Charlie Bourgeois

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Charles "Charlie" Bourgeois (born January 27, 1919 in Island Pond , Vermont , † January 26, 2014 ) was an American jazz music organizer, manager and producer, who was mainly through his work with George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival got known.

Live and act

Bourgeois studied at Boston University , where he gave his first concerts and met George Wein. During this time Bourgois, a fan of the jazz piano , organized concerts with Lennie Tristano and Mary Lou Williams . After completing his military service in World War II, he returned to Boston and in 1951 met Wein again at his jazz club, Storyville, in the Copley Square Hotel in Boston. Soon after, he took over the club's public relations. When the first Newport Jazz Festival of Wine was held in Newport (Rhode Island) in 1954 , Bourgeois was responsible for press work and thus largely responsible for the success of the festival. In the following years he also did this for other jazz festivals, such as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival , the Grande Parade du Jazz in France, the Kool Jazz Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival . Throughout his career, he has also been the manager of Thelonious Monk , organized tours for Erroll Garner and the Miles Davis Quintet; as a producer he was responsible for productions by Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond ( Jazz at Storyville 1952), Billy Taylor ( Jazz at Storyville, Volume 2 1952) and Ellis Larkins ( Perfume and Rain 1954). Bourgois, who worked with Weins Festival Productions until the mid-2000s , died at the end of January 2014 at the age of 94.

literature

  • George Wein, with Nate Chinen: Myself Among Others: A Life In Music , da Capo Press, 2004, ISBN 0-306-81352-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary in All About Jazz
  2. ↑ John Fass Morton: Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56 . 2008 - page 83
  3. ^ Gary Chun: A Hawaii writer profiles: The man who brought music to the great outdoors in Jazz Bulletin
  4. ↑ Ben Ratliff : Jazz Impresario Tries New Idea: Jazz, Just Jazz (2004) in The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Bourgeois, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourgeois, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz music organizer, manager and producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Island Pond , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2014