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Wilfrid Mellers Musicologist and Critic Passes
Wilfrid Mellers, an English musicologist, composer, critic and teacher who published more than 20 books on subjects ranging from 17th-century English and French composers to the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, died on May 16 in Scrayingham, North Yorkshire. He was 94 and had homes in Scrayingham and the nearby city of York. His ...
Earle H. Hagen Emmy-Winning TV Music Composer
Earle H. Hagen, the Emmy Award-winning television composer who wrote the memorable theme music for “The Andy Griffith Show," “The Dick Van Dyke Show," “I Spy" and other classic TV programs, has died. He was 88. Hagen, who composed the jazz standard “Harlem Nocturne" and was a former big-band trombonist for Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and ...
Jimmy McGriff, Blues Organist Crossed Musical Lines
Jimmy McGriff, the acclaimed blues organist, who scored his first hit in the 1960s with an instrumental arrangement of “I've Got a Woman," then continued to record hard-swinging grooves that appealed to audiences across musical boundaries, died Saturday at a nursing home in New Jersey. He was 72. The cause of death was not known but ...
Sidney Pollack His Life & Times
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of “Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including “The Way We Were" and “Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor, died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to Leslee Dart, his publicist and ...
"Tootsie" Director Pollack Dead at 73
An agent for actor and director Sydney Pollack said Monday the Academy Award winner has died. He was 73. Agent Leslee Dart said Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. She said Pollack was surrounded by family. Pollack appeared in some of the films he directed, including the gender-bending hit ...
Jimmy McGriff Organist Dies
Jimmy McGriff must have had a big crayon box because the great organist colored his music with so many shades of blue. McGriff, who died Saturday May 24th, passed after a very long illness with MS. He grooved as hard as any organist I know. I wonder whether there's ever been a song title that accurately ...
Jimmy McGriff Funeral Arrangements in Philadelphia
The McGriff family has made the following funeral arrangements for our beloved organ legend: Friday, May 30 4pm to 8pm A MUSICAL TRIBUTE Harold O. Davis Memorial Baptist Church Funeral Services Harold O. Davis Memorial Baptist Church 4500 North 10th Avenue at Roosevelt Blvd ...
Dick Martin's Last Laugh-In
“Look That Up In Your Funk and Wagnell's" Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catchphrases as “Sock it to me!," has died. He was 86. Martin, who went on ...
Huntington Hartford II Spent His Fortune on the Arts
Huntington Hartford II, heir to the A&P supermarket fortune whose quest to be taken seriously as a patron of the arts led him to bankroll a series of movies, plays, galleries and publications that ultimately drained his wealth, died Monday at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas at the age of 97. No cause of death was ...
Lola Montes Renown Flamenco Spanish Dancer
Lola Montes, One of the country's most renowned Spanish dancers, frequent Southland performer over a career of more than 70 years, has died at the age of 90. Montes died at her home in Laguna Woods on Friday of complications from pneumonia, Oscar Nieto, a lead dancer with her company, said. In 1955, Montes started her ...
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