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Connie Haines Dies Big Band Singer Co-Starred with Sinatra
Connie Haines, a petite and dynamic big band singer who performed alongside Frank Sinatra in the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras Haines died Monday in Clearwater, Fla. The cause of death was myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease. She was 87. Haines was best known as a singer with a knack for rhythm, and many ...
Earl Palmer Funeral Announced
Famed Drummer Earl Palmer Open Service Friends: In case you haven't heard, we were asked by Earl's family to let our musicians know that Earl's viewing will be held this Sunday, September 28, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM and the burial services will be this Tuesday, September 30, at 2 PM. Both the viewing and ...
Nappy Brown Blues and R&b Singer Dies
Nappy Brown, a blues and R&B singer whose playful songs of the mid-1950s filled with nonsense syllables, eccentric pronunciation and a heavy beat had touches of early rock n roll style. Brown died on Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., where he lived. He was 78. The cause was respiratory failure, said Scott Cable, his friend and producer. ...
Connie Haines: Peppy Singer Dies at 87
Connie Haines, a peppy, petite, big-voiced singer with a zippy, rhythmic style who most famously teamed up with Frank Sinatra as lead vocalists with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Haines then went on to a prolific career of her own, died on Monday in Clearwater Beach, Fla. She was 87. The cause was myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular ...
Mary Ann Russo: 1933-2008 - Vocalist Sang with Jazz and Big Bands
Mary Ann Russo, 75, a Toledo jazz band singer whose career began in childhood, died Monday in the Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township. Her death followed a nine-month battle with lung cancer, her daughter, Lisa Young, said. Ms. Russo, of Sylvania, sang with many area jazz and big band groups and performed through nearly every ...
John Peragallo Jr. Kept Organs on Key, Dies at 76
John Peragallo Jr., the curator of the organs at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Peragallo who could not go to a church service there or anywhere else without straining to hear if there was anything the least bit amiss with his patient, died on Sept. 12 in Wayne, N.J. He was 76 and lived Paterson, N.J. ...
Correspondence: Frishberg on Sudhalter
Dave Frishberg's friendship and collaborations with Dick Sudhalter go back more than three decades. He sent this appreciation. I want to say something about Dick Sudhalter and the sadness of his passing . I'm staggered by Sudhalter's contributions to jazz literature and criticism. There are plenty of good writers who write about the music, ...
Earl Palmer Legendary Rock 'N' Roll Drummer Dies at 83
Earl Palmer, a New Orleans drummer who provided the distinctive backbeat for seminal rock 'n' roll songs by Fats Domino and Little Richard, then traveled west to become one of Hollywood's busiest session musicians, has died. He was 83. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, Palmer died Friday at his home ...
Dick Sudhalter, 1938-2008
Richard M. Sudhalter gave elegance and exactness to speech, writing and music-making. Dick's perfection of expression came in natural flows, whether he was writing, playing the cornet or chatting over dinner. Gene Lees observed that Dick was the only person he knew who always spoke in perfect sentences and paragraphs. Sudhalter's mastery of language is everywhere in ...
Henry Z. Steinway Piano Maker Passes
Henry Z. Steinway, the last Steinway to run the piano-making company his family started in 1853, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93. Mr. Steinway once said that he had taken countless piano lessons but never knew which is Beethovens this or Beethovens that. He remained proficient on a typewriters keys, however; long ...
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