Orrin Keepnews 1923 - 2015

[The Computer Audiophile]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?_r=0

 

"Orrin Keepnews, who as a record company executive and producer helped create some of the most celebrated recordings in jazz over a half-century, died on Sunday at his home in El Cerrito, Calif. He was 91.His death was confirmed by his son Peter.

Mr. Keepnews, a four-time Grammy Award winner, was a jazz journalist, essayist and writer of album notes as well as the producer of enduring albums by the likes of the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and the pianists Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans."

[Musicophile]

In memoriam, my album of the evening will be:

 

 

The famous Evans standard "Re: Person I knew" is an anagram of Orrin's name by the way (can be found on Moon Beams among others).

[Superdad]

Orrin Keepnews was GREAT! I have spent countless hours lost in the magic of the wonderful music preserved on Riverside records. While not usually though of as an "audiophile" label, many of the early Riverside productions equal or exceed what I have experienced from the finest Blue Note releases.

 

Riverside under Mr. Keepnews also got into some experimental areas. I have a Riverside LP that plays from the inside to the outside! But it is mostly a recording of freight trains!

 

I hope Mr. Keepnews rests in peace while his legacy lives on for another century.