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Nancy Overton, Singer for the Chordettes Dies
Nancy Overton, who joined the pop group the Chordettes in 1958 and melded her mellifluous low tones into their barbershop-quartet-like harmonies on some of their later hits, died on Sunday in Blairstown, N.J. She was 83 and lived in Hackettstown, N.J. The cause was esophageal cancer, her son Rick said. Ms. Overton sang on the original ...
David 'Pop' Winans Sr. Patriarch of Gospel Music Family Passes
David “Pop" Winans Sr., the Grammy-nominated patriarch of the award-winning gospel music family, died Wednesday. He was 74. A statement from his family said he died at a Nashville hospice, where he had been since January after suffering a heart attack and stroke in October. In 1999, Winans was nominated for a Grammy Award for his ...
Bud Shank, 1926-2009
Bud Shank's honesty, forthrightness and cheerfulness came through in his playing. Those qualities and his transcendent musicianship were evident to all but those deafened by categorical imperatives having to do with geography, race and style. He lived to be 82, and he worked to the end, one of the great alto saxophonists in jazz. Shank died ...
Bud Shank Alto Saxophonist Was Immersed in West Coast Jazz Scene
Bud Shank, the alto saxophonist who was a key figure in the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, has died. He was 82. Shank died Thursday night at his home in Tucson of pulmonary failure, friends said. A versatile musician with an adventurous nature, Shank also played flute and -- during a productive period of ...
Bud Shank: California Dreamin'
The great jazz musician Bud Shank has died at the age of 82. He had one of the most unlikely backgrounds for any jazz musician, growing up not in the urban welter of cultural ferment or in the musically rich backwaters of the South -- but on a farm in Ohio. He may not have been ...
Ex-Centrum Jazz Port Townsend Artistic Director Bud Shank Dies at 82
PORT TOWNSEND -- Bud Shank, former artistic director of Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend program and a renowned alto jazz saxophonist whose career spanned 60 years, has died at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 82. Cause of death was listed as pulmonary failure. While Shank had “some ongoing health issues," according to JazzTimes.com, the Web ...
Duane Jarvis L.A. Roots Music Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Dies
Duane Jarvis, a stalwart of the Los Angeles roots music scene whose lead guitar work landed him stints playing with Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Michelle Shocked and others when he wasn't recording and touring as a respected singer-songwriter in his own right, died Wednesday after a long bout with colon cancer. He was 51. ...
Composer Maurice Jarre Spun Screen Magic
AN APPRECIATION The writer of such scores as Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia evoked the grandeur of exotic locales while hewing to his own masterful voice. From the mystical overtones of Ghost to the primitive sounds of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, to the Russian balalaikas in Doctor Zhivago, composer Maurice Jarre always seemed ...
Frances Blaisdell, Girl Flutist Who Opened Doors, Dies at 97
Frances Blaisdell, a flutist who played her way into what was then the male world of orchestral music, becoming one of the early women to play a woodwind instrument with the New York Philharmonic, died on March 11 in Portola Valley, Calif. In addition to playing with the Philharmonic, Ms. Blaisdell performed with prominent chamber ensembles, ...
Maurice Jarre, Composer for 'Lawrence of Arabia,' Dies
Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who captured the majesty of the desert in his music for Lawrence of Arabia and wrote the haunting “Lara's Theme" in his score for Doctor Zhivago, has died. He was 84. Jarre died over the weekend in Los Angeles, where he had lived for decades, Bernard Miyet, a friend of the composer ...
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