[Dixielandjazz] Alan Fredrickson died--Denver Post

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> City Jazz Band co-founder Frederickson dies
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> By Virginia Culver Alan Frederickson, one of the founders of the Queen City
> Jazz Band, died of respiratory problems in Bremerton, Wash., on March 21.
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> Here's Alan Fredrickson's obituary from Denver Post. (Scroll down past the
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> Queen City Jazz Band co-founder Frederickson dies
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> <mailto:vculver at denverpost.com?subject=The%20Denver%20Post:%20Queen%20City%2
> 0Jazz%20Band%20co-founder%20Frederickson%20dies> By Virginia Culver 
> The Denver Post
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> Posted: 04/15/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
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> Alan Freder- ickson led the metro band for 22 years. (Photo courtesy Dr.
> Norman Vicker )
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> Alan Frederickson, one of the founders of the Queen City Jazz Band, died of
> respiratory problems in Bremerton, Wash., on March 21. He was 83.
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> Frederickson, a trombonist, also was the group's "witty, informative and
> entertaining raconteur," according to a Denver Post review in 1966.
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> A celebration of his life is planned from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. May 15 at the
> Evans Chapel on the University of Denver campus.
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> The Queen City Jazz Band, which is more than 50 years old, had a 14-year run
> (until 1972) at Monvue Village, West Alameda Avenue and South Garrison
> Street. The band also played at Zeno's in Larimer Square, said longtime
> Queen City pianist Hank Troy.
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> Frederickson made his own playing as dramatic as possible.
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> But he was known for his storytelling, jokes and "the reading of the word."
> That involved his melodramatic reading of "something like a John Deere
> tractor manual, and people would die laughing," said Bob Cooke, who played
> trumpet in two stints with Queen City.
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> Though the 1966 Post review called Frederickson clever and entertaining, he
> also was sometimes "impossible to work with" because of his "narcissism,"
> said Cooke, of Fort Collins. 
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> "But it's a hard, demanding profession, and we all have some narcissism in
> our personalities," he added.
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> The late Zeke Scher, a huge fan of the band, did a history of the group in
> 1976 for The Post's Empire magazine.
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> Scher wrote that there "were mutinies and frequent turnovers" in the band,
> and Frederickson was "the first to admit he was impossible."
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> But he was the main reason many fans came to hear the band, which still
> plays regular concerts here and in surrounding states. The band has made 25
> recordings and four videos and has played jazz festivals here and in Europe.
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> Frederickson left the band in 1980 to take a world cruise after leading it
> for 22 years.
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> The band was founded in the Lakewood living room of Jeanne and the late
> Harney Peterson. Frederickson and Bill Murray were looking for a place to
> jam, and Harney Peterson was a jazz buff, though he didn't play.
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> He provided recordings of traditional jazz, "which the players then
> mimicked," said Jeanne Peterson.
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> Alan Frederickson was born near Cylinder, Iowa, on March 10, 1927. 
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> He earned his architecture degree at Iowa State University and practiced
> here and in Evergreen.
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> He married Juanita Greenwood in November. For many years, she was the band's
> accountant. In addition to her, Frederickson is survived by his daughter,
> Nancy Squire-Evans of Nederland; sons Marc of Florence, Ore., and Douglas of
> Cayuga, Calif.; and a stepdaughter, Regina Lawrence of Baton Rouge, La.
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> Virginia Culver: 303-954-1223 or vculver at denverpost.com 
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