Jazz Birthdays – January 15th – Gerry Gibbs and Others
This morning I did something I haven’t done for a long time. I checked All About Jazz for today‘s jazz musicians born on this date. As I scrolled down the list I really didn’t see any one that interested me. Now I’m sure that if I researched a few of these musicians I’d find some really good jazz musician. Anyway I chose to check out the birthdays from yesterday. Alan Lomax –Producer -Born 1915 the Lomax Digital Archive When I did several names jumped out at me. The first was Musicologist and producer Alan Lomax From All About Jazz…. Musicologist, writer, and producer Alan Lomax spent over six decades working to promote knowledge and appreciation of the world’s folk music. He began his career in 1933 alongside his father, the pioneering folklorist John Avery Lomax, author of the best-selling Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910). In 1934, the two launched an effort to expand the holdings of recorded folk music at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress (established 1928), gathering thousands of field recordings of folk musicians throughout the American South, Southwest, Midwest, and Northeast, as well as in Haiti and the Bahamas. Their collecting resulted in several popular and influential anthologies of American folk songs, including American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934); Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly (1936), the first in depth biographical study of an American folk musician; Our Singing Country (with Ruth Crawford Seeger) (1941); and Folk Songs…
