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Oldest Surviving Blues Artist Henry Townsend Dies
Henry Townsend, who recorded every decade since the '20s, dies --CHERYL WITTENAUER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS - Blues guitarist Henry Townsend, who fled to St. Louis as a boy then stayed for a prolific career that spanned eight decades, died Sunday of pulmonary embolism in Grafton, Wis., where he was being honored. He was 96. Townsend, ...
Dewey Redman, 75, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies
Dewey Redman, an expansive and poetic tenor saxophonist and bandleader who had been at the aesthetic frontiers of jazz since the 1960s, died on Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 75 and lived in Brooklyn. The cause was liver failure, said Velibor Pedevski, his brother-in-law. Walter Redman was born and grew up in Fort Worth. He started ...
Tributes To Maynard Ferguson from Various Trombonists
Dave Dickey, trombone - Groove Bone Radio Walter “Maynard" Ferguson was one of the most influential musicians and band leaders in the history of Jazz. Not only was Maynard a great musician, but also a great educator. He spent many hours/days/years educating musicians of all ages about jazz music. As David Von Drehle from ...
Maynard Ferguson Passes Away
Maynard Ferguson: Trumpeter, flugelhornist, valve trombonist, bandleader, b. Verdun (part of Montreal) 4 May 1928. Maynard passed away late last night in California from kidney failure. After recently completing a new live recording and closing out his amazing performing career with a historic run at Birdland last month in NYC, Maynard Ferguson passed away peacefully in ...
Legendary Brazilian Composer And Arranger Moacir Santos Dies At 80 Years Of Age
Acclaimed Musician Had Recently Won Both Shell Music and Premio Tim Awards Moacir Santos, the legendary composer and arranger whose body of work served to expand popular preconceptions of Brazilian music beyond bossa nova and Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB), died in Pasadena, California on Sunday, August 6th. Santos was recently enjoying a resurgence of interest in ...
Love's Arthur Lee Dies at 61
Arthur Lee, the talented and oft-troubled singer and guitarist for the influential '60s-era band Love, died in a Memphis hospital after a lengthy battle with leukemia, according to his manager. He was 61. “It was a complete surprise to me. He's had leukemia for the past few months, but he was coming along until this past ...
Don Lusher's Memorial Service
Don's Memorial service is as follows: 12 noon Monday, 25th September, 2006 The Regent Hall Salvation Army 275, Oxford Street London W1C 2DJ All welcome. Walking from Oxford Circus towards Marble Arch, Regent Hall is on the left hand side opposite British Home Stores. Donations if ...
Rufus Harley: Jazz Bagpiper
1936 - 2006 Last night WRTI-FM's Bob Perkins announced the death of an Philly original. Rufus Harley is credited as the first jazz musician to pick the Scottish bagpipes as his instrument. You might have heard his distinctive drone on CDs by The Roots (Do You Want More?!!!??!) and Laurie Anderson (Big Science). If you ever ...
Trumpeter Malachi Thompson dies at 56
CHICAGO -- Malachi Thompson, a trumpeter who was a leading figure on Chicago's experimental jazz scene, died on Sunday, July 16, at his home on the South Side of Chicago. He was 56. His death followed a long battle with cancer, Bob Koester, founder of Thompson's record label, Delmark, said. Doctors told Mr. Thompson in 1989 ...
Bluesman Sam Myers dies at 70
DALLAS - Legendary bluesman Sam Myers died Monday of throat cancer at his Dallas home, according to his sister, Eula Jones. He was 70. Myers was diagnosed with cancer in February 2005, and had been unable to perform with his band, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, since December 2004. Jones said Monday that she had not ...
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