Obituary News

Radio Personality, Jazz Historian Oscar Treadwell Dead At 79

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2006

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Jazz Alto Saxophonist Jackie McLean Dies at 73

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2006

HARTFORD, Connecticut--Jazz alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, a performer and educator who played with legendary musicians including Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, died Friday. He was 73.

McLean, a contemporary of some of the 20th century's most famed jazz musicians, died at his Hartford home after a long illness, family members told The Hartford Courant.

McLean was founder and artistic director of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford's Hartt School. He and his wife, actress Dollie ...

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Singer-Banjo Player Narvin Kimball Dies At 97

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2006

By KATRINA A. JACKSON Associated Press Writer March 18, 2006, 12:11 AM EST CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Narvin Kimball, the last founding member of the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band who was known for his vocal stylings and banjo playing, died Friday. He was 97. Kimball died at his daughters' home, where he and his wife Lillian had been staying since shortly after Hurricane Katrina, according to the band's publicist and the local coroner. Kimball's vocal renditions of ...

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Raphe Malik: Free Jazz Trumpeter

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2006

By Todd S. Jenkins

Born: November 1, 1948 in Cambridge, MA Died: March 8, 2006 in Guilford, VT

Trumpeter Raphe Malik, a fixture in the bands of Cecil Taylor and Jimmy Lyons during the 1970s and 80s, has died of a prolonged illness. He had undergone a liver transplant a year ago but continued to suffer ill health up until his death on March 8, 2006. He was 57 years old.

Malik was born Laurence Mazel in Cambridge, ...

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Raphe Malik Passes at 57

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2006

GUILFORD -- Laurence Mazel (Raphe Malik), 57, noted jazz musician, has died after a long illness. He was in born in Cambridge, Mass., on Nov. 1, 1948. He lived in Boston, Lawrence and Andover, Mass. During his high school years he was Northeast Regional tennis champion for New England, and studied Mandarin Chinese through a State Department intensive language course, pursuits which he maintained throughout his life. He attended University of Massachusetts at Amherst, then Antioch College in Yellow Springs, ...

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Savage Rose Founder Thomas Koppel Died 2/25

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2006

Founder of SAVAGE ROSE Thomas Koppel died suddenly Ssaturday on holiday in Puerto Rico. He was busy preparing a Savage Rose tour later this year as well as a solo piano album.

In 1968 Thomas Koppel (composer,piano, accordion, organ) formed the first incarnation of the the band he was going to lead for the rest of his life with his future wife Annisette (vocals), brother Anders Koppel (organ), Alex Riel (drums), Jens Rugsted (bass) and Flemming Osterman (guitar--soon to be ...

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Harold Earle, aka "Little Duke" Died in February

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2006

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Latin Jazz Drummer Ray Barretto Dies

Source: All About Jazz
February 17, 2006

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Ray Barretto, a Grammy-winning Latin jazz percussionist known for integrating the conga drum into jazz, died Friday, officials said. He was 76. Barretto had undergone heart bypass surgery in January and suffered from pneumonia, said George Rivera, a friend and family spokesman. He died at Hackensack University Medical Center with his wife and two sons by his bedside. “He was suffering too much, so the Lord took him," Fidel Estrada, a family friend, told The Associated Press ...

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