R.I.P. Ed Shaughnessy

ValerieB · May 25, 2013

thank you, Ed, for all you've given to us over the decades. you will be missed by so many. sincere condolences to all his family and friends, of which he had many.

Gheorghe · May 25, 2013

He was really a great drummer

colinmce · May 25, 2013

I know him best for his work with Teddy Charles, and really enjoy what he contributed.

marcello · May 25, 2013

Joe La Barbera just posted this recent photo:

brownie · May 25, 2013

A legend in his time.

Marc Myers interviewed him for his JazzWax blog

http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/07/interview-ed-shaughnessy-pt-1.html

http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/07/interview-ed-shaughnessy-pt-2.html

Marcello, any identifications for the photo you just posted?

Edited May 25, 2013 by brownie

Justin V · May 25, 2013

I'm not very familiar with his work, but he really shines on Joe Newman's At Count Basie's. RIP.

sidewinder · May 25, 2013

Really liked his work with Oliver Nelson ! RIP.

chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez · May 25, 2013

he looks -way- older and skinnier than when i saw him 12 years ago at a clinic. seein the pic today is almost more sad than hearing the horrible news last night. he was very nice to everybody at the clinic and was willing to talk about whatever anyone wanted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZyO_qU6QH4

has everybody heard him jammin w/ jimi?

mikeweil · May 25, 2013

R.I.P. - great and solid drummer, one of the keepers of the flame of classic big band drumming. I have several records where he plays so well.

ValerieB · May 25, 2013

Brownie: I can only identify that drummers Jeff Hamilton and Paul Kreibich are standing beside Ed.

Teasing the Korean · May 25, 2013

Considering the small percentage of people who go out of their way to actively listen to jazz, think of how many people in the US heard those amazing drum fills of his every night of the week going into and out of commercial ads.

RIP.

EDIT: I might add that Ed played drums on one of the greatest albums ever made, Mundell Lowe's "Satan in High Heels."

I will spin this in his honor, along with volumes 1 and 2 of TV ACTION JAZZ!

Edited May 25, 2013 by Teasing the Korean

clifford_thornton · May 25, 2013

Yeah, I am most familiar with his work in the New Directions Quartet w/ Charles, Waldron and Addison Farmer. But he's great on that stuff. RIP.

marcello · May 25, 2013

Brownie: I can only identify that drummers Jeff Hamilton and Paul Kreibich are standing beside Ed.

Joe LaBarbera is next to Hamilton.

brownie · May 26, 2013

Thanks Valerie and Marcello!

Gheorghe · May 26, 2013

I know him best for his work with Teddy Charles, and really enjoy what he contributed.

Yeah that´s where I heard him first: that date with Teddy Charles from about 1952, where they do also a weird version of Night in Tunisia. It´s on the second side of that strange record "Lee Konitz-Miles Davis"