Richard Wang (trumpeter)

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Richard Wang (born July 4, 1928 in Chicago ; † October 10, 2016 ) was an American jazz trumpeter , author, university professor and publicist.

Live and act

Wang performed professionally in Chicago clubs and theaters as a teenager; in the 1950s he played with the pianist Genaro Esposito, among others . First he taught at Wilson Junior College in Chicago, later at the Jazz Institute of Chicago at the University of Illinois , which he also directed for several years; his students included Roscoe Mitchell , Joseph Jarman , Anthony Braxton , Henry Threadgill , Ari Brown, and Malachi Favors . From 1973 he directed the UIC Jazz Ensemble .

Wang's research dealt with, among other things, Duke Ellington's musical comedy Jump for Joy , which he reconstructed for a performance by the Pegasus Players, which earned him laudatory reviews in newspapers such as Newsweek and US News & World Report . In 1990 he was involved in the performance of Charles Mingus ' Epitaph at the Chicago Jazz Festival . He wrote articles for Black Music Research Journal, Musical Quarterly, Jazz Educators Journal , mostly articles on the history of jazz , especially on the development of bebop ; He was also the author of biographical contributions (including Nat King Cole and Benny Goodman ) for The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz .

Publications (selection)

  • Jazz circa 1945 - A Confluence of Styles . Musical Quarterly 59, no, 4, (October 1, 1973), p. 545. Contained in: Frank Tirro: Jazz. A history . New York: WW Norton & Co., 1993
  • Researching the New Orleans-Chicago Jazz Connection: Tools and Methods . Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1988)
  • Jazz in Chicago: A Historical Overview . Black Music Research Bulletin, Vol. 12, no. 2 (October 1990), pp. 8-11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice of death at Legacy.com
  2. ^ Obituary in Chicago Tribune (1999)
  3. ↑ Robert O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin: Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies . 2012
  4. ^ Directors of the Jazz Institute of Chicago
  5. ↑ George E. Lewis: A Power Stronger Than Itself - The AACM and American Experimental Music, The University of Chicago Press, 2010, pp. 66, 74
  6. ^ Frankie Manning, Cynthia R. Millman: Ambassador of Lindy Hop , 2007, pp. 262-2007
personal data
SURNAME Wang, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wang, Richard A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trumpeter, writer, university professor, and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2016