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R.I.P. Benny Powell
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Amid the bounty of great music in New York over the last two weeks, jazz has suffered three big losses: Bill Dixon (84-years-old, June 16), Fred Anderson (81-years-old, June 24), and now Benny Powell (80-years-old), whose death was announced on Saturday. I never heard Bill Dixon or Fred Anderson play, but I knew Powell's music well. His passing hits me with a more audible silence.
In August 2001, I saw Powell's friend and longtime employer Randy Weston perform at the ...
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Fred Anderson Funeral / Wake / Memorial / Going Home Services Info - Velvet Lounge Founder and Chicago "Free Jazz" Tenorist Will Be Missed
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
A great Jazzman and founder of The Velvet Lounge jazz club located in Chicago, Illinois, Fred Anderson, passed away Thursday June 24th, 2010... according to his sons Eugene and Michael Anderson... Fred had suffered a massive heart attack on June 14th... checkout Howard Reich's Chicago Tribune article here on Fred Anderson and his legacy and impact on the world of Jazz. Also, refer to the latest article on Fred authored by The New York Times, here. The Kurt Gottshalk article ...
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Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies
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Michael Ricci
Robert C. Byrd, who used his record tenure as a United States senator to fight for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and to build a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal money, died early Monday. He was 92.
Senator Robert C. Byrd served in the Senate for 51 years.
His office said he died about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Va. Senator Byrd, who lived in McLean, Va., had been admitted to the ...
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Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010
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Michael Ricci
Music publisher and record producer Francis Dreyfus died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the age of 70.
Through his labels Disques Motors and Dreyfus Records, Francis Dreyfus launched the careers of prominent artists, including Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre.
His love of jazz led to the creation of the Dreyfus Jazz label which brought together such major jazz figures as Michel Petrucciani, Richard Galliano, Bireli Lagrne, Aldo Romano, Marcus Miller, Ahmad Jamal, Roy Haynes, Philip Catherine, and Steve Grossman.
He ...
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Fred Anderson, 1929-2010
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Something Else!
By PicoFred Anderson, a forward thinking tenor saxophonist for more than six decades and a major force in Chicago's vital jazz scene, died Thursday following a heart attack. He was 81 years old. What I've found so remarkable about Anderson isn't so much that he lived so long, but that he lived so fully right up to the end of his life. At his age he was regularly playing gigs, like at his now-legendary Velvet Lounge, ...
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Fred Anderson, Saxophonist and Club Owner, Dies at 81
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Michael Ricci
Fred Anderson, a tenor saxophonist who tied the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker to the explorations of later avant-garde musicians and who owned the Velvet Lounge, a South Side Chicago club known for fostering the careers of emerging players, died on Thursday. He was 81. The Associated Press and The Chicago Tribune reported that Mr. Anderson's sons, Michael and Eugene, confirmed the death but declined to give a cause. Mr. Anderson was admitted to a hospital in Evanston, Ill., on ...
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Fred Anderson Dies Age 81: Velvet Lounge Founder and Chicago "Free Jazz" Tenorist Will Be Missed
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
A great Jazzman and founder of The Velvet Lounge jazz club located in Chicago, Illinois, Fred Anderson, passed away Thursday June 24th, 2010...according to his sons Eugene and Michael Anderson... Fred had suffered a massive heart attack on June 14th...checkout Howard Reich's Chicago Tribune article here on Fred Anderson and his legacy and impact on the world of Jazz . Fred's Wikipedia profile is also available here. If you so desire, You can leave comments here at the on-line obituary ...
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Fred Anderson, R.I.P.
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Fred Anderson, who exemplified the Chicago avant garde as a tenor saxophonist and as a club owner gave it work, has died at 81. The Chicago Tribune's Howard Reich followed Anderson's career. He writes in the newspaper:
His was a rigorous, demanding brand of jazz improvisation that bridged the bebop idiom of Charlie Parker (an Anderson hero) with the “free jazz" experiments of the 1960s and thereafter. The fast-flying phrases and blues-driven energy of bebop converged with the non-chordal, anything-goes ...Continue Reading
