Obituary News

Larry Knechtel Bassist, Keyboardist for '70s Soft-Rock Group Bread Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2009

Knechtel played keyboards and bass with the Wrecking Crew, a group of L.A. studio musicians, before joining Bread in 1971. His arrangement of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' won a Grammy in 1970.

Larry Knechtel, a member of the 1970s soft-rock group Bread, who had a wide-ranging career as a studio musician, has died. Knechtel died Thursday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Wash. He was 69. A hospital official would not release a cause of death, but a report ...

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John E. Carter R&b Tenor in Dells and Flamingos Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2009

John E. Carter, R&B lead tenor and two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, died Friday at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in his hometown of Harvey, Ill. He was 75 and had lung cancer.

Carter, known for his falsetto, was the last surviving founding member of the doo-wop group the Flamingos, which gained fame with such hits as “Golden Teardrops" and their reworking of the pop classic “I Only Have Eyes for You."

Carter, who was ...

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Lawrence Lucie, Guitarist with Jelly Roll Morton, Dies at 101

Source: Michael Ricci
August 18, 2009

Lawrence Lucie, a guitarist whose career began in the early years of jazz and continued into the early years of the 21st century, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 101. His death was confirmed by Sharon Linder, an administrator at the Kateri Residence, the nursing and rehabilitation center in Manhattan where Mr. Lucie lived in recent years. Mr. Lucie spent most of his career as a rhythm guitarist, rarely stepping forward to solo. But he was a master of the ...

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Jim Dickinson: RIP

Source: JamBase
August 18, 2009

Jim Dickinson: RIP

Jim Dickinson Famed producer and musician James Luther “Jim" Dickinson died Saturday August 15, 2009 following a triple bypass heart surgery. He was 67. Father to Luther and Cody Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars, Jim recorded with everyone from Bob Dylan to Big Star and the Replacements to Little Richard and he played piano on the Rolling Stones' “Wild Horses" to name but a few.

You can learn more about Jim Dickinson through Memphis' CommercialAppeal obituary or ...

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Michael Jackson Will Be Buried Aug. 29 at Forest Lawn

Source: Michael Ricci
August 17, 2009

Michael Jackson will be buried Aug. 29 at Forest Lawn, his father says. There's been so much chatter about when and where Michael Jackson is going be laid to rest that it is hard to keep up.

But now, the pop star's father, Joe Jackson is weighing in, saying his son will be buried Aug. 29, what would have been his 51st birthday, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. In an interview with the New York Daily News, ...

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Jim Dickinson, Memphis Producer, Musician and Father of 2 North Mississippi Allstars, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2009

Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67.

His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson recently had bypass surgery and was undergoing rehabilitation at Methodist University Hospital, his wife said.

Jim Dickinson, perhaps best known as the father of ...

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Rashied Ali, Free-Jazz Drummer, Dies at 76

Source: Michael Ricci
August 15, 2009

Rashied Ali, whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltrane’s final years, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Patricia Ali. Mr. Ali, who first encountered Coltrane in their Philadelphia neighborhood in the late 1950s, made the leap from admiration to collaboration in the mid-1960s, when he joined Elvin Jones as a second drummer with Coltrane’s ensemble at the Village Gate in November 1965. Mr. Ali recorded ...

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Mike Seeger Versatile Musician Major Influence on Folk Music Revival Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 14, 2009

Mike Seeger, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence on the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died last Friday of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75.

The younger half brother of folk musician Pete Seeger and part of a renowned musical family, Seeger dedicated his life to documenting, teaching and keeping alive traditional music of the American South. The interwoven strands of Anglo American ...

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