"The Lighthouse All-Stars"... Howard Rumsey R.I.P.

[ghost of miles]

We had originally scheduled a show devoted to live recordings from Hermosa Beach's Lighthouse Cafe made after the breakup of Howard Rumsey's seminal west-coast jazz group the Lighthouse All-Stars this week on Night Lights.  Rumsey passed away last Wednesday at the age of 97, so instead we'll be re-airing a previous Night Lights program that focused on him and the 1950s editions of the Lighthouse All-Stars:

The Lighthouse All-Stars

Edited June 23, 2017 by ghost of miles

[mjzee]

A search revealed no newspaper obituaries thus far, but here's an interview with Marc Myers.  RIP.

http://www.jazzwax.com/2015/07/howard-rumsey-1917-2015.html

[sidewinder]

Sorry to hear this - RIP. Got the chance to meet him years ago and ask him about the Lee Morgan Lighthouse gig, very approachable guy.

[BillF]

 

 

[bluesoul]

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-howard-rumsey-20150725-story.html

 

 

[gmonahan]

On 7/20/2015 at 10:09 AM, mjzee said:

A search revealed no newspaper obituaries thus far, but here's an interview with Marc Myers.  RIP.

http://www.jazzwax.com/2015/07/howard-rumsey-1917-2015.html

This interview appeared recently on Mosaic's Sunday Gazette. I don't know how I missed it when mjzee posted it, but I did. I thought it was really an interesting interview, and that Rumsey was amazingly sharp for a guy at 90. Fun read, so thanks--very tardily--to mjzee for posting it!

 

 

gregmo