[78-L] Deceased boppers

Jeff Sultanof jeffsultanof at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 18:28:16 PDT 2011


He's got to be talking about someone else. Teschemacher died in a car crash
sometime in the early 30s.

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM, eugene hayhoe <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Just earlier today I was reading an issue of Blues & Rhythm from 2007 with
> a letter from Bob Koester that Frank Teschemacher still came into the Jazz
> Record Mart & how he regetted never getting him into the studio for Delmark.
> I had no clue he was still alive! I remember being ticked off when Horace
> Henderson died a little over 20 years ago - where was the press when he was
> still living?
>
> --- On Wed, 6/1/11, Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie2 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Deceased boppers
> > To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 7:23 PM
> > Whenever a great, yet still promising
> > musician dies, it is shocking. Think of this list of early
> > deaths many of whom recorded in the later days of the 78.
> >
> > The road claimed a number of great be bop players: Clifford
> > Brown. Richie Powell and Doug Watkins.
> >
> > And let's not forget early deaths from illness that took
> > Booker Little (23 from kidney failure), Eric Dolphy (35
> > diabetes complications), John Coltrane (who was only 40),
> > Bobby Jaspar (37 heart attack), Bobby Timmons (38
> > cirrhosis).
> >
> > Wardell Gray (34) broken neck, possibly murdered.
> >
> > Early death from drugs include Richie Twardzik (24), Emily
> > Remler (32)
> >
> > The list could go on and on, but it breaks my heart to
> > think about it.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > --- On Wed, 6/1/11, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > > Subject: Re: [78-L] Deceased boppers
> > > To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > > Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 4:06 PM
> > > Other shocking music-related deaths
> > > include producer & discographer Bozy White,
> > > killed by people he'd rented rooms to (or something
> > like
> > > that), and Lonnie
> > > Johnson, hit by a car in Toronto..never able to work
> > > again.
> > >
> > > dl
> > >
> > > On 6/1/2011 4:04 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> > > > I like the song which was a combination of bop
> > and
> > > 1920s studio bands:
> > > >
> > > > In The Land of Oh-Bla-D. Onivas.
> > > >
> > > > I think the most shocking musician death I've
> > read
> > > about in recent years was
> > > > that of Lucky Thompson...who was living a very
> > > marginal life right here in
> > > > Seattle,  almost as a street person and even
> > > homeless on occasion.  No
> > > > musician or fan I knew was even aware that he
> > was
> > > right here in town,  and
> > > > in need of aid.
> > > >
> > > > I guess he stopped playing around 1980 or so,
> > > but lived for several more
> > > > decades...a great player lost to depression and
> > other
> > > mental illness.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Taylor
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > > > To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:58 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [78-L] Deceased boppers
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> What a great name for a bopper..Shihab.
> > > Practically Shibab.
> > > >>
> > > >> dl
> > > >>
> > > >> On 6/1/2011 3:56 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> > > >>> I was checking some boppers whom I'd
> > assumed
> > > were still with us. Sahib
> > > >>> Shihab, Cecil Payne and Duke Jordan. All
> > are
> > > deceased, but I don't
> > > >>> recall their deaths being mentioned on
> > 78-l.
> > > Roy Haynes seems to still
> > > >>> be around.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>         Julian
> > > Vein
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