<div dir="ltr"><div>You're good.<br></div><div>When I keyed in "Brooks Kerr," all I got was the All About Jazz site.<br></div><div>I have the Charoscuro - very nice. He visited Israel with Panama Francis and, I believe, Al Morgan.<br></div><div>Cheers<br></div><div><br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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<a href="http://www.musiciansfoundation.org/lives-changed/brooks-kerr/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>musiciansfoundation.org/lives-<wbr>changed/brooks-kerr/</a><br>
THERE IS A LOT OF BROOKS KERR ON YOUTUBE -- and I think a tape he made of LUCKEY ROBERTS demonstrating JUNK MAN RAG<br>
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(NOT PAINFUL TO CHECK!!!!) but he seems not to have been having a wonderful time -- the date 2017 is on the page copied below but the report has no more precise date<br>
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Brooks Kerr Home Lives Changed<br>
Brooks Kerr Keeping Ellington’s Legacy Alive<br>
The Musicians Foundation Helps the Steward of Duke Ellington’s Songs Play On<br>
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Brooks Kerr was born to play the piano. He began on the instrument at<br>
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age 2 and was quickly identified as a prodigy. Kerr’s first musical model was Fats Waller, and he gained early attention for his lively and<br>
virtuosic renditions of Fats Waller’s music. But it was Duke Ellington<br>
who ultimately shaped the direction of Kerr’s career.<br>
Kerr first met Ellington at age 5; by his teen years they were<br>
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touring together across the country and abroad. John Wilson,<br>
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jazz critic of The New York Times, described the Julliard-trained Kerr as<br>
possessing “an encyclopedic knowledge of Ellington’s music,”<br>
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a repertory that includes over a thousand compositions, many of them now standards<br>
of the Great American Songbook. At the end of Ellington’s life,<br>
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Kerr sat in for his ailing mentor in concert – chosen steward for this remarkable canon of American music.<br>
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After Ellington’s death, Brooks Kerr collaborated with some of Duke’s sidemen.<br>
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Among the veterans who played in Kerr’s band were Sonny Greer,<br>
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Russell Procope, Ray Nance and Paul Gonsalves. Kerr recorded for the following Jazz record labels: Famous Door in 1974; Chiaroscuro in 1975<br>
(a set of duets with Greer); and Blue Wail during 1981-82 (tributes to<br>
Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Irving Berlin.) Kerr sparked a<br>
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friendship with Irving Berlin through his resurrection of several<br>
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of the composer’s forgotten pieces. In fact, they grew so close Berlin referred to Kerr as a “son.”<br>
Kerr’s sight deteriorated throughout his childhood, leaving him<br>
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legally blind by his mid- 20’s. Such was his love of music that he<br>
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dealt with this loss with equanimity. For Kerr, life “has always been about the music.”<br>
Not only has this teacher and performer upheld the legacy of some of<br>
America’s most important music, he’s also served as a loyal friend to<br>
other musicians, always willing to help a fellow artist in need.<br>
Then Brooks Kerr needed help himself.<br>
Struck with kidney disease and in need of a transplant, Kerr found<br>
himself unable to perform. Like so many musicians, this artist who had<br>
devoted his entire life to bringing pleasure to others was left with no<br>
means of financial support while enduring an unexpected medical crisis.<br>
The Musicians Foundation has provided Kerr and his family assistance<br>
to pay their bills while he undergoes treatment. Kerr’s family reports<br>
that he is recovering well after his kidney transplant. With his<br>
financial distress alleviated, he can now focus on what matters most:<br>
getting well so that he can return to making the music that is part of<br>
our shared and cherished heritage.<br>
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