Jazz Lives: What Ed Beach Gave Us

WHAT ED BEACH GAVE US

Posted on January 6, 2010 by jazzlives| 20 Comments

I’ve just learned that Ed Beach is dead.  He was 86 and had lived in Oregon (his home state) for a long time.  No service is planned, so people who recall him, love him, and love what he did will have to perform their own affectionate memorials in their heads.

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New York Times Obituary

ARTS

Ed Beach, Host of ‘Just Jazz’ Radio Show, Dies at 86

By MARGALIT FOX

Published: January 14, 2010

Mr. Beach attracted listeners in New York and elsewhere with his sonorous voice, eclectic taste, vast erudition and pleasurably irascible temperament.

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