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Jazz Maestro Bheki Mseleku Dies
RENOWNED jazz musician Bheki Mseleku has died at the age of 53 after a long battle with diabetes. “He was a supremely talented creative visionary," Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan said. Jordan said the KwaZulu-Natal-born “piano maestro" died in the U K on Monday. Jordan said Mseleku had been living in the UK and seemed ...
Geo Voumard, a Founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Dies at 87
GENEVA Geo Voumard, a Swiss jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the Montreux Jazz Festival, died Wednesday. He was 87. Mr. Voumard founded the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 with Claude Nobs and Rene Langel. He also won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 with the song “Refrain," written with ...
BJ Papa: North Beach loses a jazzman, and a friend
B.J. Papa died on Monday. I'm not sure what he died of and I don't know how old he was -- somewhere north of 70, I'm sure. I heard he died in his sleep. I hope so. Let the obit pages take care of the details. He'd been feeling under the weather lately but said he ...
Arne Domnerus
The list of veterans of the glory days of modern jazz in Sweden grew significantly shorter on Tuesday with the death of Arne Domnerus at the age of eighty-three. The alto saxophonist and clarinetist came to popular attention in the late 1940s and early 1950s as one of the most adroit disciples of Charlie Parker and Lee ...
The Caymmi Afflatus from Dorival to Dori
As a musician of international renown, Dori Caymmi has firmly established himself as an artist of substantial influence in both the Brazilian and global community. The influences behind this Brazilian composer is artfully demonstrated in his music; an amalgam of jazz styles and impressions that contribute to Mr. Caymmi's work like facets in a diamond. Along ...
Singer Clea Bradford Dies at Age 67
Clea Bradford, a jazz singer who spent her formative years in St. Louis, has died of complications from breast cancer at age 67 in a Washington, DC hospital.Born in Mississippi and raised in Charleston, MO and St. Louis, Bradford (pictured) was a protege of trumpeter Clark Terry and saxophonist Jimmy Forrest who in the ...
Swedish Jazz Musician Arne Domnerus Dies at 83
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Arne Domnerus, one of Sweden's most influential jazz musicians, has died. He was 83. The alto saxophonist and orchestra leader died Tuesday morning after a long period of illness, his son, Leif Domnerus, told The Associated Press. He said Domnerus had heart surgery last year, after which he suffered pneumonia and a brain hemorrhage. ...
Bill Melendez Animator and Voice of Snoopy Passes
The Emmy-winning animator's career extended for nearly seven decades. He's best known for bringing Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and the rest of the comic strip to TV and the big screen. Animator, director and producer Jose Cuautemoc “Bill" Melendez, whose television programs and theatrical films featuring Charles Schulz's “Peanuts" characters earned four Emmy Awards, an Oscar ...
Jerry Reed Country Singer Appeared in 'Smokey and the Bandit' Films
Jerry Reed, whose roles in three Smokey and the Bandit Southern comedy films opposite Burt Reynolds often overshadowed his gifts as a prolific country singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist> Reed died Monday at his home outside Nashville of complications from emphysema. He was 71. “He was still recording right up until he couldn't any more," his booking ...
Don Lafontaine Thunder Throat the Trailer King
Don LaFontaine, the highly sought-after voice-over artist whose sonorous-voiced narration on several thousand movie trailers earned him the title of “The Trailer King," has died. He was 68. LaFontaine, who also did voice-over work on countless radio and network television promotional spots and commercials, died Monday of complications after treatment for an illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...
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