[Dixielandjazz] R.I.P. Frank Driggs

[Robert Ringwald]

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Jazz Producer, Historian Frank Driggs Dies at 81
Associated Press, September 21, 2011
NEW YORK -- Frank Driggs, a music historian and producer who amassed a world-class
archive of more than 100,000 jazz-related images, has died. He was 81.
Friend and co-worker Donna Ranieri told the Associated Press that Driggs was found
dead in his Manhattan home on Tuesday. She says he died of natural causes.
A 1952 Princeton University graduate, Driggs became enamored with jazz and swing
while listening to late-night broadcasts in the 1930s. He later joined Marshall Stearns,
founder of the Rutgers University-based Institute of Jazz Studies, and began documenting
jazz history.
Driggs produced numerous recordings, including Columbia Records' "Robert Johnson:
The Complete Recordings." He received a Grammy for it in 1991.
Driggs also co-published "Black Beauty, White Heat," a pictorial history of classic
jazz culled from his vast collection.


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