Lomax, who died July 19 in Florida at age 87, wasn't known as a musician or singer, although he was a wannabe, and he wasn't a composer. But as the foremost collector, archivist and champion of the ...
NEW YORK — Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, ...