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A Tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen
By Gary Gomes Karlheinz Stockhausen died December 5, 2007. Along with John Cage, and perhaps his teacher Olivier Messiaen, Shoenberg and Stravinsky, and fellow Messiaen students Boulez and Xenakis, Stockhausen is one of the pivotal figures of 20th century classical music. Stockhausen was one of the pivotal figures of post World War Two music. His range ...
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Influential Experimental Composer of Grandiose Works
Karlheinz Stockhausen, the great German composer who envisioned music as a force of cosmic revolution and who himself became a musical force of nature, having an unprecedented impact on both high and popular post-World War II culture, has died. He was 79. Stockhausen died Wednesday at his home in Kurten, Germany, according to an announcement on ...
Carlos Valdes, a Conga King of Jazz, Dies at 81
Carlos Valdes, better known as Patato, whose melodic conga playing made him a giant of Latin jazz in Cuba and then for more than half a century in America, died on Tuesday in Cleveland. He was 81 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was respiratory failure, said his manager, Charles Carlini. Born in Havana, Patato (a ...
Elaine Lorillard, 93, a Founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, is Dead
Elaine Lorillard, a socialite who with her husband, Louis, lured jazz greats to their hometown in Rhode Island for a two-day concert series in the summer of 1954, starting the Newport Jazz Festival and creating the model for what became a worldwide circuit of outdoor jazz festivals, died on Monday near her home in Newport. She ...
Founder of Newport Jazz Festival Passes Away
Elaine Lorillard, the socialite who encouraged a club owner to start the Newport Jazz Festival, died this week of dementia, nursing home officials said. She was 93. Lorillard died early Monday at the Heatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Newport, said Lori Curtin, director of quality assurance. Lorillard is best remembered for inspiring jazz club owner ...
Cecil Payne Dies at 84
Cecil Payne: Dec. 14, 1922 - Nov. 27, 2007 Born in Brooklyn on December 14, 1922, Cecil Payne proved one of the bebop eras strongest baritone saxophonists; nonetheless, he has always worked in undeserved obscurity. After leaving the military service in 1946, Payne cast aside the guitar, alto, and clarinet to pick up the bari for ...
Cees Slinger (Jazz Pianist) Dead at 77
The Hague (Netherlands), Sept 30 - Cees Slinger (jazz pianist) has died yesterday of heart problems at the age of 77. Cees has played with innumerable American and European jazz greats, such as: trumpet players: Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Dusko Goykovich and Benny Bailey trombonists: Slide Hampton, Al Grey, Bob Brookmeyer, Curtis Fuller, Bart ...
Blues Harmonica Ace Gary Primich Passes Away September 23
Austin, Texas, September 24-- Gary Primich, considered by many to be one of the greatest harmonica players in the world, passed away suddenly on September 23rd. Not only is this the loss of a world-class talent, but also of a true world-class person. Offstage, Gary was a caring and gentle soul -- a real Regular Joe ...
Jazz Drummer Specs Powell Dead of Kidney Disease at 85
SAN DIEGO--Jazz drummer Gordon “Specs" Powell, who recorded with Billie Holiday and played for “The Ed Sullivan Show" as part of the CBS network orchestra, has died of complications from kidney disease. He was 85. Powell, who also had heart trouble, died Saturday at a care center near his home in the northern San Diego County ...
Jazz Legend Joe Zawinul Dies at 75
VIENNA, Austria - Jazz legend Joe Zawinul, who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz fusion and performed and recorded with Miles Davis, died early Tuesday, a hospital official said. He was 75. Zawinul had been hospitalized since last month. A spokeswoman for Vienna's Wilhelmina Clinic confirmed his death without giving details. Zawinul ...
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