Consuela Lee, jazz educator died
I realize there is a lot of death notices these days. I don’t mean for it to be a “downer”. I post these notices, especially this one, because of the importance of learning about these musicians. I never knew about Consuela Lee. She sounds as though she did a lot of good promoting music education, broadly, and jazz education, specifically.
Consuela Lee, a jazz pianist who fought to establish an arts school for children in rural Alabama on the grounds of a moribund academy founded by her grandfather, died Dec. 26 in Atlanta, where she had lived since 2007. She was 83.
But what I find fascinating about her influences, Art Tatum among them. This suggests she was quite a virtuoso. You can hear a clip of All The Things You Are. Although the clip ss rather short, there are flickers of Tatum, albeit at a much slower pace! I’m adding her to my library. For sure.
