Jimmy Giuffre R.I.P.

[Ron Hearn]

From: Jack Woker
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I'm sorry to report that I just heard from Juanita Giuffre that Jimmy died
of pneumonia and Parkinson's today (April 24) two days before what would
have been his 87th birthday. I met them (via email) because they listened
regularly to my show and we discovered that Jimmy and I shared our birthday,
April 26. We usually exchanged cards this time of year.

He was most famous for "Four Brothers" with Woody, or with Shorty Rogers
"Martians Go Home" or the Lighthouse All Stars, but fewer are
aware of the beautiful very personal music he made in the 70's, 80's and
90s, much of it very free but in a thoughtful, non-aggressive kind of way.
He was very important as a teacher as well, notably at the New England
Conservatory. I'm spending the evening listening to some of Jimmy's great
trio music... right now the trio with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow "Fly Away
Little Bird". I just read a beautiful article on Jimmy written about 5
years ago by Rex Butters on allaboutjazz.com .

Jim Wilke-Jazz After Hours

[Ron Hearn]

Here is the link to the NYT obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/music/26giuffre.html?ref=arts

ron

"Ron Hearn" <rwh...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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[Robert Warren]

I have always thought of the early and mid 1950's records with Jimmy,
Shorty R, and Shelley Manne as very special music...

[Adam]

Robert Warren wrote:
>>
> I have always thought of the early and mid 1950's records with Jimmy,
> Shorty R, and Shelley Manne as very special music...

I'm sure many of us agree.

And, I would say, very difficult to find on CD or LP these days.

Early and mid 50s.

[Gregg L]

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two of them avail on emusic. search shelly manne there, and ck the albums
from '53 and '54
gregg