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Mose Allison (1927-2016)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Mose Allison, a jazz-folk pianist and singer-songwriter who brought white rural imagery to the urban jazz scene and was highly regarded by every musician who played with him, even those who were initially wary of his Mississippi roots, died on Nov. 15. He was 89. Mose was one of a kind. While Dr. John and Leon Russell are two pianists who shared Mose's earthy naturalism, only Mose grasped the nuanced aspects of modern jazz and the music's cosmopolitan wryness. All ...
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Mose Allison Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Mose Allison has died at the age of 89. A Mississippi pianist, singer, composer, songwriter and sometime trumpeter, Allison made his New York debut in the 1950s as a bebop pianist. He worked with Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan and a variety of other post-bop musicians, but came to fame employing his Mississippi folksiness and command of the blues idiom. He led trios in that genre for most of his career. His work had a powerful effect on such ...
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Leon Russell R.I.P. - "I've acted out my life on stages with 10,000 people watching"
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Leon Russell wrote songs so well crafted that even the first time you heard them, you swore that you've heard them before. It was not that they were't unique- they usually were- it was that they touched something hiding deep inside you. Leon Russell, a prolific artist, songwriter and producer, who recorded hits such as “Tight Rope" and “Lady Blue" has died. He was 74. A statement released on Sunday by Russell's wife Jan Bridges said: “We thank everyone for ...
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Leon Russell (1942-2016)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Leon Russell, a singer-songwriter and pianist who spent much of the early 1960s appearing on pop hits as a Los Angeles studio musician and who, in the years that followed, was a solo artist and composer of hits such as A Song for You, Tight Rope, This Masquerade and Superstar, died on Nov. 13. He was 74. Back in March 2014, I spent several hours with Leon at his home outside of Nashville. The house was loaded with eclectic furnishings ...
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R.I.P Leonard Cohen, "The Lord Of Song"
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Front row seats at the Palace Theatre in Waterbury, CT to see Leonard Cohen on his comeback tour a decade ago will always rank in the top handful of the hundreds and hundreds of concerts that I've been privileged to attend. A true songsmith with a deep and caring soul has left us. Leonard Cohen, the influential singer, and songwriter, widely regarded as the poet laureate of the 1960s and 1970s has died at the age of 82. His death ...
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Bob Cranshaw + Kay Starr
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bob Cranshaw (1932-2016), a Chicago-born jazz bassist who began recording in 1957 and became a significant force in the 1960s starting with Sonny Rollins' seminal album, The Bridge, in 1962, died on Nov. 2. He was 83. At a time when even the best jazz bassists seemed interchangeable to the average listener, Bob's playing stood out with sensitivity and grace. It has been said that while jazz groups play for audiences, bassists play for the soloist, serving largely as inventive ...
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Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s career also included mainstay work with Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Kai Winding, Wes Montgomery, Duke Pearson, Mose Allison, Oliver Nelson, and dozens of other musicians in the top ranks of jazz. From a 2005 Rifftides post: Sonny Rollins, for reasons unclear to me, prefers the ...
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John Zacherle (1918-2016)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
John Zacherle, a rail-thin B-movie actor who in the late 1950s and '60s became a wildly popular host of children's television shows in Philadelphia and New York, where he appeared dressed as a ghoulish undertaker with a sophisticated wit and sinister laugh, died on Oct. 27, four days before Halloween. He was 98. Zacherle's death may come as a shock to millions of adults who watched him on TV as children, since many of us thought he was dead to ...
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