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Trombonist Ralph Hutchinson Passes at 83
Ralph Hutchinson was one of 'Best Trombone Players Milwaukee Ever Had'. Hutchinson crossed an ocean to find the music he loved, coming to America to be a jazz musician. Home was in northern England, in a coal-mining town called Newcastle-on-Tyne. He heard the music as a youngster, listening to a battery-powered radio. Later, the ...
Goodbye, Gerald Wiggins
DevraDoWrite reports that Gerald Wiggins died this morning in Los Angeles at the age of eighty-six. Encouraged when he was a youngster by Art Tatum, for decades Wiggins was revered by listeners and musicians--particularly by other pianists. Anyone familiar with his playing could recognize him immediately by his harmonic acuity, touch, use of space and wry ...
Award-Winning Motion Picture Key Grip Gaylin Schultz Dies
Gaylin Schultz renowned for his camera mount work in major motion pictures. Schultz was honored with the The Society of Operating Cameramen's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 for his work as a Mobile Camera Platform Operator. The “American Cinematography Magazine" highlighted Mr. Schultz's work on the films Le Mans and Jonathan Livingston Seagull in articles published ...
Charles Joffe Co Producer on Woody Allen Films Passes
Charles H. Joffe, a legendary manager of comic talent who helped guide the careers of Dick Cavett, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Woody Allen and co-produced nearly all of Allen's films Joffe's prowess as a negotiator helped Allen gain total artistic control over his movies. Joffe died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after ...
Bobby Durham, 71, Jazz Drummer Toured with Greats
Bobby Durham, a jazz drummer known for his energetic, propulsive style, as well as for the high-flying musical company that he kept, died in Italy on Monday. He was 71, and had been ill with lung cancer and emphysema, a singer who had toured with him in Europe in recent years, Shawnn Monteiro, said. Durham was ...
Versatile Jazz, R&B Drummer Bobby Durham, 71
Bobby Durham, 71, a jazz drummer of impeccable taste and versatility who teamed with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald and became a fixture of the Jazz at the Philharmonic touring concert series, died July 7 at a hospital in Genoa, Italy. He had lung cancer and emphysema. His death was confirmed by Sandra Fuller, a family ...
Bruce Conner San Francisco Artist with 1950s Beat Roots Dies
Bruce Conner, an artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74. A key figure in the San Francisco Beat scene in the late 1950s, Mr. Conner first became known for his assemblages made from women's nylon stockings, parts of furniture, ...
Appreciation of L.A. Weekly Co-Founder Pete Kameron
Goodnight Pete: An Appreciation of LA Weekly co-founder Pete Kameron Former publisher Michael Sigman remembers tough love, Zen calm and a nice assist with forming the paper's “no-hitting" policy. Without Pete Kameron, LA Weekly probably wouldn't exist. And instead of spending 19 years at the paper, I might not have lasted three months. Over the course ...
Pete Kameron L.A. Weekly Co-Founder Dies
Pete Kameron Co-founder of LA Weekly Pete Kameron, 87, who helped found Track Records, the recording label of the British rock group the Who, and later co-founded LA Weekly, died June 29 at his home in Beverly Hills. The cause was cancer, according to Michael Sigman, a friend and former LA Weekly publisher. Kameron was a ...
Natasha Shneider Rock Musician Dies
Rock musician Natasha Shneider dies of cancer Moscow native, singer/songwriter Natasha Shneider, who collaborated with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died Tuesday of cancer. Shneider, her husband Alain Johannes and Jack Irons formed the rock band Eleven in 1990 following the latter's departure from the Red Hot Chili ...
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