[78-L] RIP Bud Shank

[Taylor Bowie]

What a great loss this is...a wonderful and distinctive player.  We in 
Seattle are lucky that Bud spent so much time up here and in Port Townsend 
in his later years.  I last heard him live about a year ago and will 
treasure that memory.

Taylor B


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Subject: [78-L] RIP Bud Shank


> Bud Shank, Alto Saxophonist, Dies at 82
> By Jeff Tamarkin
>
> Bud Shank, an alto saxophonist and flutist whose career spanned more than 
> a half century, died April 2 at his home in Tucson, Ariz. The cause was 
> not available but Shank was said to have had “some ongoing health issues.” 
> A day earlier Shank had been in San Diego recording a new album. Shank was 
> 82.
>
> Born May 27, 1926 in Dayton, Ohio, Clifford Everett “Bud” Shank tried his 
> hand at a variety of woodwinds before settling on the saxophone. He 
> attended college in North Carolina and worked with saxophonist Charlie 
> Barnet before moving to California in the late 1940s, where he played with 
> trumpeter Shorty Rogers and then pianist Stan Kenton. Working with 
> guitarist Laurindo Almeida, Shank was also one of the first jazz musicians 
> to explore Brazilian music. Shank cut a number of albums for the world 
> music label World Pacific from the ’50s to the ’70s.
>
> Shank first recorded as a leader in the mid-’50s, for the Pacific Jazz 
> label. He is considered part of the emerging West Coast cool school, but 
> he continued to develop beyond that sound as the years went on. In those 
> early years, he also played with Maynard Ferguson, Bob Brookmeyer, Bob 
> Cooper and, in 1962, with Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar on the latter’s 
> Improvisations album. In the ’60s, Shank also aligned with artists as 
> diverse as Sergio Mendes, the Mamas and the Papas—that’s his flute on the 
> classic hit “California Dreami
> n’”—and Chet Baker, who appeared on Shank’s 1966 album Michelle, a 
> collection of covers of then-contemporary pop hits. The latter became 
> Shank’s only album to reach the Billboard charts.
>
> Shank continued to evolve during the ’70s and ’80s, eventually giving up 
> the flute to concentrate on his alto work. He put together a band called 
> the L.A. Four with Almeida, bassist Ray Brown and a revolving cast of 
> drummers, and recorded a number of albums for such labels as Concord, 
> Contemporary and Candid. In 2004 Mosaic released Mosaic Select 10, a 
> three-disc collection of Shank’s Pacific Jazz collaborations with Cooper. 
> In 2005 Shank formed the Bud Shank Big Band and in 2007 he released Beyond 
> the Red Door, with pianist Bill Mays.
>
>
>
> *************
>
> Cary Ginell
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