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One of my jazz heroes has passed. R.I.P. Nat Hentoff






One of my jazz heroes has passed. R.I.P. Nat Hentoff


One of my jazz heroes has passed.
 
His many books, liner notes and writings about jazz inspired me to do what I do.
 
Before ‘I got into the record’ business way back in the early 1970s I worked for the legendary
 Strand Bookstore.
 
The krew when I was there was quite amazing:
 
Writers, actors, authors, musicians, bibliomaniacs….
 
Craig Anderson, the son of Maxwell Anderson, Dick Komar Jr the son of Dorthory Killgallen and the actor Richard Komar, Tommy Miller aka Tommy Verlaine who founded the band Television to name a few.
 
Patty Smith was there too, just as I was departing.  Her sister worked there too and married the Strand shipping clerk.
 
One of my Strand jobs was to go around to all the critics and magazines and pick up review books and galley's.  Life magazine was one of my stops.  I’d hit maybe 10 or more different departments from their Sixth Ave headquarters.  My last stop was Loudon S. Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III's father.   He was the editor for the popular
Miscellanyfeature that always closed every issue of Life Magazine.  His office walls were covered with the original photographs they used.  He always gave me a ‘tip’ of free records and books.
 
I also picked up from Nat Hentoff.
 
I’d go to his West 12th St apartment through the service entrance. I could hear him banging away on his manual typewriter.
 
He had books and records piled up outside his service entry door…tons of stuff.
 
After I announced myself he told me to take everything on the left and help myself to whatever records I wanted on the right as a tip.
 
R.I.P. Nat Hentoff
 
Nat Hentoff-George Wein-Tony Scott JJA Awards BB King’s NYC 2003
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