Harry Babasin (Babasinyan)

[Гость Funky]

Сын музыканта поместил в LinkedIn историю своего отца.

http://www.onoffon.com/JazzArticle.pdf

The story of a first generation Armenian-American who invented the Bossa Nova...

While I know this is not a direct investment opportunity in Armenia itself, it has to do with a prominent Armenian-American who influenced jazz in ways that continues even today.

My name is Von Babasin and I have been accepted for fiscal sponsorship by the New York Foundation for the Arts to produce a documentary film about my father, Harry Babasin, and west coast jazz.

I am working under the umbrella of their non-profit status to raise funds for the production. All donations go directly to NYFA in support of Artist, Von Babasin, or Project, Harry Babasin's Jazz In Hollywood, and are fully tax deductible as allowed by law. NYFA is one of the most prominent arts organizations in the world and their sponsorship is extreme validation for my father's contributions to jazz and my life's work.

Harry played and recorded with a Who's Who of the jazz aristocracy of the day. Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton, Peggy Lee, Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims - the list goes on and on and on... He is documented as the first bassist to play and record pizzicato jazz cello in 1947 with the Dodo Marmarosa Trio and he invented the Bossa Nova with the Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida in 1953, a decade before it became an international craze.

His story is legendary... this is an article that was published in The Armenian Reporter by journalist, Ishkhan Jinbashian -

http://www.onoffon.com/JazzArticle.pdf

I have received letters of support from Vartan Gregorian, esteemed president of the Carnegie Corporation; Dr. Zaven Khatchaturian, film curator of AFFMA, the Arpa Foundation for Film, Music, and Art; as well as many other important cultural and jazz historians and educators.

If this inspires you at all, feel free to contact me directly...