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'Besame Mucho' composer Consuelo Velazaquez dies at 84

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2005

MEXICO CITY - Consuelo Velazquez, whose song “Besame Mucho” became a standard in many languages and styles of music, has died. She was 84.

Ms. Velazquez died Saturday of complications from a fall she suffered in October, her son Mariano Rivera said.

A native of Ciudad Guzman in central Mexico, she began playing piano when she was 4 years old and went on to study at the National Conservatory.

While overseeing classical music programs for the pioneering radio station XEQ, ...

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Jazz and New Music Composer Paul Nash Dies at Age 56

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2005

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A Tribute To Don Joham

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2005

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Mort Fega Dies at 84

Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2005

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A Tribute to Don Joham

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2005

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A Tribute to Don Joham

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2005

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Don Joham

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2005

All About Jazz Articles Don Joham Godspeed - You are Missed. I remember Don as a young fresh talent with a way about him that made you think he may have had another life. Don left us December 15, 2004. His daughter Tracey has posted here on AAJ looking for information on him and so everyone please go to your 50's 60's and 70's record collections and see if you might find any with Don Joham on them as a ...

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Leslie Gourse, Jazz Author Dies at 65

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2005

Leslie Gourse, 65, who died of a respiratory ailment Dec. 23 at a hospital in New York, was a biographer of jazz greats, including Louis Armstrong, Nat “King" Cole, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Thelonious Monk, Joe Williams, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. Ms. Gourse, a freelance writer and an author of more than 20 books about jazz, was a heavy-smoking workaholic of myriad interests. Based in New York, she wrote album liner notes and travel stories and contributed ...

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