Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 1/1: Standards Die, Standards Live,...

["David W. Harris" <dwh@totalnetnh.net>]

Larry Weil noted: "When Jeff Turton announced a list of Jazz people who
had passed away in the last year on his 'Jazz Brunch' show last Sunday,
I noticed that the name of broadcaster Danny Stiles was included."

Did he refer to Mr. Stiles as a broadcaster?  I don't think this is the
same person.  Bob Blumenthal mentioned the death in his 12/25 Globe jazz
column: "Danny Stiles, one of New York's most reliable trumpet section
stalwarts."  A check of other sources shows the deceased D.S. played
with the likes of Woody Herman, Tito Puente, and James Brown.  I can't
help but smile when I think of the guy I used to hear on WEVD hangin'
with Soul Brother Number One. Can this be the same person whose profile
at http://www.wnyc.org/aboutus/bios/musicbios.html opens with this
quote: "Music ended for me around 1960."?

That broadcaster's bio makes no mention of any trumpet talent, referring
to Mr. Stiles as "a 50-year radio veteran."  I would expect the earthly
exit of such a person to rate at least some mention in the New York
papers but can find no mention of same in the archives of the Times or
Daily News.  In fact, the Daily News mentioned the WNYC show just a few
weeks ago (12/8) with no hint that its host may have departed.

There is a www.dannystiles.com, by the way, at which you are encouraged
to "Become a Proud Danny Stiles Advertiser."

- --submitted by David W. Harris, not to be confused with David Harris the
American Airlines pilot, David Harris the saxophone player, David Harris
the urologist, the David Harris who has keys to the East Concord
Congregational Church, the David Harris who married Joan Baez, or the
David Harris shown to be a cop killer in Errol Morris's movie "The Thin
Blue Line"; except for the last two, I have received phone calls for all
these folks.

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