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  • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
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    • Dec 2010
    • 4353

    Frank Driggs rip...

    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)
  • Ian Thumwood
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    • Dec 2010
    • 4361

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    Bluesnik

    Frank Drigg's "Kansas City Jazz" is a great and fascinating in the way the author reocunts his involvement in promoting the music of this vibrant city. I thoroughly enjoyed this book which fleshes out the scene beyond most fan's experience by discussing what actually took place as opposed to merely concentrating on the recordings. For me, KC was where jazz became modern - not only with the rise to promenance of Charlie Parker but also the way in which a more modern approach to rhythm developed. To my ears, the developments of Count Basie and Eddie Durham within Bennie Moten's band really marked a dividing line between the "vintage" jazz which had preceded it and was later used to devistating effect by the Count's own band. Drigg's "on the spot" account of this story is an essential read in this respect and also deals with the likes of Mary Lou Williams, Big Joe Turner, Walter Page and Andy Kirk. This book was so good that I read it within a couple of sittings.

    Ian

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