[NewMusic] RIP Jimmy Giuffre

[Philip Gelb]

those trio recordings are some of my favorites!!!!!
I hate the term, "ahead of its time" but in this case it is totally  
apropos

When i was touring with Joe McPhee, he told me some great Giuffre  
stories

phil

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On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Jacob Lindsay wrote:

> This guy is huge, if only for those trio records w/
> bley and swallow.  "Free Fall" (which is half trio and
> half solo Bb clarinet) is one of the, and possible
> THE, best Bb clarinet record(s) of all time.  He had
> such a great unique tone, talk about warm, relaxed,
> full but still edgy, angular and full of grit and
> fire.  On Free Fall he pulls out all the stops.  Why
> didn't he make more records like that?  Who knows.
> But it's really enough.
>
>
>
> --- Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> dear bListers,
>>
>>   More sad news.
>>
>>   Jimmy Giuffre passed away today. I am sending a
>> blurb from a jazz radio list...I'm sure there will
>> be obits floating around in the coming days.
>>
>>   Fuck, I was just getting the idea of Toyoji's
>> passing through my head and now this. I doubt if his
>> influence on my playing is obvious, but I really
>> admired Giuffre's work and put a good deal of study
>> into it. Trio Putanesca worked on serveral of his
>> tunes. He had a really unique place in jazz and a
>> big influence on post jazz, bridging textures and
>> sonorities from classical music into free
>> improvisation. In addition to whatever historical
>> importance he might have had, which can always be
>> argued from a variety of perspectives, he always
>> played so beautifully - with a lot of heart and
>> passion.
>>
>>   Signing off,
>>   PG
>>
>>   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> 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
>>
>> I was going to play a few things by Jimmy on my show
>> tonight to
>>  celebrate
>> his birthday.
>> Now I will also play, "Jimmy Giuffre, A Jazz
>> Portrait" a half hour
>>  radio
>> documentary I Produced about 10 years ago. It's
>> Jimmy telling his own
>>  story,
>> in his own voice, complemented by the music he heard
>> and made
>>  throughout his
>> long career.
>> He was still teaching at NE Conservatory at the
>> time, coming in to
>>  Boston
>> from West Stockbridge, MA a few days a week. I also
>> visited Jimmy and
>> Juanita at their beautiful stone mill house in
>> Western Massachusetts to
>> complete the interview when Jimmy got too ill to
>> travel into Boston.
>>  I'll
>> air this program tonight at 9pm, Eastern Time.
>>
>> Rest in Peace, Jimmy
>>
>> Steve Schwartz
>> Jazz from Studio Four
>> Friday, 8p-midnight
>> WGBH, 89.7FM, Boston
>> ww/wgbh/org/jazz
>> __________________
>>
>>
>>
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