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9 August 2016

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Nick Lippa reports about inspirational music teachers in Buffalo, New York ( WBFO). --- Farah Jasmine Griffin reads a new biography about the singer Sarah Vaughan ( Washington Post). --- Evelyn Vogel sees an exhibition by the German photographer Arne Reimer in Munich, Germany ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), who will show some of his photos and talk about his meetings with "American Jazz Heroes" at the next Darmstadt Jazzforum. --- Dan Emerson hears the saxophonist Pharoah Sanders in Minneapolis ( Twin Cities Pioneer Press ). --- A month after his death, Nick Budnick picks up the allegations of sexual abuse against the trumpeter Thara Memory who had died last month, quotes the bassist Esperanza Spalding who once studied with him and who came out in his defense and quotes former students who say they had at least been verbally abused by him ( Portland Tribune). --- Maxwell Reil talks to the organist Dan Fogel ( Press of Atlantic City ). --- Giovanni Russonello talks to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding ( New York Times). And R. Hawkins reports about bassist Esperanza Spalding's new teaching appointment at Harvard University ( Rolling Out). --- Mhairi Graham recommends five London jazz bars, Ronnie Scott's, Jazzgir, Boisdale, the 606 Club as well as Nightjar ( Luxury London). --- David Bianculli talks to the pianist and singer Dave Frishberg ( WYSO). --- Carlos Valladares reports about the Giant Steps Camp at the Stanford Jazz Festival and how it inspires young musicians ( San Francisco Chronicle ). --- Daniel Barbiero talks to Michael Heller, author of a new book about New York's loft jazz scene in the 1970s ( Perfect Sound Forever ). --- Bill Beuttler talks to the saxophonist Henry Threadgill ( The Boston Globe). --- Jeff Barron talks to the pianist and vocalist Robert Lepley ( Lancaster Eagle-Gazette ). --- Kevin Kirkland talks to the guitarist Joe Negri ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ). --- We read an interview with the German saxophonist Philipp Gerschlauer about his new album "Mikrojazz" with David Fiucznski and Jack DeJohnette ( Broadway World).


Obituaries

We read about the funeral of Dolores Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis' wife and Wynton and Branford Marsalis' mother ( New Orleans Times Picayune); we also saw a video of the jazz procession after her funeral ( The Advocate). --- We learned of the passing of the German trumpeter Pit Müller ( Pit Müller), the guitar maker Bill Collings at the age of 58 ( New York Times), the pianist Clem Moorman at the age of 101 ( The Record, North Jersey), the Cajun singer-songwriter D.L. Menard at the age of 85 ( New York Times), the guitarist Chuck Loeb at the age of 61 ( Legacy), the saxophonist Larry Slezak at the age of 71 ( Houston Chronicle), the saxophonist Eddie Pazant at the age of 79 ( The Island Packet), the saxophonist Joe Thomas at the age of 84 ( Woody Home for Services), the Dutch jazz researcher Herman Openeer at the age of 82 ( NRC), the Zimbabwean singer Thomas Zawaira aka Bla Thomas ( The Standard), as well as the German trumpeter Toni Rabold at the age of 83.