Joe Segal
Joe Segal (born April 24, 1926 in Philadelphia , † August 10, 2020 in Chicago ) was an American jazz organizer . He was the founder and owner of The Jazz Showcase in Chicago and has organized jazz events since 1947.
Segal grew up in Philadelphia and heard his first jazz concerts ( big bands ) there. This continued when he was stationed as a soldier in the Air Force in Champaign, Illinois near Chicago during World War II . After the war he studied with a GI Bill at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he performed live jazz musicians in the university jazz club, which he joined in 1947. In addition to local musicians, traveling big band musicians such as Sonny Rollins , Charlie Parker and Lester Young performed there. When the program at Roosevelt University ended in 1957, Segal presented jazz musicians in other locations (a total of about 63 according to Segal's own assessment). He had his first official jazz showcase in Rush Street in the early 1970s, and is now at Dearborn Station. Typically, musicians were hired for five evenings a week and a Sunday matinee for children.
Segal is one of the founders of the Jazz Institute of Chicago .
In 2015 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship . In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from Roosevelt University.
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- ↑ Steven Kurutz: Joe Segal, impresario of Live Jazz for 70 Years, This at 94. In: The New York Times . August 25, 2020, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segal, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz organizer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2020 |
| Place of death | Chicago |