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Sterling Dorwin Weed: Oldest U.S. big band leader dies at 104

September 15, 2005

ST. ALBANS, Vt. --Sterling Dorwin Weed, the nation's oldest known active bandleader, whose Weed's Imperial Orchestra played dates from the early 1930s to this summer, has died. He was 104. “It was age, and he was just worn out, really," Derby said. Weed studied piano as a youth, but said in an Associated Press interview in ...

Bluesman Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown dies

September 12, 2005

Weakened by lung cancer and heart disease and devastated by the destruction of his beloved New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, Grammy Award-winning singer and guitarist Clarence “Gatemouth" Brown died on Saturday. He was 81. Brown died at his brother's home in Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape the hurricane. His home in Slidell, La., ...

Bluesman R.L. Burnside dies at 79

September 1, 2005

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Blues artist R.L. Burnside, who redefined the blues genre by incorporating indie rock acts and hip-hop production, died September 1, 2005, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 79. Burnside was born November 21, 1926, in Harmontown, Mississippi, and spent most of his life in the north Mississippi hill country, where ...

Dutch piano player Glenn Corneille (35) dies in car accident

August 25, 2005

Synthesizer Innovator Robert A. Moog Dies

August 22, 2005

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville (NC), according to his company's Web site. He had suffered from an inoperable brain tumor, detected in April. A childhood ...

Synthesizer innovator Robert Moog dies at 71

August 22, 2005

RALEIGH, N.C. - Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, N.C., according to his company's website. An inoperable brain tumour had been detected in April. A childhood ...

Joyce Wein: Wife, business partner of George Wein

August 17, 2005

Joyce Wein, wife and business partner of jazz impresario George Wein, died Monday, August 15, at New York Presbyterian Hospital following a battle with cancer. She was 76. Joyce Alexander Wein was born in October 21, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven children of Columbia and Hayes Alexander. Her mother was the youngest of ...

Pianist, composer Francy Boland dies at 75

August 16, 2005

GENEVA - Belgian jazz pianist and composer Francy Boland died in Geneva, aged 75, a statement from the Jazz Labo society of Fribourg said. Born in Namur on November 6, 1929, Boland began learning piano at the age of eight and studied at the Music Conservatory in Liege. He began his jazz career in 1949 and ...

Joyce Wein, wife of George Wein, dies at 76

August 16, 2005

NEW YORK (AP) — Joyce Wein, a former biochemist, a founder of the New York Coalition of 100 Black Women and a key adviser to her husband, who was a creator of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, has died. She was 76. The wife and business partner of jazz impresario George Wein died of ...

Violinst Vassar Clements dies at 77

August 16, 2005

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of other music legends, died at his home Tuesday after battling lung cancer. He was 77. Clements was hospitalized for 18 days earlier this year, receiving chemotherapy and other treatment. He had been under hospice care ...