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Bob Weinstock, Founder of the Jazz Label Prestige, Dies at 77
Bob Weinstock, who founded the independent jazz record label Prestige in 1949 and ran it for more than 20 years, died on Saturday at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77 and lived in Deerfield Beach, Fla. He died of complications of diabetes, said his daughter-in-law, Barbara Weinstock. Mr. Weinstock produced and released some ...
SF Bay Area Jazz Writer Phil Elwood Dies At 79
Jazz and blues critic Phil Elwood dies at 79 Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Phil Elwood, a revered blues and jazz critic who introduced many Californians to the blues in the early days of FM radio and wrote about musicians including Charlie Byrd and Duke Ellington, has died. He was 79. Elwood died from ...
Les Paul (Tonight) Mingus Big Band (Tue.) The Music Of Frank Zappa (Wed.) Jan. 12-15 Wallace Roney Qt. (IAJE Week) at The Iridium Jazz Club
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com Sets at 8 & 10PM EVERY MONDAY LES PAUL AND HIS TRIO EVERY TUESDAY THE MINGUS BIG BAND This Week at The Iridium Jan. 12-15 WALLACE RONEY QUINTET (IAJE WEEK) Antoine Roney, sax Eric Allen, drums Clarence Seay, bass Robert Irving, ...
Singer Lou Rawls Dies
By JEFF WILSON The Associated Press Friday, January 6, 2006; 12:26 PM LOS ANGELES -- Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record such classic tunes as “You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," died Friday of cancer. He was 72. Rawls died ...
Legendary Jazz Disc Jockey Leo Chears Dies
Jazz broadcaster Leo Chears dies By Tim O'Neil ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 01/03/2006 Jazz broadcaster Leo Chears, known as “The Man in the Red Vest" and for his love of classic jazz, died Monday (Jan. 2, 2006) in Barnes-Jewish Hospital of congestive heart failure after a lengthy illness. He was 72 ...
English Improv Guitar Great Derek Bailey Dies
A giant in free improvised music, English guitarist Derek Bailey died of motor neuron disease on December 25th in London at age 75. Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation musician, he began playing the guitar at the age of ten, going on to study with John Duarte among others. As an adult he ...
R&B singer Joe Jones dies at 79
LOS ANGELES -- Joe Jones, a musician-turned producer who sang the 1961 R&B hit “You Talk Too Much" and went on to become an independent music publisher and advocate for black artists' rights, has died. He was 79. Jones died Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital of complications from quadruple bypass surgery, said his 40-year-old son ...
Bob Enevoldsen dies
Bob Enevoldsen - Doug Ramsey, November 23, 2005 One of the joys of listening to The Bill Holman Band the past decade or so has been the opening minute of “No Joy In Mudville." Over an insistent one-bar riff figure repeated by the saxophones, Bob Enevoldsen plays a valve trombone solo of pure exuberance. It is ...
Jug band great Fritz Richmond dies at 66
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Fritz Richmond, a folk musician considered one of the world's finest players of the jug and washtub bass, died of lung cancer Sunday. He was 66. Richmond became a key figure in the Boston folk music scene, where he worked as the house bassist at Club 47. Drawing on his expertise as a ...
Guitar King Link Wray Dies at 76
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock 'n' roll who inspired such legends as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townshend, has died. He was 76. Wray died Nov. 5 at his home in Copenhagen, his wife and son said on his Web site. No cause of death ...
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