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Gilbert Erskine, New Orleans Jazz Club Founder, Dies At 81
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Michael Ricci
By Charles Suhor The last surviving founder of the New Orleans Jazz Club, Gilbert Erskine, died at age 81 in Malone, New York on December 5th last year, but his passing was unknown in New Orleans for almost nine months. Erskine's sole continuing contact from his New Orleans years, writer Charles Suhor, grew concerned after several months passed without contact. He learned in late August through the internet and a series of phone calls that Erskine had died of heart ...
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Carl Leukaufe Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Update: Chicago Bebop Jazz Vibraphonist Dies at 76
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Chicago jazz vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe has died at the age of 76 years on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010...after fifty years of playing jazz, vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe made his one and only recording as a leader with the 1996 release of the album Warrior on Delmark Records that offered several mainstream bop standards. He had been compared to Milt Jackson due to his “easy going style" but technically considered to be not quite as proficient at improvisation as Jackson. The recording ...
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Carl Leukaufe Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Tba: Chicago Bebop Jazz Vibraphonist Dies at 76
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Chicago jazz vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe has died at the age of 76 years on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010...after fifty years of playing jazz, vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe made his one and only recording as a leader with the 1996 release of the album Warrior on Delmark Records that offered several mainstream bop standards. He had been compared to Milt Jackson due to his “easy going style" but technically considered to be not quite as proficient at improvisation as Jackson. The recording ...
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Herman Leonard Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Update: Jazz Scene Photographer Dies at 87
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Herman Leonard the jazz scene American photographer has passed away at age 87 years on August 14th, 2010...noted for his great and iconic photographic images of jazz artists beginning with his arrival on the New York jazz scene in 1948-49. He was the first photographer to ever receive a Grammy Foundation Grant (given to him in 2008) which allowed the preservation and digitizing of Leonard's nearly 60,000 negatives that had been saved from the flooding due to the Katrina hurricane ...
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Summer 2010 Taking a Toll on Jazz Ranks
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
he summer of 2010 has been a melancholy one in terms of friends and jazz warriors passing on to ancestry. Last weekend's loss of Abbey Lincoln, and prior to that her compadre Hank Jones were well-noted. Good friend and longtime Randy Weston African Rhythms and Basie band trombonist Benny Powell's passing, though at the ripe age of 80, was a bit more stunning because Benny had not been the victim of the slow and gradual decline that seemed to befall ...
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Joe Lovano on Abbey Lincoln
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AAJ Staff
"Abbey was one of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz. She told some beautiful honest stories about her life and experiences and had a way of expression that touched you in a very personal way. Abbey's tunes and interpretations were full of meaning with each word articulated with deep passion. She was a beautiful story teller. I learned how to speak a melody playing and listening to her in a more personal way. When she called me to play ...
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Abbey Lincoln Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Info: Jazz Singer/Songwriter Dies at 80
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Abbey Lincoln (a.k.a. Anna Marie Wooldridge) Chicago-born jazz singer and songwriter has passed away at age 80 years in her Manhattan home on August 14th, 2010...once married to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach (1962 and later divorced) she made several recordings and acted in movies with the likes of Sidney Poitier during the 1950s and 60s. Her career rekindled in the 1990s due to her songwriting abilities. Her lifetime of jazz artistry was acknowledged in 2003 by the National Endowment ...
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Herman Leonard Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Tba: Jazz Scene Photographer Dies at 87
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Herman Leonard the jazz scene American photographer has passed away at age 87 years on August 14th, 2010...noted for his great and iconic photographic images of jazz artists beginning with his arrival on the New York jazz scene in 1948-49. He was the first photographer to ever receive a Grammy Foundation Grant (given to him in 2008) which allowed the preservation and digitizing of Leonard's nearly 60,000 negatives that had been saved from the flooding due to the Katrina hurricane ...
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