Frank Driggs - R.I.P.
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Jazz producer and the great historian of the music Frank Driggs who was 81 years old had died, his achievement is nearly 100,000 in jazz related images and he is world class achiever, his music has given him a great name among the fans.
Donna Ranieri who is co-worker and friend of Driggs reported the press that on Tuesday he was found dead in Manhattan home. She also said that he died due to natural causes.
In the 1930s Driggs used to listen to the late-night broadcast and he will start swing and jazz along with it, later he was very much eager with jazz so, he went to Marshall Stearns who is the founder of Institute of Jazz studies he joined their and started to documenting the history of jazz.
Driggs achievement
He has produced large number of recordings, including Robert Johnson the complete recording and Columbia Records and in 1991 he has received a Grammy for it. Driggs also co-published from the vast collection “black beauty, white heat” which is the pictorial history of the classic jazz.
(From Jazz Corner, NYC)
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Jazz producer and the great historian of the music Frank Driggs who was 81 years old had died, his achievement is nearly 100,000 in jazz related images and he is world class achiever, his music has given him a great name among the fans.
Donna Ranieri who is co-worker and friend of Driggs reported the press that on Tuesday he was found dead in Manhattan home. She also said that he died due to natural causes.
In the 1930s Driggs used to listen to the late-night broadcast and he will start swing and jazz along with it, later he was very much eager with jazz so, he went to Marshall Stearns who is the founder of Institute of Jazz studies he joined their and started to documenting the history of jazz.
Driggs achievement
He has produced large number of recordings, including Robert Johnson the complete recording and Columbia Records and in 1991 he has received a Grammy for it. Driggs also co-published from the vast collection “black beauty, white heat” which is the pictorial history of the classic jazz.
(From Jazz Corner, NYC)
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