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Dick Buckley Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Tba: Chicago Jazz Radio Legend Dies at 85
Dick Buckley, a jazz radio icon and Chicago jazz treasure passed away this morning July 22, 2010 at the age of 85...more details will be forthcoming on services in the next few days. Growing up in the Chicago area, my fondest memories of listening to jazz on the radio are the shows that were hosted by ...
RIP Harry Beckett (1935-2010)
The much-admired trumpeter and flugelhorn player Harry Beckett died this afternoon after a stroke on Tuesday. His last gig was Big Band Britannia with Guy Barker's orchestra last month. The roll-call of bands he was in makes him a central figure of the 60s/70s British scene: Ian Carr's Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication ...
Dick Buckley, 85, riffed on jazz for a half century
One of the “good old good ones," Dick Buckley, 85, longtime jazz presence on Chicago radio stations, died on July 22, 2010 of pneumonia at West Suburban Medical Center. Buckley, an Oak Park resident, discovered jazz growing up during the Depression in Indiana. His radio career in Chicago spanned more than 50 years, 1956-2008, and he ...
Gene Ludwig Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Info: Pittsburgh Jazz Organ Legend Dies at 72
Gene Ludwig, jazz Hammond organist from the Pittsburgh jazz scene passed away at age 72 on Wednesday July 14, 2010... at the West Penn-Forbes Regional Campus. Starting at age 6 on the piano and being inspired by the recordings of vocalists Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner and organ players such as Bill Doggett and Wild Bill ...
Gene Ludwig: Legendary jazz organist in Pittsburgh music scene
When Gene Ludwig was 21, he flipped a coin to determine which career path he would follow. Heads, he would continue the job he had at the time as a civil engineer. Tails, music would win out. The coin came up tails--and a legend was born. Mr. Ludwig, a leading figure in the Pittsburgh jazz scene ...
Gene Ludwig, 1937-2010
Organist Gene Ludwig passed away on July 14, 2010. I didn't know him well, but he was a guest on The Jazz Session in August, 2009, and we spoke several times in person and by phone and email. Gene and his wife Pattye were extremely kind to me and to everyone with whom I saw them ...
Correspondence: On Harvey Pekar
Rifftides reader Allen Mezquida writes: It seems that Pekar had a greater perception about jazz than many musicians I know. He listened with a rich open mind and a big heart. I created this animation for him. It was finished about a week before he died. Allen Mezquida animates ...
Organist Gene Ludwig: 1937-2010
About Gene Ludwig Some say he stole the show that night... the fella from Pittsburgh who showed up late that afternoon, missing the sound check and sort of looking like anyone's junior high math teacher as he strolled around backstage at the 1994 Newark Jazz Organ Jam waiting for his turn to play. As I introduced ...
Harvey Pekar, Jazz Critic
Harvey Pekar died this week at the age of 70. He will, inevitably, be more widely remembered for his seriously adult American Splendor comics and the movie they inspired than for his jazz criticism. As a writer about music he was—no surprise—eccentric and uneven but at his best wrote with precision and frankness about what he ...
Harvey Pekar, 'American Splendor' Creator, Dies at 70
Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book American Splendor attracted a cult following for its unvarnished stories of a depressed, aggrieved Everyman negotiating daily life in Cleveland and became the basis for a critically acclaimed 2003 film, died on Monday at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He was 70. A spokesman for the Cuyahoga County coroner's ...
