Irvin Rosenfeld; owned Longhorn Ranch

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By Walter F. Naedele, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: July 26, 2012

Irvin Rosenfeld, 89, owner of the former Longhorn Ranch restaurant in Glen Mills, Delaware County, died Sunday, July 15, of liver cancer at his home in Boca Raton, Fla.

He had moved from Rose Tree in the early 1980s.

Known also as Jack Fields, he was born in Darby, graduated from Darby-Colwyn High School in 1941, and served in the Army from 1943 into 1946.

A son, Richard, said Mr. Rosenfeld was a band leader during part of his Army service in Germany.

In the early 1950s, his son said, Mr. Rosenfeld operated the Blue Note, a nightclub in Philadelphia.

An autobiographical piece on a Cannonball Adderley-related website noted that while the jazz saxophonist was performing in Philadelphia in January 1956, his manager fired his band.

"Jack Fields, an ex-musician and then owner of the Blue Note, was also somewhat upset," Adderley wrote. "I had gotten great response in that room."

In the 1960s, his son said, Mr. Rosenfeld operated the Longhorn Ranch, a steak house on Route 1.

He was a member of the Idle Hour Tennis Club in Drexel Hill for several decades, his son said.

Besides his son, Mr. Rosenfeld is survived by another son, Eric, and a daughter, Robyn Ross. His wife, Harriet, died in 2007.

No services are planned.

Contact Walter F. Naedele at 215-854-5607 or wnaedele@phillynews.com.

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