[Dixielandjazz] Mike Meddings

[david richoux]

If all else fails, a quick Google:
http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/page14.html#mikemd

Dave Richoux


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>wrote:

> all due respect to the departed, but how dare you tease us like that!!
> What is the URL of his legacy?
> You can't dangle a gem like that out before us and not give us the
> website address!  What would Mike have done? :)
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Ken Mathieson
> <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've just heard of the untimely death of Mike Meddings, the creator,
> curator and webmaster of the astonishingly detailed website devoted to all
> things related to Jelly Roll Morton and his music.
> >
> > Mike was born in Birmingham, England, in 1939 and became interested in
> jazz (and Morton in particular) during his schooldays.  Later, he took
> advantage of his spell working on the ocean liner Queen Mary to hear and
> get to know many of NYC's jazz stars in the 1960s. His interest in the
> music of the 1920s led him to build his own piano roll perforator, which in
> turn led him to arranging and preparing music for piano rolls. These
> activities became restricted by the onset of very severe arthritis and
> other health complications which took a turn for the worse in the spring of
> 2013 and he died on 30th June.
> >
> > He set up the Morton website in 1999 and started assembling a research
> team of Morton experts so that, over time, the doctorjazz site became the
> place to go for information on JRM and his music. His roles as instigator,
> catalyst, collator and researcher cannot be over-estimated and the site
> will continue in his memory with updates when new information, links etc
> come forward from the research team. The site isn't glitzy and looks a bit
> old-fashioned, but it's full of solid information about just about every
> aspect of Jelly's life and career, so everyone with an interest in Morton
> owes Mike a debt of gratitude for setting up the free-access site as a
> labour of love.
> >
> > He was also enormously supportive of my efforts to re-interpret Morton's
> music with my band and gave generously of his large collection of sheet
> music and recordings so that I could have access to often rare and obscure
> source material for my arrangements.
> >
> > RIP Mike, you will be missed.
> >
> > Ken Mathieson
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