Frank Jolliffe

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Frank Jolliffe (born September 5, 1958 in Passaic , New Jersey , † February 8, 2012 ) was an American tap guitarist , librarian and music teacher.

Live and act

Jolliffe began his musical career as an electric guitarist before switching to the Chapman Stick in the mid-1970s . He later switched to the Warr Guitar , a similar instrument designed by Mark Warr. He studied guitar at Berklee College of Music , then composition and orchestration at Mannes College of Music (part of the New School ) and jazz performance at William Paterson University in New Jersey, where he received his bachelor's degree.

In the 1980s he worked with the pianist and saxophonist Joe Ruddick , then he formed a duo with the drummer Jim Mason . He has taught at the National Guitar Workshop and the European Tap-Guitar Seminar in Belgium, as well as at the Hartford Camerata Conservatory . He published The TouchStyle Songbook and The TouchStyle Quarterly magazine . He left the music scene for a few years to work as a librarian after earning a Masters in Library Science from Rutgers University . He worked at Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan , the South Orange Public Library and the Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies , where he helped develop the Jazz Studies Online program and the J-DISC jazz discography program .

From 2010 he appeared again regularly, u. a. with the formation The Flying Particles (with Robert and Miles Nasta) and the band ArtCrime , which was led by the multi-instrumentalist John Korchok. After suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a young adult , he suffered from severe heart disease in his final years and was waiting for a heart transplant ; Jolliffe died of a heart attack at the age of 53 .

Discographic notes

  • Solo Stick (TouchStyle, 1988)
  • Live on Comcast (TouchStyle, 1990)
  • In the Pocket (TouchStyle, 1991) with Jim Mason
  • Live in Brigitines, Brussels (Clic, 1993), with Pierre Van Dormael
  • Totems (Sonic Utensil, 2011), with The Flying Particles
  • June 2011 (ArtCrime, 2011) with ArtCrime
  • ArtCrime (Unseen Rain, 2012)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Jolliffe, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Passaic , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2012