Re: Louis Stewart - Vid

On Aug 27, 9:58 am, Des Higgins <dazzhigg...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 25, 6:45 pm, Des Higgins <dazzhigg...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 25, 6:19 pm, andy-uk <andy.uk.j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

awesome...did/does Louis make a good living off jazz?

P.S. I just noticed that he had been elected a member of an Irish body
called Aosdana which is a state funded organisation which helps fund
artists.  It gives him some credibility etc. but most importantly, it
gives him a small stipend if his income is low enough.  This is a
small amount of money but it allows artists who would struggle
otherwise, buy food and pay rent while plying their craft.http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0507/1224246058516.html

This is especially heartening as a move was made to elect him about 10
years ago and it failed because some people did not consider Jazz to
be art or because they did not consider jazz improvisation to be
"creative" but was rather "interpretative".  This is bull either way
and it is good to see him elected.
Ronan Guilfoyle is a local jazz bassist  and composer (played bass in
this clip in this thread) and is also a member.





I do not know much about his personal life so I have to guess here.
Yes and no;
he has never been short of work and projects and he has lived abroad
but he chose to mainly live in Ireland and even someone as good as him
will always have to hustle for gigs to survive here.  He has been
making a steady trickle of CDs over the past 20 years and I hope he
makes something from those.  Most of them are superb (e.g. 2 guitar
format with bass and drums with Heiner Franz on 2nd Guitar or more
recent ones with Norwegian bands) He does a regular Sunday afternoon
gig in Dublin but I do not know what else he does on a week to week
basis.    In the 70s he was a regular sideman for Ronnie Scott, George
Shearing and he toured with Tubby Hayes and others so he was never
short of work. I recall seeing him on (Irish) TV regularly.- Hide quoted text -

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thats good news, cheers Des.
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