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Italian Free Jazz Pioneer Mario Schiano Dies at 75
Mario Schiano, an alto and soprano saxophonist considered the father of free jazz in Italy, died May 10th in Rome after a long illness. He was 75. Born in 1933 in Naples, Schiano moved to Rome in the '60s. In 1970, his Gruppo Romano Free Jazz recorded “If Not Ecstatic We Refund," often recognized as ... ...
Leyla Gencer Turkish Soprano Thrived in Italy
Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer, 79, who made her career at Italy's famed La Scala opera house, died Friday of respiratory problems and heart failure at her home in Milan, a Turkish arts foundation announced. La Scala expressed “immense sorrow" over Gencer's death and said the singer -- known as La Diva Turca, or the Turkish Diva ...
Gospel Singer Dottie Rambo Dies on Tour
Gospel singer Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus wreck in Mo. Joyce “Dottie" Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early today when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. She was 74. Seven other people on the bus were injured in the wreck about two miles east of Mount Vernon ...
Jerry Walace Goes Down Primrose Lane
Jerry Wallace, 79, the smooth-voiced pop and country singer who scored his first two hits in the late 1950s with “How the Time Flies" and “Primrose Lane," died of congestive heart failure Monday at his home in Victorville. Wallace began recording in 1951 and had his first hit in 1958 with “How the Time Flies"; a ...
Broadway Musical Director Peter Howard
Peter Howard, who arranged the dance music, composed the incidental music or conducted the orchestra for many of Broadway's biggest hits of the last half-century, and who sometimes did all three of those underappreciated jobs, died on April 18 in Englewood, N.J. He was 80 and had lived in recent years at the Lillian Booth Actors' ...
The Function of Jazz
Abstraction under siege in a utilitarian world Some current jazz-related events have got me thinking about the necessities of life. A quintet featuring saxists Frank Morgan and Sonny Fortune at Catalina's. A benefit for the stroke rehabilitation of reedman Buddy Collette is happening at the same place on Sunday. A tribute to the late pianist Horace ...
Eddy Arnold "Make the World Go Away"
Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like “Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday. Arnold died at a care facility near Nashville, said Don Cusic, a professor at Belmont University and author of the biography “Eddy Arnold: ...
Mona Clayton Hinton: 1919-2008
Edmonia - Mona - Clayton Hinton, the widow of noted jazz musician and documentarian Milt Hinton (1910-2000), died on May 3, 2008, at North Shore Hospital after a long illness. She was living at the Hinton family residence on Milt Hinton Place in the Queens section of New York City. The Hintons first met at Milt's ...
Hee Haw Jim Hager, Half of Hager Twins
Jim Hager, one of the Hager Twins who satirized country life with cornball one-liners on TV's “Hee Haw," died in Nashville, the show's producer said Friday. He was 66. Hager was at a coffee shop when he collapsed Thursday, Sam Lovullo said. He said he had been told that by Jon Hager, the surviving twin. Vanderbilt ...
Henry Brant, Experimental Composer on Grand Scale
Henry Brant -- an American maverick composer who added the dimension of space to music by placing musicians in nooks and crannies of concert halls, on boats floating down the Amstel River in Amsterdam or arrayed throughout sports arenas -- has died. He was 94. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer died Saturday at his home in Santa ...
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