TRIBUTES to Gay McIntyre rerd a man wh an enormo talent, nsired one of the greatt jazz micians Ireland has ever produced.
Contents:
- GAY MCINTYRE: SAX LEGEND OM THE DAYS WHEN JAZZ WAS KG
- FUNERAL FOR LEGENDARY DERRY JAZZ MICIAN GAY MCINTYRE WHO WAS AN `EXCEPTNAL AND SPIRATNAL TALENT'
- DERRY JOURNAL EDORIAL: GAY MCINTYRE - A MIL GENI WHOSE LEGACY WILL FOREVER BE PART OF DERRY’S STORY
- SADNS AS DERRY JAZZ MICIAN GAY MCINTYRE PASS AWAY
- GAY MCINTYRE
GAY MCINTYRE: SAX LEGEND OM THE DAYS WHEN JAZZ WAS KG
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TRIBUTES to Gay McIntyre rerd a man wh an enormo talent, nsired one of the greatt jazz micians Ireland has ever produced. We jived to and we slow danced to , jazz enpassed every mood and Gay was at the heart of , as Tommy rells.
FUNERAL FOR LEGENDARY DERRY JAZZ MICIAN GAY MCINTYRE WHO WAS AN `EXCEPTNAL AND SPIRATNAL TALENT'
I remember one of Tommy’s troductns, a Cockney om London and not long Northern Ireland: ‘And now for Mrs Jenngs County Fur-man-a, Gay McIntyre on alto sax’.
"I’m honourg the memory of many happy years playg wh the imable Gay McIntyre, a huge loss to the Northern Ireland jazz aterny, but he leav a legacy of spiratn to many young aspirg micians. Candy Deve sent her thoughts om Brisbane, Atralia: “I am so sad to hear of Gay’s mise.
I loved workg wh Gay, particularly on The Whe Le wh the other jazz legends. Gay was his element at the tim, he was amongst the people who mattered to him and they all unrstood each other whout words. Derry jazz legend Gay McIntyre has died aged 88.
DERRY JOURNAL EDORIAL: GAY MCINTYRE - A MIL GENI WHOSE LEGACY WILL FOREVER BE PART OF DERRY’S STORY
The last time I met Gay was some years ago Cafe Vville Belfast. Even over ffee Belfast's Cafe Vville, Gay McIntyre had his prec saxophone wh him. Gay McIntyre, who was 88 and said to be one of the greatt jazz micians Ireland has ever produced, died at his Derry home on Wednday.
Born Ballybofey Co Donegal, Gay's fay later moved to Derry where he began playg mic as a teenager.
"Gay was an exceptnal and spiratnal talent". Wh his saxophone hand and his fedora hat, his latter years Gay McIntyre had bee the face of and synonymo wh the Cy of Derry Jazz & Big Band Ftival and s McIntyre as a young man back the 50s and more recent tim.
SADNS AS DERRY JAZZ MICIAN GAY MCINTYRE PASS AWAY
(Photos, archive and Hugh Gallagher)But Gay McIntyre was makg mil wav long before Derry’s premier mic ftival - found by Gerry McColgan and Johnny Murray two s ago - grew to what is today. A Donegal native who ma Derry his home base, Gay, a reer spanng over seven s, played at ftivals and events across the globe, often llaboratg and featurg alongsi some of the biggt nam jazz mic. The rerd would strike such a chord wh the 13-year-old Gay that his parents bought him a claret of his own.
A quick learner, Gay performed his first profsnal job four weeks after that Bundoran and the rt, as they say, is history. Johnny McCallum, Gay McIntyre, Bronagh Gallagher, Jackie Molloy and Sean Canng at Derry's Rath M—r Centre would go to start his own band at 16, and brought the Clipper Carlton to Ireland at the height of the showband era.
Gay however had other ias and was happy performg at home. In a cy renowned for s mil prows, Gay McIntyre’s credible ntributn will forever be a part of our culture and our story. Derry Mayor Graham Warke recently vised Gay McIntyre at his homeGay McIntyre, nsired one of the greatt jazz micians Ireland has ever produced, has died aged 88.
GAY MCINTYRE
Gay was born Ballybofey, Co Donegal, on 24 April, 1933, and Christened Gee Albert due to his English grandfather’s fascatn wh the Royal Fay.
His fay moved to Derry and Gay began playg mic his mid-teens, performg wh bands ballrooms across Derry and Donegal. Gay’s troductn to jazz me directly through his father, Willie, when he and his band played the Corthian ballroom durg World War II.
Speakg about the day he first heard mic, Gay said: “My mother wound up the gramophone, I hadn’t heard four bars of the mic before there were tears my ey. Gay’s father, who earned 27 shillgs a week at the time, saved up for two years to buy his son a claret. “My father hand to me and said: ‘This is a claret and this is for the rt of your life’, ” Gay remarked.