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Duncan Preston Schiedt (* 13. May 1921 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ; † 12. March 2014 in Pittsboro , Indiana ) was an American jazz - Photographer , author and historian .

Life

Duncan Schiedt grew up on the east coast of the USA and lived in the New York City area from 1936 to 1950 . During one of his trips to England he developed a great interest in swing music ; after returning to the United States, he made jazz photography his hobby. During the Second World War he served as an army photographer in the Air Force and was a. a. in the nuclear weapons tests in the western Pacific, as used on Operation Crossroads in Bikini Atoll . After the war he worked in the photo business and also as a theater photographer; In 1951 he moved to Indiana . There he wrote four books on photography and jazz history, such as a Fats Waller biography and the work Indiana: A Jazz State . The 1996 edited book Twelve Lives in Jazz contained essays Schiedts on musicians such as Louis Armstrong , Bix Beiderbecke , Jelly Roll Morton to Count Basie , Billie Holiday , Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker . His most recent publication was the 2004 book Jazz in Black and White , which spans photographs by Schiedt over a period of sixty years. Other publications and TV documentaries have appeared about Schiedt's work, such as Ken Burns' ten-part series on jazz on PBS . In 2000 he was inducted into the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation Hall of Fame . He lived in Pittsboro , Hendricks County , Indiana, where he died on March 12, 2014 at the age of 92.

Works (selection)

  • Jazz State of Indiana . (1977) ISBN 0960352805
  • Twelve Lives in Jazz , Delta Publishing 1996
  • Jazz in Black and White - The Photographs of Duncan Schiedt (Indiana University Press), ISBN 025334400X
  • Chuck Denison (Author); Duncan Schiedt (Photos): The Great American Songbook: Stories of the Standards Robert D. Reed Publishers 200, ISBN 1931741425
  • Ed Kirkeby, Sinclair Traill & Duncan Schiedt: Ain't Misbehavin ': The Story of Fats Waller , New York, Da Capo Press 1975, ISBN 0306706830

literature

  • Donald Eugene Thompson: Indiana authors and their books, 1967-1980. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., 1981, p. 339.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Jazz Lives of March 13, 2014 (accessed March 19, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME No, Duncan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schidet, Duncan P .; Schiedt, Duncan Preston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz photographer, writer, and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlantic City, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2014
Place of death Pittsboro (Indiana)