John A. Tynan

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Matthew John Anthony "Jack" Tynan (born August 21, 1927 in Ireland ; † February 13, 2018 in Palm Desert ) was an American journalist , jazz author, critic and editor.

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Jack Tynan grew up in Clonmel , County Tipperary, as the oldest of three children. In 1946 he moved to London; at the age of twenty he emigrated to the United States, attended Brooklyn College and began a career as a journalist in New York City. When he was employed by the New York Herald Tribune , he soon had the opportunity to write jazz reviews. In 1950 he married Corinne Pearl Wagner; The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1951, where Tynan first worked for the Los Angeles Herald Express , then as a writer and (from 1955) co-editor ( associate editor ) for the jazz magazine Down Beat and from 1955 to 1965 the West Coast jazz scene commented. So he wrote articles a. a. via Charlie Byrd , Paul Horn , Julie London , Warne Marsh , Art Pepper , Vi Redd , Peggy Lee , Stan Kenton and Terry Gibbs . In his posts for Down Beat, he called for equal treatment of white and African American artists in the music industry; "With the headline Jim Crow Shadow Hovers Over Vegas Jazz Efforts of September 5, 1956 and the article by John Tynan, the segregation regulations were directly attacked." He also wrote about the struggle of jazz musicians against their drug addiction.

Tynan struggled with the innovations in jazz that began in 1960, namely free jazz . He recognized and defended Ornette Coleman in his article Ornette: the First Beginning ; On Down Beat he described John Coltrane's band with Eric Dolphy as "anti-jazz" in 1961 , which led to a controversy in which Coltrane and Dolphy themselves responded to jazz criticism. From 1965 Tynan worked in the news department of the radio and television station KABC in Los Angeles; he received two Golden Microphone Awards for his services as a radio news writer.

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  1. ↑ a b c John A. Tynan Obituary. The Desert Sun, March 17, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ James A. Harrod: Jazz West Records: Art Pepper on Jazz: West and Intro Records
  3. ↑ Julie London Cover Girl in Down Beat 1960
  4. ^ Warne Marsh Information Site Documents
  5. ↑ Terry Gibbs: Vamp Til Ready (1962) in Down Beat Archive
  6. ↑ Jürg Martin Meili: Art as a bridge between cultures: Afro-American music in the light of the black civil rights movement. Transcript 2014
  7. ↑ Ornette: the first Beginning, Down Beat, July 12, 1960
  8. ↑ Organissmimo (2009) ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.organissimo.org
  9. ↑ Tynan wrote in 1961: I listened to a horrifying demonstration of what appears to be a growing anti-jazz trend exemplified by these foremost proponents of what is termed avant-garde music. I heard a good rhythm section… go to waste behind nihilistic exercises of two horns… Coltrane and Dolphy seem intent on deliberately destroying swing. They seem bent on pursuing an anarchistic course in their music that can only be termed anti-jazz. Quoted from Anti-Jazz Revisited, 50 Years Later (2010) in A Blog Supreme
  10. ↑ A Moment in Time: John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy 1960 in Jerry Jazz (2010)
personal data
SURNAME Tynan, John A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tynan, Matthew John Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2018
Place of death Palm Desert