and Alexia Cumberbatch.
Smith’s family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, at the Nie Family Funeral Home, 2400 Carpenter Road, Ann Arbor, MI. A funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the funeral home, with visitation one hour prior.
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Rudy Van Gelder, a New Jersey optometrist who in the late 1940s extended his passion for ocular precision to professional recording and wound up becoming one of jazz’s finest and most enigmatic studio engineers, died on Aug. 25. He was 91. [Photo of Rudy Van Gelder by Hank O’Neal (http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/984327/28498183/5274021_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/jazzwax/~www.hankoneal.com/) ]
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When Rudy started recording at his parents’ Hackensack, N.J., home (above), he knew little about the workings of jazz. And throughout his career, he never developed much of a passion for the music, despite being an ear-witness to some of jazz greatest studio performances. Rudy simply didn’t have the time to become a pure fan given how much he had to get right with the studio’s technology on his sessions. As Rudy put it, he didn’t have the luxury of listening for enjoyment. Nevertheless, he had an abiding respect for the extraordinary artists and producers who traveled to record at the Van Gelder residence and, later, at his own home-studio in Englewood Cliffs. All of his visitors also knew that when sessions were over at Englewood Cliffs, they’d have to brave his treacherous driveway, which forced you to pull out into fast-moving traffic.
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When Rudy began recording professionally at the dawn of the 1950s, magnetic tape was just emerging in studios and the long-playing album was fast becoming the dominant format in jazz. Both technologies revolutionized jazz. As jazz listening increased in homes nationwide, so did the demand for Rudy’s talents, and the widespread use of recording tape allowed for faster turnover.
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As a silent partner in the rise of musical individualism in the 1950s and the spread of modern jazz’s development and popularity, Rudy was quick to experiment with his studio equipment. His efforts were motivated solely by his determination to preserve the music as he heard it and to provide record buyers with the same listening experience. In effect, Rudy invented techniques to reproduce jazz’s salon intimacy on vinyl, strategies he kept secret his entire career for fear of losing what made him special.
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Back when setting up microphones in recording studios was fairly standard and engineers were there merely to make sure everything was plugged in and that nothing went awry with equipment or recording levels, Rudy quickly became an improviser in his own right. For Rudy, microphones had distinct characteristics and properties, and when they were placed in unusual studio locations or wrapped in strange ways, they could produce a cozier, more realistic result. [Max Roach at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, N.J., studio in the 1950s]
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To Rudy’s credit, he always remained himself—a quiet, nerdy technician fussing with dials, tapes and wires. He never became a hipster, like so many in the jazz business, and musicians respected Rudy’s eccentricity, even when he chastised them for touching or adjusting microphones or stands. Shocked at first by his manner, musicians soon came to respect Rudy’s rules, since they, too, were protective owners of delicate instruments. In Rudy’s studio, microphones could be touched only by the sounds emanating from instruments or his own gloved hands.
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Relentlessly employed by major jazz labels throughout his career, Rudy became a cult figure among international audiophiles and musicians. An album engineered by Rudy sounded rich in an organic, understated way, as if all of the musicians had recorded in a small storage closet lined with suede. None of the musicians sounded distant or faint, while session leaders were distinct but never sonically overwhelming. As Rudy told me during my 2012 visit to his famed Englewood Cliffs, N.J., home/studio, where he had moved with his wife in 1959, he was constantly striving for a natural, realistic sound.
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Today, I’m going to do something a little different. I know many of you cannot access WSJ.com. So below is my complete profile of Rudy for the WSJ in 2012, when I visited with him at his studio. As we ate chicken-salad sandwiches and potato chips at a tall table in the middle of his studio space, we talked for two hours about his house and all of the jazz history that was created and recorded there [photo above of Rudy Van Gelder and Marc Myers in January 2012]:
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By Marc Myers
February 7, 2012
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Rudy Van Gelder warned his guest not to trip over the thick cables snaking along the floor as we made our way through a forest of microphone stands at the far corner of his famed recording studio. “Here it is,” he said, tugging a gray plastic cover off a Hammond organ. “Nearly every organist I’ve recorded—Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Charles Earland and others—used this instrument. Many people would probably be surprised to learn that it’s actually a C-3 model, not a B-3.”
Mr. Van Gelder is still a stickler for details. Since 1952, the 87-year-old engineer has recorded thousands of jazz albums—first at his parents’ home in Hackensack, N.J., and then here. The lengthy list includes Miles Davis’s “Workin’,” Sonny Rollins’s “Saxophone Colossus,” Art Blakey’s “Moanin’,” John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil” and Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay.”
On Saturday, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will honor Mr. Van Gelder with a Trustees Award—a Grammy that recognizes his lifelong contribution to jazz recording. As an engineer, Mr. Van Gelder is credited with revolutionizing the sound of music in the LP era—capturing the distinct textures of each instrument and giving jazz albums a warm, natural tone.
From the outside, the building that houses Mr. Van Gelder’s studio looks like any chocolate-brown suburban home—except there are no windows. Inside, the butterscotch-hued, cathedral-like space features a vaulted ceiling made of laminated Douglas-fir arches and cedar planks, giving the room a Scandinavian feel. Snap your fingers or talk, and the sound appears to hang in the air momentarily, as if the rafters were evaluating the sonic quality before letting it go.
Mr. Van Gelder is notorious for stonewalling questions about his recording techniques. “But I’ll tell you this,” he said, seated in his studio’s long control room. “I used Neumann Condenser mikes before anyone else did. I bought one of the first ones sold here. They were extremely sensitive and warm-sounding.”
When asked about the creative ways he placed microphones near instruments—in one case reportedly wrapping a mike in foam and sticking it into the piano’s tone hole—Mr. Van Gelder channeled his inner Sphinx. “All I’ll say is nothing is simple, everything is complex.”
Born in Jersey City, N.J., Mr. Van Gelder began listening to jazz on the family radio. At age 12, he ordered a home recording device that came with a turntable and blank discs. “I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games,” he said.
After high school, Mr. Van Gelder attended the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia. “I wanted the mental discipline and the prospect of a steady income after college.” While there, he visited a network radio station. “A powerful feeling swept over me. The music, the equipment’s design, the seriousness of the place—I knew I wanted to spend my career in that type of environment.”
Immediately after graduating in 1943, Mr. Van Gelder opened an optometry office in Teaneck, N.J. By day he worked on eyeglasses and in the evening he recorded local artists who wanted a 78rpm record of their efforts. “I was obsessed with microphones,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “When I’d see photos of jazz musicians recording or performing, I found myself looking at the mikes, not them.”
In 1946, his father decided to build a house in Hackensack, N.J. Mr. Van Gelder asked for a control room with a double glass window next to the living room, which would serve as the studio. His father agreed. “The architect made the living room ceiling higher than the rest of the house, which created ideal acoustics for recording,” he said.
Early clients included singer-accordionist Joe Mooney and pianist Billy Taylor. Then in 1952, Gus Statiras, a local producer, brought baritone saxophonist Gil Mellé to Mr. Van Gelder’s studio to record. Mellé later played the results for Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records in New York. “Alfred wanted more tracks and went to his engineer at WOR Studios to see if he could duplicate the natural sound,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The guy told him he didn’t know how, and urged Alfred to see the person who had recorded the originals. So he did.”
Before long, Prestige, Savoy, Vox and other labels began booking studio time for LPs. “To accommodate everyone, I assigned different days of the week to different labels,” he said. “But I continued to work as an optometrist, investing everything I made in new recording equipment.”
Mr. Van Gelder learned his craft on the job. “Alfred was rigid about how he wanted Blue Note records to sound. But Bob Weinstock of Prestige was more easygoing, so I’d experiment on his dates and use what I learned on the Blue Note sessions.”
As the home’s driveway filled with cars, Mr. Van Gelder’s parents added a separate entrance to their bedroom wing to avoid walking in on the musicians. “My parents and the neighbors never complained,” he said. “Only once my mother left me a note asking me to do a better job tidying up.”
In 1954, Mr. Van Gelder and his wife, Elva, moved into a nearby apartment. A museum exhibit in New York on Usonian architecture gave the couple an idea. “The image I had in mind was a small concert hall,” Mr. Van Gelder said. Then came a meeting with David Henken, a Usonian architect and student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Henken designed plans for Mr. Van Gelder, and Armand Giglio, one of Henken’s developers, built the studio on a wooded lot in Englewood Cliffs.
“A crane had to hoist the arches and rafters into place,” Mr. Van Gelder said, pointing up at his studio’s ceiling. “They were bolted together at the top and joined at the bottom with a steel cable under the floor. This design allowed for the large space to stand unencumbered by columns, which was essential for a studio.”
During the 1960s and ’70s, Impulse, Verve, A&M, CTI and other labels used the Van Gelder studio. “‘A Love Supreme’ was recorded right here,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The session was hypnotic, exciting and different. But I didn’t realize that until I remastered the tapes many years later. When Coltrane was here, I was too worried about capturing the music.”
Before departing, this writer tried once again to pry Mr. Van Gelder’s techniques loose. “All I can tell you is that when I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it’s right, everything is beautiful. I was always searching for that point.”
I’m going to miss Rudy, who taught all of us that the road to success is to stick to your knitting and to make sure your knitting is better than everyone else’s.
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Rudy Van Gelder, a New Jersey optometrist who in the late 1940s extended his passion for ocular precision to professional recording and wound up becoming one of jazz’s finest and most enigmatic studio engineers, died on Aug. 25. He was 91. [Photo of Rudy Van Gelder by Hank O’Neal (http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/984327/28498183/5274021_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/jazzwax/~www.hankoneal.com/) ]
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When Rudy started recording at his parents’ Hackensack, N.J., home (above), he knew little about the workings of jazz. And throughout his career, he never developed much of a passion for the music, despite being an ear-witness to some of jazz greatest studio performances. Rudy simply didn’t have the time to become a pure fan given how much he had to get right with the studio’s technology on his sessions. As Rudy put it, he didn’t have the luxury of listening for enjoyment. Nevertheless, he had an abiding respect for the extraordinary artists and producers who traveled to record at the Van Gelder residence and, later, at his own home-studio in Englewood Cliffs. All of his visitors also knew that when sessions were over at Englewood Cliffs, they’d have to brave his treacherous driveway, which forced you to pull out into fast-moving traffic.
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When Rudy began recording professionally at the dawn of the 1950s, magnetic tape was just emerging in studios and the long-playing album was fast becoming the dominant format in jazz. Both technologies revolutionized jazz. As jazz listening increased in homes nationwide, so did the demand for Rudy’s talents, and the widespread use of recording tape allowed for faster turnover.
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As a silent partner in the rise of musical individualism in the 1950s and the spread of modern jazz’s development and popularity, Rudy was quick to experiment with his studio equipment. His efforts were motivated solely by his determination to preserve the music as he heard it and to provide record buyers with the same listening experience. In effect, Rudy invented techniques to reproduce jazz’s salon intimacy on vinyl, strategies he kept secret his entire career for fear of losing what made him special.
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Back when setting up microphones in recording studios was fairly standard and engineers were there merely to make sure everything was plugged in and that nothing went awry with equipment or recording levels, Rudy quickly became an improviser in his own right. For Rudy, microphones had distinct characteristics and properties, and when they were placed in unusual studio locations or wrapped in strange ways, they could produce a cozier, more realistic result. [Max Roach at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, N.J., studio in the 1950s]
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To Rudy’s credit, he always remained himself—a quiet, nerdy technician fussing with dials, tapes and wires. He never became a hipster, like so many in the jazz business, and musicians respected Rudy’s eccentricity, even when he chastised them for touching or adjusting microphones or stands. Shocked at first by his manner, musicians soon came to respect Rudy’s rules, since they, too, were protective owners of delicate instruments. In Rudy’s studio, microphones could be touched only by the sounds emanating from instruments or his own gloved hands.
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Relentlessly employed by major jazz labels throughout his career, Rudy became a cult figure among international audiophiles and musicians. An album engineered by Rudy sounded rich in an organic, understated way, as if all of the musicians had recorded in a small storage closet lined with suede. None of the musicians sounded distant or faint, while session leaders were distinct but never sonically overwhelming. As Rudy told me during my 2012 visit to his famed Englewood Cliffs, N.J., home/studio, where he had moved with his wife in 1959, he was constantly striving for a natural, realistic sound.
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Today, I’m going to do something a little different. I know many of you cannot access WSJ.com. So below is my complete profile of Rudy for the WSJ in 2012, when I visited with him at his studio. As we ate chicken-salad sandwiches and potato chips at a tall table in the middle of his studio space, we talked for two hours about his house and all of the jazz history that was created and recorded there [photo above of Rudy Van Gelder and Marc Myers in January 2012]:
(c) Marc Myers
By Marc Myers
February 7, 2012
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Rudy Van Gelder warned his guest not to trip over the thick cables snaking along the floor as we made our way through a forest of microphone stands at the far corner of his famed recording studio. “Here it is,” he said, tugging a gray plastic cover off a Hammond organ. “Nearly every organist I’ve recorded—Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Charles Earland and others—used this instrument. Many people would probably be surprised to learn that it’s actually a C-3 model, not a B-3.”
Mr. Van Gelder is still a stickler for details. Since 1952, the 87-year-old engineer has recorded thousands of jazz albums—first at his parents’ home in Hackensack, N.J., and then here. The lengthy list includes Miles Davis’s “Workin’,” Sonny Rollins’s “Saxophone Colossus,” Art Blakey’s “Moanin’,” John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil” and Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay.”
On Saturday, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will honor Mr. Van Gelder with a Trustees Award—a Grammy that recognizes his lifelong contribution to jazz recording. As an engineer, Mr. Van Gelder is credited with revolutionizing the sound of music in the LP era—capturing the distinct textures of each instrument and giving jazz albums a warm, natural tone.
From the outside, the building that houses Mr. Van Gelder’s studio looks like any chocolate-brown suburban home—except there are no windows. Inside, the butterscotch-hued, cathedral-like space features a vaulted ceiling made of laminated Douglas-fir arches and cedar planks, giving the room a Scandinavian feel. Snap your fingers or talk, and the sound appears to hang in the air momentarily, as if the rafters were evaluating the sonic quality before letting it go.
Mr. Van Gelder is notorious for stonewalling questions about his recording techniques. “But I’ll tell you this,” he said, seated in his studio’s long control room. “I used Neumann Condenser mikes before anyone else did. I bought one of the first ones sold here. They were extremely sensitive and warm-sounding.”
When asked about the creative ways he placed microphones near instruments—in one case reportedly wrapping a mike in foam and sticking it into the piano’s tone hole—Mr. Van Gelder channeled his inner Sphinx. “All I’ll say is nothing is simple, everything is complex.”
Born in Jersey City, N.J., Mr. Van Gelder began listening to jazz on the family radio. At age 12, he ordered a home recording device that came with a turntable and blank discs. “I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games,” he said.
After high school, Mr. Van Gelder attended the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia. “I wanted the mental discipline and the prospect of a steady income after college.” While there, he visited a network radio station. “A powerful feeling swept over me. The music, the equipment’s design, the seriousness of the place—I knew I wanted to spend my career in that type of environment.”
Immediately after graduating in 1943, Mr. Van Gelder opened an optometry office in Teaneck, N.J. By day he worked on eyeglasses and in the evening he recorded local artists who wanted a 78rpm record of their efforts. “I was obsessed with microphones,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “When I’d see photos of jazz musicians recording or performing, I found myself looking at the mikes, not them.”
In 1946, his father decided to build a house in Hackensack, N.J. Mr. Van Gelder asked for a control room with a double glass window next to the living room, which would serve as the studio. His father agreed. “The architect made the living room ceiling higher than the rest of the house, which created ideal acoustics for recording,” he said.
Early clients included singer-accordionist Joe Mooney and pianist Billy Taylor. Then in 1952, Gus Statiras, a local producer, brought baritone saxophonist Gil Mellé to Mr. Van Gelder’s studio to record. Mellé later played the results for Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records in New York. “Alfred wanted more tracks and went to his engineer at WOR Studios to see if he could duplicate the natural sound,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The guy told him he didn’t know how, and urged Alfred to see the person who had recorded the originals. So he did.”
Before long, Prestige, Savoy, Vox and other labels began booking studio time for LPs. “To accommodate everyone, I assigned different days of the week to different labels,” he said. “But I continued to work as an optometrist, investing everything I made in new recording equipment.”
Mr. Van Gelder learned his craft on the job. “Alfred was rigid about how he wanted Blue Note records to sound. But Bob Weinstock of Prestige was more easygoing, so I’d experiment on his dates and use what I learned on the Blue Note sessions.”
As the home’s driveway filled with cars, Mr. Van Gelder’s parents added a separate entrance to their bedroom wing to avoid walking in on the musicians. “My parents and the neighbors never complained,” he said. “Only once my mother left me a note asking me to do a better job tidying up.”
In 1954, Mr. Van Gelder and his wife, Elva, moved into a nearby apartment. A museum exhibit in New York on Usonian architecture gave the couple an idea. “The image I had in mind was a small concert hall,” Mr. Van Gelder said. Then came a meeting with David Henken, a Usonian architect and student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Henken designed plans for Mr. Van Gelder, and Armand Giglio, one of Henken’s developers, built the studio on a wooded lot in Englewood Cliffs.
“A crane had to hoist the arches and rafters into place,” Mr. Van Gelder said, pointing up at his studio’s ceiling. “They were bolted together at the top and joined at the bottom with a steel cable under the floor. This design allowed for the large space to stand unencumbered by columns, which was essential for a studio.”
During the 1960s and ’70s, Impulse, Verve, A&M, CTI and other labels used the Van Gelder studio. “‘A Love Supreme’ was recorded right here,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The session was hypnotic, exciting and different. But I didn’t realize that until I remastered the tapes many years later. When Coltrane was here, I was too worried about capturing the music.”
Before departing, this writer tried once again to pry Mr. Van Gelder’s techniques loose. “All I can tell you is that when I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it’s right, everything is beautiful. I was always searching for that point.”
I’m going to miss Rudy, who taught all of us that the road to success is to stick to your knitting and to make sure your knitting is better than everyone else’s.
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Rudy Van Gelder, a New Jersey optometrist who in the late 1940s extended his passion for ocular precision to professional recording and wound up becoming one of jazz’s finest and most enigmatic studio engineers, died on Aug. 25. He was 91. [Photo of Rudy Van Gelder by Hank O’Neal (http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/984327/28498183/5274021_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/jazzwax/~www.hankoneal.com/) ]
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When Rudy started recording at his parents’ Hackensack, N.J., home (above), he knew little about the workings of jazz. And throughout his career, he never developed much of a passion for the music, despite being an ear-witness to some of jazz greatest studio performances. Rudy simply didn’t have the time to become a pure fan given how much he had to get right with the studio’s technology on his sessions. As Rudy put it, he didn’t have the luxury of listening for enjoyment. Nevertheless, he had an abiding respect for the extraordinary artists and producers who traveled to record at the Van Gelder residence and, later, at his own home-studio in Englewood Cliffs. All of his visitors also knew that when sessions were over at Englewood Cliffs, they’d have to brave his treacherous driveway, which forced you to pull out into fast-moving traffic.
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When Rudy began recording professionally at the dawn of the 1950s, magnetic tape was just emerging in studios and the long-playing album was fast becoming the dominant format in jazz. Both technologies revolutionized jazz. As jazz listening increased in homes nationwide, so did the demand for Rudy’s talents, and the widespread use of recording tape allowed for faster turnover.
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As a silent partner in the rise of musical individualism in the 1950s and the spread of modern jazz’s development and popularity, Rudy was quick to experiment with his studio equipment. His efforts were motivated solely by his determination to preserve the music as he heard it and to provide record buyers with the same listening experience. In effect, Rudy invented techniques to reproduce jazz’s salon intimacy on vinyl, strategies he kept secret his entire career for fear of losing what made him special.
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Back when setting up microphones in recording studios was fairly standard and engineers were there merely to make sure everything was plugged in and that nothing went awry with equipment or recording levels, Rudy quickly became an improviser in his own right. For Rudy, microphones had distinct characteristics and properties, and when they were placed in unusual studio locations or wrapped in strange ways, they could produce a cozier, more realistic result. [Max Roach at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, N.J., studio in the 1950s]
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To Rudy’s credit, he always remained himself—a quiet, nerdy technician fussing with dials, tapes and wires. He never became a hipster, like so many in the jazz business, and musicians respected Rudy’s eccentricity, even when he chastised them for touching or adjusting microphones or stands. Shocked at first by his manner, musicians soon came to respect Rudy’s rules, since they, too, were protective owners of delicate instruments. In Rudy’s studio, microphones could be touched only by the sounds emanating from instruments or his own gloved hands.
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Relentlessly employed by major jazz labels throughout his career, Rudy became a cult figure among international audiophiles and musicians. An album engineered by Rudy sounded rich in an organic, understated way, as if all of the musicians had recorded in a small storage closet lined with suede. None of the musicians sounded distant or faint, while session leaders were distinct but never sonically overwhelming. As Rudy told me during my 2012 visit to his famed Englewood Cliffs, N.J., home/studio, where he had moved with his wife in 1959, he was constantly striving for a natural, realistic sound.
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Today, I’m going to do something a little different. I know many of you cannot access WSJ.com. So below is my complete profile of Rudy for the WSJ in 2012, when I visited with him at his studio. As we ate chicken-salad sandwiches and potato chips at a tall table in the middle of his studio space, we talked for two hours about his house and all of the jazz history that was created and recorded there [photo above of Rudy Van Gelder and Marc Myers in January 2012]:
(c) Marc Myers
By Marc Myers
February 7, 2012
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Rudy Van Gelder warned his guest not to trip over the thick cables snaking along the floor as we made our way through a forest of microphone stands at the far corner of his famed recording studio. “Here it is,” he said, tugging a gray plastic cover off a Hammond organ. “Nearly every organist I’ve recorded—Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Charles Earland and others—used this instrument. Many people would probably be surprised to learn that it’s actually a C-3 model, not a B-3.”
Mr. Van Gelder is still a stickler for details. Since 1952, the 87-year-old engineer has recorded thousands of jazz albums—first at his parents’ home in Hackensack, N.J., and then here. The lengthy list includes Miles Davis’s “Workin’,” Sonny Rollins’s “Saxophone Colossus,” Art Blakey’s “Moanin’,” John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil” and Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay.”
On Saturday, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will honor Mr. Van Gelder with a Trustees Award—a Grammy that recognizes his lifelong contribution to jazz recording. As an engineer, Mr. Van Gelder is credited with revolutionizing the sound of music in the LP era—capturing the distinct textures of each instrument and giving jazz albums a warm, natural tone.
From the outside, the building that houses Mr. Van Gelder’s studio looks like any chocolate-brown suburban home—except there are no windows. Inside, the butterscotch-hued, cathedral-like space features a vaulted ceiling made of laminated Douglas-fir arches and cedar planks, giving the room a Scandinavian feel. Snap your fingers or talk, and the sound appears to hang in the air momentarily, as if the rafters were evaluating the sonic quality before letting it go.
Mr. Van Gelder is notorious for stonewalling questions about his recording techniques. “But I’ll tell you this,” he said, seated in his studio’s long control room. “I used Neumann Condenser mikes before anyone else did. I bought one of the first ones sold here. They were extremely sensitive and warm-sounding.”
When asked about the creative ways he placed microphones near instruments—in one case reportedly wrapping a mike in foam and sticking it into the piano’s tone hole—Mr. Van Gelder channeled his inner Sphinx. “All I’ll say is nothing is simple, everything is complex.”
Born in Jersey City, N.J., Mr. Van Gelder began listening to jazz on the family radio. At age 12, he ordered a home recording device that came with a turntable and blank discs. “I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games,” he said.
After high school, Mr. Van Gelder attended the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia. “I wanted the mental discipline and the prospect of a steady income after college.” While there, he visited a network radio station. “A powerful feeling swept over me. The music, the equipment’s design, the seriousness of the place—I knew I wanted to spend my career in that type of environment.”
Immediately after graduating in 1943, Mr. Van Gelder opened an optometry office in Teaneck, N.J. By day he worked on eyeglasses and in the evening he recorded local artists who wanted a 78rpm record of their efforts. “I was obsessed with microphones,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “When I’d see photos of jazz musicians recording or performing, I found myself looking at the mikes, not them.”
In 1946, his father decided to build a house in Hackensack, N.J. Mr. Van Gelder asked for a control room with a double glass window next to the living room, which would serve as the studio. His father agreed. “The architect made the living room ceiling higher than the rest of the house, which created ideal acoustics for recording,” he said.
Early clients included singer-accordionist Joe Mooney and pianist Billy Taylor. Then in 1952, Gus Statiras, a local producer, brought baritone saxophonist Gil Mellé to Mr. Van Gelder’s studio to record. Mellé later played the results for Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records in New York. “Alfred wanted more tracks and went to his engineer at WOR Studios to see if he could duplicate the natural sound,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The guy told him he didn’t know how, and urged Alfred to see the person who had recorded the originals. So he did.”
Before long, Prestige, Savoy, Vox and other labels began booking studio time for LPs. “To accommodate everyone, I assigned different days of the week to different labels,” he said. “But I continued to work as an optometrist, investing everything I made in new recording equipment.”
Mr. Van Gelder learned his craft on the job. “Alfred was rigid about how he wanted Blue Note records to sound. But Bob Weinstock of Prestige was more easygoing, so I’d experiment on his dates and use what I learned on the Blue Note sessions.”
As the home’s driveway filled with cars, Mr. Van Gelder’s parents added a separate entrance to their bedroom wing to avoid walking in on the musicians. “My parents and the neighbors never complained,” he said. “Only once my mother left me a note asking me to do a better job tidying up.”
In 1954, Mr. Van Gelder and his wife, Elva, moved into a nearby apartment. A museum exhibit in New York on Usonian architecture gave the couple an idea. “The image I had in mind was a small concert hall,” Mr. Van Gelder said. Then came a meeting with David Henken, a Usonian architect and student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Henken designed plans for Mr. Van Gelder, and Armand Giglio, one of Henken’s developers, built the studio on a wooded lot in Englewood Cliffs.
“A crane had to hoist the arches and rafters into place,” Mr. Van Gelder said, pointing up at his studio’s ceiling. “They were bolted together at the top and joined at the bottom with a steel cable under the floor. This design allowed for the large space to stand unencumbered by columns, which was essential for a studio.”
During the 1960s and ’70s, Impulse, Verve, A&M, CTI and other labels used the Van Gelder studio. “‘A Love Supreme’ was recorded right here,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The session was hypnotic, exciting and different. But I didn’t realize that until I remastered the tapes many years later. When Coltrane was here, I was too worried about capturing the music.”
Before departing, this writer tried once again to pry Mr. Van Gelder’s techniques loose. “All I can tell you is that when I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it’s right, everything is beautiful. I was always searching for that point.”
I’m going to miss Rudy, who taught all of us that the road to success is to stick to your knitting and to make sure your knitting is better than everyone else’s.
JazzWax notes: For my multipart JazzWax interview with Rudy Van Gelder, start here (http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/984327/28498183/5274021_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/jazzwax/~www.jazzwax.com/2012/02/interview-rudy-van-gelder-part-1.html) . To read Peter Keepnews’s excellent obit in The New York Times, go here (http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/984327/28498183/5274021_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/jazzwax/~www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/arts/music/rudy-van-gelder-audio-engineer-who-helped-define-sound-of-jazz-on-record-dies-at-91.html?_r=0) .
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Rudy Van Gelder, a New Jersey optometrist who in the late 1940s extended his passion for ocular precision to professional recording and wound up becoming one of jazz’s finest and most enigmatic studio engineers, died on Aug. 25. He was 91. [Photo of Rudy Van Gelder by Hank O’Neal (http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/984327/28498183/5274021_/feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/jazzwax/~www.hankoneal.com/) ]
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When Rudy started recording at his parents’ Hackensack, N.J., home (above), he knew little about the workings of jazz. And throughout his career, he never developed much of a passion for the music, despite being an ear-witness to some of jazz greatest studio performances. Rudy simply didn’t have the time to become a pure fan given how much he had to get right with the studio’s technology on his sessions. As Rudy put it, he didn’t have the luxury of listening for enjoyment. Nevertheless, he had an abiding respect for the extraordinary artists and producers who traveled to record at the Van Gelder residence and, later, at his own home-studio in Englewood Cliffs. All of his visitors also knew that when sessions were over at Englewood Cliffs, they’d have to brave his treacherous driveway, which forced you to pull out into fast-moving traffic.
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When Rudy began recording professionally at the dawn of the 1950s, magnetic tape was just emerging in studios and the long-playing album was fast becoming the dominant format in jazz. Both technologies revolutionized jazz. As jazz listening increased in homes nationwide, so did the demand for Rudy’s talents, and the widespread use of recording tape allowed for faster turnover.
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As a silent partner in the rise of musical individualism in the 1950s and the spread of modern jazz’s development and popularity, Rudy was quick to experiment with his studio equipment. His efforts were motivated solely by his determination to preserve the music as he heard it and to provide record buyers with the same listening experience. In effect, Rudy invented techniques to reproduce jazz’s salon intimacy on vinyl, strategies he kept secret his entire career for fear of losing what made him special.
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Back when setting up microphones in recording studios was fairly standard and engineers were there merely to make sure everything was plugged in and that nothing went awry with equipment or recording levels, Rudy quickly became an improviser in his own right. For Rudy, microphones had distinct characteristics and properties, and when they were placed in unusual studio locations or wrapped in strange ways, they could produce a cozier, more realistic result. [Max Roach at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, N.J., studio in the 1950s]
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To Rudy’s credit, he always remained himself—a quiet, nerdy technician fussing with dials, tapes and wires. He never became a hipster, like so many in the jazz business, and musicians respected Rudy’s eccentricity, even when he chastised them for touching or adjusting microphones or stands. Shocked at first by his manner, musicians soon came to respect Rudy’s rules, since they, too, were protective owners of delicate instruments. In Rudy’s studio, microphones could be touched only by the sounds emanating from instruments or his own gloved hands.
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Relentlessly employed by major jazz labels throughout his career, Rudy became a cult figure among international audiophiles and musicians. An album engineered by Rudy sounded rich in an organic, understated way, as if all of the musicians had recorded in a small storage closet lined with suede. None of the musicians sounded distant or faint, while session leaders were distinct but never sonically overwhelming. As Rudy told me during my 2012 visit to his famed Englewood Cliffs, N.J., home/studio, where he had moved with his wife in 1959, he was constantly striving for a natural, realistic sound.
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Today, I’m going to do something a little different. I know many of you cannot access WSJ.com. So below is my complete profile of Rudy for the WSJ in 2012, when I visited with him at his studio. As we ate chicken-salad sandwiches and potato chips at a tall table in the middle of his studio space, we talked for two hours about his house and all of the jazz history that was created and recorded there [photo above of Rudy Van Gelder and Marc Myers in January 2012]:
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By Marc Myers
February 7, 2012
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Rudy Van Gelder warned his guest not to trip over the thick cables snaking along the floor as we made our way through a forest of microphone stands at the far corner of his famed recording studio. “Here it is,” he said, tugging a gray plastic cover off a Hammond organ. “Nearly every organist I’ve recorded—Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Charles Earland and others—used this instrument. Many people would probably be surprised to learn that it’s actually a C-3 model, not a B-3.”
Mr. Van Gelder is still a stickler for details. Since 1952, the 87-year-old engineer has recorded thousands of jazz albums—first at his parents’ home in Hackensack, N.J., and then here. The lengthy list includes Miles Davis’s “Workin’,” Sonny Rollins’s “Saxophone Colossus,” Art Blakey’s “Moanin’,” John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil” and Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay.”
On Saturday, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will honor Mr. Van Gelder with a Trustees Award—a Grammy that recognizes his lifelong contribution to jazz recording. As an engineer, Mr. Van Gelder is credited with revolutionizing the sound of music in the LP era—capturing the distinct textures of each instrument and giving jazz albums a warm, natural tone.
From the outside, the building that houses Mr. Van Gelder’s studio looks like any chocolate-brown suburban home—except there are no windows. Inside, the butterscotch-hued, cathedral-like space features a vaulted ceiling made of laminated Douglas-fir arches and cedar planks, giving the room a Scandinavian feel. Snap your fingers or talk, and the sound appears to hang in the air momentarily, as if the rafters were evaluating the sonic quality before letting it go.
Mr. Van Gelder is notorious for stonewalling questions about his recording techniques. “But I’ll tell you this,” he said, seated in his studio’s long control room. “I used Neumann Condenser mikes before anyone else did. I bought one of the first ones sold here. They were extremely sensitive and warm-sounding.”
When asked about the creative ways he placed microphones near instruments—in one case reportedly wrapping a mike in foam and sticking it into the piano’s tone hole—Mr. Van Gelder channeled his inner Sphinx. “All I’ll say is nothing is simple, everything is complex.”
Born in Jersey City, N.J., Mr. Van Gelder began listening to jazz on the family radio. At age 12, he ordered a home recording device that came with a turntable and blank discs. “I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games,” he said.
After high school, Mr. Van Gelder attended the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia. “I wanted the mental discipline and the prospect of a steady income after college.” While there, he visited a network radio station. “A powerful feeling swept over me. The music, the equipment’s design, the seriousness of the place—I knew I wanted to spend my career in that type of environment.”
Immediately after graduating in 1943, Mr. Van Gelder opened an optometry office in Teaneck, N.J. By day he worked on eyeglasses and in the evening he recorded local artists who wanted a 78rpm record of their efforts. “I was obsessed with microphones,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “When I’d see photos of jazz musicians recording or performing, I found myself looking at the mikes, not them.”
In 1946, his father decided to build a house in Hackensack, N.J. Mr. Van Gelder asked for a control room with a double glass window next to the living room, which would serve as the studio. His father agreed. “The architect made the living room ceiling higher than the rest of the house, which created ideal acoustics for recording,” he said.
Early clients included singer-accordionist Joe Mooney and pianist Billy Taylor. Then in 1952, Gus Statiras, a local producer, brought baritone saxophonist Gil Mellé to Mr. Van Gelder’s studio to record. Mellé later played the results for Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records in New York. “Alfred wanted more tracks and went to his engineer at WOR Studios to see if he could duplicate the natural sound,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The guy told him he didn’t know how, and urged Alfred to see the person who had recorded the originals. So he did.”
Before long, Prestige, Savoy, Vox and other labels began booking studio time for LPs. “To accommodate everyone, I assigned different days of the week to different labels,” he said. “But I continued to work as an optometrist, investing everything I made in new recording equipment.”
Mr. Van Gelder learned his craft on the job. “Alfred was rigid about how he wanted Blue Note records to sound. But Bob Weinstock of Prestige was more easygoing, so I’d experiment on his dates and use what I learned on the Blue Note sessions.”
As the home’s driveway filled with cars, Mr. Van Gelder’s parents added a separate entrance to their bedroom wing to avoid walking in on the musicians. “My parents and the neighbors never complained,” he said. “Only once my mother left me a note asking me to do a better job tidying up.”
In 1954, Mr. Van Gelder and his wife, Elva, moved into a nearby apartment. A museum exhibit in New York on Usonian architecture gave the couple an idea. “The image I had in mind was a small concert hall,” Mr. Van Gelder said. Then came a meeting with David Henken, a Usonian architect and student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Henken designed plans for Mr. Van Gelder, and Armand Giglio, one of Henken’s developers, built the studio on a wooded lot in Englewood Cliffs.
“A crane had to hoist the arches and rafters into place,” Mr. Van Gelder said, pointing up at his studio’s ceiling. “They were bolted together at the top and joined at the bottom with a steel cable under the floor. This design allowed for the large space to stand unencumbered by columns, which was essential for a studio.”
During the 1960s and ’70s, Impulse, Verve, A&M, CTI and other labels used the Van Gelder studio. “‘A Love Supreme’ was recorded right here,” Mr. Van Gelder said. “The session was hypnotic, exciting and different. But I didn’t realize that until I remastered the tapes many years later. When Coltrane was here, I was too worried about capturing the music.”
Before departing, this writer tried once again to pry Mr. Van Gelder’s techniques loose. “All I can tell you is that when I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it’s right, everything is beautiful. I was always searching for that point.”
I’m going to miss Rudy, who taught all of us that the road to success is to stick to your knitting and to make sure your knitting is better than everyone else’s.
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Louis Armstrong’s Lip Balm
By BILL SCHULZ AUG. 26, 2016
Louis Armstrong in 1956. Louis Armstrong House Museum
In the mid-1930s, during an extended tour of Europe, Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) found himself in Germany with a split lip, a fairly common injury for him. But by luck, he had recently made the acquaintance of Franz Schuritz, a trombonist who also happened to be the inventor of Ansatz-Crème, an invigorating lip balm. Armstrong was an immediate and lifelong convert.
“This is the greatest salve in the world,” he said in an interview in 1952. “I’d be dead without it. Before World War II, I told Joe Glaser, my manager, to buy $250 worth of it. He said, ‘Are you crazy?’ And I said, ‘Man, I can read between the lines. There’s trouble coming. Now buy it, dammit.’”
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Playing a trumpet is notoriously hard on the lips, but Armstrong’s playing was so punishing that the condition is now known among horn players as “Satchmo’s syndrome.” (Armstrong’s nickname, Satchmo, was derived from “satchel mouth.”) By the mid-1950s, Ansatz-Crème was endorsed by Armstrong and the tins were rebranded with his name getting top billing.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/) in Corona, Queens, is a national landmark (and was Armstrong’s home for the last three decades of his life). It is now concluding its monthlong celebration of Armstrong’s 115th birthday, on Aug. 4.
The museum holds 300 artifacts related to Armstrong, including a gold Selmer trumpet given to him by King George V in 1934; a portrait of Armstrong by Tony Bennett; and a bronze life mask, which was discovered hidden behind a bookcase. The lip balm — 500 tins of it — was held in the museum’s off-site storage facility.
Louis Armstrong House Museum
According to Ricky Riccardi, director of the research collections at the museum, the salve is a symbol of Armstrong’s devotion to his instrument. “Some people are so blinded by his smile,” Mr. Riccardi said, “they think he’s just clowning around all the time. But from the minute he woke up to the minute the show started, Armstrong was fixated on getting his chops together for that evening’s show. He told all of his wives, ‘The horn comes first,’ and he wasn’t kidding.”
The trumpet from King George V, engraved “Property of Louis Armstrong,” is the centerpiece of the museum. There is another trumpet at the Armstrong Archives at Queens College (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/q/queens_college/index.html?inline=nyt-org) . Four others are kept in a safe, though two of them are on loan at the moment.
“Any time I touch the trumpets, whether it’s to show them to a visitor or just clean them, I get the chills,” Mr. Riccardi said. “Those instruments changed history.”
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Louis Armstrong’s Lip Balm
By BILL SCHULZ AUG. 26, 2016
Louis Armstrong in 1956. Louis Armstrong House Museum
In the mid-1930s, during an extended tour of Europe, Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) found himself in Germany with a split lip, a fairly common injury for him. But by luck, he had recently made the acquaintance of Franz Schuritz, a trombonist who also happened to be the inventor of Ansatz-Crème, an invigorating lip balm. Armstrong was an immediate and lifelong convert.
“This is the greatest salve in the world,” he said in an interview in 1952. “I’d be dead without it. Before World War II, I told Joe Glaser, my manager, to buy $250 worth of it. He said, ‘Are you crazy?’ And I said, ‘Man, I can read between the lines. There’s trouble coming. Now buy it, dammit.’”
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Playing a trumpet is notoriously hard on the lips, but Armstrong’s playing was so punishing that the condition is now known among horn players as “Satchmo’s syndrome.” (Armstrong’s nickname, Satchmo, was derived from “satchel mouth.”) By the mid-1950s, Ansatz-Crème was endorsed by Armstrong and the tins were rebranded with his name getting top billing.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/) in Corona, Queens, is a national landmark (and was Armstrong’s home for the last three decades of his life). It is now concluding its monthlong celebration of Armstrong’s 115th birthday, on Aug. 4.
The museum holds 300 artifacts related to Armstrong, including a gold Selmer trumpet given to him by King George V in 1934; a portrait of Armstrong by Tony Bennett; and a bronze life mask, which was discovered hidden behind a bookcase. The lip balm — 500 tins of it — was held in the museum’s off-site storage facility.
Louis Armstrong House Museum
According to Ricky Riccardi, director of the research collections at the museum, the salve is a symbol of Armstrong’s devotion to his instrument. “Some people are so blinded by his smile,” Mr. Riccardi said, “they think he’s just clowning around all the time. But from the minute he woke up to the minute the show started, Armstrong was fixated on getting his chops together for that evening’s show. He told all of his wives, ‘The horn comes first,’ and he wasn’t kidding.”
The trumpet from King George V, engraved “Property of Louis Armstrong,” is the centerpiece of the museum. There is another trumpet at the Armstrong Archives at Queens College (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/q/queens_college/index.html?inline=nyt-org) . Four others are kept in a safe, though two of them are on loan at the moment.
“Any time I touch the trumpets, whether it’s to show them to a visitor or just clean them, I get the chills,” Mr. Riccardi said. “Those instruments changed history.”
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Louis Armstrong’s Lip Balm
By BILL SCHULZ AUG. 26, 2016
Louis Armstrong in 1956. Louis Armstrong House Museum
In the mid-1930s, during an extended tour of Europe, Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) found himself in Germany with a split lip, a fairly common injury for him. But by luck, he had recently made the acquaintance of Franz Schuritz, a trombonist who also happened to be the inventor of Ansatz-Crème, an invigorating lip balm. Armstrong was an immediate and lifelong convert.
“This is the greatest salve in the world,” he said in an interview in 1952. “I’d be dead without it. Before World War II, I told Joe Glaser, my manager, to buy $250 worth of it. He said, ‘Are you crazy?’ And I said, ‘Man, I can read between the lines. There’s trouble coming. Now buy it, dammit.’”
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Playing a trumpet is notoriously hard on the lips, but Armstrong’s playing was so punishing that the condition is now known among horn players as “Satchmo’s syndrome.” (Armstrong’s nickname, Satchmo, was derived from “satchel mouth.”) By the mid-1950s, Ansatz-Crème was endorsed by Armstrong and the tins were rebranded with his name getting top billing.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/) in Corona, Queens, is a national landmark (and was Armstrong’s home for the last three decades of his life). It is now concluding its monthlong celebration of Armstrong’s 115th birthday, on Aug. 4.
The museum holds 300 artifacts related to Armstrong, including a gold Selmer trumpet given to him by King George V in 1934; a portrait of Armstrong by Tony Bennett; and a bronze life mask, which was discovered hidden behind a bookcase. The lip balm — 500 tins of it — was held in the museum’s off-site storage facility.
Louis Armstrong House Museum
According to Ricky Riccardi, director of the research collections at the museum, the salve is a symbol of Armstrong’s devotion to his instrument. “Some people are so blinded by his smile,” Mr. Riccardi said, “they think he’s just clowning around all the time. But from the minute he woke up to the minute the show started, Armstrong was fixated on getting his chops together for that evening’s show. He told all of his wives, ‘The horn comes first,’ and he wasn’t kidding.”
The trumpet from King George V, engraved “Property of Louis Armstrong,” is the centerpiece of the museum. There is another trumpet at the Armstrong Archives at Queens College (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/q/queens_college/index.html?inline=nyt-org) . Four others are kept in a safe, though two of them are on loan at the moment.
“Any time I touch the trumpets, whether it’s to show them to a visitor or just clean them, I get the chills,” Mr. Riccardi said. “Those instruments changed history.”
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Louis Armstrong’s Lip Balm
By BILL SCHULZ AUG. 26, 2016
Louis Armstrong in 1956. Louis Armstrong House Museum
In the mid-1930s, during an extended tour of Europe, Louis Armstrong (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/louis_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per) found himself in Germany with a split lip, a fairly common injury for him. But by luck, he had recently made the acquaintance of Franz Schuritz, a trombonist who also happened to be the inventor of Ansatz-Crème, an invigorating lip balm. Armstrong was an immediate and lifelong convert.
“This is the greatest salve in the world,” he said in an interview in 1952. “I’d be dead without it. Before World War II, I told Joe Glaser, my manager, to buy $250 worth of it. He said, ‘Are you crazy?’ And I said, ‘Man, I can read between the lines. There’s trouble coming. Now buy it, dammit.’”
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Playing a trumpet is notoriously hard on the lips, but Armstrong’s playing was so punishing that the condition is now known among horn players as “Satchmo’s syndrome.” (Armstrong’s nickname, Satchmo, was derived from “satchel mouth.”) By the mid-1950s, Ansatz-Crème was endorsed by Armstrong and the tins were rebranded with his name getting top billing.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/) in Corona, Queens, is a national landmark (and was Armstrong’s home for the last three decades of his life). It is now concluding its monthlong celebration of Armstrong’s 115th birthday, on Aug. 4.
The museum holds 300 artifacts related to Armstrong, including a gold Selmer trumpet given to him by King George V in 1934; a portrait of Armstrong by Tony Bennett; and a bronze life mask, which was discovered hidden behind a bookcase. The lip balm — 500 tins of it — was held in the museum’s off-site storage facility.
Louis Armstrong House Museum
According to Ricky Riccardi, director of the research collections at the museum, the salve is a symbol of Armstrong’s devotion to his instrument. “Some people are so blinded by his smile,” Mr. Riccardi said, “they think he’s just clowning around all the time. But from the minute he woke up to the minute the show started, Armstrong was fixated on getting his chops together for that evening’s show. He told all of his wives, ‘The horn comes first,’ and he wasn’t kidding.”
The trumpet from King George V, engraved “Property of Louis Armstrong,” is the centerpiece of the museum. There is another trumpet at the Armstrong Archives at Queens College (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/q/queens_college/index.html?inline=nyt-org) . Four others are kept in a safe, though two of them are on loan at the moment.
“Any time I touch the trumpets, whether it’s to show them to a visitor or just clean them, I get the chills,” Mr. Riccardi said. “Those instruments changed history.”
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Years After Newtown Massacre, a Father Plays Through the Pain
By PHILLIP LUTZ AUG. 26, 2016
Jimmy Greene preparing the music before an Aug. 16 set at Birdland in Manhattan with the trumpeter Randy Brecker. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
The saxophonist Jimmy Greene and his wife, Nelba Márquez-Greene, lost their 6-year-old daughter, Ana (https://www.facebook.com/RememberingAna/) , in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html) in Newtown four years ago. Mr. Greene has had success in addressing the loss musically — a tribute to Ana released in 2014, “Beautiful Life,” earned two Grammy nominations (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandy-hook-victim-dad-jimmy-greene-nominated-two-grammys-jazz-album-inspired-daughter/) — but the pain endures.
“I still think of my little girl every moment of every day,” he said.
Yet Mr. Greene, 41, is moving the needle artistically, and perhaps psychologically. This month, he completed studio work on another, more animated recorded tribute and spent five nights as a sideman at a club in New York City. Next month, he will lead bands at clubs in New York and Stamford and at a concert hall in his native Hartford, where he will draw on the new music.
“It’s extremely helpful dealing with the complex emotions that the grief process brings on,” he said of the activity.
Sitting in his studio at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where he is an assistant professor of music, Mr. Greene, a big man with a ready smile, said that, in recent months he had become physically stronger and better able to focus. He credited the good wishes, and occasional largess, of family, friends and colleagues.
Prominent among them is the pianist Renee Rosnes (http://www.reneerosnes.com/) . The only musician recruited for both “Beautiful Life” and the new album, Ms. Rosnes, who like Mr. Greene is a fixture in the jazz mainstream, said she had noticed a change in him.
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“He’s a great talent who would have developed into the musician he is today regardless,” she said. “However, I believe that there might be a certain intensity in the way he plays that is directly related to what happened to him.”
That intensity was evident on a Tuesday night this month before a packed house at Birdland in Manhattan, where Ms. Rosnes led a quintet through the songbook of her former colleague and an influence of Mr. Greene’s, the saxophonist Joe Henderson.
Offstage, Mr. Greene focused intently on Isaiah, now his only child, who sat with him at a side table. Onstage, with Ms. Rosnes lending moral and musical support, Mr. Greene’s solos revealed a wide emotional range — his low notes, big and round, seeming to plumb the depths of despair; his high notes, light and looping, reaching heavenward.
Back in his studio, he spoke with a low-key sense of urgency about the new album. It grew, he said, out of a critique offered by a young friend of Ana’s during a performance of music from “Beautiful Life” at the university in December 2014. The friend told Mr. Greene’s wife (http://www.npr.org/2013/12/14/250786728/a-grieving-newtown-mothers-motto-love-wins) , a marriage and family therapist, that the songs were slow and sad, but that Ana was anything but. Mr. Greene quoted the friend as saying, “Ana would like something she could dance to.”
Mr. Greene playing his saxophone. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
“I really appreciated that insight,” Mr. Greene said.“So this album is a much more lively, danceable, rhythmic expression than the last one.”
For the album, which does not yet have a name, Mr. Greene did not use the children’s choir, the string section and the small army of jazz musicians who appeared on “Beautiful Life.” In their place are two agile combos, one of which includes the players who appeared at the December 2014 concert: John Patitucci (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18musicwe.html?_r=0) on bass, Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums and Ms. Rosnes.
The band, which will join Mr. Greene at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford on Sept. 23, is called Jimmy Greene’s Love in Action. The name reflects the message that Mr. Greene said he is keen to put forward: “Love is a set of actions.”
Mr. Patitucci’s presence should help advance that message. Beyond his great skill on the bass, he is known in the jazz community for his joyous mien and his adherence to his Christian beliefs — traits, he noted, that he has in common with Mr. Greene.
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“He’s a spiritually deep person, with a huge faith,” said Mr. Patitucci, who reached out to Mr. Greene after Newtown. “That’s something we share. When I hear his music, I hear the kind of beauty that speaks to the beauty of the divine.”
Mr. Patitucci cited “Ana’s Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdagrTCnP2Y) ,” a restrained exercise employing the choir from Ana’s former school, the Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, Canada, as music from “Beautiful Life” that moved him. He also mentioned “Last Summer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rDl4WdR8SM) ,” a quartet number that Mr. Greene was reworking for his large ensemble, the Big Jimmy Greene Band, which will appear at the 9th Note in Stamford on Sept. 10 and at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Manhattan on Sept. 12.
That piece tempers its pathos with a rhythmic kick, foretelling the brighter approach on the new album. At its extreme, that approach is expressed in what Mr. Greene called “comical, silly” material like “Stink Thumb,” which derives its title from Ana’s fascination with thumb-sucking and its odorous aftermath. The album, suffused with South American and Afro-Cuban rhythms, reunites Mr. Greene with the Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato, who taught at the Hartt School in Hartford. There, as a student, Mr. Greene made contacts that gave him entree to the top ranks of the jazz world.
As a globe-trotting artist and educator, he took a job teaching at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He returned to Connecticut only months before Ana was killed.
The impact of that decision was not lost on him. But after receiving condolences from places far and wide, Mr. Greene — born in Hartford, raised in East Hartford and Bloomfield — still finds it comforting finally to be living and working close to home.
“It’s always nice to see familiar faces in the audience,” he said. “You feel there are people who know you and understand you already out there.”
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Years After Newtown Massacre, a Father Plays Through the Pain
By PHILLIP LUTZ AUG. 26, 2016
Jimmy Greene preparing the music before an Aug. 16 set at Birdland in Manhattan with the trumpeter Randy Brecker. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
The saxophonist Jimmy Greene and his wife, Nelba Márquez-Greene, lost their 6-year-old daughter, Ana (https://www.facebook.com/RememberingAna/) , in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html) in Newtown four years ago. Mr. Greene has had success in addressing the loss musically — a tribute to Ana released in 2014, “Beautiful Life,” earned two Grammy nominations (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandy-hook-victim-dad-jimmy-greene-nominated-two-grammys-jazz-album-inspired-daughter/) — but the pain endures.
“I still think of my little girl every moment of every day,” he said.
Yet Mr. Greene, 41, is moving the needle artistically, and perhaps psychologically. This month, he completed studio work on another, more animated recorded tribute and spent five nights as a sideman at a club in New York City. Next month, he will lead bands at clubs in New York and Stamford and at a concert hall in his native Hartford, where he will draw on the new music.
“It’s extremely helpful dealing with the complex emotions that the grief process brings on,” he said of the activity.
Sitting in his studio at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where he is an assistant professor of music, Mr. Greene, a big man with a ready smile, said that, in recent months he had become physically stronger and better able to focus. He credited the good wishes, and occasional largess, of family, friends and colleagues.
Prominent among them is the pianist Renee Rosnes (http://www.reneerosnes.com/) . The only musician recruited for both “Beautiful Life” and the new album, Ms. Rosnes, who like Mr. Greene is a fixture in the jazz mainstream, said she had noticed a change in him.
Continue reading the main story
“He’s a great talent who would have developed into the musician he is today regardless,” she said. “However, I believe that there might be a certain intensity in the way he plays that is directly related to what happened to him.”
That intensity was evident on a Tuesday night this month before a packed house at Birdland in Manhattan, where Ms. Rosnes led a quintet through the songbook of her former colleague and an influence of Mr. Greene’s, the saxophonist Joe Henderson.
Offstage, Mr. Greene focused intently on Isaiah, now his only child, who sat with him at a side table. Onstage, with Ms. Rosnes lending moral and musical support, Mr. Greene’s solos revealed a wide emotional range — his low notes, big and round, seeming to plumb the depths of despair; his high notes, light and looping, reaching heavenward.
Back in his studio, he spoke with a low-key sense of urgency about the new album. It grew, he said, out of a critique offered by a young friend of Ana’s during a performance of music from “Beautiful Life” at the university in December 2014. The friend told Mr. Greene’s wife (http://www.npr.org/2013/12/14/250786728/a-grieving-newtown-mothers-motto-love-wins) , a marriage and family therapist, that the songs were slow and sad, but that Ana was anything but. Mr. Greene quoted the friend as saying, “Ana would like something she could dance to.”
Mr. Greene playing his saxophone. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
“I really appreciated that insight,” Mr. Greene said.“So this album is a much more lively, danceable, rhythmic expression than the last one.”
For the album, which does not yet have a name, Mr. Greene did not use the children’s choir, the string section and the small army of jazz musicians who appeared on “Beautiful Life.” In their place are two agile combos, one of which includes the players who appeared at the December 2014 concert: John Patitucci (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18musicwe.html?_r=0) on bass, Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums and Ms. Rosnes.
The band, which will join Mr. Greene at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford on Sept. 23, is called Jimmy Greene’s Love in Action. The name reflects the message that Mr. Greene said he is keen to put forward: “Love is a set of actions.”
Mr. Patitucci’s presence should help advance that message. Beyond his great skill on the bass, he is known in the jazz community for his joyous mien and his adherence to his Christian beliefs — traits, he noted, that he has in common with Mr. Greene.
Continue reading the main story
“He’s a spiritually deep person, with a huge faith,” said Mr. Patitucci, who reached out to Mr. Greene after Newtown. “That’s something we share. When I hear his music, I hear the kind of beauty that speaks to the beauty of the divine.”
Mr. Patitucci cited “Ana’s Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdagrTCnP2Y) ,” a restrained exercise employing the choir from Ana’s former school, the Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, Canada, as music from “Beautiful Life” that moved him. He also mentioned “Last Summer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rDl4WdR8SM) ,” a quartet number that Mr. Greene was reworking for his large ensemble, the Big Jimmy Greene Band, which will appear at the 9th Note in Stamford on Sept. 10 and at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Manhattan on Sept. 12.
That piece tempers its pathos with a rhythmic kick, foretelling the brighter approach on the new album. At its extreme, that approach is expressed in what Mr. Greene called “comical, silly” material like “Stink Thumb,” which derives its title from Ana’s fascination with thumb-sucking and its odorous aftermath. The album, suffused with South American and Afro-Cuban rhythms, reunites Mr. Greene with the Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato, who taught at the Hartt School in Hartford. There, as a student, Mr. Greene made contacts that gave him entree to the top ranks of the jazz world.
As a globe-trotting artist and educator, he took a job teaching at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He returned to Connecticut only months before Ana was killed.
The impact of that decision was not lost on him. But after receiving condolences from places far and wide, Mr. Greene — born in Hartford, raised in East Hartford and Bloomfield — still finds it comforting finally to be living and working close to home.
“It’s always nice to see familiar faces in the audience,” he said. “You feel there are people who know you and understand you already out there.”
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Years After Newtown Massacre, a Father Plays Through the Pain
By PHILLIP LUTZ AUG. 26, 2016
Jimmy Greene preparing the music before an Aug. 16 set at Birdland in Manhattan with the trumpeter Randy Brecker. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
The saxophonist Jimmy Greene and his wife, Nelba Márquez-Greene, lost their 6-year-old daughter, Ana (https://www.facebook.com/RememberingAna/) , in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html) in Newtown four years ago. Mr. Greene has had success in addressing the loss musically — a tribute to Ana released in 2014, “Beautiful Life,” earned two Grammy nominations (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandy-hook-victim-dad-jimmy-greene-nominated-two-grammys-jazz-album-inspired-daughter/) — but the pain endures.
“I still think of my little girl every moment of every day,” he said.
Yet Mr. Greene, 41, is moving the needle artistically, and perhaps psychologically. This month, he completed studio work on another, more animated recorded tribute and spent five nights as a sideman at a club in New York City. Next month, he will lead bands at clubs in New York and Stamford and at a concert hall in his native Hartford, where he will draw on the new music.
“It’s extremely helpful dealing with the complex emotions that the grief process brings on,” he said of the activity.
Sitting in his studio at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where he is an assistant professor of music, Mr. Greene, a big man with a ready smile, said that, in recent months he had become physically stronger and better able to focus. He credited the good wishes, and occasional largess, of family, friends and colleagues.
Prominent among them is the pianist Renee Rosnes (http://www.reneerosnes.com/) . The only musician recruited for both “Beautiful Life” and the new album, Ms. Rosnes, who like Mr. Greene is a fixture in the jazz mainstream, said she had noticed a change in him.
Continue reading the main story
“He’s a great talent who would have developed into the musician he is today regardless,” she said. “However, I believe that there might be a certain intensity in the way he plays that is directly related to what happened to him.”
That intensity was evident on a Tuesday night this month before a packed house at Birdland in Manhattan, where Ms. Rosnes led a quintet through the songbook of her former colleague and an influence of Mr. Greene’s, the saxophonist Joe Henderson.
Offstage, Mr. Greene focused intently on Isaiah, now his only child, who sat with him at a side table. Onstage, with Ms. Rosnes lending moral and musical support, Mr. Greene’s solos revealed a wide emotional range — his low notes, big and round, seeming to plumb the depths of despair; his high notes, light and looping, reaching heavenward.
Back in his studio, he spoke with a low-key sense of urgency about the new album. It grew, he said, out of a critique offered by a young friend of Ana’s during a performance of music from “Beautiful Life” at the university in December 2014. The friend told Mr. Greene’s wife (http://www.npr.org/2013/12/14/250786728/a-grieving-newtown-mothers-motto-love-wins) , a marriage and family therapist, that the songs were slow and sad, but that Ana was anything but. Mr. Greene quoted the friend as saying, “Ana would like something she could dance to.”
Mr. Greene playing his saxophone. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
“I really appreciated that insight,” Mr. Greene said.“So this album is a much more lively, danceable, rhythmic expression than the last one.”
For the album, which does not yet have a name, Mr. Greene did not use the children’s choir, the string section and the small army of jazz musicians who appeared on “Beautiful Life.” In their place are two agile combos, one of which includes the players who appeared at the December 2014 concert: John Patitucci (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18musicwe.html?_r=0) on bass, Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums and Ms. Rosnes.
The band, which will join Mr. Greene at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford on Sept. 23, is called Jimmy Greene’s Love in Action. The name reflects the message that Mr. Greene said he is keen to put forward: “Love is a set of actions.”
Mr. Patitucci’s presence should help advance that message. Beyond his great skill on the bass, he is known in the jazz community for his joyous mien and his adherence to his Christian beliefs — traits, he noted, that he has in common with Mr. Greene.
Continue reading the main story
“He’s a spiritually deep person, with a huge faith,” said Mr. Patitucci, who reached out to Mr. Greene after Newtown. “That’s something we share. When I hear his music, I hear the kind of beauty that speaks to the beauty of the divine.”
Mr. Patitucci cited “Ana’s Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdagrTCnP2Y) ,” a restrained exercise employing the choir from Ana’s former school, the Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, Canada, as music from “Beautiful Life” that moved him. He also mentioned “Last Summer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rDl4WdR8SM) ,” a quartet number that Mr. Greene was reworking for his large ensemble, the Big Jimmy Greene Band, which will appear at the 9th Note in Stamford on Sept. 10 and at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Manhattan on Sept. 12.
That piece tempers its pathos with a rhythmic kick, foretelling the brighter approach on the new album. At its extreme, that approach is expressed in what Mr. Greene called “comical, silly” material like “Stink Thumb,” which derives its title from Ana’s fascination with thumb-sucking and its odorous aftermath. The album, suffused with South American and Afro-Cuban rhythms, reunites Mr. Greene with the Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato, who taught at the Hartt School in Hartford. There, as a student, Mr. Greene made contacts that gave him entree to the top ranks of the jazz world.
As a globe-trotting artist and educator, he took a job teaching at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He returned to Connecticut only months before Ana was killed.
The impact of that decision was not lost on him. But after receiving condolences from places far and wide, Mr. Greene — born in Hartford, raised in East Hartford and Bloomfield — still finds it comforting finally to be living and working close to home.
“It’s always nice to see familiar faces in the audience,” he said. “You feel there are people who know you and understand you already out there.”
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Years After Newtown Massacre, a Father Plays Through the Pain
By PHILLIP LUTZ AUG. 26, 2016
Jimmy Greene preparing the music before an Aug. 16 set at Birdland in Manhattan with the trumpeter Randy Brecker. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
The saxophonist Jimmy Greene and his wife, Nelba Márquez-Greene, lost their 6-year-old daughter, Ana (https://www.facebook.com/RememberingAna/) , in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html) in Newtown four years ago. Mr. Greene has had success in addressing the loss musically — a tribute to Ana released in 2014, “Beautiful Life,” earned two Grammy nominations (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandy-hook-victim-dad-jimmy-greene-nominated-two-grammys-jazz-album-inspired-daughter/) — but the pain endures.
“I still think of my little girl every moment of every day,” he said.
Yet Mr. Greene, 41, is moving the needle artistically, and perhaps psychologically. This month, he completed studio work on another, more animated recorded tribute and spent five nights as a sideman at a club in New York City. Next month, he will lead bands at clubs in New York and Stamford and at a concert hall in his native Hartford, where he will draw on the new music.
“It’s extremely helpful dealing with the complex emotions that the grief process brings on,” he said of the activity.
Sitting in his studio at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where he is an assistant professor of music, Mr. Greene, a big man with a ready smile, said that, in recent months he had become physically stronger and better able to focus. He credited the good wishes, and occasional largess, of family, friends and colleagues.
Prominent among them is the pianist Renee Rosnes (http://www.reneerosnes.com/) . The only musician recruited for both “Beautiful Life” and the new album, Ms. Rosnes, who like Mr. Greene is a fixture in the jazz mainstream, said she had noticed a change in him.
Continue reading the main story
“He’s a great talent who would have developed into the musician he is today regardless,” she said. “However, I believe that there might be a certain intensity in the way he plays that is directly related to what happened to him.”
That intensity was evident on a Tuesday night this month before a packed house at Birdland in Manhattan, where Ms. Rosnes led a quintet through the songbook of her former colleague and an influence of Mr. Greene’s, the saxophonist Joe Henderson.
Offstage, Mr. Greene focused intently on Isaiah, now his only child, who sat with him at a side table. Onstage, with Ms. Rosnes lending moral and musical support, Mr. Greene’s solos revealed a wide emotional range — his low notes, big and round, seeming to plumb the depths of despair; his high notes, light and looping, reaching heavenward.
Back in his studio, he spoke with a low-key sense of urgency about the new album. It grew, he said, out of a critique offered by a young friend of Ana’s during a performance of music from “Beautiful Life” at the university in December 2014. The friend told Mr. Greene’s wife (http://www.npr.org/2013/12/14/250786728/a-grieving-newtown-mothers-motto-love-wins) , a marriage and family therapist, that the songs were slow and sad, but that Ana was anything but. Mr. Greene quoted the friend as saying, “Ana would like something she could dance to.”
Mr. Greene playing his saxophone. Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
“I really appreciated that insight,” Mr. Greene said.“So this album is a much more lively, danceable, rhythmic expression than the last one.”
For the album, which does not yet have a name, Mr. Greene did not use the children’s choir, the string section and the small army of jazz musicians who appeared on “Beautiful Life.” In their place are two agile combos, one of which includes the players who appeared at the December 2014 concert: John Patitucci (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18musicwe.html?_r=0) on bass, Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums and Ms. Rosnes.
The band, which will join Mr. Greene at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford on Sept. 23, is called Jimmy Greene’s Love in Action. The name reflects the message that Mr. Greene said he is keen to put forward: “Love is a set of actions.”
Mr. Patitucci’s presence should help advance that message. Beyond his great skill on the bass, he is known in the jazz community for his joyous mien and his adherence to his Christian beliefs — traits, he noted, that he has in common with Mr. Greene.
Continue reading the main story
“He’s a spiritually deep person, with a huge faith,” said Mr. Patitucci, who reached out to Mr. Greene after Newtown. “That’s something we share. When I hear his music, I hear the kind of beauty that speaks to the beauty of the divine.”
Mr. Patitucci cited “Ana’s Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdagrTCnP2Y) ,” a restrained exercise employing the choir from Ana’s former school, the Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, Canada, as music from “Beautiful Life” that moved him. He also mentioned “Last Summer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rDl4WdR8SM) ,” a quartet number that Mr. Greene was reworking for his large ensemble, the Big Jimmy Greene Band, which will appear at the 9th Note in Stamford on Sept. 10 and at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Manhattan on Sept. 12.
That piece tempers its pathos with a rhythmic kick, foretelling the brighter approach on the new album. At its extreme, that approach is expressed in what Mr. Greene called “comical, silly” material like “Stink Thumb,” which derives its title from Ana’s fascination with thumb-sucking and its odorous aftermath. The album, suffused with South American and Afro-Cuban rhythms, reunites Mr. Greene with the Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato, who taught at the Hartt School in Hartford. There, as a student, Mr. Greene made contacts that gave him entree to the top ranks of the jazz world.
As a globe-trotting artist and educator, he took a job teaching at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He returned to Connecticut only months before Ana was killed.
The impact of that decision was not lost on him. But after receiving condolences from places far and wide, Mr. Greene — born in Hartford, raised in East Hartford and Bloomfield — still finds it comforting finally to be living and working close to home.
“It’s always nice to see familiar faces in the audience,” he said. “You feel there are people who know you and understand you already out there.”
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