[Dixielandjazz] Jack Tracy R.I.P. (Chicago Tribune)

[Robert Ringwald]

Here is an obit of our list mate Jack Tracy.  

Jack Tracy (Chicago Tribune)11 6:31 pm ((PST))
Jack Tracy (1926-2010)
Chicago Tribune (paid notice), January 2, 2010
With a career in jazz music that spanned six decades, Jack Tracy died on Dec. 21st
of heart failure in the midst of loving friends and family in Nooksack, WA. He was
born in a meager house with dirt floors in Minneapolis in 1926, served as a medic
in the Navy during WWII and graduated from University of Minnesota in 1949. Editor
of Down Beat magazine from 1953-58, he left the magazine business to produce for
the Mercury, Argo, Limelight, and Liberty record labels. In 1959, he worked for record
mogul Leonard Chess. In 1961, Quincy Jones convinced him to rejoin Mercury as an
A&R man. Artists he worked with included Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Roland Kirk,
Woody Herman, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Del Close and Chicago's Second City,
Harry Nilsson, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Terry Gibbs. Known for his wit and
stories, he collaborated on an anecdotal memoir of jazz humor, "Laughter from the
Hip," in 1963. He is survived by his children; Michael, San Francisco, CA, Timothy
(Becky Johns), Everson, WA and Christine (Richard) Harrison, Las Vegas, NV; his cherished
granddaughters: Cote Anne Tracy and Lisa Harrison; and the distinctly American form
of music which refuses to die: jazz. The family requests that instead of flowers,
well-wishers go out and do something nice for jazz.
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