| LC control no. | n 80118203 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Keane, Shake |
| Variant(s) | McGKeane, Ellsworth Keane, Ellsworth McGranahan |
| Other standard no. | http://viaf.org/viaf/71591306 71591306 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1563936 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shake_Keane https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6b32e8e6-8abf-4692-99d2-b270b9b4e080 http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000731194 http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001227280 http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0002060894 http://www.discogs.com/artist/475809 http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101068408 http://d-nb.info/gnd/105755622X http://www.idref.fr/095160574 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140207033 |
| Associated country | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines United States Germany Great Britain Norway |
| Located | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1927-05-30 |
| Death date | 1997-11-11 |
| Place of birth | Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) |
| Place of death | Oslo (Norway) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Jazz musicians Trumpet players |
| Found in | His One a week with water, 1979: t.p. (Shake Keane) jkt. (Ellsworth McGKeane, b. in St. Vincent where he still lives; a well known musician) The angel horn, c2005: t.p. (Shake Keane; 1927-1997) p. 183-184 (Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane; b. May 30, 1927 in St. Vincent, Caribbean; musician and poet; emigrated to the USA in 1981 and lived in Brooklyn, New York; d. in Oslo, Norway, 1997) Wikipedia, March 30, 2016 (Shake Keane; Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927, Kingstown, St Vincent, West Indies-11 November 1997, Oslo, Norway); jazz musician and poet; best known today for his role as a jazz trumpeter, principally his work as a member of the ground-breaking Joe Harriott Quintet (1959-65); emigrated to Great Britain in 1952; in 1966 left Britain to settle in Germany; returned to St Vincent in 1972 to take up a government position as director of culture, remaining in the post until 1975; in early 1980s, Keane moved to New York, settling the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn; in 1990s, he remained based in Brooklyn, but found a second home in Norway, where he worked most extensively. He contributed music to Norwegian television and stage productions for the next few years, also touring the country playing jazz. It was while preparing for one such tour that he became ill, subsequently dying from stomach cancer on 11 November 1997 in Oslo) |
| Associated language | eng |
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