Jeremy Steig RIP

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

Flutist Jeremy Steig has died in April 2016. see http://www.jeremysteig.info/jeremysspirit-E.html

[sidewinder]

Sad news - 60s trailblazer on jazz flute, for sure. RIP.

[Larry Kart]

Just by chance, I've recently been in touch with Steig's onetime musical partner on Steig's "Flute Flight," Denny Zeitlin, whom I heard and knew when we were both high school students in the northern Chicago suburbs in the late 1950s. (Denny is four years older than I am.) Tossing names from the past back and forth with Denny and then looking them up myself on the Internet when I didn't have current direct knowledge of their fates or whereabouts, I discovered that a good many of them are now deceased. 

[BillF]

For once, Wikipedia hasn't kept up - giving Steig's d.o.b. as Sept 23 1942, but not giving a date for his death.

I was born in 1939 and he did seem youthful to me when I saw him in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in 1969 with a package that included the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Williams and Richard Groove Holmes.

[mikeweil]

R.I.P. 

I remember how I looked for copies of his Solid State and Blue Note LPs which still await a comprehensive reissue on CD - I love the groove and the open feeling of the music. The Capitol double LP with Jan Hammer, too. He had quite a following in Germany in the 1970's; Joachim Berendt used the beginning of a track from Mike Mainieri's album with Steig as theme music for his weekly radio show, so his sound was very familiar.

Thanks for the music.

  On 5/22/2016 at 3:35 PM, BillF said:

I was born in 1939 and he did seem youthful to me when I saw him in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in 1969 with a package that included the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Williams and Richard Groove Holmes.

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I wonder why Blue Note never got around to reissue the music from that Jazz Wave Ltd. tour.

Edited May 22, 2016 by mikeweil

[BillF]

  On 5/22/2016 at 3:36 PM, mikeweil said:

R.I.P. 

I remember how I looked for copies of his Solid State and Blue Note LPs which still await a comprehensive reissue on CD - I love the groove and the open feeling of the music. The Capitol double LP with Jan Hammer, too. He had quite a following in Germany in the 1970's; Joachim Berendt used the beginning of a track from Mike Manieri's album with Steig as theme music for his weekly radio show, so his sound was very familiar.

Thanks for the music.

I wonder why Blue Note never got around to reissue the music from that Jazz Wave Ltd. tour.

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I think a Hubbard session made during the tour has been issued IIRC. 

[mikeweil]

Correct, that makes me wonder even more, as it means the tapes are still available.

Edited May 22, 2016 by mikeweil

[A Lark Ascending]

Don't know a lot of his music but have enjoyed what I heard - remember hearing a track on something like Charles Fox's 'Jazz Today' way back in the late-70s but being quite unable to locate the record at the time. 

RIP

Edited May 22, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[JSngry]

  On 5/22/2016 at 3:43 PM, mikeweil said:

Correct, that makes me wonder even more, as it means the tapes are still available.

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There has been talk that the original album was released somewhat Iacking In full contractual compliances......

[Cyril]

RIP

[Hardbopjazz]

RIP Jeremy.

[clifford_thornton]

Ah, that's too bad. RIP. Flute Fever is an excellent album.

[rostasi]

Little known fact:

His father, Bill Steig, was the creator of Shrek!

 

Edited May 23, 2016 by rostasi