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Trumpet maestro Clark Terry dies at 94
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Michael Ricci
Dynamic jazz big band leader, composer and arranger's career spanned more than 75 years Clark Terry, a Grammy award-winning trumpet player and composer who recorded with greats such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Quincy Jones, has died aged 94, his wife said on Sunday. Terry, who had gone into hospice care after suffering from diabetes, “has joined the big band in heaven where he'll be singing and playing with the angels", Gwen Terry said on the musician's Facebook page. ...
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Clark Terry 1920 - 2015
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
From the Facebook page of Clark Terry: “Our beloved Clark Terry has joined the big band in heaven where he'll be singing and playing with the angels. He left us peacefully, surrounded by his family, students and friends. Clark has known and played with so many amazing people in his life. He has found great joy in his friendships and his greatest passion was spending time with his students. We will miss him every minute of every day, but he ...
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Ward Swingle, 1927-2015
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Ward Swingle, who founded a vocal group that melded J.S. Bach with bebop rhythm and scat singing, died on Monday in Eastbourne, England. He was 87. The announcement came from the Swingles, successor to the Swingle Singers, many of whose albums were best sellers in the US and Europe in the 1960s. Born in Alabama, Mr. Swingle was an American pianist with classical training who went to Paris for study with pianist Walter Gieseking and became involved in the city’s ...
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Jim Galloway Remembered (1936 - 2014)
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Michael Ricci
By Ted O'Reilly Jim Galloway (born James Braidie Galloway July 28, 1936 in Kilwinning, Scotland) died peacefully at home on December 30, 2014 surrounded by loved ones. An internationally renowned jazz musician, one of the few specializing on the soprano sax (along with alto, tenor, baritone and occasional clarinet), Jim lived a full life doing what he loved most. Listening to post-war American Armed Forces Radio, the young man discovered jazz music, and soon was playing clarinet and alto saxophone ...
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Guitarist Jeff Golub dies at 59; Copley Township native played with rock stars
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Michael Ricci
Guitarist Jeff Golub, a versatile contemporary jazz artist who also spent years as a sideman with rockers Billy Squier and Rod Stewart, died Thursday at 59, JazzTimes reported Monday. Though the exact cause of death has yet to be disclosed, Golub, a Copley Township native, had been suffering from a rare disease called progressive supranuclear palsy. It caused him to lose sight in both eyes in 2011 and caused physical problems that recently left him unable to perform. Golub began ...
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Passings: DeFranco, Benford, Belletto
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The past seven days have seen the deaths of three musicians who came to prominence as young men and had long careers in the swing, bebop and post-bop eras. Buddy DeFranco, who in the 1940s was the first to successfully adapt the clarinet to the complexities of bebop, died the day before Christmas at age 91. In recent years he and his wife Joyce lived in Panama City, Florida. DeFranco was the principal influence on virtually every major clarinetist who ...
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Buddy De Franco (1923-2014)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Buddy De Franco, a highly accomplished and exquisite jazz clarinetist who began his career in several leading swing bands of the 1940s before pivoting to bebop in the late 1940s and early '50s and teaming with leading jazz artists throughout the LP era, died on Dec. 24. He was 91. Buddy's first recording in 1943 was as a member of the Gene Krupa Orchestra. He soon joined Charlie Barnet after Krupa's pot bust and then Tommy Dorsey in the mid-1940s, ...
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Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies
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Michael Ricci
Buddy DeFranco, the innovative clarinetist who rose from the remains of the swing era to forge new and lasting prominence as the instrument’s pre-eminent interpreter of bebop, died on Wednesday in Panama City, Fla. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his wife, Joyce. From 1939, the year he graduated from a high school music program in Philadelphia, until just a few years ago, Mr. DeFranco was rarely off a stage, large or small. After a decade of roadwork ...
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