Herbert Ward (double bass player)
Herbert Ward (* 1921 , † 20th February 1994 in Kaimuki , O'ahu ) was an American double bassist and composer.
Ward lived in New York with his wife, the dancer Jacqueline . Suspected of sympathizing with communism after a concert in East Berlin, he went to Denmark in 1950 and then lived in Vienna for two years. In November 1954 he and his family applied for asylum in Czechoslovakia. With Lubomír Dorůžka and Josef Škvorecký he wrote the jazz revue Really the Blues , in which he performed with his wife and the Czech jazz band Pražský dixieland . He also wrote songs for Eva Martinová , Josef Zíma and Gustav Brom . He also discovered František Ringo Čech, who was then fifteen . Škvorecký set him a literary monument in his short story Pragueʼs Little Mata Hara .
In 1966 Ward became principal bassist with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and moved with his family to Oahu . He founded the Ward Rafters there . He died of a heart attack.
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- Radio Praha: Seeking Asylum in Communist Czechoslovakia
- Hawaii Pablic Radio, March 27, 2018: Ward's Rafters: Don't Let it be Forgot
- David Caute: "The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War" , OUP Oxford, 2003, ISBN 9780191554582 , p. 463
- Herbert Ward at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ Petr Vidomus An American - and Must Emigrate to Czechoslovakia! : Škvoreckýʼs jazzman Herbert Ward through the prism of FBI reports Soudobé dějiny 1-2 / 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ward, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American double bass player and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1994 |
| Place of death | Kaimuki , O'ahu |