[Dixielandjazz] Mike Meddings

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Ken, the internet is a massive place, billions and billions of pages,
stuff to the gills with a great deal of sub-standard material and dead
ends, and all of it gleefully indexed by google and bing and duck duck
go and the rest without regard for anything other than a few lexical
matchings of keywords

what I hadn't considered was to search on Mike Meddings' name, as that
was the fast-track! :)

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Ken Mathieson
<ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Gary et al,
>
> I thought connoisseurs of early jazz everywhere and Morton in particular
> would have been aware of this site, failing which Mr Google might have
> proved useful (tongue firmly in cheek). Anyway for those still not in the
> know try www.doctorjazz.co.uk
>
> Ken Mathieson
>
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> To: "Ken Mathieson" <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 5:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Mike Meddings
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>
> 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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