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Sam Moore Reflects on Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler and a Life in Soul

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2008

Last week was a terrible blow to anybody invested in the soul and R&B music of the late '60s. Between the deaths of Isaac Hayes and Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler, it seemed as if one of the greatest eras in American pop music began to fade.

Sam Moore (above, left, with Hayes), one half of the R&B duo Sam and Dave, is performing an Isaac Hayes tribute at Sunset Junction this weekend, and he knew the players of the ...

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Dorival Caymmi Singer of Brazil Dies at 94

Source: Michael Ricci
August 22, 2008

Dorival Caymmi, a Brazilian singer and songwriter who helped lay the foundations of bossa nova, wrote Carmen Miranda's first hit and gave legendary voice to the romance of the beaches, fishing villages and bathing beauties of his native Bahia, died on Saturday at his home in Rio de Janeiro. He was 94. Dorival Caymmi helped lay the foundations of bossa nova. The cause was multiple organ failure, according to accounts in the Brazilian news media. Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, ...

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Ronnie Drew Irish Folk Singer Founded the Dubliners Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 22, 2008

Ronnie Drew, the gravelly voiced folk singer and guitarist who founded the Irish group the Dubliners and also sang with the Pogues and other rock bands, died on Saturday in Dublin. He was 73. Mr. Drew, who had throat cancer, died in St. Vincent's Private Hospital, his family said in a statement. Known for his distinctive long white beard and deep voice, Mr. Drew and three other musicians -- Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke and Barney McKenna -- became the original ...

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Leroi Moore: 1961-2008

Source: JamBase
August 21, 2008

LeRoi Moore: 1961 - 2008

LeRoi Moore We are sorry to report that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

Flecktones saxophonist Jeff Coffin has taken over for Moore throughout DMB's ...

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Pervis Jackson Bass Singer for the Spinners Passes

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2008

Pervis Jackson, 70, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, died Monday morning at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital after being diagnosed last week with brain and liver cancer after feeling ill for several weeks, said his wife, Claudreen Jackson.

Joe B. Jordan native of the New Orleans area, he was one of the original five members of the group, which started out in the late 1950s singing doo-wop in Detroit. ...

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Leroi Moore, 46; Saxophone Player in Dave Matthews Band

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2008

LeRoi Moore, a saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46.

Moore, born in 1961, died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, the band said on its website.

LeRoi MooreHe was initially hospitalized in late June after the accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va. He had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin physical rehabilitation when complications forced him ...

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Sax Player LeRoi Moore Dies at 46 from ATV Wreck Injuries

Source: All About Jazz
August 20, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46. Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was admitted with complications that arose weeks after the June 30 wreck, according to a statement on the band's Web site. It did not specify what ...

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Jamaican Trumpeter of The Skatalites: Johnny Moore Passes

Source: Michael Ricci
August 19, 2008

Johnny Moore, 70, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band The Skatalites, died Saturday of cancer in Kingston, Jamaica, according to music promoter Herbie Miller. Moore helped form the band in 1964 along with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don Drummond. “He was the most creative of the trumpeters from the ska period," Miller said. “He was always willing to try different things." During the 14 months the band was together, ...

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