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Gerry Niewood
Portland, Oregon - At the Portland Jazz Festival between concerts and after hours, much of the talk among musicians is about the death of Gerry Niewood. The saxophonist was one of 50 people who died in a plane crash Thursday night near Buffalo, New York. He and guitarist Coleman Mellett were on their way to Buffalo ...
Coleman Mellett One of Fifty Varied Lives Ended on a Cold Foggy Night
A mere sampling of the musicians and law students, parents and pilots on the flight were among the 50 people who died at roughly 10:20 p.m. Thursday when the 74-seat commuter plane plummeted to earth. It hit a home in the quiet hamlet of Clarence Center as it approached Buffalo Niagara International Airport a few miles ...
RIP, Gerry Niewood
Saxophonist and flutist Gerry Niewood died in the plane crash in Buffalo last night. He was a wonderful player whose saxophone was heard most famously with Chuck Mangione and on the Concert In Central Park album by Simon & Garfunkel. Niewood was one of the first horn players I ever knew by name because Paul Simon ...
Estelle Bennett Member of the Ronettes Dies
Estelle Bennett, one of the Ronettes, the singing trio whose 1963 hit Be My Baby epitomized the famed “wall of sound" technique of its producer, Phil Spector, has died at her home in Englewood, New Jersey. She was 67. Bennett's brother-in-law, Jonathan Greenfield, said police found her dead in her apartment on Wednesday after relatives had ...
Noted Jazz Bassist and Award Winning Comedy Writer, Gordon "Whitey" Mitchell Passes Away on Feb. 17th
Noted Jazz Bassist, Award-winning Television Writer/Producer and Author, Gordon Whitey Mitchell Loses brave battle with cancer on January 17th, 2009 at age 76 PALM DESERT -- Veteran jazz bassist, award winning television comedy writer, producer and author, Gordon Whitey Mitchell (Feb. 22, 1932 Jan. 17, 2009) has passed away on January 17th, at the age of ...
Saxophonist Gerry Niewood Dies in Buffalo Plane Crash
Two Mangione musicians die in plane crash Jazz great in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangiones band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., a publicist said Friday. Publicist Sanford Brokaw identified the band members as Gerry Niewood, 64, of Rochester, ...
Vic Lewis (1919-2009)
Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...
Molly Bee Country Singer Dies
Molly Bee, a country singer popular in the 1950s and 1960s who was a teenage star on television's Hometown Jamboree and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, has died. She was 69. Bee, who lived in Carlsbad, Calif., died Saturday of complications related to a stroke at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, said Michael Allen, her son. ...
Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, Who Provided the Bass Line for the Buena Vista Social Club, Died Monday at 76.
HAVANA Orlando “Cachaito" Lopez, considered the “heartbeat" of Cuba's legendary Buena Vista Social Club for his internationally acclaimed bass playing, died Monday of complications from prostate surgery, fellow musicians said. He was 76. Lopez, a founding member of the band brought together in the 1990s by American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, died in a Havana ...
Blossom Dearie (1926-2009)
Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who helped pioneer vocalese in New York and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died on Saturday in Greenwich Village after a long illness. She was 82. Dearie was a regular at 52d St. clubs and the salon apartment of arranger ...
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