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Bob Berg: Saxophonist Killed in Automobile Accident
From Newsday.com Acclaimed tenor saxophonist Robert Berg was killed yesterday morning in Amagansett when a cement truck skidded across a snow-slicked road and rammed into his sport utility vehicle, East Hampton police said. Berg, whose career encompassed free jazz, soul jazz, jazz rock and straight- ahead playing, was driving east on Route 27 with his wife ...
Mal Waldron Dies 77
Born: August 16, 1925 in New York City, New York Died: December 2, 2002 in Brussels, Belgium Pianist Mal Waldron has died after short illness. His agent in Belgium issued the following statement: Dear friends, With great sadness I have to inform you of the passing of Mal Waldron, this December 2 at 9:15 ...
Remo Palmieri: Swinging and Inventive Jazz Guitarist
Guitarist Remo Palmier played with Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in the early part of his career, and established his own reputation as a swinging and inventive guitarist. He was known to a wider television audience as the guitarist on The Arthur Godfrey Show, a position he held for 27 years from ...
Details Bobby Forrester Funeral Update
Jazz Organist Bobby Forrester who played for such great vocalists as blues Singer Ruth Brown, and Irene Reid died. Funeral and body viewing is at: Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home 6140 Woodhaven Blvd. Rego Park, N.Y. 11374 Their phone: (718) 441-3300 Internment on Wednesday at St. Ramous Cemetary in Bronx, ...
Jazz Organist Bobby (Robert) Forrester Died
Jazz Organist Bobby Forrester who backed up such soul blues singers as Ruth Brown died. Bobby Forester was a great organist who could play for any vocalists, and get down on the blues. At this time I only have the following information: Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home 6140 Woodhaven Boulevard Rego Park, ...
Sir Roland Hanna: Pianist Was Jazz Aristocrat
Sir Roland Hanna was one of the group of players who sported titles derived from the British aristocracy, along with the various Dukes, Counts and Earls. Hanna's knighthood was a genuine one, however, bestowed by the government of Liberia in 1970 in recognition of fund-raising activities on behalf of Liberian children. His position in the jazz ...
Jazz Pianist Sir Roland Hanna Dead!
On November 13th, 2002 Jazz Pianist Sir Roland Hanna died of a virus infection that caused cardiac arrest. Viewing of the body was held at: Trumbull's Funeral Home from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00P.M. on Saturday, November 16th, and Sunday, November 17th, 2002 at 100 St. Nicholas Avenue (Between 115th and 116th Street, N.Y. N.Y. 10026. The ...
IAJE Founding Executive Director Passes Away at 89
Matt Betton, Executive Director Emeritus of the International Association for Jazz Education and founder of Manhattan Enterprises, Betton's Family Music Center, and Jazz Education Press passed away on November 3, 2002, at the Hospice Care Center in Loveland, Colorado. As founding Executive Director of the National Association of Jazz Educators (later renamed the International Association for ...
Dodo Marmarosa: Troubled Pianist Made Brief But Lasting Impact On Jazz
Michael “Dodo" Marmarosa was a reclusive personality who flitted in and out of jazz history after making an initial but lasting impact as one of the progenitors of bebop in the mid to late 1940s. He was said to have been a prodigiously gifted child at the piano in his native Pittsburgh, where his school mates ...
Modern /free jazz great, bassist Peter Kowald from Wuppertal Germany passed away at 2:00 am Saturday September 21, 2002 in NYC.
Peter Kowald bassist from Wuppertal Germany passed away at 2:00 am Saturday September 21, 2002 in NYC. Kowald died of a heart attack at the home of Patricia and William Parker after playing a concert in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at B.T.M. with Masahiko Kono, Tatsuya Nakatani and Kazuhisa Uchihashi. Emergency workers tried to save him working intensely ...
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