Thirty-nine 年 ago, armed with a second-hand reel-to-reel tape deck, two future Bears went to work recording the sounds of Greeley jazz. 89年的Tom Cunniffe和Eric Sherrow ’86 were best friends in high school, and in the spring of 1978 they began a recording project that would become their UNC legacy.
“埃里克 was my best friend through high school and college, and for several 年 we worked together as co-owners of Allegro Recording Service,” shares Cunniffe. “埃里克 and I both loved to make live recordings and one of our earliest sets of UNC recordings was also one of our largest endeavors; the complete 1978 UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival.”
Cunniffe and Sherrow were still in high school when a student teacher introduced the 皇冠app官方版下载音乐学院和音乐图书馆. 介绍开启了多年的 recording opportunities for the young music enthusiasts eager to capture the sounds 校园.
“After my initial exposure to the UNC School of Music, I started spending much of my spare time at the Music 图书馆 and around Frasier Hall,” recounts Cunniffe. “一个 day in June 1979, the conductor of UNC’s Wind Ensemble Eugene Corporon approached me and asked if Eric and I could record the summer band concerts at Garden Theatre. Even though the first concert was to take place the following night, we gladly accepted the position and continued to record the summer band performances for the next few 年.”
The pair was welcomed by other members of the School of Music faculty. Cunniffe记得 Gene Aitken, then director of jazz studies, and Greg Heimbecker, chief sound engineer, supporting the students’ recordings—even when professional companies had been hired 正式录制音乐会. 从1978年到1983年，坎尼夫和谢罗公司扩大了规模 their collection of live UNC recordings, capturing guest artists, summer concerts 还有一年一度的爵士音乐节.
While their collection came together in their early 年, the duo’s interests started 一旦他们上了大学就分手. 谢罗开始把更多的时间集中在他的皇冠app安卓下载安装工作上 studies and the two ultimately dissolved their recording company. 每个人都是私人的 copies of their favorite recordings, and Cunniffe carried on making new recordings 通过1995年的演出季.
Over the 年 they kept in touch less frequently and it was not until Cunniffe received his copy of Fall/Winter 2012 Northern Vision (now UNC杂志) that he realized Sherrow 意外地去世了.
In 2016, Cunniffe returned to Greeley for the annual jazz festival and reached out 和雪罗的母亲重新联系.
“I visited his mother who still lives at the same house where Eric grew up,” shares Cunniffe. “夫人. Sherrow escorted me to Eric’s old bedroom and opened the closet door, where I discovered five boxes of master reels, including the complete 1978 jazz festival, the 1980 summer band concerts and excerpts from the 1981 jazz festival.”
Cunniffe agreed to take care of Sherrow’s old tapes, adding them to his own collection 以及其他来自皇冠app官方版下载的录音. 然后，他伸手去了他的老地盘， the 斯金纳音乐图书馆, to find the collection a home.
“We have the second largest collection in the state,” notes Stephen Luttmann, UNC’s 音乐图书管理员. “And these enhanced UNC’s collection, as many were not in our collection 直到汤姆.”
According to Luttmann, the size of UNC’s collection is matched by its accessibility as most of the collection is housed on site and in general circulation. 的可访问性 was an appeal to Cunniffe when he donated the original reel-to-reel recordings to the 图书馆 and made CD copies of his and Sherrow’s recordings for patrons and fellow alumni to enjoy, including the complete 1978 jazz festival recording.
“We will always welcome anyone to listen to [the recordings],” says Luttmann. “他们 can ask for the CD’s at the circulation desk and look them up in the general catalog.”
Although available for onsite use, patrons may not remove the recordings from the premises because they are, according to Luttmann, “one-of kind pieces” much like the 制造它们的人.
“While this collection is far from complete, it offers a cross-section of UNC performances 从1978年到1995年，”Cunniffe说. “Almost all of the 1978-1981 recordings were engineered 埃里克·谢罗. May this set of recordings provide a worthy memorial to this fine 温柔的男人.”
Eric Sherrow passed away in August 2012 and is survived by his wife Ester Hoff Sherrow 和母亲李·谢罗. Tom Cunniffe是网站的创始人和编辑 爵士历史在线.
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Located on the 北科罗拉多大学 campus near the corner of 10th Avenue 和16街 霍华德·米. 斯金纳音乐图书馆 specializes in curricular support of the School of Music and Musical Theatre Programs but is open to general university and 社区 patrons. 图书馆的藏书， comprising more than 100,000 scores, books, periodicals, and recordings, are housed in a state-of-the-art facility that opened in October 1997. 2005年，该建筑 以博士的名字命名. 霍华德·米. Skinner, former Dean of the College of Performing and Visual 艺术, in honor of his many 年 of dedication to UNC and to the Greeley music 社区. 作为 UNC运动, patrons may direct their philanthropic giving to the University Libraries’ priorities, among them endowing the music collection and faculty positions. 访问 给.奇怪的人.edu 多学点东西，今天就送个礼物.
