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'''Claire Daly''' is a [[baritone saxophone|baritone saxophonist]] and composer.
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|death_place = [[Longmont, Colorado]], U.S.
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'''Claire Anne Daly''' (February 26, 1958 – October 22, 2024) was an American [[baritone saxophone|baritone saxophonist]] and composer.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Daly was born in [[Bronxville, New York]], around 1958.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite Grove |last=Suzuki |first=Yoko |date=2013 |title=Daly, Claire |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2224198 |access-date=May 10, 2021}}</ref> She began to play saxophone around the age of 12.{{sfn|Stewart|2007|p=259}} She became interested in jazz when, at that age, she attended a [[Buddy Rich]] Orchestra performance at the municipal arena in [[Westchester County, New York]].{{sfn|Stewart|2007|p=259}} At high school, she was part of a marching band and a pit band.<ref name="Grove" /> She was influenced by attending jazz workshop sessions led by [[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]] when she was 18.<ref name="DB2020" /> She attended [[Berklee College of Music]],<ref name="DB2020">{{cite magazine |last=McCree |first=Cree |date=November 2020 |title=The Claire Daly Band: Rah! Rah! |magazine=[[DownBeat]] |volume=87 |issue=11 |page=48}}</ref> mainly playing alto and tenor saxophones, and graduated in 1980.<ref name="Grove" />
Daly was born in [[Bronxville, New York]] on February 26, 1958, and grew up in [[Scarsdale, New York]].<ref name = Russonello>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/claire-daly-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU4.Xa_K.x2yf-ea4QNXX&smid=url-share |title = Claire Daly, Master of the Baritone Saxophone, Dies at 66|last = Russonello|first = Giovanni|date = October 27, 2024|accessdate = October 31, 2024|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name="Grove">{{Cite Grove |last=Suzuki |first=Yoko |date=2013 |title=Daly, Claire |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2224198 |access-date=May 10, 2021}}</ref> She began playing the saxophone at the age of 12,{{sfn|Stewart|2007|p=259}} becoming interested in jazz when she attended a [[Buddy Rich]] performance at the [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County Center]].{{sfn|Stewart|2007|p=259}} She attended [[Berklee College of Music]],<ref name="DB2020">{{cite magazine |last=McCree |first=Cree |date=November 2020 |title=The Claire Daly Band: Rah! Rah! |magazine=[[DownBeat]] |volume=87 |issue=11 |page=48}}</ref> mainly playing alto and tenor saxophones, and graduated in 1980.<ref name="Grove" />


==Career==
==Later life and career==
After graduating, Daly moved to Cape Cod, played in one rock band for two years and another for three.<ref name="Grove" /> She moved back to New York in 1985 and started playing more baritone saxophone.<ref name="Grove" /> From the mid-1990s, she often played with pianist [[Joel Forrester]].<ref name="Grove" />
After graduating, Daly played alto and tenor saxophone in two rock bands while performing jazz in the Boston area.<ref name="Grove" /> She moved to New York City in 1985 and began her career as a freelance baritone saxophonist.<ref name="Grove" /> Beginning in the mid-1990s, she performed frequently with pianist [[Joel Forrester]] and together they released six albums.<ref name = Russonello/>


Daly's first album as a leader, ''Swing Low'', was released in 1999.<ref name="DB2013" /> It was later installed in the [[Clinton Presidential Center]], as an album that was significant to President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name = Russonello/>
Daly's first album as a leader, ''Swing Low'', was released in 1999.<ref name="DB2013" /> She won the 2009, 2010, and 2011 ''[[DownBeat]]'' Critics' Poll for Baritone Saxophone Rising Star.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=August 2009 |title=57th Annual Critics Poll: Official Results |magazine=DownBeat |volume=76 |issue=8 |page=43}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=August 2010 |title=58th Annual Critics Poll: Complete Results |magazine=DownBeat |volume=77 |issue=8 |page=50}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=August 2010 |title=59th DownBeat Annual Critics Poll: Complete Results |magazine=DownBeat |volume=78 |issue=8 |page=49}}</ref>


As the original baritonist with the [[DIVA Jazz Orchestra]]<ref name="DB2013" /> she toured for seven years. In 2000 she performed at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival with her quartet. The next year she was guest soloist with the Billy Taylor Trio at the Kennedy Center. She released, ''Heaven Help Us All'' (on her own label, Daly Bread Records), in 2004, as bandleader.{{sfn|Stewart|2007|p=276}}
Her 2008 self-released album ''Rah! Rah!'', a tribute to Kirk, was re-issued by Ride Symbol in 2020.<ref name="DB2020" /> On this album, she played baritone saxophone and flute, and sang on two tracks.<ref name="DB2020" /> Around 2009, she co-led a trio, Two Sisters, Inc, which contained baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson and bassist [[David Hofstra|Dave Hofstra]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Daly |first=Claire |date=May 2009 |title=Master Class |magazine=DownBeat |volume=76 |issue=5 |page=60}}</ref> and recorded the album ''Scaribari''.<ref name="DB2011" />


Her 2008 self-released album ''Rah! Rah!'', a tribute to [[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]], was re-issued by Ride Symbol in 2020.<ref name="DB2020" /> In 2009, she began co-leading Two Sisters, Inc, featuring baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson and bassist [[David Hofstra]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Daly |first=Claire |date=May 2009 |title=Master Class |magazine=DownBeat |volume=76 |issue=5 |page=60}}</ref> and recorded the album ''Scaribari''.<ref name="DB2011" /> Her ''Mary Joyce Project, Nothing to Lose'', was dedicated to her second cousin who was the first non Alaskan to travel 1,000 miles, solo, by dogsled from [[Juneau]] to [[Fairbanks]] (1935). It premiered in Juneau at the "Jazz and Classics" Festival in May, 2011. In 2012, her album ''Baritone Monk,'' produced by Doug Moody.<ref name="DB2013">{{cite magazine |last=Young |first=Zoe |date=April 2013 |title=Claire Daly's Baritone Monk Embraces 'Old-School Cool' |magazine=DownBeat |volume=80 |issue=4 |page=18}}</ref> of the North Coast Brewing Co., hit number one on the CMJ Jazz Charts. Her 2016 album, ''2648 West Grand Boulevard'', featured jazz versions of Motown tunes from the Detroit years. It was on the Glass Beach Jazz label, also produced by Doug Moody.
She toured with the [[DIVA Jazz Orchestra]],<ref name="DB2013" /> which she was a member of from its inception until 1998.{{sfn|Stewart|2007|pp=258, 276}} "In 2000 she performed in the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival with her quartet. The next

year she was guest soloist with the Billy Taylor Trio at the Kennedy Center. After releasing her third CD, ''Heaven Help Us All'' (on her own label, Daly Bread Records), she embarked on a lengthy national tour with Kirpal Gordon, a writer and poet".{{sfn|Stewart|2007|p=276}} In 2012, her album ''Baritone Monk'' was released; her band toured for eight days, from [[Vancouver]] to [[Santa Cruz, California]], before recording it.<ref name="DB2013">{{cite magazine |last=Young |first=Zoe |date=April 2013 |title=Claire Daly's Baritone Monk Embraces 'Old-School Cool' |magazine=DownBeat |volume=80 |issue=4 |page=18}}</ref>
Daly was a three-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Association's "Baritone Sax of the Year" Award and a multiple time winner of both the ''JazzTimes'' and ''Downbeat'' Critic and Readers Polls for "Baritone Saxophonist of the Year".

She performed as a leader with her band at the Monterey, Healdsburg, Litchfield and Perth International jazz festivals, the Kennedy Center, Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center and many more venues. She has written feature articles in jazz magazines as well as liner notes. She backed up Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Taj Mahal and Robert Palmer, among others.

A veteran Litchfield Jazz Camp teaching artist (20 years), Daly was head of the Litchfield in New York combos, and a teacher at Jazz at Lincoln Center MSJA. She continued to offer clinics and teach privately and at jazz camps. She taught at [[MIT]], [[UMASS Amherst]]; [[Valparaiso University]], Indiana; [[Hall High School (Connecticut)|Hall High School]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]]; [[College of St. Rose]] in [[Albany, New York]]; [[Chamber Street Music School]] in [[Manhattan, New York]]; Hoff Barthelson Music School, [[Scarsdale, New York]]; [[Towson University]]; and [[Syracuse University]]. She gave lessons from a studio in [[Chelsea, Manhattan]].<ref name = Russonello/>

==Death==
Daly was diagnosed with [[head and neck cancer]] in 2023.<ref name = Russonello/> She died at the residence of a friend in [[Longmont, Colorado]], on October 22, 2024, at the age of 66.<ref name = Russonello/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-claire-daly-19582024|title=In Memoriam: Claire Daly, 1958–2024|date=October 23, 2024|website=Downbeat.com|access-date=October 23, 2024}}</ref>


==Playing and composing style==
==Playing and composing style==
A ''DownBeat'' reviewer in 2011 wrote that Daly's "saxophone work and hard-bop-tinged, conversational compositions recall [[Dexter Gordon]] or [[Vince Guaraldi]]".<ref name="DB2011">{{cite magazine |last=Micallef |first=Ken |date=May 2011 |title=Claire Daly Brings Inspiration to Juneau Jazz & Classics Fest |magazine=DownBeat |volume=78 |issue=5 |page=100}}</ref>
A ''DownBeat'' reviewer in 2011 wrote that Daly's "saxophone work and hard-bop-tinged, conversational compositions recall [[Dexter Gordon]] or [[Vince Guaraldi]]".<ref name="DB2011">{{cite magazine |last=Micallef |first=Ken |date=May 2011 |title=Claire Daly Brings Inspiration to Juneau Jazz & Classics Fest |magazine=DownBeat |volume=78 |issue=5 |page=100}}</ref> The Director of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble commented that "Claire Daly is a first-rate musician and educator who brings her soulfulness and thoughtfulness to all that she does. Super insightful, open, warm; she is the kind of guest artist who leaves something behind for everyone to think about and work on".


==Discography==
==Discography==
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* ''2648 West Grand Boulevard'' (Glass Beach, 2016)
* ''2648 West Grand Boulevard'' (Glass Beach, 2016)
* ''Rah! Rah!'' (Ride Symbol, 2020)
* ''Rah! Rah!'' (Ride Symbol, 2020)
* ''VuVu for Frances'' (2023)<ref name = Russonello/>


===As guest===
===As guest===
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* [[J. C. Hopkins]], ''Underneath a Brooklyn Moon'' (Tigerlily, 2005)
* [[J. C. Hopkins]], ''Underneath a Brooklyn Moon'' (Tigerlily, 2005)
* J. C. Hopkins, ''Meet Me at Minton's'' (Harlem Jazz, 2016)
* J. C. Hopkins, ''Meet Me at Minton's'' (Harlem Jazz, 2016)
* [[Kit McClure]], ''Some Like It Hot!'' (Red Hot, 1990)
* [[Matt Lavelle]], ''The Crop Circles Suite Part one'' (Mahakala, 2024)
* Matt Lavelle, ''Harmolodic Duke'' (Unseen Rain, 2023)
* Matt Lavelle, ''The House Keeper'' (Unseen Rain, 2023)
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* [[Warren Smith (jazz percussionist)|Warren Smith]], ''Old News Borrowed'' (Blues Engine, 2009)
* [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]], ''Like Never Before'' (Private Music, 1991)
* [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]], ''Like Never Before'' (Private Music, 1991)
* [[Tribecastan]], ''New Deli'' (Evergreene Music, 2012)
* [[Tribecastan]], ''New Deli'' (Evergreene Music, 2012)
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* [[Warren Smith (jazz percussionist)|Warren Smith]], ''Old News Borrowed'' (Blues Engine, 2009)


==References==
==References==
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== External links ==
==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529184736/http://clairedalymusic.com/ Official site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529184736/http://clairedalymusic.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/claire-daly-mn0000112770 Allmusic biography]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/claire-daly-mn0000112770 Allmusic biography]
* {{discogs artist|Claire Daly}}
* {{imdb name|6592414}}


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Latest revision as of 23:01, 31 October 2024

Not to be confused with the Irish politician, Clare Daly.
Claire Daly
Born(1958-02-26)February 26, 1958
Bronxville, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 22, 2024(2024-10-22) (aged 66)
Longmont, Colorado, U.S.
GenresJazz
InstrumentsBaritone saxophone
Years active1985–2023

Claire Anne Daly (February 26, 1958 – October 22, 2024) was an American baritone saxophonist and composer.

Early life

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Daly was born in Bronxville, New York on February 26, 1958, and grew up in Scarsdale, New York.[1][2] She began playing the saxophone at the age of 12,[3] becoming interested in jazz when she attended a Buddy Rich performance at the Westchester County Center.[3] She attended Berklee College of Music,[4] mainly playing alto and tenor saxophones, and graduated in 1980.[2]

Career

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After graduating, Daly played alto and tenor saxophone in two rock bands while performing jazz in the Boston area.[2] She moved to New York City in 1985 and began her career as a freelance baritone saxophonist.[2] Beginning in the mid-1990s, she performed frequently with pianist Joel Forrester and together they released six albums.[1]

Daly's first album as a leader, Swing Low, was released in 1999.[5] It was later installed in the Clinton Presidential Center, as an album that was significant to President Bill Clinton.[1]

As the original baritonist with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra[5] she toured for seven years. In 2000 she performed at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival with her quartet. The next year she was guest soloist with the Billy Taylor Trio at the Kennedy Center. She released, Heaven Help Us All (on her own label, Daly Bread Records), in 2004, as bandleader.[6]

Her 2008 self-released album Rah! Rah!, a tribute to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, was re-issued by Ride Symbol in 2020.[4] In 2009, she began co-leading Two Sisters, Inc, featuring baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson and bassist David Hofstra,[7] and recorded the album Scaribari.[8] Her Mary Joyce Project, Nothing to Lose, was dedicated to her second cousin who was the first non Alaskan to travel 1,000 miles, solo, by dogsled from Juneau to Fairbanks (1935). It premiered in Juneau at the "Jazz and Classics" Festival in May, 2011. In 2012, her album Baritone Monk, produced by Doug Moody.[5] of the North Coast Brewing Co., hit number one on the CMJ Jazz Charts. Her 2016 album, 2648 West Grand Boulevard, featured jazz versions of Motown tunes from the Detroit years. It was on the Glass Beach Jazz label, also produced by Doug Moody.

Daly was a three-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Association's "Baritone Sax of the Year" Award and a multiple time winner of both the JazzTimes and Downbeat Critic and Readers Polls for "Baritone Saxophonist of the Year".

She performed as a leader with her band at the Monterey, Healdsburg, Litchfield and Perth International jazz festivals, the Kennedy Center, Dizzy's Club at Lincoln Center and many more venues. She has written feature articles in jazz magazines as well as liner notes. She backed up Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Taj Mahal and Robert Palmer, among others.

A veteran Litchfield Jazz Camp teaching artist (20 years), Daly was head of the Litchfield in New York combos, and a teacher at Jazz at Lincoln Center MSJA. She continued to offer clinics and teach privately and at jazz camps. She taught at MIT, UMASS Amherst; Valparaiso University, Indiana; Hall High School in Hartford, Connecticut; College of St. Rose in Albany, New York; Chamber Street Music School in Manhattan, New York; Hoff Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale, New York; Towson University; and Syracuse University. She gave lessons from a studio in Chelsea, Manhattan.[1]

Death

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Daly was diagnosed with head and neck cancer in 2023.[1] She died at the residence of a friend in Longmont, Colorado, on October 22, 2024, at the age of 66.[1][9]

Playing and composing style

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A DownBeat reviewer in 2011 wrote that Daly's "saxophone work and hard-bop-tinged, conversational compositions recall Dexter Gordon or Vince Guaraldi".[8] The Director of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble commented that "Claire Daly is a first-rate musician and educator who brings her soulfulness and thoughtfulness to all that she does. Super insightful, open, warm; she is the kind of guest artist who leaves something behind for everyone to think about and work on".

Discography

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As leader

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  • Swing Low (Koch, 1999)
  • Movin' On (Koch, 2002)
  • Heaven Help Us All (Daly Bread, 2004)
  • Baritone Monk (NCBC Music, 2012)
  • 2648 West Grand Boulevard (Glass Beach, 2016)
  • Rah! Rah! (Ride Symbol, 2020)
  • VuVu for Frances (2023)[1]

As guest

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  • Joe Fonda, Loaded Basses (CIMP, 2006)
  • Joel Forrester, In Heaven (Koch, 1997)
  • George Garzone, Moodiology (NYC, 1999)
  • Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz (Savant, 2011)
  • J. C. Hopkins, Underneath a Brooklyn Moon (Tigerlily, 2005)
  • J. C. Hopkins, Meet Me at Minton's (Harlem Jazz, 2016)
  • Matt Lavelle, The Crop Circles Suite Part one (Mahakala, 2024)
  • Matt Lavelle, Harmolodic Duke (Unseen Rain, 2023)
  • Matt Lavelle, The House Keeper (Unseen Rain, 2023)
  • Warren Smith, Old News Borrowed (Blues Engine, 2009)
  • Taj Mahal, Like Never Before (Private Music, 1991)
  • Tribecastan, New Deli (Evergreene Music, 2012)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Russonello, Giovanni (October 27, 2024). "Claire Daly, Master of the Baritone Saxophone, Dies at 66". The New York Times. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Suzuki, Yoko (2013). "Daly, Claire". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Stewart 2007, p. 259.
  4. ^ a b McCree, Cree (November 2020). "The Claire Daly Band: Rah! Rah!". DownBeat. Vol. 87, no. 11. p. 48.
  5. ^ a b c Young, Zoe (April 2013). "Claire Daly's Baritone Monk Embraces 'Old-School Cool'". DownBeat. Vol. 80, no. 4. p. 18.
  6. ^ Stewart 2007, p. 276.
  7. ^ Daly, Claire (May 2009). "Master Class". DownBeat. Vol. 76, no. 5. p. 60.
  8. ^ a b Micallef, Ken (May 2011). "Claire Daly Brings Inspiration to Juneau Jazz & Classics Fest". DownBeat. Vol. 78, no. 5. p. 100.
  9. ^ "In Memoriam: Claire Daly, 1958–2024". Downbeat.com. October 23, 2024. Retrieved October 23, 2024.

Bibliography

  • Stewart, Alex (2007). Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24953-0.
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