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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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Les Paul's Innovations Paved the Way for Rock 'N' Roll

Source: Michael Ricci
August 14, 2009

The virtuoso picker influenced a generation of guitarists and had a series of hits in the '50s with wife Mary Ford. He invented an early solid-body electric guitar and pioneered new recording methods.

Les Paul was often called rock royalty, but for the people who knew the man before his death Thursday at age 94, that term often inspired a gentle chuckle.

Born in Wisconsin in 1915, Paul was a Midwestern jazz man who went on to make high-polish 1950s ...

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Rashied Ali, Jazz Drummer, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 14, 2009

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

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Les Paul

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 14, 2009

Les Paul, who affected the course of popular music in profound ways, died yesterday at the age of 94. Jazz devotees may remember the guitarist most fondly from the days in the 1930s when he collaborated with Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Art Tatum, or his involvement with Jazz At The Philharmonic and a memorable 1944 blues duet with Nat Cole. He went on to star on radio and television, invent equipment, come up with innovative recording techniques and zoom ...

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