Percy France Memorial Website

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

A ood example of the missing information is that it has been said by about every musician asked that they 'heard' Percy spent time at Riker's Island, the (especially now) infamous NYC jail. But nobody seems to know what put him there.

The usual suspect, probably,?

[Dan Gould]

46 minutes ago, JSngry said:

The usual suspect, probably,?

That's the presumption, or perhaps drug-related theft?  Bill Doggett said on the WKCR memorial broadcast that 

"Everybody that met Percy loved him. Now some of the things that happened later on in his life people didn't necessarily like, but Percy as an individual was a beautiful person."

That suggests to me it wasn't a stretch for possession.

He was well liked. Everybody that met Percy loved him. You know, some of the things that happened later on in his life people didn't necessarily like, but Percy as an individual was a beautiful person. A wonderful man, a wonderful friend, a wonderful musician.

[Dan Gould]

 

[clifford_thornton]

Neloms sounds great on this clip, wow!

[Dan Gould]

Same engagement, a week later, last time bebop this time "Idaho".

 

 

Edited January 26 by Dan Gould

[Dan Gould]

I reached out to the Vandy Librarian about an updated spreadsheet of recordings ... and got a list of interviews, four of which were of Percy France or about him.  Something to look forward to! (Not to mention 6 or more performance tapes I didn't recognize as already uploaded).

Well ... a day later three of the four were released and I am excited by this one in particular, it's about three hours of Percy spinning records and talking about the music, plus an interview with Schaap that I suspect is the longest known interview especially in the absence of any recorded evidence of an interview Allen Lowe told me he had conducted once.

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/141198

Jazz Alternatives: Percy France musician host (9/26/1979)

[Dan Gould]