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Article: Big Band in the Sky

June 2005

by Fradley Garner
June 10, 2005

Around 1980, Hanne and I were at an art gallery in Copenhagen to hear “The Great Dane with the never-ending name." We stood four feet from Niels-Henningrsted Pedersen (Kenny Drew may have been on keyboard) as he took a long solo. My jaw dropped. “That's impossible," I whispered. “That's not a guitar. You can't play it ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

May 2005

by Fradley Garner
May 6, 2005

This obituary column has run for nearly two years in Jersey Jazz, journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society. Thanks to Michael Ricci's invitation, and with my JJ editor Paul White's blessings, I am pleased to share it with AAJ readers. Concerning my sources: I subscribe to The New York Times news alert service, which e-mails ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

April 2005

by Fradley Garner
May 5, 2005

I saw Warren Vaché (Sr.) at recent Jersey JazzFests, but I don't think we met. Sorry about that. If I didn't live in Denmark, I would have joined the well-wishers at Shanghai Jazz, Nov. 28. What a productive life! The obituary below is formal, in the style of this space. It may offer little new, but ...