Lawrence Lucie, RIP

[jazztrain]

Link to obit in New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/arts/mus...8lucie.html?hpw

Edited August 19, 2009 by jazztrain

[Chuck Nessa]

Try THIS

[jazztrain]

Thanks Chuck. Fixed the link above.

Bad week for guitarists...

Try THIS

[Harold_Z]

Gotta give Larry his props. Sorry to seem him go. He was an institution. This is a guy who was on the scene since the 20s or 30s until the present. AMAZING!

[gmonahan]

What an extraordinary life! I was just indexing the Louis Armstrong Mosaic set with his name and listening to him strumming away before I saw this. Rhythm guitarists were *so* important to the music. I worship at the altar of Freddie Green.

greg mo

[Big Beat Steve]

A really amazing life.

There really cannot be many jazzmen around anymore whose career stretched THAT far back.

I remember when I first came across his name in an ad for his guitar teaching classes in some Down Beat mag bought at the newsstand in c. 1978. IIRC the ad mentioned his "name band" stints but (apart from the fact that at that time I had not heard his name before) his picture in the ad did not look ANYWHERE near as old as he must have been at that time, given his career mentioned in the ad. (Or did they a use a significantly older publicity pic? )

Whenever I came across his name in the decades since, that made me think of that "youngish" ad. And apparently he kept his youngish spirits almost up to the end.

RIP

[paul secor]

R.I..P., Mr. Lucy.

I remember hearing him on Phil Schaap's show quite a few years ago. He must have experienced so much during his long lifetime - hard to imagine.

[fasstrack]

Shit. I knew him. Great guy. He was at the West End all the time when I started out. I used to see him doing a duo gig at Augie's in the 80s.

Well, he had a long, great life. Can't ask for more than that.