Jack Maheu 1930-2013

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

Clarinetist Jack Maheu has died

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Maheu

[jazzbo]

A good player. I'm sure DEEP is sad, he knew him quite well. RIP Jack!

[marcello]

I used to hear Jack all the time in Rochester when my friends Barry Kiener and Danny D'Imperio played in his Salt City Six (Syracuse, N.Y. is "The Salt City). Barry and Danny brought a whole new, and much needed, repertoire with them into the band after a while like Jelly Roll and Fats Waller tunes.

After he moved to NYC I used to see him from time to time at Eddie Condon's. Later he moved to New Orleans.

A hard drinking Dixieland player in those days. A fine clarinetist.

[jeffcrom]

Jack Maheu was a fabulous clarinetist - beautiful sound and great technique, fluid in all registers. Swing That Music, a Jazzology album with fellow clarinetist Tim Laughlin, is one of the great jazz clarinet albums, in my opinion. Maheu was from upstate New York, but as many great traditional jazz clarinetists do, he moved to New Orleans in 1990, where he led a band which had one of the greatest band names of all time: Jack Maheu and the Fire in the Pet Shop Callithumpian Band.

I'm giving his 1973 LP Blue Prelude (on the Fat Cat's Jazz label) a spin in his memory. RIP, Mr. Maheu.

[Brownian Motion]

A very expressive and soulful player, and, IMO, under-appreciated. RIP.

[marcello]

Here's a album that comprises of the band that Jack had that I remember, except Barry Kiener isn't on piano:

[jeffcrom]

Nice summary of his career in his Offbeat obit.