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Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa: Legendary jazz pianist

September 20, 2002

Michael “Dodo" Marmarosa, a piano wunderkind who was for about a decade one of the most sought-after pianists in the history of jazz, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 76. For the past few years, Mr. Marmarosa was a resident at the VA Medical Center in Lincoln Lemington, where he occasionally played piano ...

Lionel Hampton: Vibes, Drums, Piano, Bandleader

September 15, 2002

Jazz Great Lionel Hampton, 94, Dies

September 2, 2002

NEW YORK (AP)--Lionel Hampton, the vibraphone virtuoso and standout showman whose six-decade career ranked him with the greatest names in jazz history, died Saturday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 94. Hampton, whose health was failing in recent years, died at Mount Sinai Medical Center at about 6:15 a.m., said his manager, Phil Leshin. Hampton worked ...

Lionel Hampton, 94, Pioneering Jazz Vibraphonist

September 2, 2002

By Claudia Levy - The Washington Post Lionel Hampton, 94, the frenetic jazz vibraphonist, gifted bandleader and storied showman who was one of the most celebrated musicians of the swing era and went on to a six-decade career on the American stage, died Saturday in a hospital in New York after a heart attack. Hampton, who ...

Alan Lomax: Famous Collector of Music In The Field

July 28, 2002

Jerry Fuller: Canadian Drummer Played with Ellington, Peterson

July 20, 2002

When drummer Jerry Fuller didn't show up for a gig at the Rex in Toronto on Saturday, July 13, a check of his home found that he had died, apparently in his sleep. I have many fond memories of him beginning in 1962 when I was 27 and began hearing a pair ...

Vanguard Records Founder Passes

July 20, 2002

Seymour Solomon, co-founder of Vanguard Records, a label that dominated American folk music with stars such as Joan Baez, died Thursday. He was 80. Solomon founded Vanguard in 1950 with his brother, Maynard. The label recorded famed artists like Odetta, Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie. It also signed such jazz and blues legends as Mississippi John Hurt ...

Rosemary Clooney: Highly Regarded Pop-Jazz Singer Dies at 74

July 3, 2002

Born May 23, 1928, Rosemary Clooney was a popular singer who overcame great personal problems to re-emerge as fine interpreter of the repertoire of writers like Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen, and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Although she always refused to be ...

Ray Brown: A Giant of the Jazz Bass Dies at 75

July 3, 2002

By Kenny Mathieson Ray Brown was one of the greatest bass players in all of jazz history. His magisterial sonority on the double bass, innate lyricism and infallible harmonic judgement all came yoked to arguably his greatest asset of all, a meticulous rhythmic sense which drew on both swing and bop conceptions, and made him one ...

Thelonious Monk's Widow, Nellie Dead at Eighty...

June 26, 2002