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2017: The Year in Jazz

The year 2017 was quite something for the jazz world. Incidents or discussions of misogyny and sexual misconduct bubbled up even before the #MeToo phenomenon developed. Beyond that, woman musicians made significant contributions to the genre. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Havana, Cuba. Sonny Rollins made the headlines without playing a note. The New Orleans financial scandal focusing on trumpeter Irvin Mayfield reached the indictment phase. It was the 100th birthday year for ten deceased jazz notables. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA Jazz Masters and the jazz world said farewell to four others who were among the many industry-associated musicians and figures who passed away during the year.
Jazz and gender
In this second century for jazz, one would think there would be a level playing field for all musicians. But the subject of inequality is still thereand surfaced throughout the year in many guises. Misogyny and misconduct drew important new focuses amid reports of sexual misbehaviorand several women musicians went public with personal stories about repression and/or sexism that proclaimed it's time for a new day and more awareness.
Some of these happened well before the #MeToo phenomenon opened the floodgates.
Grammy-winning Portland, Oregon trumpeter and educator

Steve Kirby
bass, acoustic
Robert Glasper
pianob.1978

Ethan Iverson
pianob.1973
Drummer and vibraphonist

Sasha Berliner
vibraphoneLily Maase
guitarb.1982

Lauren Sevian
saxophone, baritoneb.1979

Geri Allen
piano1957 - 2017
Bassist, singer and bandleader

Esperanza Spalding
bassb.1984
Critics took note of significant new or debut albums. They included avant-garde trumpeter

Jaimie Branch
trumpet1983 - 2022

Kate Gentile
drums
Simona Premazzi
piano
Marta Sanchez
piano
Geri Allen
piano1957 - 2017

Terri Lyne Carrington
drumsb.1965

Vijay Iyer
pianob.1971

Jason Moran
pianob.1975

Christian Sands
pianob.1989
International Jazz Day, Take Six
Havana, Cuba was the Global Host City for 2017's International Jazz Day a worldwide event produced by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. The highlight, its Global Concert, took place April 30 at the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso and was streamed worldwide. UNESCO goodwill ambassador

Herbie Hancock
pianob.1940

Chucho Valdes
pianob.1941
The international roster of performers included

Ambrose Akinmusire
trumpetb.1982

Melissa Aldana
saxophone
Richard Bona
bass, electricb.1967

Till Bronner
trumpetb.1971

Igor Butman
saxophone, tenorb.1961

Regina Carter
violinb.1966

Kurt Elling
vocalsb.1967

Takuya Kuroda
trumpetb.1980

Ivan Lins
piano and vocalsb.1945

Youn Sun Nah
vocals
Gianluca Petrella
tromboneb.1975

Gonzalo Rubalcaba
pianob.1963

Antonio Sanchez
drumsb.1971

Esperanza Spalding
bassb.1984

In a departure from past practice, UNESCO revised the selection process and also announced the International Jazz Day Global Host Cities for the next two years. They will be Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2018 and Sydney, Australia in 2019. Both cities were selected by an advisory committee through a new nominating process. In contrast to these early announcements, 2017's locale wasn't disclosed until three weeks before the Havana concert.
Jazzy Centennials
A significant number of jazz notables had their 100th birthdays noted posthumouslysometimes with great fanfareduring 2017. Those musicians included pianist

Tadd Dameron
piano1917 - 1965

Ella Fitzgerald
vocals1917 - 1996

Dizzy Gillespie
trumpet1917 - 1993

Lena Horne
vocals1917 - 2010
Dave Lambert
vocalsb.1917

Thelonious Monk
piano1917 - 1982

Buddy Rich
drums1917 - 1987

Curley Russell
bass, acoustic1917 - 1986

Mongo Santamaria
percussion1917 - 2003

Jo Stafford
vocals1917 - 2008

Danilo Pérez
pianob.1966
Sonny Side Up

Sonny Rollins
saxophoneb.1930
But there's more. In November, he designated a major gift to Oberlin College in Ohio to create the "Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble Fund" to support "exemplary conservatory musicians and service efforts." The college said Rollins was moved by Oberlin's place "as the first institution of higher learning to adopt a policy to admit students of color and the first to confer degrees to women, and by the contributions its alumni. They included alumni black violinist and composer
Will Marion Cook
b.1869There were two Rollins-related initiatives in New York City. Brooklyn Councilman Stephen Levin introduced a bill calling to rename the Williamsburg Bridge after the saxophonist, who practiced on the span's pedestrian path during a two-year hiatus that began in 1959. Also, Essex Crossing, a billion-dollar new development on Manhattan's Lower East Side that decimated a walkup tenement at 400 Grand Street where Rollins once lived, announced it will honor him by naming a new 15-story tower in his honor. That new building at 145 Clinton Street will be called The Rollins.
Hanging up the mallets
Vibraphonist and educator

Gary Burton
vibraphoneb.1943

Makoto Ozone
pianob.1961

Michael Gibbs
tromboneb.1937

Bill Frisell
guitar, electricb.1951
Awards and honors of note
NEA JAZZ MASTERS: Singer

Dee Dee Bridgewater
vocalsb.1950

Dave Holland
bassb.1946

Dick Hyman
pianob.1927

Dr. Lonnie Smith
organ, Hammond B31942 - 2021

Ira Gitler
producerb.1928

Pat Metheny
guitarb.1954

JoAnne Brackeen
pianob.1938

Dianne Reeves
vocalsb.1956

Todd Barkan
producerGRAMMY AWARDS: Winners of jazz-related categories at the 2017 Grammy Awards, held February 12 in Los Angeles include multiple trophies to guitarist

John Scofield
guitarb.1951

Ted Nash
saxophoneb.1960

Jacob Collier
vocalsb.1994

Snarky Puppy
band / ensemble / orchestra
Gregory Porter
vocalsb.1971

John Scofield
guitarb.1951

Ted Nash
saxophoneb.1960
Also,

Chucho Valdes
pianob.1941

Ted Nash
saxophoneb.1960

Jacob Collier
vocalsb.1994

Jacob Collier
vocalsb.1994

Miles Davis
trumpet1926 - 1991

David Bowie
vocals1947 - 2016

Donny McCaslin
saxophone, tenorb.1966
LATIN GRAMMY AWARDS: There were several Latin jazz-related winners at the 18th annual Latin Grammy Awards held November 16 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. They were

Rubén Blades
vocalsb.1948

Michel Camilo
pianob.1954

Tomatito
guitarb.1958

Eliane Elias
piano and vocalsb.1960
Jon Secada
vocalsb.1962

Charlie Sepulveda
trumpetb.1962
SASSY AWARDS:

Quiana Lynell
vocals
Sarah Vaughan
vocals1924 - 1990

Tatiana LadyMay Mayfield
vocals
Tiffany Austin
vocals2016 NPR MUSIC JAZZ CRITICS POLL: Pianist-composer

Vijay Iyer
pianob.1971

Tyshawn Sorey
drumsb.1980

Thelonious Monk
piano1917 - 1982
JJA AWARDS: Trumpeter

Wadada Leo Smith
trumpetb.1941

Anat Cohen
clarinetb.1975

Vijay Iyer
pianob.1971

McCoy Tyner
piano1938 - 2020

Joey Alexander
pianob.2003

Brian Lynch
trumpetb.1956
The 2017 JJA Jazz Awards in journalism and media categories included: Ted Gioia (lifetime achievement in jazz journalism), DownBeat magazine (jazz periodical of the year),

Ethan Iverson
pianob.1973
MACARTHUR FELLOWS: The MacArthur Foundation's 24 new MacArthur Fellows for 2017 included jazz musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey. The so-called "genius grant" includes a $625,000, no-strings-attached award. Sorey for "assimilating and transforming ideas from a broad spectrum of traditional and experimental idioms into musical creations that celebrate alternative musical modeling within the improvisation-composition continuum." Roots singer-musiciancomposer

Rhiannon Giddens
vocalsASCAP: Singer

Dee Dee Bridgewater
vocalsb.1950
POLAR MUSIC PRIZE: Pop musician

Sting
bass, electricb.1951

Wayne Shorter
saxophone1933 - 2023
BMI JAZZ COMPOSERS WORKSHOP:

Remy Le Boeuf
fluteBNY MELLON JAZZ LIVING LEGACY AWARD: Saxophonist

Odean Pope
saxophoneb.1938
EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR: Pianist and educator Rob Klevan, who has taught music in California's Monterey Peninsula since the late 1970s, was honored in January with the 2017 John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award by the Berklee College of Music and the Jazz Education Network. Klevan is on the faculty of the York School and leads the Pacific Grove High School jazz club, which includes student musicians from area schools and even homeschooled students.
Industry initiatives...
WBGO-NPR: Newark, New Jersey's public radio station WBGO, the second-highest-rated jazz station in the U.S., revamped and expanded its jazz presence beyond the radio waves in significant ways. It revamped its website and social media presence to become an online source for jazz and to become National Public Radio's primary provider of jazz content. The station hired jazz critic Nate Chinen to direct its editorial content, work on its "Jazz Night in America" program and join the NPR music commentators team.
QWEST TV: In mid-December, producer

Quincy Jones
arranger1933 - 2024

Al Jarreau
vocals1940 - 2017

Michel Petrucciani
piano1962 - 1999

Jason Moran
pianob.1975

Kneebody
band / ensemble / orchestra
Oumou Sangaré
vocalsb.1968

Damion Reid
drums
Mark Turner
saxophone, tenorb.1965

Bilal
vocalsJAZZ CONNECT HANDS OFF TO JAZZ CONGRESS: The New York City-based industry conference, held in January for the past six years, has evolved into Jazz Congress, which begins in 2018 in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz Connect began in 2012 as a pre-conference leading into the big APAP performing arts presenters conference and NYC Winter Jazzfest. It became a standalone event held at St. Peter's Church in midtown Manhattan from 2015 to 2017. JazzTimes was co-producer of Jazz Connect and has the same role at Jazz Congress. The magazine has been producing multi-day industry forums that bring together artists, media and industry leaders in the global jazz community to exchange ideas and network since 1979.
JAZZ ACROSS BORDERS: In a vein similar to the New York jazz confabs, the first Jazz Across Borders conference was held in Saint Petersburg in mid-November. Saxophonist-composer-bandleader

Igor Butman
saxophone, tenorb.1961

Kurt Elling
vocalsb.1967
GUARANTEED FAIR WAGE FUND: The San Francisco Bay-area nonprofit Jazz in the Neighborhood took major steps and held a fundraiser in 2017 to bolster its program to ensure the Bay Area to ensure freelance musicians are paid a minimum of $150 per performance. Its Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund subsidizes concerts in venues that are unable to raise that kind of fee. Trumpeter Marco Guarneri created the nonprofit six years ago. Jazz in the Neighborhood has presented nearly 200 concerts in Bay Area venues, paying $140,000 to more than 300 musicians. In 2017, it received a $3,000 grant from the SF Friends of Chamber Music to fund a February 2018 concert showcasing three young professionals from the nonprofit's Emerging Artists programs.
On the Record
CONCORD ACQUIRES SAVOY LABEL GROUP: The year brought two more acquisitions for Concord Music Group, which is no longer the independent boutique label that auto dealer Carl Jefferson founded in 1973 as Concord Jazz. It bought Savoy Label Group in September, acquiring more than 3,000 master recordings by Savoy Records and Savoy's 429 Records adult rock and alternative music label. It bought the Imagem Music Group for more than $500 million in June, helping make Concord the world's fifth-largest integrated music company.
MAINSTREAM RECORDS: Mainstream Records, an independent label active in the 1960s and '70s, was revived in October by producer-writer-director and standup comic Judd Apatow, He is the grandson of Bob Shad, a pioneering 1940s jazz producer who founded Mainstream in 1964.Before starting Mainstream, Shadd worked with the Manor, National and Mercury labels and founded the Mercury-owned EmArcy label.
BLUE NOTE SERIES: Luxury Boxes usually are found ball parks and football stadiums. Now they exist in jazz, thanks to Blue Note. In November, the label introduced the first volume of The Blue Note Review, which it calls a limited edition luxury box set. Each biannual volume will include a collection of new music from the label's current artists, as well as an archival recording from Blue Note's vaults." The 1,500-copy collectible sets are only available through online ordering. The label said the music will not be sold separately or available via download or streaming sites.
Volume One: "Peace, Love & Fishing contain a two-LP vinyl double-album and a two CD set of new and previously unreleased recordings by current label artists including the

Wayne Shorter
saxophone1933 - 2023

Charles Lloyd
saxophoneb.1938

Dr. Lonnie Smith
organ, Hammond B31942 - 2021

Gregory Porter
vocalsb.1971

Kandace Springs
vocals
Terence Blanchard
trumpetb.1962

Derrick Hodge
bassb.1979

Ambrose Akinmusire
trumpetb.1982

Robert Glasper
pianob.1978

Lionel Loueke
guitarb.1973

Kendrick Scott
drumsb.1980

Marcus Strickland
clarinet, bass
Blue Mitchell
trumpet1930 - 1979

Joe Henderson
saxophone1937 - 2001

Leo Wright
woodwinds1933 - 1991

Herbie Hancock
pianob.1940

Gene Taylor
bassb.1929
Roy Brooks
drumsb.1938
STREAMING ECM: Manfred Eicher's German jazz label ECM made its entire catalog available to subscribers of music-streaming services including Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Qobuz. The mid-November transition was made possible through a new digital distribution agreement with Universal Music, the company that distributes ECM recordings in the United States. It means ECM is no longer an industry holdout against digital distribution. "In recent years, ECM and the musicians have had to face unauthorized streaming of recordings via video-sharing websites, plus piracy, bootlegs and a proliferation of illegal download sites. It was important to make the catalogue accessible within a framework where copyrights are respected," the label said.
Jazz venue ups and downs
BLUE NOTE EXPANDS TO SOUTH AMERICA: Blue Note Entertainment Group opened its eighth Blue Note Jazz Club in August. The new location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, joined a worldwide network that includes the flagship club in New York City, as well as clubs in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; Milan, Italy; Waikiki, Hawaii; Beijing, China; and Napa, California. The 350-seat venue in Rio's Lagoa section is a partnership with L21 Participac?es, a prominent Brazilian-based entertainment holding company led by entrepreneur Luiz Calainho.
THE JAZZ FORUM: Trumpeter and producer

Mark Morganelli
trumpetb.1955

Roy Hargrove
trumpet1969 - 2018

Monika Oliveira
vocalsTHE STONE: New York's experimental music club founded in 2005 by saxophonist

John Zorn
saxophone, altob.1953
SCULLERS/CABOT: Fred Taylor, a legendary club owner and concert producer on the Boston jazz scene since the 1950s, was fired as entertainment director at Scullers Jazz Club in February. The move by management at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel angered many in the Boston jazz community. Jan Mullen, who ran The SideDoor, a jazz club in Old Lyme, Connecticut, was hired to book and manage Scullers. Taylor quickly started a new jazz concert series at the Cabot Theater in suburban Beverly, Massachusetts.
SACRAMENTO MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society pulled the plug in December on its 44-year-old trad jazz weekend, previously known as the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee. It was done in by budget deficits and dwindling attendance. The festival had been held in Old Sacramento each Memorial Day weekend since 1974. Attendance peaked at 85,000 in the mid-1980s but dwindled to about 20,000 in the last few years.
AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council has authorized the city manager to take a closer look at the assets and management of the finance-challenged American Jazz Museum. The council is also approved a $250,000 boost for the museum, just to meet payroll. The museum faces an estimated $1 million shortfall due to overspending and losses in its inaugural Kansas City Jazz and Heritage Festival last Memorial Day weekend, which resulted in bounced checks to some performers and delayed payments to vendors. The museum also manages the Blue Room, Gem Theater and the 18th and Vine Visitors Center. One councilman has recommended a takeover of the facility's management by the city's Parks Department.
OSCAR PETERSON FESTIVAL: The Canadian pianist's widow, Kelly Peterson, and Bravo Niagara! Artistic Director Christine Mori announced in July that the first

Oscar Peterson
piano1925 - 2007

Renee Rosnes
pianob.1962

Cecile McLorin Salvant
vocalsb.1989

Jon Faddis
trumpetb.1953

Christian McBride
bassb.1972

Bill Charlap
pianob.1966

Benny Green
pianob.1963
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: The Huntington, West Virginia, institution announced that its College of Arts and Media and jazz studies program will host the annual

Ellis Marsalis
piano1934 - 2020
KOSHER JAZZ CLUB: An abandoned Hasidic synagogue in Oradea, Romania, is now home to the Kosher Jazz Club and independent theater. Owner Andris Sella rents the property from Oradea's 400-member Jewish community. His club offers wine, coffee and live jazz.
SUNSET CAF?/GRAND TERRACE CAFE: The January closing of Meyer's Ace Hardware on Chicago's south side, started another chapter in the history of one of the Windy City's most important jazz locations. Before it became a hardware store in 1960, the E. 35th Street building was home to the Sunset Cafe, later known as the Grand Terrace Cafe.

Louis Armstrong
trumpet and vocals1901 - 1971

Earl Hines
piano1903 - 1983
On the legal front...
THE MAYFIELD SAGA, YEAR THREE: Grammy-winning trumpeter

Irvin Mayfield
trumpetb.1977
The indictment alleges that Mayfield and Markham began a conspiracy in August 2011 by transmitting money from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation to accounts they controlled at the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, including to help pay their salaries, Mayfield's production company and travel expenses, including swanky hotel stays in New York. Tens of thousands more dollars allegedly were used for NOJO's operating expenses, depleting the library foundation's limited funds for supporting the Crescent City's public libraries. The orchestra had been losing money.
Mayfield rose to prominence on the local music scene in the late 1990s, was appointed as the city's cultural ambassador and chairman of the public library board by former Mayor Ray Nagin. He took over as president of the library's nonprofit support foundation in 2008. By 2012, Mayfield had convinced the five-member board to expand the nonprofit's mission to provide more general community support and to give himself "sole and uncontrolled discretion" over its finances. From 2011 to 2014, the library foundation tapped into donations meant for the city's libraries and gave NOJO more than $1.1 million in grants to help it build a new $10 million community center, music venue and bar called the New Orleans Jazz Market. Since the controversy surfaced in 2015, the trumpeter was booted off the library foundation, resigned as artistic director of his orchestraand lost his faculty post at the University of New Orleans.
In October 2017, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra resumed performances after a one-year hiatus, with a new administration. Drummer

Adonis Rose
drums
Ellis Marsalis
piano1934 - 2020
MONK'S SON SUES BREWERY: Drummer

T.S. Monk
drumsb.1949

Thelonious Monk
piano1917 - 1982
COPYRIGHT CASE: A federal judge ruled on May 31 that hip-hop artist Drake did not violate copyright law when he sampled a spoken word track from

Jimmy Smith
organ, Hammond B31925 - 2005
CABARET LAW IS HISTORY: New York City's archaic Cabaret Law is gone after 91 years on the books. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation repealing the Prohibition Era law on November 27. The law banned dancing in establishments without a special license. The law was put in place in 1926. Councilman Rafael Espnial proposed the repeal, arguing the law had been was used to target black jazz clubs and discriminate against minority groups ever since.
BUS ACCIDENT: Bassist

Marcus Miller
bassb.1959
In the crime log...
MURDER CHARGES: A 22-year-old jazz drummer from Maine who graduated from Ohio's prestigious Oberlin Conservatory in June faces murder charges for the slaying of four people in Groton, Massachusetts on September 8. Police accused Orion Krause of killing his mother, his grandparents and their caretaker with a baseball bat. After a 40-day evaluation, a judge ruled Krause competent to stand trial, but said he will remain at Bridgewater State Hospital pending trial, A neighbor said Krause showed up naked and muddy at his home in Groton, a town about 40 miles northwest of Boston, and said he "just murdered four people."
VIOLIN THEFT: Miami police said a thief used a crowbar to smash into musician

Nicole Yarling
vocalsOliver Jones retiresagain
In September, Montreal-based pianist

Oliver Jones
pianob.1934
Hurricane Maria relief
The jazz community responded with several benefit concerts in October and November after Hurricane Maria wreaked devastation on Puerto Rico in its march through the Caribbean a month earlier. Puerto Rican alto saxophonist

Miguel Zenon
saxophone, altob.1976

Bobby Sanabria
congasThe Bad Plus changes
The modern jazz trio

The Bad Plus
band / ensemble / orchestrab.2000

Ethan Iverson
pianob.1973

Orrin Evans
pianob.1975

Reid Anderson
bassb.1970

Dave King
drumsb.1970
Tower of Power tragedy
Bassist
Marc Van Wageningen
bass, electric
David Garibaldi
drumsb.1946
New Trane mural in Philly
While a 12-year-old mural of

John Coltrane
saxophone1926 - 1967
Honoring Nina Simone's legacy
A group of four prominent New York black artists acquired singer-pianist

Nina Simone
piano and vocals1933 - 2003
Honoring thy father
Sam Brecker, the 24-year-old son of late saxophonist

Michael Brecker
saxophone, tenor1949 - 2007
Django biopic
The Berlin Film Festival opened February 9 with the screening of the French film Django, a biopic about the Belgian-French jazz legend

Django Reinhardt
guitar1910 - 1953
Peabody Institute resignation
Saxophonist

Gary Thomas
saxophoneb.1961
2017 Final Bars
The jazz world lost many musicians and industry-related people during 2017, including four of its NEA Jazz Masters:

Muhal Richard Abrams
piano1930 - 2017

Jon Hendricks
vocals1921 - 2017

Nat Hentoff
producer1925 - 2017

Fred Staton
saxophone1915 - 2017

Dakota Staton
vocals1932 - 2007
Accordionist Peggy Lawrence; accordionists and singers Dick Contino, Régis Gizavo; accordionist, singer and painter Karl Hodina.
Arranger and cellist Paul Buckmaster.
Banjo player, guitarist and actor Andreas von der Meden; banjo player and educator Charlie Tagawa.
Bassists Ernie Acquisto, Bob Christopher, Edwin Coleman, Bob Cunningham, Holger Czukay, Margaret Harmon, Mingo Jones, Tim Luntzel, Dave Moore, Nicolai Munch-Hansen, Don Payne, Rino Zurzolo; bassist and bandleader Jan Arnet; bassist, composer and broadcaster Ray Villadonga; bassist and ukelelist Lyle Ritz; bassist, singer, arts patron and philanthropist Ted Cutler; bassist and educator John Shifflett; bassist and recording engineer Spencer Starnes; bassist and broadcaster Jackie Flavelle; bass guitarist Robert "Pops" Popwell.
Bassoonist Alaeddin Adlernest.
Cellist Daniel Pezzotti.
Clarinetists Claus Jürgen M?ller, Karl "Charly" Petri, Siggi Seyffer, Dennis Smylie; clarinetist and keyboardist Patrick "Petz" Hartert; clarinetist and saxophonist Jean Tordo; clarinetist, singer and educator Paul Nossiter; clarinetist, educator and musical instrument company executive Mike Bennett.
Composer, arranger, accordionist and music executive Dominic Frontiere; composer, pianist, producer and singer Leon Ware; composer, pianist and educator Vuk Kulenovic; composer and guitarist Daniel Licht.
Conductor Maurice Peress; conductor, composer, arranger and producer Buddy Bregman; conductor, arranger and bassist William Brohn.
Drummers Rolf B?nninger, Benny Barth, John Blackwell Jr., Roger Blàvia, John Boudreaux, "Mad" Harold Cardwell, Bill Dowdy, Bob Herrman, Rudy Lawless, Jaki Liebezeit, Lou Marino, Pierino Munari, Sunny Murray, Skip Prokop, Ben Riley, Mickey Roker, Charles "Bobo" Shaw, Benny Soans, Ted Sommer, Corneliu Stroe, Clyde Stubblefield; drummer and bandleader Frank Capp; drummer and composer Zabba Lindner; drummer, composer and singer Wilson das Neves; drummers and educators Heinz von Moisy, Kim Plainfield; drummer and singers Arnold "Spider" Rondinelli, Grady Tate; drummer, singer and producer Bill Carney; drummer and timbalero Ramón "Monchito" Mu?oz; drummer, producer, composer and arranger David Axelrod; drummer, editor and writer Tony Augarde; drummer, painter, printmaker and sculptor A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler); drummer, bandleader and cultural advocate Jürgen Thormann; drummer and promoter Soares Katumbela; drummer and actor Janne "Loffe" Carlsson; drummer, broadcaster, engineer, producer and (Kneptune) record label owner Kenny Harris.
Educator and pianist Daisy Peterson Sweeney (Oscar Peterson's sister)\.
Flutists Brian Delma Taylor, Dave Valentin; flutist, composer and educator Matt Marvuglio.
Guitarists John Abercrombie, Paul Abler, Tommy Allsup, Larry Coryell, Eddie Diehl, Stephan Diez, Willy Donni, Errol Dyers, Jay Geils, Col. Bruce Hampton, Allan Holdsworth, Halvard Kausland, Chuck Loeb, Mundell Lowe, Gustl Lütjens, Andy Manndorf, Tsunehide Matsuki, Skeets McWilliams, Fausto Mesolella, Phil Miller, Vincent Nguini, Bern Nix, Joel Perry, Léo Petit, Leon Rhodes, Bobby Trook, Samuel Tshiyembe; guitarist, banjo player and broadcaster Tony Davis; guitarist and bassist Ray Chamberlain; guitarist, bassist, producer and Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker; guitarists and composers Paul Abler, Irio De Paula; guitarists and educators Bill Horvitz, Alan Joseph, Thomas Phleps; guitarist, educator and writer Ian Cruickshank; guitarist, arranger and producer Cheikh Tidiane Tall; guitarist and singer Chuck Berry; guitarist and artistic director of Senegal's Saint Louis Jazz Festival Khabane Thiam; guitarist, conductor, composer and arranger Frank Como.
Keyboardists and singers Delmar Brown, Junie Morrison; keyboard player and record producer Toby Smith.
Multi-instrumentalists Rick Centalonza, Kèmo Kouyaté, Mattathias Pearson; multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader Kelan Phil Cohran; multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator, AACM co-founder and NEA Jazz Master Muhal Richard Abrams; multi-instrumentalist and composer Harry Shírman.
Organists Melvin Carter Sr., Seleno Clarke, Sarah McLawler; organist and composer Marián Varga; organist, pianist and vibes player Mike Carr.
Percussionist Bessemer "Bess" Taylor; percussionist and bandleader Anselmo Vidal; percussionist and educator Bobby Matos; percussionist and percussion instrument manufacturer Cali Rivera; percussionist and producer Laudir de Oliveira; percussionist and industrial instrument pioneer Z'ev (Stefan Joel Weisser).
Pianists Riza Arshad, Bill Barnacle, Gottfried B?ttger, Clarence Bell, Don Coates, John Critchinson, Leo Cuypers, Armand De Genova, Nick DeNucci, Danny Holgate, Karan Joseph, Fumio Karashima, Brian Klarman, Lucho Macedo, Paul Mastriani, Tom McClung, Misha Mengelberg, Clem Moorman, Horace Parlan, Willie Pickens, Keith Stackhouse, Jeter Thompson, Dolph Traymon, Avo Uvezian, Vladimir Vittikh, Billy Wallace, Andy Whittington, John Wright; pianists and arrangers Erich Becht, Czeslaw Gawlik; pianist, bandleader, composer and educator Barry Levitt; pianists, bandleaders and composers Theo Bophela, Billy Dennison; pianist and bandleader Jimmy Dale; pianist, bassist and composer Oscar Alem; pianist and club co-founder Al Neil (Vancouver's Cellar Jazz Club); pianists and composers Egil Kapstad, Roberta Mandel, Maurice Vander; pianist, composer and arranger John Coates Jr.; pianists and educators Geri Allen, Bill Bell, Jim Pickley, Bill Seymour, Charles Winslow; pianist and film composer Luis Bacalov; pianist, radio producer and writer Michael Naura; pianists and singers Fats Domino, Gerry Gottschalk; pianist and poet Roy Fisher; pianist, conductor and musical director Vinnie Falcone; pianist, singer and educator Otis Hayes; pianist and educator Bill St Laurent; pianist, composer, club co-owner (The Ellington Jazz Club in Perth, Australia), educator and festival founder (Perth International Jazz Festival) Graham Wood; pianist and writer Mike Hennessey; pianist, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Jeannot Rabeson; pianist and piano tuner John Butler.
Poet and jazz poetry cafe organizer (Richmond VA's Tuesday Verses) Lorna Pinckney.
Saxophonists George Allgaier, Jean Aussanaire, Walter Badenschneider, Yves Belin, Arthur Blythe, Hugh Brodie, Bill Carmichael, Joe Cipriano, Wilfried "Rimsky" Eichhorn, Jürgen Engesser, Alexander Evans, Paul Gaglio, Lou Gare, René Gervat, Gijs Hendriks, Buck Hill, Pentti Ilmonen, Sid Jekowsky, Eddie Katindig (Eddie K), Klaus Marmulla, Milivoje Mi?a Markovi?, Bernie Mcentegart, Dick Meldonian, Syd Morris, John Murtaugh, Eddie Pazant, Stan Robinson, Sol Schlinger, Larry Slezak, Fred Staton, Joe Thomas, Ger van Voorden (Ger Sax), Ralph "Hassan" Williams; saxophonists and bandleaders Mel Martin, Larry Elgart; saxophonist, bandleader and producer Dave Pell; saxophonist, bandleader and singer Bob Poloncarz; saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ralph Carney; saxophonist, broadcaster, educator and writer Bob Rigter; saxophonists and educators John Alexander, Tim Bell, Dick Culver, Mario Escalera, Andy McGhee, Skipp Pearson; saxophonist and musicologist Ekkehard Jost; saxophonist, producer and writer Christian Bonnet;.
Singers Richard Adam, Juli Fábián, Joy Fleming, Donna Fuller, Lucky Gordon, Peggy Hayama, Al Jarreau, Christine Jones, Thandi Klaasen, Myra Love, Jacky Micaelli, Debby Moore (Debbie McDade), Memo Morales, Chris Murrell, Peter Nthwane, Carole Renee, Lynn Roberts, Sandi Russell, Abel Sithole, Keely Smith, Bea Wain, Ruth Williams, Thomas Zawaira aka Bla Thomas; singer, songwriter, bandleader, educator and NEA Jazz Master Jon Hendricks; singers and actors Barbara Cook, Della Reese, Helen Southern; singers and educators Mili Bermejo, Kevin Mahogany; singer, guitarist, composer and arranger Boulo Valcourt; singer and guitarist Ray Phiri; singers and pianists Barbara Carroll, Buddy Greco, Janet Seidel; singer, keyboardist and producer William Onyeabor; singer and dancer Martha Arras (Martha Rich); singer and percussionist Frank Holder; singer and trombonist Boris Lindqvist (Rock Boris); singer and broadcaster Dick Noel; singer, broadcaster and comedian Saucy Sylvia (Sylvia Mureddu); singer, songwriter and producer Bernard Ighner; singer, songwriter and actor Luiz Melodia; singer, songwriter, pianist and producer Robbie Malinga.
Trombonists Wendell Eugene, Mike Grey, Pat Ireland, George Kidd, John Messner, John Thorp, Roger Williams; trombonists and bandleaders Morris Ellis, Bill Tole; trombonist and clarinetist Adolf Georg Klapproth; trombonist and composer Charles Small; trombonists and educators George Broussard, Roswell Rudd, Jeff Tower.
Tres player Papi Oviedo.
Trumpeters Günter Bochow, Hans Carling, Bill Dunmore, Gary Eisenberg, Gary Elton, Rod Hamer, Atle Hammer, Tony Hardwick, Elias Lopes, Rod Mason, Michael McGovern, Johnny Mekoa, Pit Müller, Hal Posey, Ernesto "Tito" Puentes, Toni Rabold, Leon "Red" Schwartz, Tony Terran, Steve Wiest; trumpeter and big-band leader Herb Runge; trumpeter, composer, educator and broadcaster Walt Blanton; trumpeter, composer and arranger Lew Gluckin; trumpeters and educators Thara Memory, Melton Mustafa; trumpeter and Texas Jazz Festival founder Eddie Olivares Sr.; trumpeter and pianist Gordon Leinwand; trumpeter and bandleader Fejat Sejdi?.
Tuba player John Buckingham; tuba player and bassist Joe ("Chicken Joe") Hanchrow; tuba and sousaphone player, bassist and jazz club operator (Edinburgh, Scotland's Stud Club) James Young.
Vibraphonist and pianist Martti Pohjalainen, vibraphonist, studio manager and Monterey Bay Hot Jazz Society co-founder Jack Fanning.
Violinist Svend Asmussen; violinist and educator Nina Trott; violinist and producer Walter Quintus (CMP Records).
Washboard player and artist Klaus von Woyski.
Record label founders Joe Fields (Cobblestone, Muse, Savant, HighNote), Harris "Lee" Rea (Louisiana Red Hot Records); record label (BYG) founder, and record and jazz festival producer Jean Karakos; record producers Bob Erdos (Stomp Off),Hideo Ikeezumi (PSF Records), Eric Miller (Pablo Records); recording executive and producer Tommy LiPuma (A&M, Blue Thumb, GRP, Verve, Warner Bros.); record producer and promoter Gérard Terronès (Futura, Marge); record producer (Argentina's Trova label) and broadcaster Alfredo Radoszynski; record label co-founder Dorsey Boyce Baron (ChazJazz); jazz promoter William Shaw (Coventry Jazz); Jazz UK project director Heulwen Phillips; jazz concert promoter and International Art of Jazz founder Ann Sneed; Swiss jazz and blues advocate and producer Hannes Anrig; booking agent Bennett Morgan; world music record producer and pianist David Lewiston; record and concert producer, manager, booking agent and drummer Steve Getz (son of saxophonist Stan Getz); record producer Uku Kuut; ublisher, entrepreneur and Playboy Jazz Festival founder Hugh Hefner; record industry executive (Decca, Columbia, World Pacific, Warner Bros., RCA), producer, artist manager, writer and NEA Jazz Master George Avakian.
Recording engineer Jim Czak (NOLA Studios NYC); recording engineer, producer, composer and keyboardist Charlie Eble.
Club owners Artis Jones (Milwaukee's Mr. J's and ARJ's Blues & Jazz Club), Mario Maglieri (Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy Theatre and Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles), Jimmy Makarounis (Portland OR's Jimmy Mak's), Rudy Onderwyzer (Shelly's Manne-Hole, The Light House and Hop Singh in Los Angeles), Fred Salih (Fandango Café in Sarasota FL), Charlie Sims (Donna's Bar & Grill in New Orleans), Amy Tabbinor (Stoke-on Trent UK's Cellar Club), Fred Weintraub (New York's Bitter End coffee house), Jim Young (Strictly Tabu in Dallas TX, Gonzalo Villar (Cuba's El Malecón, La Negra Tomasa, MantecaJazz and XancaraJazz); club owner and broadcaster Jerry Gillotti (Gilly's in Dayton, Ohio); club manager Paul Feyaerts (Café Damberd in Ghent, Belgium); music producer, poet and cultural activist Mappy Torres (New York's El Taller Latino Americano); British jazz promoter, artist manager, record producer and club manager John Jack; jazz producer and drummer Fritz Ewald; British producer, promoter and club owner Harold Pendleton (London's Marquee Club, National Jazz Festival); promoter Thelma Anderson (founder of Philadelphia's Council of Jazz Advocates).
Guitar maker Bill Collings.
Broadcasters Heb Oscar Anderson, Helen Borgers, Pierre Bouteiller; former radio station owner (KJAZ), festival producer and real estate developer Ron Cowan; broadcaster, producer and photographer Steve Schwartz; broadcaster and writer Miguel Camacho.
Jazz scholar, educator and broadcaster David Cayer; ethnomusicologist Charles Duvelle.
Photographers Terry Cryer, Don Hunstein, Scott Pollard, Chuck Stewart, Pete Turner; photographer and artist Barkley L. Hendricks; photographer, writer and producer Paul Karting.
Writers Phyllis Croom, Thomas Fitterling, Alain Tercinet; writer, NEA Jazz Master, historian and civil liberties advocate Nat Hentoff; writer, broadcaster and producer Elliot Meadow; jazz historian, archivist, discographer, writer, producer, educator and photographer Ed Berger; writer and historian Tom Jacobsen; writers and broadcasters Philippe Adler, Knut Borge, Lucien Malson; writer, promoter and Jazz In Arizona co-founder Patricia Myers; writer and promoter Michel Delorme; curator Rod Clarke (Museum of Traditional Jazz, Washington, DC); writer and French radio/ TV director Jean-Christophe Averty; jazz researcher Herman Openeer; writer, broadcaster and curator Sue Steward; writers and producers Richard Havers, Royce Osborn.
Blues, gospel and R&B artists, and industry figures Lonnie Brooks, Wayne Cochran, James Cotton, CeDell Davis, Bill Donoghue ('fesser Mojo), Jimmy Dotson, "Washboard" Lissa Driscoll, Calep Emphrey Jr., John Fisher, Guitar Gable (Gabriel Perrodin), Linda Hopkins, Melvyn "Deacon" Jones, Paul Oliver, Rudy Rotta, Davis Taylor, T.N.T. Tribble, Lundi Tyamara, Leo "Bud" Welch.
This Final Bars list was compiled from many sources including local newspapers, the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt newsletter, AllAboutJazz.com, Wikipedia, the New York Times, Legacy.com, Rolling Stone, Variety, JazzTimes.com, blogs, listserves, Facebook pages, Twitter and various and European publications.
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