Joe Goldberg

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Joe Goldberg (born November 11, 1932 , † September 10, 2009 in Elkins , Randolph County (West Virginia) ) was an American music critic and jazz writer who worked in later years as a story editor in the Hollywood studios.

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Goldberg's father Viktor came from Russia and immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century. Viktor Goldberg played in the early 1930s with the Meyer Davis Orchestra in Hollywood (Florida) and in dance orchestras in resorts in White Sulfur Springs (West Virginia) and finally in Elkins. The school attended Goldberg in Hightstown, New Jersey ; in his youth he came into contact with New York hipster culture and the bebop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie . After graduating from Northwestern University , he worked in the media industry in the mid-1950s, then as a producer for CBS Television in Chicago.

In the following years Goldberg moved to New York City and worked as a writer; he also worked in Sam Goody's record store on 49th Street near Broadway . He has contributed to music magazines including Jazz 'n' Pop and The American Record Guide , as well as the Billboard , Down Beat , Saturday Review, Evergreen Review and The Wall Street Journal . From 1957 to the mid-1960s he was the author of the liner notes for numerous Blue Note , Riverside and Prestige productions, among others. a. by Sonny Rollins ( Newk's Time , 1957), Art Blakey , Walter Davis Jr. , Kenny Burrell , Donald Byrd . Jackie McLean , Eric Dolphy , Hank Mobley , Gigi Gryce , Jaki Byard , Grant Green , Lou Donaldson , Ahmed Abdul-Malik , John Coltrane , Billy Taylor and Bill Evans ( Sunday at the Village Vanguard , 1961). He was also the producer of the Coleman Hawkins album The Hawk Relaxes . In the 1959 article The Symposium , he parodied the writing styles of his fellow critics Martin Williams , Whitney Balliett , Nat Hentoff , Ralph J. Gleason , Gene Lees , John S. Wilson , Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler ; the article appeared in the short-lived Williams and Hentoff magazine The Jazz Review in around 1960 .

In 1965 Goldberg published the book Jazz Masters of the '50s , which was published by Macmillan, as the last volume in a book series on the history of jazz , which represented its development from the 1920s to the 1950s. In it Goldberg wrote portraits of jazz musicians such as Miles Davis , John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus , Cecil Taylor , Ornette Coleman , Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk , Gerry Mulligan , Ray Charles and their "contradicting aesthetics". In 1967, when public interest in jazz music in the United States waned, he moved to Hollywood and worked in the film industry , first at Paramount Studios , then at 20th Century Fox as a reviewer and story editor of scripts, including William Goldman's script Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Goldberg co-wrote the script for The Eavesdropper (El ojo de la cerradura, 1966, directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson ).

In the mid-1990s, Goldberg returned to his hometown of Elkins and continued writing blurbs, from then on he wrote for productions for Concord and Prestige; he also interviewed artists such as Frank Sinatra , Jimmy Webb , Paul Motian and Renée Fleming (2004) for various magazines .

Fonts

  • Jazz Masters of the 50s, MacMillan / Collier 1965, Da Capo 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e W. Royal Stokes : Obituary at Jazzhouse
  2. ↑ Joe Goldberg at Discogs (English)
  3. ↑ Republished in: Jazz Panorama: From the Pages of the Jazz Review , edited by Martin Williams (Crowell-Collier, 1962; Da Capo reprint, 1979).
  4. ↑ John Gennari Blowing hot and cool , Univ. of Chicago Press 2006, pp. 184f
  5. ↑ Bob Yurochko: A Short History of Jazz . 1993, p. 158
  6. ↑ Joe Goldberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. ^ Cover text for Jazz Masters of the 50s , 1965
personal data
SURNAME Goldberg, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music critic and jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1932
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2009
Place of death Elkins , Randolph County (West Virginia)