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Arnie Lawrence has left this world.

Source: All About Jazz
April 22, 2005

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Bassist Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen dies

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2005

Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen, one of Denmark's best known jazz musicians, who performed with legends such as Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie, has died at age 58.

Oersted Pedersen, the bass player widely known by his initials NHOP and nicknamed “The Great Dane," died Tuesday in Copenhagen, leading jazz experts and Danish media said. The cause of death was not immediately known.

His career as a bass player took off in 1962 when, at age 16, he played in ...

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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: First-call Danish Bassist

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2005

Born: May 27, 1946 in Osted, Denmark Died: April 19, 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, who began his professional career as a teenager and performed with many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, died of a heart attack on April 19, 2005. He was 58 years old.

NHØP, as he was commonly known, originally studied the piano but moved to the bass at the age of fourteen, at which time he had ...

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Pianist Johnnie Johnson dies at 80

Source: All About Jazz
April 13, 2005

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Johnnie Johnson, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like “Roll Over Beethoven" and “No Particular Place to Go," died Wednesday. He was 80.

Johnson died at his St. Louis home. The cause of death was not immediately known, said publicist Margo Lewis. He had been hospitalized a month ago with pneumonia and was on dialysis for a kidney ailment, said John May, a friend and fellow musician.

Though he was ...

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Enos Payne Tribute Set

Source: All About Jazz
March 28, 2005

Jazz Pianist ENOS PAYNE and his life were celebrated with a tribute at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn on Sunday, March 20th, 2005. Among the performers; pianist ELLIS THE NAZARENE, ERIC LEMON,bassist, Kim Clarke, bassist, Hank Johnson, pianist, Bertha Hope, pianist, Jazz Vocalist Tulivia Cumberbatch, Shirl Wright,others. On April 6th, 2005 in Queens, New York at the Queens Conservatory in Flushing there will be another tribute for ENOS PAYNE. Eric Lemon, bassist is organizing it, ...

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Singer Bobby Short dead at 80

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2005

NEW YORK - Bobby Short, the suave, tuxedoed cabaret singer who epitomized Manhattan glamour and sophistication with renderings of the great American songbook, died of leukemia Monday at 80.

Calling Short “an American treasure," Cafe Carlyle, the nightclub at the Carlyle Hotel where Short was an institution since 1968, said it would close Monday in homage to the musician who helped make it famous.

Over the years, Short withstood constant changes in popular music tastes, from Sinatra to Springsteen to ...

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Cabaret Singer Bobby Short Dies

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2005

By Larry McShane, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK -- Cabaret singer Bobby Short, the tuxedoed embodiment of New York style and sophistication who was a fixture at his piano in the Carlyle Hotel for more than 35 years, died Monday. He was 80. Short died of leukemia at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said Virginia Wicks, a Los Angeles-based publicist. The hospital did not immediately return a call seeking further detail. As times changed and popular music shifted from Sinatra to ...

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Jazz Cornetist Don Gumpert Dies

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2005

Beloved Jazz Cornetist Don Gumpert died Thursday March 17 at his home in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. He was under Hospice care and died peacefully with his family at his bedside. Funeral arrangements are as follows: Visitation is from 6 to 8 pm Tuesday, the 22nd, at Little Chapel Funeral Home at the intersection of Beal and Racetrack in Fort Walton Beach. Funeral 11 am Wednesday, the 23rd, at Trinity United Methodist Church on Racetrack Rd. Gathering at Staff's restaurant ...

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