Posted on March 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM
Updated Sunday, Mar 2 at 11:29 AM
Yvonne Busch, a musician who broke barriers as a female jazz musician and later became a music educator and mentor to an impressive list of New Orleans performers, has died. She was 84.
Busch spent 32 years teaching and directing bands in New Orleans public high schools, including George Washington Carver, where she taught for 25 years, according to historian and author Al Kennedy. He profiled Busch in his book on local public school music teachers and their impact on New Orleans music.
Among Busch's students over the years were saxophonist James Rivers, whose music has been featured in several Clint Eastwood films; drummer Herlin Riley, who performs with Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; and George Davis and John Boudreaux, who performed with nationally known jazz greats.
“Because of Miss Busch, instead of just being a drummer, now I’m a musician,” said another musician and former student, James Black.
Other former students included Sullivan Dabney, James “Sugarboy” Crawford, Theron Lewis, Porgy Jones and Leonard Smith III, who produced and directed a documentary about Busch’s life.
Busch also taught at Booker T. Washington and Joseph S. Clark high schools in the 1950s. She taught at Carver from 1958 until 1983.
Read more: http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Yvonne-Busch-musician-and-music-educator-dies-at-84-248018921.html
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