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Robert Grahams Legacy is an Open Door
Artists, civic leaders, celebrities pay tribute to Robert Graham At his funeral, artists,family, friends and dignitaries pass through the cathedral entry that he created. A hushed throng of artists, arts patrons and civic leaders joined friends and family of the late sculptor Robert Graham at a funeral Mass on Wednesday morning at the Cathedral of Our ...
Betty Freeman Photographer Patron of New Music Dies
Betty Freeman, one of the most influential individual patrons of contemporary composers over the last 40 years, and long the keeper of a famously gracious musical salon in Los Angeles, died on Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 87. The philanthropist Betty Freeman in 1997 at her home in Beverly Hills with the ...
The Stooges' Ron Asheton Remembered
Pioneering guitarist shaped the sound of punk to come Ron Asheton, the guitarist in the proto-punk band the Stooges, whose raw, animalistic playing laid the groundwork for the entire punk rock movement, was found dead in his Ann Arbor, Michigan home last night. He was 60. An autopsy is scheduled, but police don't suspect foul play ...
Ron Ashenton The Stooges Guitarist Found Dead
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Punk guitarist Ron Asheton of The Stooges has been found dead in his Ann Arbor home. He was 60. Ron Asheton, whose scorching and energetic guitar work behind singer Iggy Pop in the Michigan punk band the Stooges established a new model of raw emotion for a succeeding generation of punk, grunge ...
Ohio Players Founder Robert Ward Dies
Robert Ward, a Georgia blues musician who played with some of Motown's biggest artists, died Dec. 25. He was 70. His wife, Roberta, told the Telegraph of Macon that her husband died at his home in Dry Branch in central Georgia. She said her husband had suffered a stroke in 2001 and never fully recovered. Ward, ...
Travolta Heartbroken over Son's Death
John Travolta said Sunday he and his wife Kelly Preston are “heartbroken" over the death of their chronically ill 16-year-old son, in their first public statement since Jett's death.. We are heartbroken that our time with him was so brief. We will cherish the time we had with him for the rest of our lives. Jett ...
Service for Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard's family has released information about his funeral service.1:00 PM, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 -- viewing from 11 AM Faithful Central Bible Church's Tabernacle 321 North Eucalyptus Avenue Inglewood, CA 90301 The trumpeter died December 29. For a Rifftides appreciation of his career, go here. ...
Daniel Nagrin Modern Dancer and Choreographer Dies
Daniel Nagrin, a choreographer, performer, teacher and writer who was known for intensely dramatic solos that became modern-dance classics, died on Dec. 29 in Tempe, Ariz. He was 91 and lived in Tempe. For him, jazz was not a finger-popping, torso-twisting genre of self-involvement but a tool to explore character. Don McDonagh --Dance ...
Alfred Shaheen Hawaiian Print Pioneer Dies
Shaheen revolutionized the garment industry in postwar Hawaii by designing, printing and producing aloha shirts and other ready-to-wear items under one roof. Elvis Presley wore a red aloha shirt in this Alfred Shaheen print on the album cover for the Blue Hawaii soundtrack in 1961. Alfred Shaheen, a textile manufacturer who revolutionized the garment industry in ...
Dizzy Gillespie Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes
Dizzy Gillespie, the trumpet player whose role as a founding father of modern jazz made him a major figure in 20th-century American music and whose signature moon cheeks and bent trumpet made him one of the world's most instantly recognizable figures, died yesterday (January 7, 1993) at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. Mr. Gillespie, who was ...
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