Monday, August 13, 2012
RIP / Music Legendary tenor saxophonist Von Freeman dead at 88
Posted by Philip Montoro on 08.13.12 at 03:07 PM
- Jim Newberry
- Von Freeman at the Green Mill in 2011
Reich's obituary and remembrance is very much worth your time, and the Reader has a lot of Vonski articles in its archives too. My favorites? As part of the celebration of our 40th year in 2011, longtime contributor Neil Tesser revisited the very first substantial piece anyone had ever written about Freeman—not at all by coincidence, it was a feature he'd done for the Reader in 1973. At the time Freeman was in his 50s and had just released his first album, Doin' It Right Now, produced by Rahsaan Roland Kirk; though already a fully formed genius, at the time he was something of a south-side secret. Fortunately that changed in the decades that followed—the whole world of jazz knows about Vonski now, and on the sad occasion of his passing, the whole world of jazz can pay its respects.
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