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Irving Gertz Composer for Sci-Fi Films
Irving Gertz, a film and television composer who contributed music to 1950s science-fiction films such as It Came From Outer Space and The Incredible Shrinking Man and to 1960s TV series such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, has died. He was 93. Gertz died Friday at his home in West Los Angeles, said ...
Irving Brecher Wrote The Lines That Made The Whole World Smile
The Last Great Golden-Age Screenwriter Shares the Hilarity and Heartaches of Working with Groucho, Garland, Gleason, Burns, Berle, Benny & Many More. And that's just the subtitle Irving Brecher dies at 94; Comedy writer got an Oscar nod for Meet Me in St. Louis. Irving Brecher, a comedy writer whose career in ...
Tony Reedus, 49, Top Jazz Drummer
A man with a big heart and a big beat, drummer Tony Reedus cared for other people the way he cared about making a band swing. “He was true blue, he'd do anything for you," said pianist Mulgrew Miller, who knew Mr. Reedus as a youth in Memphis, where the drummer was born, and later employed ...
Miriam Makeba Cremated After Moving Memorial in South Africa
The body of acclaimed South African singer Miriam Makeba was cremated at a private ceremony in her home country on Sunday, radio reports said. Makeba, Africa's first Grammy award-winning singer and a leading anti-apartheid activist, died of a heart attack November 10 in Italy after performing at a concert. She was 76. The cremation follows a ...
Peter Levinson Publicist and Biographer of Jazz Greats Dies
Peter J. Levinson, a music publicist who parlayed his close familiarity with jazz personalities into rich and sometimes intimate biographies of them, died on Oct. 21 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 74. The cause was injuries suffered from a fall, said Dale Olson, a publicist and his longtime friend. Nearly two years ago ...
Rosetta Reitz Champion of Jazz Women
Rosetta Reitz, an ardent feminist who scavenged through the early history of jazz and the blues to resurrect the music of long-forgotten women and to create a record label dedicated to them, died on Nov. 1 in Manhattan. She was 84. Ms. Reitz (pronounced rights) came by her interest in jazz through her husband and male ...
Edward Scott Mc Michael Seattle Bids Tuba Man a Sad Goodbye
SEATTLE He played Itsy Bitsy Spider when it rained and the theme from Chariots of Fire even when the home team lost. Thumbs up! he insisted when you were not so sure. Want to be a part of it tonight? he beseeched, a call for coins and maybe transformation. Edward Scott McMichael was a busker with ...
Jody Reynolds Rockabilly Singer's 'Endless Sleep' Hit Top 10 Dies
Jody Reynolds, the 1950s rockabilly singer and songwriter whose one and only Top 10 hit, “Endless Sleep," was the first of a wave of melodramatic “teen tragedy" tales, died of liver cancer Nov. 7 in Palm Desert. He was 75. Endless Sleep, which peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in 1958, opened ...
Miriam Makeba Taking Africa with Her to the World
To be the voice of a nation speaking to the wider world is a tough mission for any performer. To be the voice of an entire continent is exponentially more difficult. Both were mantles that the South African singer Miriam Makeba took on willingly and forcefully. Despite her lifelong claim that she was not a political ...
Mae Mercer Blues Singer Also Had a Hollywood Career Passes
Blues singer and actress Mae Mercer was found dead in her Northridge home Oct. 29. She was 76 and had been in ill health. Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing at a blues bar in Paris and touring Europe before launching an acting career back home in films and ...
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