Eddie Diehl

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Eddie Diehl (born June 16, 1936 - June 20, 2017 ) was an American jazz guitarist .

Diehl, who came from Staten Island , began to be interested in jazz as a teenager and then performed in the New York area. He began his career with Jack McDuff in the early 1960s, u. a. heard on the album Brother Jack Meets the Boss (1962). From this time he also worked with Reuben Wilson , Sonny Stitt , Gene Ammons , George Braith , Byrdie Green , Hammond Smith , and in the 1970s with Hank Mobley ( Thinking of Home (1970), among others with Woody Shaw and Cedar Walton ), Al Haig and with various Latin jazz musicians . In 1965 he was involved in Miriam Makebas and Harry Belafontes joint album An Evening with Belafonte / Makeba , which was awarded a Grammy .

In his main job Diehl worked as a guitar technician; from 1984 he lived in Poughkeepsie , where he continued to perform. In 2006 he presented the album Well, Here it Is , on which Hank Jones , John Webber and Mickey Roker participated. In 2010 Bart Thrall made a documentary about the musician. He celebrated his eightieth birthday with a concert at the New York jazz club Smalls . Diehl was involved in various recording sessions between 1961 and 2003, in later years also with Roswell Rudd and Big John Patton .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Jazz Guitar Live ( Memento from July 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Portrait and concert information from Smalls
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 22, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Eddie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1936
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2017