Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Southern California Fires Hit the Jazz Community
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
The voice of Billie Holiday croons a new rendition of “Good Morning Heartache” as Tony Scott joins in with clarinet and jazz critic Leonard Feather accompanies on piano. The 1956 recording is one of numerous unreleased jazz recordings and documents recently digitized and now available to the public through the University of Idaho’s International Jazz Collections (IJC).
The IJC, through Safe Sound Archive in Philadelphia, has completed digitization of the audio portion of the Leonard Feather collection of jazz memorabilia. Last year, the Grammy Foundation gave the university a $36,000 grant to preserve and digitize Feather’s audio tapes and recordings.
In addition to the numerous audio files, Feather’s collection includes scrapbooks from 1933 to 1994, his personal library and music collections, and autographed photos of musicians including Ray Charles, Holiday, Henry Mancini, the King Cole Trio, Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie.
The International Jazz Collections will be open to the public during the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, Feb. 20-23, 2008. More info: ijc.uidaho.edu
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
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