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"Pachuco" Artist Don Tosti Dies At 81

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2004

Obituaries in the News Tuesday, August 3, 2004 Don Tosti PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Don Tosti, a musician and composer who blended elements of jazz, boogie and blues to create the Latin “Pachuco” sound of the 1940s-era Zoot Suit culture, died Monday in his home. He was 81. He was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in May, according to his sister, Marylin Martinez Wood. Tosti began playing music as a boy and forged a career spanning several decades and ...

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James Williams Obituary

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2004

James Williams - Director of Jazz Studies, Small Ensembles Education: B.S. Mus. Ed., Memphis State University.

Performances: Four years, ten albums with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers; pianist with Alan Dawson, supporting Art Farmer, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, Pat Martino, Jean Carne, Red Norvo, and Arnett Cobb; charter member of Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra; performed, toured, recorded with Thad Jones, Joe Henderson, Clark Terry, Chet Baker and Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, George Duvivier, Art Farmer, Kenny Burrell, ...

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David Baker Memorial Service Notice

Source: All About Jazz
July 26, 2004

We are deeply saddened to have to report that the great recording engineer David Baker has passed away. He died peacefully in his sleep after finishing a session in Rochester, New York on July 14, 2004. He was 58.

Mr. Baker is survived by his wife, Kyoko Baker.

A private family funeral will be held in Atlanta on July 24.

A memorial service is being planned for Monday, August 16 to be held in Studio A of Avatar Studios. A ...

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David Baker: 1945 - 2004

Source: All About Jazz
July 24, 2004

David Baker, a Grammy Award winning audio engineer and producer of over 2,000 recordings, died peacefully in his sleep on July 14, 2004. He was 58 and lived in Manhattan. Born David Howard Baker on October 12, 1945 in Mt. Vernon, NY, he was the son of the late Harry Alexander Baker and the late Viola Tenore Baker. David Baker's grandfather was a salesman for Columbia Records in the late 1920's. Mr. Baker's father, Harry, established Baker Audio in Atlanta, ...

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