[NewMusic] RIP Jimmy Giuffre

[Phillip Greenlief]

Here's Ben Ratliff's obit on Giuffre....
   
   
   
  ARTS / MUSIC | April 25, 2008
Jimmy Giuffre, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 86
By BEN RATLIFF
In his 50-year journey through jazz, the adventurous clarinetist,
 composer and arranger went from writing the Woody Herman anthem "Four
 Brothers" to creating striking experimental orchestral works.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/music/25cnd-giuffre.html?ex=1209787200&en=30e8cbefaa1420da&ei=5070&emc=eta1




Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
  There's a couple of live recordings from that period that were recorded in Europe that are also exceptional.

PG

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 
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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Jacob Lindsay
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=44


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