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San Jose Music Pioneer Henry Schiro Dies
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All About Jazz
JAZZ FESTIVAL AMONG PROGRAMS HE DEVELOPED Henry Schiro's mark on San Jose's music scene is everywhere. He developed the San Jose Jazz Festival into the largest free jazz series in the country. He supported, and personally bailed out, the famed Children's Musical Theater San Jose. He brought Broadway shows to town, created a Christmas music series at St. Joseph Cathedral and started music programs in downtown schools. “He was a pioneer," said Bruce Davis, executive director of Arts Council Silicon ...
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Buddy Harman 1928-2008
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Michael Ricci
Buddy Harman, a prolific and influential drummer whose rhythmic signature can be heard on thousands of recordings by the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and Simon and Garfunkel, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 79.
He had been suffering from congestive heart failure, said his daughter Summer Harman, who confirmed his death.
Mr. Harman played on an estimated 18,000 recordings, many of them major hits, in a career of more than five decades. ...
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Buddy Harman Popular Nashville Session Drummer Dies
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Michael Ricci
Buddy Harman, 79, one of Nashville's most-recorded drummers, died Thursday at his home there. He suffered from congestive heart failure.
Harman played on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison's “Pretty Woman," Johnny Cash's “Ring of Fire," Tammy Wynette's “Stand by Your Man" and Elvis Presley's “Little Sister." “He's Nashville's all-around drummer, and he's the best drummer I ever worked with," Harold Bradley, who played on many records with Harman, said Saturday in the Nashville Tennessean. When Harman started drumming ...
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Ralph Young Half of the Sandler & Young Singing Duo Dies
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Michael Ricci
He was born in New York and joined Les Brown's Band of Renown in 1940. He teamed with Tony Sandler in 1965. They made more than 20 albums.
Ralph Young, a former big-band singer who became half of the internationally popular singing duo Sandler & Young, has died. He was 90.Young died after a brief illness Friday at his home in Palm Springs, said his wife, Arlene. After becoming a duo in 1965, the Belgium-born Sandler and the Bronx, New ...
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Johnny Griffin Memorial Tribute
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Readers in and around New York City may be interested in this announcement sent by Michael Weiss.
CELEBRATING JOHNNY GRIFFIN: A TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND MUSIC
Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends.
Johnny Griffin's compositions performed by Johnny's longtime rhythm section (Michael Weiss, John Webber and Kenny Washington) with Eric Alexander. Additional performances by Jimmy Heath, Cedar Walton, Ray Drummond and Ben Riley.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008, 7 p.m.
St. Peter's Church
619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street ...
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Morrissey, Punk Producer Jerry Finn Passes Away at 39
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All About Jazz
Record producer Jerry Finn passed away on Thursday after being taken off life support following a severe brain hemorrhage in July that left him in a coma. He was 39.
During his 15-year career, Finn worked with some of the biggest acts in music, mixing Green Day's Dookie and Insomniac and producing punk acts like Rancid, blink-182, AFI and the Alkaline Trio.
Most recently, in what has become his final production role, Finn worked with Morrissey on his solo album ...
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Dorival Caymmi: Beloved Brazilian Songwriter
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Michael Ricci
Dorival Caymmi, a revered composer and singer of Brazilian popular song who influenced generations of bossa nova performers and whose first major hit helped launch the Hollywood career of entertainer Carmen Miranda, has died. He was 94. Caymmi died Aug. 16 at his home in Rio de Janeiro. He had kidney cancer and multiple organ failure. Caymmi's influence on Brazilian music cannot be overstated. Bossa nova pioneer Antonio Carlos Jobim once called him a “universal gen- ius" and his country's ...
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Fred Crane Actor Who Wooed Scarlett in 'Gone with the Wind'
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Michael Ricci
He played Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film, Gome With The Wind. Crane later became an announcer on L.A. classical music station KFAC.
Fred Crane, a former longtime Los Angeles classical music radio announcer who achieved a slice of film immortality when he played one of the handsome Tarleton twins in the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind, has died. He was 90. Crane, who had been hospitalized for a few weeks with complications related to diabetes, died of ...
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