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Dick Edelstein

Dick Edelstein is a US born Irish citizen living in Barcelona for the past 40 years. He contributes essays, reviews and articles to journals and websites in Ireland and the UK and regularly reviews collections by emerging Irish poets in the Dublin Review of Books. In his early career, he worked on the Seattle docks as a grain inspector and at Boeing as a tooling inspector. In San Francisco he worked on the docks as a longshoreman and shipscaler, and as a construction laborer, machinist, and electronic technician, ending that phase of his career working as a maintenance mechanic at ITT Continental Baking, sometimes known as the Twinkie factory, in a handsome Mission-style red brick building on San Francisco’s Bryant Street, opposite the old Hamm’s brewery. Email: dickedelstein [at] gmail.com

The Right to Remember

Posted on Monday, Sep 20, 2021 1:30AMMonday, September 20, 2021 by Dick Edelstein

by Dick Edelstein Hello, my name is David Coronado. The grave where your grandfather is buried is being exhumed. I think you can come to collect his remains and say a proper goodbye to him. The above quote from a recent article in the Spanish newspaper El País illustrates how David Coronado approached relatives of…

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The Billy Eckstine Story

Posted on Monday, Aug 23, 2021 1:35AMMonday, August 23, 2021 by Dick Edelstein

by Dick Edelstein Not all jazz fans today will understand why an ultra-talented singer and musician like Billy Eckstine aspired to be a famous crooner. But his full, rich bass-baritone voice was ideally suited to that singing style – his voice was as smooth as that of Der Bingle, as Bing Crosby was affectionately known…

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Lady Day

Posted on Monday, Jul 26, 2021 2:00AMMonday, July 26, 2021 by Dick Edelstein

by Dick Edelstein Following Hulu’s release of “The United States vs Billie Holiday”, the singer’s musical career has become a topic of discussion. The docu-drama is based on events in her life after she got out of prison in 1948, having served eight months on a set up drug charge. Now she was again the…

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