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Jimmy Woode Funeral Services Announcement

April 26, 2005

Stan Levey: Bebop/West Coast Drummer & Photographer

April 26, 2005

Born: April 5, 1926 in Philadelphia, PA Died: April 20, 2005 in Van Nuys, CA Stan Levey was born in 1926 in Philadelphia. When he was sixteen he met Dizzy Gillespie and was hired for the trumpeter’s rhythm section. Not long thereafter he followed his boss to New York City, where the two men, ...

Arnie Lawrence has left this world.

April 22, 2005

Bassist Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen dies

April 21, 2005

Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen, one of Denmark's best known jazz musicians, who performed with legends such as Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie, has died at age 58. Oersted Pedersen, the bass player widely known by his initials NHOP and nicknamed “The Great Dane," died Tuesday in Copenhagen, leading jazz experts and Danish media said. The ...

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: First-call Danish Bassist

April 20, 2005

Born: May 27, 1946 in Osted, Denmark Died: April 19, 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark Danish bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, who began his professional career as a teenager and performed with many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, died of a heart attack on April 19, 2005. He was 58 years old. NHØP, ...

Pianist Johnnie Johnson dies at 80

April 13, 2005

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Johnnie Johnson, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like “Roll Over Beethoven" and “No Particular Place to Go," died Wednesday. He was 80. Johnson died at his St. Louis home. The cause of death was not immediately known, said publicist Margo Lewis. He had been hospitalized ...

Enos Payne Tribute Set

March 28, 2005

Jazz Pianist ENOS PAYNE and his life were celebrated with a tribute at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn on Sunday, March 20th, 2005. Among the performers; pianist ELLIS THE NAZARENE, ERIC LEMON,bassist, Kim Clarke, bassist, Hank Johnson, pianist, Bertha Hope, pianist, Jazz Vocalist Tulivia Cumberbatch, Shirl Wright,others. On April 6th, 2005 ...

Cabaret Singer Bobby Short Dies

March 21, 2005

By Larry McShane, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK -- Cabaret singer Bobby Short, the tuxedoed embodiment of New York style and sophistication who was a fixture at his piano in the Carlyle Hotel for more than 35 years, died Monday. He was 80. Short died of leukemia at New York Presbyterian Hospital, said Virginia Wicks, a ...

Singer Bobby Short dead at 80

March 21, 2005

NEW YORK - Bobby Short, the suave, tuxedoed cabaret singer who epitomized Manhattan glamour and sophistication with renderings of the great American songbook, died of leukemia Monday at 80. Calling Short “an American treasure," Cafe Carlyle, the nightclub at the Carlyle Hotel where Short was an institution since 1968, said it would close Monday in homage ...

Jazz Cornetist Don Gumpert Dies

March 19, 2005

Beloved Jazz Cornetist Don Gumpert died Thursday March 17 at his home in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. He was under Hospice care and died peacefully with his family at his bedside. Funeral arrangements are as follows: Visitation is from 6 to 8 pm Tuesday, the 22nd, at Little Chapel Funeral Home at the intersection of Beal ...