Swing into Spring- KSDS Membership Campaign

Swing into Spring- KSDS Membership Campaign

Blog Name:Home Page News

Blog Author:San Diego's Jazz 88.3

Posted on:March 10, 2018

The KSDS Spring Membership Campaign has concluded. The campaign was a huge success and our record-setting total was because of you. Thank you so much! If you missed it you can donate on-line right now. If you requested a thank-you gift with your contribution, you will receive it as soon as we are able to process your request and order it from our distributors. Unfortunately, we cannot provide a delivery date and some items take a significant amount of time to obtain. We appreciate your patience.

Here are the top ten artists of the drive:
  • 1- Dave Brubeck
  • 2- Stan Getz
  • 3- Sarah Vaughan
  • 4- Chet Baker
  • 5- Duke Ellington
  • 6- Bill Evans
  • 7- Louis Armstrong
  • 8- Billie Holiday
  • 9- Count Basie
  • 10- Nina Simone
Retired Winners include-  Miles Davis- (Fall, 2015), John Coltrane- (Spring, 2016), Frank Sinatra (Fall, 2016), Ella Fitzgerald (Spring, 2017), Thelonious Monk (Fall, 2017)
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COMMENTS:
eric haskell:5/3/2018 10:08:46 AM
This list is absurd. I assume that "retired winners" cannot make the list for a second time. The great jazz musicians that are NOT on this list astounds me. I can only assume that that voters are largely recent converts whose brains have been turned to mush by years of easy listening jazz. Where are Sonny Rollins, Diz, Bird, Mingus, McCoy, Ornette, Roach, Oscar Peterson, and the three inventors of the tenor as a jazz instrument--Prez, pork pie hat and Frog??? Your list is like a list of NBA greats that excludes Michael Jordan, Kareem, Wilt, Kobe, and Dr. J. I am really surprised to see all of the black musicians excluded in a list involving an art form created by blacks. I am a white Jew born in Brooklyn so I am happy that Stan Getz had a successful career but he just isn't in the same league as the black musicians omitted from the list. Chet Baker and no Diz is just insane.