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Correspondence: Frishberg on Sudhalter

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2008-09-22 08:05:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Sudhalter go back more than three decades. He sent this appreciation I want to say something about Dick Sudhalter and the sadness of his passing . I'm staggered by Sudhalter's contributions to jazz literature and criticism. There are plenty of good writers who write about the music, but for my money Sudhalter and Benny Green stand out as the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Dick Sudhalter, 1938-2008

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2008-09-19 23:48:24 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Sudhalter gave elegance and exactness to speech, writing and music-making. Dick's perfection of expression came in natural flows, whether he was writing, playing the cornet or chatting over dinner. Gene Lees observed that Dick was the only person he knew who always spoke in perfect sentences and paragraphs. Sudhalter's mastery of language is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Carol Sudhalter Upcoming Appearances

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2008-02-11 23:18:27 by Shyam Sundar in The LION 90.7fm
...SUDHALTER SAX/FLUTE SPRING 2008 CONCERT DATES Photo Credit: John Watson: jazzcamera/co/uk MONDAY, FEB. 18, 8 pm Shutters café u.k. pianist CRAIG MILVERTONUNIQUE U.S. APPEARANCE Carol, tenor sax/flute; esdras lubin, bass tix $20 433 W. 34th Street, NYC - http://shuttersbar.com -rose petal entertainment 347 491 4328 Sunday, feb.24, 1-4...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sudhalter Seen And Heard

2008-09-21 20:49:23 by Rifftides in Rifftides
 
Please do not miss Terry Teachout's newly posted remembrance, in poetry and video, of Richard M. Sudhalter. Go here
 
 
 
 
 
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Lost Legends of Indiana Jazz

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2008-06-05 17:39:13 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Sudhalter The city and the state were not the cultural backwater that many might think; literature, in particular, flourished here. Hasse cites a 1947 study that showed Indiana as having the second-highest number of best-selling authors from 1900 to 1940, right on the heels of New York State Indianapolis was also awash with pianos. Hasse...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bix And Dick

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2008-08-11 22:51:56 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Sudhalter, a musical descendant of Beiderbecke and his greatest biographer. Sudhalter is in bad health with MSA (muscular system atrophy) and getting worse. He needs help. From the Jass Masters news release The CD set contains a number of tracks that are being re-issued for the first time since their original release on 78 rpm record. In...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jim Ferguson And Mundell Lowe

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2008-01-18 09:05:00 by dramsey in Rifftides
...Sudhalter writes, "A high tenor male voice is a rarity in professional music these days, and the tendency is not to take it seriously....." Ferguson must be taken seriously because his musicianship is as powerful in his singing as in his playing. From the instant vocal swing he achieves on the propulsion of Lowe's four-bar introduction of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Correspondence: About Wellstood

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2008-08-08 08:05:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Sudhalter , and undoubtedly among the best writers of all jazz musicians, a humorist on a very high level. You must have that Jazzology 2CD set of The Classic Jazz Quartet, and you probably remember the liner notes that each of those guys wrote: Joe Muranyi, Marty Grosz, Sudhalter, and Wellstood -- they all write beautifully. Wellstood's...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bix Beiderbecke: Overrated?

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2008-08-25 08:05:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Sudhalter brought interesting comments about both men. You can read it and the comments here . The piece stimulated a correspondence with Paul Paolicelli, blog reader, fellow survivor of the news business and former lead trumpet player. Leaving out parts concerning unproved and unprovable allegations about Beiderbecke's personal life, here...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sunday Wax Bits

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2008-09-21 07:41:47 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Sudhalter (1938-2008). I learned of Richard's passing on Friday from JazzWax reader Albert Haim. Richard had apparently been suffering from pneumonia for several weeks and died Thursday night. Dick was a mighty jazz musician and scholar. He also was a jazz translator, meaning he was able to plumb the depths of research and emerge with a...