[Dixielandjazz] Mike Meddings

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Thanks!!

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:45 AM, david richoux <domitype at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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