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Guitarist Delaney Bramlett Dies at 69
Rock guitarist Delaney Bramlett, who collaborated with such artists as George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died in a Los Angeles hospital following gallbladder surgery. He was 69. His wife, Susan Lanier-Bramlett, said he died on Saturday after “seven hard months" of ill health. “I held him and he held on up until the last breath with ...
Andre Previn and Mia Farrow's Daughter Lark Dies at 35
Lark Previn, a daughter of actress Mia Farrow whose sister Soon-Yi Previn was at the center of Farrow's messy breakup with Woody Allen, has died. She was 35. The medical examiner's office says Lark Previn died Christmas Day at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. No cause of death was given. A cremation was held ...
Count Five Singer John Byrne Wrote "Psychotic Reaction" Dies
John Byrne, the lead singer of garage-rock band Count Five and the writer of their 1966 hit “Psychotic Reaction" died on December 15th following kidney and liver failure in San Jose, California. He was 61. Inspired by the Yardbirds “Im a Man",Psychotic Reaction peaked at Number 5 on the Billboard charts and became a radio staple ...
Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, died today (Dec. 29) in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Hubbard, who had suffered a heart attack on Nov. 26, was 70. Born in Indianapolis, the artist moved to New York in 1958 and quickly began playing ...
Jazz Great Freddie Hubbard Dead at 70
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grammy-winning jazz musician Freddie Hubbard, whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players, has died at age 70. Hubbard's manager, David Weiss, says the musician died Monday at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles. He had been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack last month. Although he had been in declining health ...
Freddie Hubbard: A Jazz Icon Remembered
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Dec. 29, 2008, at the age of 70. In this story from 2001, he talks about attempting a comeback after a series of personal setbacks. Freddie Hubbard is a legendary name in jazz. In the 1960s, he was a popular and critically acclaimed trumpeter and bandleader. But by the 1980s, he ...
Pop Music and Jazz Figures Passings 2008
Pop music and jazz figures Bob Popescu, 77; co-owner of Catalina Bar & Grill, turned the Los Angeles club into one of the top jazz venues in the country (Jan. 5) Ken Nelson, 84; longtime Capitol Records talent scout had an ear for country music (Jan. 6) Lew Spence, 87; composed “Nice 'n' Easy," the Grammy-nominated ...
Delaney Bramlett Songwriter Who Wrote 'Let It Rain'
Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as “Let It Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery, his wife Susan Lanier-Bramlett said. Born in Mississippi in 1939, ...
Eartha Kitt an Appreciation
Yes, she played up her sexy image, but she was also a pioneer among African American entertainers. Even as a pre-adolescent growing up in subarctic Rochester, N.Y., watching Eartha Kitt's Catwoman taunt Adam West's Batman always made me feel a little, um, hot. Julie Newmar, Emma Peel and the rest of the leather-jumpsuited superwomen/femmes fatales of ...
Dale Wasserman Dies at 94; Playwright Best Known for 'Man of la Mancha'
Dale Wasserman, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award- winning Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and the stage version of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has died. He was 94. Wasserman died Sunday of congestive heart failure at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., said Richard ...
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