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TOOTIE HEATH
INTERVIEW
Hi Everyone
Don’t miss my interview with 2021 recipient of the NEA Jazz Master Award, Albert “Tootie” Heath on Monday, February 8, at 10:00am Mountain Time on KSFR 101.1 fm.
You can also stream it online at www.ksfr.org. It’s always an experience when you get Tootie behind a microphone.
Congratulations …… Let’s all Celebrate
2021 NEA Jazz Master Tootie Heath
Our own “Tootie” Heath has been chosen to be a recipient of the most prestigious jazz award on the planet, the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award. So well deserved, in normal times we in the jazz community would love to celebrate in his honor. Unfortunately, we know why we won’t be able to do that this year. But April is the month that the awards are presented and in the past have taken place at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Last year they were postponed until August and were hosted by SF Jazz in San Francisco, with most of the show produced remotely. As of now my understanding is that the ceremony will take place as scheduled in April. We at SFMC will keep you posted as to when and where, and put the word out well in advance with the link. In the meantime, warm up for the event with this video of the young 32 year old maverick firing it up with Sonny Rollins.
Last year they were postponed until August and were hosted by SF Jazz in San Francisco, with most of the show produced remotely. As of now my understanding is that the ceremony will take place as scheduled in April. We at SFMC will keep you posted as to when and where, and put the word out well in advance with the link. In the meantime, warm up for the event with this video of the young 32 year old maverick firing it up with Sonny Rollins.
Photo By: Daniel Quat
ARLEN ASHER
5/7/29 - 10/2/20
Dear SFMC Sponsors, Patrons, Members, and Friends
It is with heavy hearts that Linda and I share with you the sad news of the passing of our beloved friend Arlen Asher. He was a “Gentle Giant”. One of the most beautiful souls I have ever met; a humble, kind and gentle man, exemplary family man, master musician and a towering figure in the New Mexico Jazz World. Arlen touched the lives of so many of us through his music, and if you were fortunate enough to meet him, even if only for a few minutes, he made you feel like you knew him for a lifetime.
Arlen had an enormous impact on so many young students over decades, in many cases giving them purpose and the opportunity to refocus their lives. I may be the most fortunate to have had the opportunity to share the bandstand with Arlen for more than a quarter century, recorded three albums with him and spent every Monday morning of the last ten years behind a microphone playing and talking about the music we both love so much. I once repeated to him the words I heard Gil Evans speak about his dear friend Miles Davis….
”I’m sure glad you were born”.
Arlen’s legacy will live on through his music and the wonderful memories so many of us have of spending time with him. I know for sure that right now they are re-arranging the chairs in that saxophone section of the “Big Band“ in heaven. Right next to Bird, Dexter and Stan there is an empty chair, music stand and folder with the name Arlen Asher - Multi Reeds.
His family has told me that there will be a memorial at some time, perhaps when the current pandemic subsides somewhat. Our prayers and thoughts go out to them in this difficult time of loss.
“We all Love you Arlen”
SONNY ROLLINS
Grammy award winning composer and Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins has had one of the most illustrious careers in jazz to date. His more than sixty year contribution has given the jazz world a massive body of recorded music and some immortal jazz compositions. He recorded over sixty albums as a leader plus numerous records as a sideman. Although he is not able to perform anymore, at the age of 89 Sonny is a living jazz treasure and graciously embraces his new role of wise elder statesman.
Enjoy this great documentary, plus some recently found rare footage at Ronnie Scotts from 1974…..
Grammy award winning composer and Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins has had one of the most illustrious careers in jazz to date. His more than sixty year contribution has given the jazz world a massive body of recorded music and some immortal jazz compositions. He recorded over sixty albums as a leader plus numerous records as a sideman. Although he is not able to perform anymore, at the age of 89 Sonny is a living jazz treasure and graciously embraces his new role of wise elder statesman.
Enjoy this great documentary, plus some recently found rare footage at Ronnie Scotts from 1974…..
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Thank You To Our Wonderful
Grantor and Sponsors
KAMAN
FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION
MEREDITH SPEERS and SEAMUS MALIN
DAVE EDWARDS
DICK and LAURIE MEYER
ELAINE and MICHAEL BROWN
BRUCE JOHNSON and DIANE RAMSEY
GARY KILPATRIC
MIDGE and STEVE BERNHARDT
DICK and LAURIE MEYER
ELAINE and MICHAEL BROWN
BRUCE JOHNSON and DIANE RAMSEY
GARY KILPATRIC
MIDGE and STEVE BERNHARDT
Sustaining Members: ANNA and MARK DAVIS
Sustaining Members: JERI and DON BALICK
Sustaining Members: JERI and DON BALICK
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