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Detroit Jazz Composer and Pianist Kenn Cox, 68, Dies
Jazz pianist Kenneth Louis Cox II died of lung cancer on Friday. He was 68. Cox died at his Detroit home, said his wife of 42 years, Barbara Cox. He was known by some as Kenny, though he preferred Kenn. The Detroit native was a graduate of Cass Technical High School. He went on to study ...
Davy Graham British Folk Musician Dies
Virtuoso guitarist Davy Graham, a leading figure in Britain's 1960s folk music revival, has died. He was 68. Graham died of a seizure in his London home on Monday, his former manager Mark Pavey said Wednesday. The musician had long suffered from lung cancer, he said. Graham's innovative tuning and dexterity on the acoustic guitar inspired ...
Davy Graham: 1940-2008
Davy Graham: 1940 - 2008 Davy Graham English folk musician Davy Graham died last Monday (December 15). Graham was a legend in the folk world but never really got his due, often flying just under the radar. His talents caused Paul Simon (who would cover Graham's “Anji" on Simon and Garfunkel's 1966 debut, Sound of Silence) ...
Sam Bottoms Dies at 53; Actor Appeared in 'Apocalypse Now,' 'Last Picture Show'
Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer- turned-GI Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now, has died. He was 53. Bottoms died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles of glioblastoma multiforme, a virulent brain cancer, said his wife, Laura Bickford. The brother of ...
Pinup Queen Bettie Page Dies at 85
Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85. Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital ...
Actor Van Johnson MGM's Voiceless Sinatra Dies
Van Johnson, MGM's boy-next-door, dies at 92. Johnson rose to stardom in 'A Guy Named Joe' and 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.' His World War II-era films drew such a huge bobby-soxer following that columnists dubbed him 'The Voiceless Sinatra.' Van Johnson, who soared to stardom during World War II as MGM's boy-next-door in films such as ...
Omar Clay 1935 - 2008
Omar Clay (pictured), a well-known jazz drummer, teacher and native of St. Louis, has died at age 73. His obituary was published today in the Marin (CA) Independent Journal:“Omar Clay, a renowned drummer/percussionist who played with some of the greatest names in jazz and was a popular instrumental music teacher at Tamalpais High School in ...
Dave McKenna Memorial Service
Rifftides readers in Rhode Island and nearby parts of New England who were friends or admirers of Dave McKenna may wish to attend a memorial service for him today, Sunday, December 7. The pianist, a mainstream jazz powerhouse for decades, died on October 18. He was seventy-eight. The 2 p.m service will be at The St. ...
Odetta: Soul Stirrer
Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut down, wearing a guitar high on her chest, she could envelop Carnegie Hall with her powerful contralto as other ...
Odetta 1930-2008
Odetta Holmes folk singer championed black history, civil rights Odetta, who used just her given name professionally, had trained as a classical vocalist as a child and later discovered folk music, which she said really touched where I live. She became an inspiration to other folk singers and eventually received a National Medal of Arts and ...
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