Thiele Center For Jams Set
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — The Robert Thiele Center for Popular Amerikan Music has been set up at the Lawrenceville School here. The center, named for noted record producer and Flying Dutchman owner Bob Thiele (who, at Impulse/ABC produced records with John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others of the most important movers in the field of Black Music in the sixties and has continued with Flying Dutchman) will be a “comprehensive repository and research archive” for data and recordings relevant to all kinds of Amerikan pop music.
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Thiele Center For Jams Set
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — The Robert Thiele Center for Popular Amerikan Music has been set up at the Lawrenceville School here. The center, named for noted record producer and Flying Dutchman owner Bob Thiele (who, at Impulse/ABC produced records with John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others of the most important movers in the field of Black Music in the sixties and has continued with Flying Dutchman) will be a “comprehensive repository and research archive” for data and recordings relevant to all kinds of Amerikan pop music. The Center, besides being an archive, will sponsor a concert/lecture/seminar/research series and, eventually, present study grants to both students and professionals.
The center was officially inaugurated on November 20 with a special concert by B. B. King at the Kirby Arts Center on the Lawrenceville campus. Thiele himself is a Lawrenceville alumnus and on the board of directors of the Center. Also on the board is noted jazz critic and anthropologist Jay Ruby.
King received an award at the inauguration, “in recognition of his contribution to contemporary music.”
