Obit: Tad Jones RIP (December 31, 2006)

Subject: Obit: Tad Jones RIP (December 31, 2006)
From: Mary Katherine
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 10:50 AM

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: [Community] Music Historian Tad Jones
>
>I learned this evening that music historian Tad Jones
>died last night, December 31, 2006, in an accident at
>his home. There are no other details at this time.
>I'll send along more information as soon as it becomes
>available.
>
>I'm sorry to pass along this sad news on this most
>hopeful first day of a new year.
>
>Al Kennedy
>10:20 p.m. Monday Evening, Jan 1, 2007
>
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>1/1/07
>I just received a call saying that Tad fell and struck
>his head. He was found by the police in the pool of his
>apartment building about 2pm this afternoon. The time
>of death was estimated to have been approximately 12
>hours earlier. I decided to send out an immediate
>message so I am glad that you wrote this notification Al.
>Tad was involved with many interesting and historically
>significant projects. He was kind, passionate about our
>great culture, and an important resource for our city
>and our people. Arrangement details to follow.
>
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>
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>
>Tad Jones is a jazz historian and researcher who is known for
>discovering Louis Armstrong's correct birthdate, August 4, 1901.
>
>Jones is a native and resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a
>graduate of Loyola University of New Orleans.
>
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>
>TAD JONES is a scholar who has accumulated over three decades of
>interviews, oral histories and primary source research into the
>complexities of musical New Orleans. An early and enthusiastic
>supporter of New Orleans-based rhythm and blues, he captured musical
>legends Allen Toussaint, Henry Byrd (a.k.a. "Professor Longhair"),
>Irma Thomas and Earl King in oral histories and interviews as early as
>the mid-1970s. As Executive Director of Oral History Project Inc., he
>has worked with a team of fellow jazz historians to complete
>interviews with Alvin Alcorn, Milton Batiste, Walter Lewis, Frank
>Mitchell and other jazz legends since 1995.
>
>He has served as consultant to numerous film, radio and print projects
>on the history of American music, including the widely acclaimed PBS
>documentary ?Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together? (1980). He
>contributed interviews to the PBS series ?Satchmo: The Wonderful World
>of Louis Armstrong? and authored the biographical essay on Professor
>Longhair for American National Biography. Mr. Jones is co-author (with
>Jason Berry and Jonathan Foose) of Up from the Cradle of Jazz: Music
>in New Orleans Since World War II, and is currently working on a book,
>Louis Armstrong: His Life, Times and New Orleans 1901-1922, which
>examines the backdrop of young Louis's life. As a board member of the
>New Orleans International Music Colloquium, he continues to actively
>support the scholarly study of 20th century American music.
>
>www.satchmoz.at/t_jones_e.html
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>Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II (Da
>Capo, 1992) by Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, Tad Jones.
>
>~~