John Jack
John Michael Jack (born May 25, 1933 in Barnes ; † September 7, 2017 ) was a British musician (trombone) who was best known as a music producer and promoter.
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Jack grew up in the south-west London borough of Barnes as the son of an auto engineer; his mother was a singer in nightclubs in her early years . After working as a musician with his brother in his youth, he was active in the British music scene from the 1940s; as a trombonist he took part in the British revival of traditional jazz . As early as 1947 he acquired the record store Jelly Roll Morton's Dr Jazz and Pinetop Smith's Jumpsteady Blues Records , which was located in Shepherd's Bush in West London . After completing his military service in the British Army, he regularly frequented the music scene in the Soho district, in whose clubs at that time artists from African and Caribbean music cultures performed alongside jazz musicians; in the 1950s he lived temporarily in Paris before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art .
In the 1960s Jack worked for independent record labels such as Carlo Krahmers Esquire Records and Emil Shallit's Melodisc Records ; he also worked as a roadie for the skiffle band Vipers . As a promoter in 1963 he gave the still largely unknown blues rock band The Rolling Stones a performance in the jazz pub Manor House in north London. From 1965 to 1968 he was the managing director of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , which until 1965 was still on Gerrard Street in Soho's so-called Chinatown. In the 1970s he was a manager a. a. by Mike Westbrook ; In 1973 he built the record label Cadillac and under the same name a record distributor, which he ran with his girlfriend Hazel Miller, the owner of the record label Ogun . For the next three decades he worked a. a. with jazz musicians such as Stan Tracey , Mike Osborne , Joe Harriott , Billy Bang and David Murray ( The London Concert , 1999). From 1970 on Cadillac Records also made recordings by Harry Beckett , Bruce Turner , Andy Sheppard , Johnny Dyani , Bobby Wellins and the Crane River Jazz Band around Ken Colyer , John RT Davies and Monty Sunshine .
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- ↑ a b c d Obituary in The Guardian
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jack, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jack, John Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British musician (trombone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barnes |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th September 2017 |