Ed Beach, Host of ‘Just Jazz’ Radio Show, Dies at 86

[Brownian Motion]

Ed Beach, the host of a popular jazz radio show in the 1960s and ’70s, who attracted listeners in New York and elsewhere with his sonorous voice, eclectic taste, vast erudition and pleasurably irascible temperament, died on Dec. 25 in Eugene, Ore. He was 86 and lived in Eugene.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/arts/14beach.html?ref=obituaries

[Chuck Nessa]

He had a productive life. Thanks.

[Brownian Motion]

I grew up listening to Ed Beach on the radio--the FM signal for WRVR could just barely make it to where I lived. Ed knew jazz. He was a good, irascible old cat. RIP.

[jazztrain]

My first exposure to jazz was probably hearing Beach's "Just Jazz" radio show on WRVR in the early 1970s. His program, in part, is responsible for the ensuing close to 40 years of my listening and collecting and to my own radio efforts. Thanks, Ed.

Anyone else remember any of the pseudonyms he would sometimes use (like Ashley (or Ashly?) Seadrift and Desmond Ebbtide)?

Ed Beach, the host of a popular jazz radio show in the 1960s and ’70s, who attracted listeners in New York and elsewhere with his sonorous voice, eclectic taste, vast erudition and pleasurably irascible temperament, died on Dec. 25 in Eugene, Ore. He was 86 and lived in Eugene.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/arts/14beach.html?ref=obituaries