Obituary News

Fallen Marines to be Awarded Navy Cross

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2008

Cpl. Jonathan Yale and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter saved Iraqi police and fellow Marines from a truck-driving suicide bomber, Marine brass say. The April attack could have slain dozens. They had known each other only a few minutes, but they will be linked forever in what Marine brass say is one of the most extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice in the Iraq war.

Cpl. Jonathan Yale, 21, grew up poor in rural Virginia. He had joined the Marine Corps ...

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Delaney & Bonnie

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2008

Earlier this week Rolling Stone reported on the passing of Delaney Bramlett, the Mississippi native who co-wrote Eric Clapton's “Let It Rain" and was credited with teaching George Harrison how to play slide guitar. Here's a look back at a classic 1969 feature on the songwriter and his then-wife and musical partner, Bonnie.

Bonnie Bramlett is the female part of a new recording act, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, and the wife of the Delaney part. She, like her husband, ...

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Freddie Hubbard, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 70

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2008

Freddie Hubbard, a jazz trumpeter who dazzled audiences and critics alike with his virtuosity, his melodicism and his infectious energy, died on Monday in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 70 and lived in Sherman Oaks. The cause was complications of a heart attack he had on Nov. 26, said his spokesman, Don Lucoff of DL Media. Over a career that began in the late 1950s, Mr. Hubbard earned both critical praise and commercial success — although rarely for the same ...

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Freddie Hubbard is Gone

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 30, 2008

Freddie Hubbard died this morning in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles. He was hospitalized there since he had a heart attack on November 26. Hubbard was 70.

From the trumpeter's first recording with the Montgomery Brothers in 1958, it was evident that reports coming out of Indianapolis were true: the city had produced a remarkable trumpet player, one who might equal another twenty-year-old, Lee Morgan. After his arrival in New York, Hubbard quickly proved the point. ...

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Guitarist Delaney Bramlett Dies at 69

Source: Billboard Magazine
December 30, 2008

Rock guitarist Delaney Bramlett, who collaborated with such artists as George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died in a Los Angeles hospital following gallbladder surgery. He was 69. His wife, Susan Lanier-Bramlett, said he died on Saturday after “seven hard months" of ill health. “I held him and he held on up until the last breath with which he went in peace to the light and on into eternity," she said in a statement. The Mississippi native first gained renown in ...

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Andre Previn and Mia Farrow's Daughter Lark Dies at 35

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2008

Lark Previn, a daughter of actress Mia Farrow whose sister Soon-Yi Previn was at the center of Farrow's messy breakup with Woody Allen, has died. She was 35.

The medical examiner's office says Lark Previn died Christmas Day at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. No cause of death was given. A cremation was held today at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

Lark Previn was born in Vietnam in 1973. She was one of three children adopted by Farrow and her ...

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Count Five Singer John Byrne Wrote "Psychotic Reaction" Dies

Source: All About Jazz
December 30, 2008

John Byrne, the lead singer of garage-rock band Count Five and the writer of their 1966 hit “Psychotic Reaction" died on December 15th following kidney and liver failure in San Jose, California. He was 61.

Inspired by the Yardbirds “Im a Man",Psychotic Reaction peaked at Number 5 on the Billboard charts and became a radio staple during the Vietnam War era. “Psychotic Reaction" was also listed among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs That Shaped Rock & ...

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Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies

Source: All About Jazz
December 29, 2008

Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, died today (Dec. 29) in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Hubbard, who had suffered a heart attack on Nov. 26, was 70. Born in Indianapolis, the artist moved to New York in 1958 and quickly began playing and recording with Coleman, Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. In 1961, he released “Ready for Freddie," the first of many collaborations with saxophonist Wayne Shorter. ...

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