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Jazz Pianist and Composer Weldon Irvine Dead from Gunshot Wound to Head Via Suicide

April 26, 2002

Weldon Irvine, jazz composer and pianist who worked and composed music which included Hip Hop, Rap, Jazz, died from a gunshot wound to the head one day this week. Funeral Services to be held at J. Foster Phillips funeral home on Linden Boulevard, in Queens on Sunday, April 28th, 2002. Weldon was made famous by his ...

David "Bubba" Brooks: May 29, 1922 - April 11, 2002

April 18, 2002

David Kenneth Brooks known a “Bubba" in the jazz community was a swing musician from the old school passed over Thursday, April 11, 2002 at Harlem Hospital. His tenor saxophone sound, derived from Coleman Hawkins to Chu Berry to Hershel Evans to Lester Young and Paul Gonsalves always expressed a personal feeling for the blues. Jazz ...

Ralph Sutton: Consummate Stylist with Roots in Stride

Ralph Sutton was a consummate stylist with a complete technical command of his instrument, an individual style, and a wide-ranging musical vocabulary which went well beyond his roots in stride piano. His characteristic style, heavily influenced by the stride pianists of the 1920s and 1930s, led by Fats Waller, James P. Johnson ...

Singer Peggy Lee, a Jazz Legend, is Dead

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 — Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose smoky, insinuating voice in such songs as “Is That All There Is?” and “Fever” made her a jazz and pop legend, died Monday. She was 81. Lee died from a heart attack at her Bel Air home, said her daughter, Nicki Lee Foster. Lee repeatedly battled ...

Peggy Lee: Cool and Sultry Star of Jazz and Pop

Peggy Lee was best known for her massive hits with ‘Fever’ and ‘Is That All There Is?’, which won her a Grammy award in 1969. Her cool, sultry vocal style lent itself equally well to both pop and jazz settings, and she said in interviews over the years that she considered herself to be an interpreter ...

Baritone Saxophonist Nick Brignola Succumbs to Cancer

Baritone sax great Nick Brignola died at the Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY on Feb. 8, 2002 after a long battle with cancer. Mainly self-taught, he studied music at Ithaca College and Berklee School of Music in the mid 1950s. His greatest baritone influence was Harry Carney of The Duke Ellington band who became his mentor. ...

Nick Brignola: Gifted Specialist on the Baritone Saxophone

If the conventional history of jazz is dominated by a series of major innovators who have dictated the sweeping changes in style which have brought the music to its present point, there has been an equally important sub-strata of musicians who have contented themselves with taking those styles as a given, and refining and developing them ...

Daniel Pearl-the jazz musician

DANIEL WAS A PEARL Yes, Daniel Pearl was a gem of a person. A real gentleman and probably the sweetest soul on earth. I met Daniel for the first time at 'Soul Fry' a restaurant in Mumbai where i played with my jazz ensemble. This lone gentleman seated on a barstool stood out from the crowd ...

Shirley Scott, 67, a Philadelphia native and "Queen of the Organ"

Shirley Scott, 67, the Philadelphia-born “Queen of the Organ" known for her crisp sense of swing, died Sunday at Presbyterian Medical Center after a long battle with heart disease. Though she spent decades as one of the most visible and beloved members of the Philadelphia jazz community, Ms. Scott, who lived in West Chester, made headlines ...

Cuban Jazz Pioneer Dead at 90

According to several official Cuban news organizations, Armando Romeu died on March 11, of a heart attack. He was 90 years old and one of the Jazz pioneers of the world. This saxophonist, teacher, composer, arranger and band leader, born July 17, 1911, was involved with seminal groups until becoming Director of the Tropicana orchestra in ...