ValerieB Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 He was really a great drummer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 I know him best for his work with Teddy Charles, and really enjoy what he contributed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcello Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 Joe La Barbera just posted this recent photo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin V Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 I'm not very familiar with his work, but he really shines on Joe Newman's At Count Basie's. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 Really liked his work with Oliver Nelson ! RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted May 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 Brownie: I can only identify that drummers Jeff Hamilton and Paul Kreibich are standing beside Ed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcello Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 26, 2013 Report Share Posted May 26, 2013 Thanks Valerie and Marcello! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted May 26, 2013 Report Share Posted 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" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted May 26, 2013 Report Share Posted May 26, 2013 Gheorghe, that was my first record of his as well. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ed-shaughnessy-20130526,0,6466298.story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted May 26, 2013 Report Share Posted May 26, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktXk2PhwMk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Obituary in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/arts/music/ed-shaughnessy-tonight-drummer-dead-at-84.html?_r=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Basie dug him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 One of his finest outings was Oliver Nelson's "Afro-American Sketches." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro/American_Sketches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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