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Hank Crawford
Hank Crawford, another of the cadre of Ray Charles saxophonists who went on to their own fame, died on January 29. David “Fathead" Newman and Leroy “Hog" Cooper, Crawford's colleagues in the Charles band, died earlier last month. Crawford's alto, Newman's tenor and Cooper's baritone saxophones were integral to Charles's big band in the 1950s and ...
Sat Eye Candy: R.I.P. John Martyn
WE BID FAREWELL TO ONE OF THE HEAVIEST ROMANTIC SOULS MUSIC HAS EVER KNOWN Time after time, I held it Just to watch it die Line after line, I loved it Just to watch it cry Bless the weather that brought you to me Curse the ...
Not Fade Away: Remembering Buddy Holly
Next Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big Bopper Richardson. In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Hollys friends, family and fellow musicians remember an artist who helped invent rock & roll as we know it today. Jonathan Cott revisits 1959s ...
George Perle Theorist and Composer Championed Atonal Music Dies
Scholar, theorist and composer George Perle, always highly regarded by his peers, began to draw wider public attention only after he won a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship in 1986. The American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, has died. He was 93. ...
John Martyn Respected British Singer-Songwriter Dies
John Martyn, 60, a British singer-songwriter whose soulful songs were covered by Eric Clapton and others, died Thursday, according to a statement on Martyn’s official website. It did not give a cause of death for the musician, who lived in Ireland. A skilled guitarist and earthy vocalist influenced by folk, blues and jazz, Martyn performed with ...
Irving Bush Trumpeter Played with Big Bands L.A. Philharmonic Passes
Irving Bush, a trumpeter with a broad range of musical interests, including jazz and classical, who later in life served as personnel manager for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has died. He was 78. Bush died Jan. 8 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from multiple myeloma, according to Kazue McGregor, the Philharmonic librarian. ...
Billy Powell Keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd Dies
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- A keyboardist for the southern rock bank Lynyrd Skynyrd has died at his northeast Florida home. Orange Park Police Lt. Mark Cornett says 56-year-old keyboard player Billy Powell called 911 about 12:55 a.m.today saying he was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m. Cornett ...
John Updike Prize-Winning Writer Dies
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died today at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. A literary writer ...
Mariana Bridi Brazilian Model Loses Fight for Life
Doctors had amputated 20-year-old pageant finalist's feet and hands, the beautiful Brazilian Model Mariana Bridi died from complications of an infection that is resistant to antibiotics. Doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones in December, local media said. But as her condition worsened, she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that spread. The cause of ...
Leroy Cooper Musician in Charles Band Dies
Leroy Cooper played baritone saxophone with the Ray Charles band in the 1950s through the '70s. His tenure with the band included recording sessions that yielded the film theme In the Heat of the Night and Charles rendition of America, the Beautiful." Leroy Cooper, 80, who played baritone saxophone for Ray Charles from the 1950s through ...
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