Wilma Dobie

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Wilma Elizabeth "Willie" Dobie (* 1918 in Reading , Pennsylvania , † June 2, 2005 ) was an American journalist, jazz author and functionary.

Wilma Dobie, who came from Pittsburgh, saw Fate Marable perform on a river steamer at the age of twelve , which led to a lifelong enthusiasm for jazz. She studied at the University of Pittsburgh , which she graduated with a bachelor's degree. She lived in Scarsdale, New York, and later in Palm Beach Gardens for 30 years. Her main job was in public relations at Ben Sonnenberg and for the Phillip Morris Corporation; She was also a long-time member of the American Women in Radio and Television association and had numerous contacts with jazz musicians such as Fats Waller , Eubie Blake , Maxine Sullivan , Dick Hyman and Earl Hines , whose careers she promoted. She had been friends with Sullivan since the time the singer appeared at the Speakeasy Benjamin Harrison Literary Club during Prohibition .

She was also an activist for the Democratic Party , which led to encounters with several presidents such as John F. Kennedy , Harry Truman and Vice President Hubert Humphrey . Dobie wrote about jazz music a. a. also Liner Notes , which eventually led to a Grammy nomination in 1971 . In 1998 he was on a tour of Japan with the Statesmen of Jazz . She was a member of the American Federation of Jazz Societies (AFJS) and, in 1970, a founding member of the Overseas Jazz Club of the Overseas Press Club of America , which honored her services as a reporter. Dobie was also editor of the magazine Off Beat Jazz and wrote a. a. numerous articles on jazz musicians such as Dorothy Donegan in the Jazz Forum , for Storyville ("Remembering Fate Marable"), The Universal Jazz Coalition (UJC), Jazz Forum, Jersey Jazz, The American Rag, The Mississippi Rag, Jazz Ambassador Magazine, Planet Jazz, Jazz Notes and The New York Times . Her estate, The Wilma Dobie Collection, is in the archives of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ^ Facsimile of an article by Dobie from 1975 with Phil Schaap Jazz
  3. ↑ Wilma Dobie: Dorothy Donegan Did It Her Way: Fans Loved but Critics Belittled in Jazzhouse
  4. ↑ Jazz forum. The Magazine of the International Jazz Federation. No. 56 / German edition. 12th year / 6/1978. European Jazz Federation, 1978
  5. ^ Storyville, Issues 27-38, Storyville Publications, 1970
personal data
SURNAME Dobie, Wilma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobie, Wilma Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, jazz writer and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading (Pennsylvania)
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2005