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Fred Anderson, Saxophonist and Club Owner, Dies at 81

Source: Michael Ricci
June 26, 2010

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

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
June 26, 2010

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.

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 26, 2010

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 ...

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RIP Fred Anderson

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
June 26, 2010

Howard Reich has the details on the passing of Fred Anderson following a heart attack earlier in the month. I'm not particularly familiar with Mr. Anderson's work but I understand his leadership role in Chicago, a city that is laudably proud of its contributions. One thing I noticed in the article was the role of Dan Melnick as a volunteer at Mr. Anderson's home, the Velvet Lounge.I wondered where Dan went after he suspended posting at Soundslope and ...

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Pete Quaife, a Bassist for the Kinks

Source: Michael Ricci
June 26, 2010

Pete Quaife, a bassist who joined forces with two schoolmates to form the Kinks, one of the leading rock bands of the 1960s British Invasion, died on Wednesday in Herlev, Denmark. He was 66. The cause was kidney failure, a spokeswoman for the band said.

Born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife on Dec. 31, 1943, he went to William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School in North London with Ray and Dave Davies, and the three began playing music together in 1961, with ...

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We Will Miss You Dearly, Mr. Fred Anderson

Source: Michael Ricci
June 25, 2010

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Chicago's beloved Fred Anderson. Words cannot express what he meant to the music world, and specifically the Chicago creative jazz community. Please go out and support Chicago's Velvet Lounge--Fred Anderson's home for Chicago Jazz! Thank you for your kindness and generosity.

Kevin Johnson Delmark Records From Kurt Gottschalk, All About Jazz Fred Anderson: 1929-2010

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Kalmen Opperman, Master Clarinetist and Teacher Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
June 24, 2010

Kalmen Opperman, a master clarinetist whose intensive teaching methods helped mold some of the top players of the last 50 years, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 90.

The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Roie Opperman.

Mr. Opperman began his professional career playing for ballet and Broadway, but it was his relentless pursuit of musical perfection and highly personal teaching methods that drew generations of students to his studio.

“He was the elder statesman ...

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Last South Dakota Code Talker from World War II Laid to Rest

Source: Michael Ricci
June 25, 2010

Clarence Wolf Guts of Wanblee was buried Tuesday in Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis. The 86-year-old Wolf Guts died June 16 at the South Dakota Veterans Home in Hot Springs.

Wolf Guts was one of 11 Lakota, Nakota and Dakota code talkers from South Dakota. During the war, they transmitted messages from an Army general to his chief of staff in the field using their native language, which the Germans and the Japanese could not translate.

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