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Remembering Ira Schulman
Musician, teacher and Duke Ellington Society member Ira Schulman passed away in Los Angeles on July 20, 2008. Ira was born in Chicago on December 1, 1926. He received a clarinet for his Bar Mitzvah in 1939 and began his long career as a musician playing mostly jazz but also classical and any music which interested ...
Johnny Griffin Dies a 80
Johnny Griffin, Jazzman Who Played With Coltrane, Monk, Dies By Mark Schoifet July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Johnny Griffin, the jazz musician who was once billed as the “world's fastest saxophonist" and played alongside Thelonious Monk, Lionel Hampton and John Coltrane, has died. He was 80. Griffin died today at his home in the village of Mauprevior, ...
Joseph E. Fields, Conductor, Composer and Pianist, is Dead at 53
Joseph E. Fields, a pianist, conductor and composer who was a former music director and principal conductor of Dance Theater of Harlem. Fields after a short illness died on July 4 in Scranton, Pa. He was 53 and had homes in Scranton and New York City. After working with Dance Theater of Harlem from 1998 to ...
Gerald Wiggins Public Memorial Set
Tribute to jazz pianist Gerald Wiggins set for July 28th in Los Angeles A public memorial tribute to jazz pianist Gerald Wiggins is scheduled for 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. July 28 at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles. Wiggins died July 13 at age 86. Continue for LA Times Full ...
Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford, a perfect singer, died on Wednesday. She was ninety years old. There will be obituaries this morning in newspapers all over the world. Web sites have them already. Many people who read them will be hearing of her for the first time because in the 1960s, at the top of her game, she walked ...
Jo Stafford, 90; Singer, Recording Artist Entertained GIs During World War II
Jo Stafford, a singer who was a favorite of GIs during World War II and whose recordings made the pop music charts dozens of times in the 1950s, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at her home in Century City. She was 90. According to her son, Tim Weston, she had been in ill health since ...
Hayward 'Chuck' Carbo R&B Singer Dies
Hayward “Chuck" Carbo Singer for Spiders R&B Quintet Carbo was 82, a singer who fronted the 1950s quintet the Spiders, a group that made the world aware of New Orleans rhythm and blues, died July 11 in New Orleans after a long illness. (pictured with the Spiders far right) Chuck Carbo and ...
Jo Stafford, 90; Pop Singer Won a Grammy for Comedy
Jo Stafford, 90, an exceptionally versatile singer who worked with Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers and shared a Grammy Award with her conductor-husband for their parody of a tone-deaf lounge act, died July 16 at her home in Century City, Calif. She had congestive heart failure. Singer Judy Collins once said Ms. Stafford's ...
I'll Be Seeing You: Jo Stafford, 1917-2008
Jo Stafford, one of the last great vocalists from the “songbird" era of big band vocalists, passed away Wednesday at the age of 90. A World War II icon dubbed “GI Jo" and beloved by soldiers for her performances and recordings such as “Long Ago and Far Away," Stafford possessed one of the most graceful, limpid ...
Gerald Wiggins, 86; Jazz Pianist Performed with Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Others
Gerald Wiggins, a jazz pianist whose long career embraced numerous recordings with his trio, performances with Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge, Zoot Sims, accompaniment for Lena Horne and Nat “King" Cole, and vocal coaching for Marilyn Monroe, has died. He was 86. Wiggins died Sunday morning at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, where he had spent the ...
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