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Malachi Favors: Bassist with Art Ensemble of Chicago

February 29, 2004

Malachi Favors (Maghostus), bass Born: August 22, 1927 in Chicago, IL Died: February 2, 2004 One of the most respectably talented bassists in free jazz, Favors is renowned mostly for his membership in the Art Ensemble of Chicago for nearly forty years. A powerful swinger and excellent soloist, Favors tended to subsume ...

Drummer Walter Perkins

February 25, 2004

On Thursday, February 15th, 2004 jazz drummer Walter Perkins died (Valentine's Day 2004). The wake took place at the Merrick First Baptist Church, in South Jamaica, Queens, New York on Thursday, February 19th, 2004. Thousands of fans, friends, fellow musicians came out to say “Goodbye", to a legend. To name a few people: Jazz vocalists Mel ...

Jazz Pianist Gilly Coggins Finally Kicks Bucket on 2/15/04

February 15, 2004

Pianist Gilly Coggins died today in a New York hospital. He suffered serious injury and complications associated with the car accident he had in the Spring of 2003, where he crashed his car and injured a lady seriously. Kidney failure, and a general decline , were factors in his death. He played with Miles Davis in ...

Legendary Drummer Walter Perkins Died Today

February 14, 2004

Bassist, Fred Zabin 7/29/48-12/22/03

February 11, 2004

Saxophonist Cornelius Bumpus Passes Away at 58

February 4, 2004

Saxophonist Cornelius Bumpus, a former member of the Doobie Brothers who has performed with Steely Dan since 1993, died Tuesday en route to a series of performances in California. He was 58. Bumpus had a heart attack on a commercial flight from New York, said his friend, Rod Harris, an organizer of the Columbia College Jazz ...

Frank Mantooth Passed Away on January 30, 2004

February 1, 2004

We regret to announce that Frank Mantooth passed away on January 30, 2004. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, February 3 at St. Mary's Catholic Chruch in Garden City, Kansas. Graveside services will be held at the Okmulgee Cemetary in Okmulgee, Oklahoma on Thursday, February 5 at 11 a.m. (tentative). A tribute ...

Dutch Tenor Saxophonist Harry Verbeke Died (81)

January 28, 2004

On january 27th the master tenor player Harry Verbeke died in his hometown Haarlem. He was 81 years old. Harry was in the 50's and 60's a member of the famous dutch jazz quintet “The Diamond Five" and played with several famous european and and american jazzmusicians. For Timeless records he made a record with Billy ...

Billy May, legendary arranger has died

January 23, 2004

( from the LA Times ) Billy May, a 1950s bandleader, composer and arranger with a highly distinctive style who worked with such leading recording artists as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, died of a heart attack Thursday at his home in San Juan Capistrano. He was 87. May began his career as a trumpeter with ...

Milt Bernhart, West Coast trombonist, 1926-2004

January 22, 2004

Milt Bernhart b. 25 May 1926, Valparaiso, IN d. 22 January 2004, age 77, Glendale, CA Trombonist Milt Bernhart, a treasured icon of West Coast jazz, died of multiple organ failure on January 22, 2004 in Glendale, California. He was 77 years old. Bernhart was as good-natured a man as ...