Frank Driggs dies at 81

Frank Driggs, a music historian and producer who gathered a worldwide-class archive more than 100,000 jazz-related images, died of natural causes in Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 20. He was 81.A 1952 graduate of Princeton, Driggs increased being enamored of jazz and swing while hearing latenight broadcasts inside the 19 thirties. He later grew to become an associate of Marshall Stearns, founding father from the Rutgers U.-based Institute of Jazz Studies, and began recording jazz history.Throughout his existence, Driggs produced numerous tracks, including Columbia Records' "Robert Manley: The Whole Tracks," he received a Grammy in 1991.Driggs also co-launched "Black Beauty, White-colored Warmth," a pictorial good status for classic jazz culled from his from his huge collection. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com