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Dale Fitzgerald, Co-Founder of NYC’s Jazz Gallery, Dies at 72Presented Chucho Valdés, Vijay Iyer, Jason Moran, many othersBy JazzTimes Dale Fitzgerald, co-founder and, until 2009, executive director of New York’s Jazz Gallery, died March 20 in the Bronx, N.Y., after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72. Dale Kelley Fitzgerald was born on December 23, 1942 in Wakefield,
R.I., and received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University.
According to a statement circulated after his death, Fitzgerald earned a
Ph.D in anthropology in 1976 at the University of California, Berkeley,
and taught Cultural Anthropology at Brown University, the New School
For Social Research and Lehman College. After leaving academia,
Fitzgerald took a job washing dishes at the Village Vanguard.
“Fitzgerald, Harrison and artistic director Rio Sakairi would host a multi-ethnic array of New York’s finest young jazz musicians at a stage of their career when they did not yet have access to major club stages, providing artist-in-residence opportunities, composition commissions, mentorship programs and inexpensive rehearsal facilities,” said the statement. Fitzgerald presented the first New York performance by Cuban pianist-composer Chucho Valdés in 1996, and also presented Dafnis Prieto, Vijay Iyer, Jason Moran and Miguel Zenón. To read tributes to Fitzgerald from several jazz artists, go here |
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