Obituary News

'60 Minutes' correspondent Ed Bradley dies

Source: All About Jazz
November 9, 2006

Emmy-winning veteran newsman succumbs to leukemia at age 65 NEW YORK - Ed Bradley, the award-winning “60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced. Bradley joined “60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris. Continue...

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David Burrell, son of Kenny Burrell, dead at 49

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2006

Dear Jazz Colleagues: We are sad to inform you that David Burrell, a dedicated lifelong member of the jazz community, passed away on Friday, October 27, 2006 due to complications from Crohn's disease. He was 49 years old. Burrell grew up in New York and was exposed to jazz from a very young age by going to clubs and sessions with his father, the legendary guitarist Kenny Burrell. He naturally gravitated towards a career in the entertainment business. After graduating ...

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Manny Duran June 11, 1926 - October 30, 2006

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 1, 2006

November 1, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features Obituary for Manny Duran June 11, 1926 - October 30, 2006

Manny Duran, trumpet and flugelhorn player died on October 30th at 2:30pm at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC after complications from a recent procedure. He was 80 years old.

Born in 1926 in Alamagordo, New Mexico, Manny started his life-long love affair with the trumpet when he was ten, playing in the Mariachi bands of the southwest. It wasn't long before he ...

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Tenor Saxophonist Frank Vicari Dies

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

Frank Vicari died in NYC, on Friday October 20 at 3:47 eastern time.

Although only known through specialized circles of jazz aficionados, saxophone legend Frank Vicari has truly earned the title of master. Starting on clarinet, Frank's dad influenced him to practice hard every day. When he was fourteen Frank added tenor sax to his repertoire and started hanging out in the Newark Jazz clubs with cats three times his age who gladly accepted the talented teenager into their group ...

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French Jazz Musician Claude Luter Dies

Source: All About Jazz
October 11, 2006

PARIS - Claude Luter, a horn player who hobnobbed with Louis Armstrong and was one of France's most celebrated jazz musicians, has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 83. Best known for boosting the trans-Atlantic transferal of New Orleans-style jazz to Paris, Luter suffered complications after a fall and died Friday at a hospital outside Paris said his son, Eric. A trumpeter who later took up the clarinet and saxophone, Luter met Louis Armstrong at the Nice Jazz Festival ...

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Long-time Music Publicist Harriet Wasser Dies

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
October 6, 2006

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Oldest Surviving Blues Artist Henry Townsend Dies

Source: All About Jazz
September 26, 2006

Henry Townsend, who recorded every decade since the '20s, dies

--CHERYL WITTENAUER, Associated Press

ST. LOUIS - Blues guitarist Henry Townsend, who fled to St. Louis as a boy then stayed for a prolific career that spanned eight decades, died Sunday of pulmonary embolism in Grafton, Wis., where he was being honored. He was 96.

Townsend, who wrote and published hundreds of songs and accompanied musicians on hundreds more, began recording in 1929 and continued every decade since, an accomplishment ...

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Dewey Redman, 75, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2006

Dewey Redman, an expansive and poetic tenor saxophonist and bandleader who had been at the aesthetic frontiers of jazz since the 1960s, died on Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 75 and lived in Brooklyn. The cause was liver failure, said Velibor Pedevski, his brother-in-law. Walter Redman was born and grew up in Fort Worth. He started off on clarinet at 13, playing in a church band. Not long after, he met Ornette Coleman when they both played in the high ...

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