[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Looking For info on guitarist Ronnie Singer

[Robert Ringwald]

From: Joyce Glantz 
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 10:12 AM
To: Robert Ringwald 
Subject: Re: Fw: [Dixielandjazz] Looking For info on guitarist Ronnie Singer

Please send to Craig Neilson: thanks, Robert.

Thank you so much for checking for me. What's on-line is, for the most part, what I or a few others, have put there there. I'm sending feelers out to find out if there is more that I haven't yet found.
I sincerely appreciate your response.
Joyce Singer-Glantz


12/19/12 8:10 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:



  From: Craig Neilson 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:54 AM
  To: Robert Ringwald 
  Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Looking For info on guitarist Ronnie Singer

  There's a file of a live recording from around 1950 here - http://archive.org/details/RonnieSingerLiveInNewYorkEarly1950s


  On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

    An interesting story sent by a member of the Simi Jazz Club…
    Can you help???

    sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:59 PM

    Ronnie Singer was a Chicago/New York guitar player who died at the young
    age of 25. In that short period of time he developed an incredible
    reputation among jazz musicians as an innovative, unique guitarist who
    could only be appreciated if his music is actually heard.
    Now, more than 60 years later, his name has surfaced world-wide as a
    father of the be-bop movement. Young jazz musicians have begun to teach
    about his musical genius in places as far away as Paris and The Hague. A
    piece of music has been composed for him. The Just Jazz Guitar Magazine,
    November, 2012 issue, has a full spread article on Ronnie.
    As his sister, I have compiled as much information as I can acquire so
    as to prepare to write his biography. Recently, one European musician
    wrote to me, saying he heard a recording done by Artie Shaw that had an
    incredible guitar solo. Listening closely, he and his colleagues
    determined it could only have been Ronnie playing. Ronnie had played
    with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry James, and many, many more
    bands.
    I'm hoping, in writing this letter, that one of you knows something
    about Ronnie that you can offer, whether it be having known him
    personally, knowing someone who did know him personally, having some of
    his music, or any other leads you can come up with.
    I have been called by the President of the Jazz Hall of Fame to give my
    permission to have Ronnie included in the new museum that will be
    erected in Chicago. All of this information will be included in what I
    offer to the exhibit. Any help you can give me will be noted.
    Thank you for your cooperation in "Finding Ronnie Singer."
    Joyce Singer-Glantz
    gglantz at ucla.edu
    818-216-8743


    -Bob Ringwald
    www.ringwald.com
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