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Tyrone Hill Has Left the Planet
Tyrone Hill, trombone player for the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen, left the planet on March 11, 2007 at age 58. He first started playing the trombone during his Gillespie Junior High School days in North Philadelphia. Tyrone joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1979 and remained a fixture of the brass ...
Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells Dies at Age 64
The Washington Post Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells-Elliston, 64 Friday, March 9, 2007; Page B07 Ronnie Wells-Elliston, 64, a versatile jazz balladeer and educator in the Washington area for more than three decades who co-founded the East Coast Jazz Festival in Montgomery County in 1992, died March 7 at Holy Cross Hospital. She ...
Bassist Eldee Young Passes Away
Bassist Eldee Young, best known for his ten year stint in the '50s and '60s with the (pianist) Ramsey Lewis Trio, died of a heart attack on February 12, 2007, in Bangkok. Last May I found myself in Saigon, and was both surprised and delighted to learn that the Eldee Young trio was playing in town. ...
Queva Jayne Lutz, Owner of 55 Bar, Dies
Queva Jayne Lutz died on Thursday, February 22nd at her home in New York City, surrounded by her family and close friends. Queva was unique in the way she led her life. She enjoyed it immensely, as did those with whom she shared it. Whether at her home of 30 years, her famous Randalls Island picnics ...
British Jazz Guitarist Frank Evans Dies
Jazz guitarist, Frank Evans, passed away on February 6th 2007 at the age of 76. A former member of Tubby Hayes Quartet, Frank performed and recorded most often as a solo guitarist. Since the mid-sixties, Frank generally shunned the London scene, preferring to operate from his home in Bristol. He took up ...
Whitney Balliett; Jazz Reporter Known for Poetic Prose
Whitney Balliett, 80, a jazz reporter who spent more than four decades writing thousands of graceful and definitive stories for the New Yorker magazine and helped create one of the finest jazz programs on television, died Feb. 1 at his home in Manhattan, N.Y. He had liver cancer. Jazz critic and poet Philip Larkin described Mr. ...
Whitney Balliett, 80, Dean of Jazz Writers
Whitney Balliett, who died yesterday at 80, was the longtime jazz reviewer for the New Yorker. A reporter, historian, and expert interviewer, Balliett's greatest gift was as an astute listener with the rare ability to capture the sound of the music in words. He wrote with a cadence and rhythm that mirrored the music itself, and ...
Esmond Edwards: 1927-2007
Esmond Edwards died on Jan. 20, 2007, in Santa Barbara, CA. Born in Nassau, Bahamas, on Oct. 29, 1927, Edwards immigrated to Harlem and pursued photography with New York, dancers, and the jazz scene as his subjects. He com-bined his musical ear with his passion for the graphic arts in the form of album cover art. ...
Jimmy Cheatham: Trombonist, Bandleader Was Fixture in San Diego
By George Varga Music Critic San Diego Union-Tribune / Copley News Service Jimmy Cheatham's trombone playing sounded very much like he did in conversation - warm, inviting and filled with the joyful spirit he radiated on and off stage. A pillar of the San Diego music scene since the late 1970s and ...
Service for Alice Coltrane
Elevation Service for Alice Coltrane (Turiyasangitananda) Saturday, January 27th, 2007 at 1pm (Pacific Time Zone) Location: Sai Anantam Ashram Center Address: 3528 North Triunfo Canyon Rd. Agoura, California 91301 By phone contact: 818-865-0409 For directions: http://saiquest.com/html/contact.html For additional information on Alice Coltrane: http://AliceColtrane.org In ...
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