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Owsley "Bear" Stanley: R.I.P.

Source: JamBase
March 15, 2011

A KEY CULTURAL ICON PASSES Counterculture icon and LSD pioneer Owsley “Bear" Stanley died after an automobile accident in his adopted country of Australia on Sunday, March 13, 2011. A statement released on behalf of Stanley's family said the car crash occurred near his home in far north Queensland. He is survived by his wife Sheila, four children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. The highly reclusive, camera shy Stanley was believed to be 76. For more on his history click ...

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Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82

Source: AAJ Staff
March 14, 2011

Joe Morello, a jazz drummer whose elegant, economical playing in the Dave Brubeck Quartet sounded natural and effortless even in unusual time signatures, died on Saturday at his home in Irvington, N.J. He was 82. His death was announced on his Web site, joemorello.net. No cause was given. Mr. Morello was most famous for his tenure in Mr. Brubeck's band, in which he was engaged initially for a brief tour in 1955. He became a member in late 1956, and ...

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Joe Morello Said It

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 14, 2011

Joe Morello, long-time drummer in the Dave Brubeck Quartet, died on March 12. He was 82. In Doug Ramsey's superb book, Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, Doug writes of the song Take Five's origin: “Morello said that in concert he used to go into 5/4 time in the drum break of a Brubeck piece called Sounds of the Loop, which the group recorded in 1956 on its album Jazz Impressions of the USA." Doug then ...

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Joe Morello - R.I.P.

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
March 13, 2011

Drummer Joe Morello, one of jazz's under-sung heroes, has died. Best known as the rhythmic timekeeper of multiple times in Dave Brubeck's famed quartet, when the quartet made some of its best-known recordings, Morello had lately become an in-demand clinician, teacher and bandleader whose former students numbered Danny Gottlieb, Max Weinberg, Gary Feldman and Jerry Granelli. Joe Morello, born July 17, 1928, in Springfield, Massachusetts, died on March 12, 2011, at his home in New Jersey. He was 82 years ...

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Ron Hudson, Photographer

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 25, 2011

The fine jazz photographer Ron Hudson died at his Seattle home on Tuesday. He was 71. For more than 30 years, Hudson captured memorable images of Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Woody Herman, Milt Jackson, Bud Shank and dozens more of the leading musicians of his time. He worked exclusively in black and white and won admiration for the clarity of his prints. As noted in this Rifftides review of a book of his collected photographs, Hudson had the gift of ...

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Jazz Photographer Ron Hudson Passes Away

Source: Michael Ricci
February 23, 2011

We received word that Seattle resident and internationally known jazz photographer Ron Hudson passed away on February 22nd. There is a memorial service being planned soon and we will post information as soon as we have it. Please take a moment to check out the great story on Ron done by Katy Bourne which was published on AllAboutJazz.com. Summing up the career of a man as extraordinary as jazz photographer Ron Hudson is an intimidating proposition. He has spent the ...

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George Shearing - R.I.P.

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
February 15, 2011

The great pianist George Shearing died earlier today in Manhattan of congestive heart failure. The British born pianist turned 91 on August 13 and had been retired from music for several years, his last album being the lovely trio outing Like Fine Wine (Mack Avenue, 2005). Shearing made his name with a quintet that became one of the most famed and popular sounds of 1950s jazz but also wrote hundreds of compositions of which, surprisingly, only “Lullaby of Birdland" endures ...

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George Shearing: 1919-2011

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 15, 2011

George Shearing, a British-born pianist whose blindness at birth gave him a heightened sense of time and harmony, and whose fondness for elegant swing and bebop led to the development of an enormously successful quintet sound in 1949, died of heart failure yesterday, February 14, in Manhattan. He was 91. A professional musician since the late 1930s, Shearing became England's top jazz pianist by the end of World War II. He was encouraged to come to the U.S. in November ...

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