Phoebe Jacobs

Phoebe Jacobs (born Phoebe Pincus , born June 21, 1918 in New York City ; † April 9, 2012 ibid) was an American music manager, press spokeswoman and music organizer, best known as the co-founder of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation .

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Phoebe Pincus grew up in the Bronx and married for the first time at the age of 18. She came into the New York nightclub scene through a relative of her mother's, Ralph Watkins, and initially worked as a cloakroom attendant in his mother's club, Kelly's Stable on 52nd Street . There she learned u. a. Billie Holiday , Nat King Cole, and arranger Sy Oliver , who found her a job at Decca Records . Jacobs was responsible for contracts with musicians and hiring for recording sessions. When Watkins became part-owner of the Basin Street East club , she worked in that nightclub. She later became an organizer in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza , where she performed concerts a. a. organized with Duke Ellington or Benny Goodman . In 1989 she helped found the Jazz Foundation of America .

In the course of her career, Jacobs worked as a press officer a. a. with Ella Fitzgerald , Sarah Vaughan , Della Reese , Eubie Blake , Mercer Ellington and Peggy Lee . She was close friends with Louis Armstrong in the last years of his life, for whom she did public relations. After his death in 1971, she founded the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation , of which she was Executive Vice President and took care of the funding of programs such as the Louis Armstrong Music Therapy Department at Beth Israel Medical Center . Another project was the Jazz at Lincoln Center 's Young People's Concerts , conducted by Wynton Marsalis . To promote Armstrong's fame, Jacobs also organized the naming of Louis Armstrong Stadium in Flushing Meadows Park, as well as Louis Armstrong Park and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in New Orleans , as well as a campaign for a Louis Armstrong commemorative stamp in 1995 as the Armstrong Foundation that created the Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp . She also helped set up the Louis Armstrong Archive at Queens College and the Louis Armstrong House Museum in the brick building in Corona that Armstrong and his wife Lucille lived in. Jacobs, who also helped build the New York Jazz Museum, died in April 2012 at the Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 93.

Honors and honors

In 2003 Jacobs was honored with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Award for Leadership , which was presented to her at the concert event Here's to the Ladies: A Celebration of Great Women in Jazz . In 2007 her 89th birthday was celebrated at the JVC Jazz Festival at the Danny Kaye Playhouse. Phoebe Jacobs was honored for her services on May 24, 2012 at a memorial service held by Jazz at Lincoln Center; the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra , Wynton Marsalis, Jon Faddis , Lew Soloff , George Wein , Victor Goines , Bob Stewart , Stanley Crouch and others performed. a. on.

The critic Whitney Balliett wrote of them:

" She has a good understanding of how show business impinges on the verities of jazz. "

Web links

• Portrait at Decfa
• Christoph A. Geiseler: Improvisation: Phoebe Jacobs' Wonderful Life in Huffington Post
• Portrait at Jazz Foundation of America
• Louis Armstrong Foundation website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Obituary in The New York Times
2. ↑ Phoebe Jacobs, VP of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Dies at 93 at Louis Armstrong House Museum ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 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. 
3. ↑ Jazz Museum Harlem  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Information at JazzCorner