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Sérgio Mendes (1941-2024)
Sérgio Mendes, a Brazilian jazz and hard-bossa pianist-arranger who relocated to the U.S. in 1964 and launched his Brasil '65 and '66 pop groups, died in Los Angeles on September 5 of complications from long Covid. He was 83. Mendes first performed in the U.S. at the famed Bossa Nova at Carnegie Hall concert in late ...
Dan Morgenstern (1929-2024)
Dan Morgenstern, an eight-time Grammy winner for his album liner notes, the former director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, author and a “jazz advocate," as he liked to be called, died on September 7. He was 94. Despite all of those titles, Dan was the music's most well-regarded historian and paternal figure among writers ...
Jim Rotondi (1962-2024)
Jim Rotondi, a prolific hard-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger, educator and conductor whose horn appears on more than 80 recordings as well as 15 leadership albums, died on July 8 in Le Crest, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. He was 61. Born in Butte, Montana, in 1962, Rotondi was the youngest of five siblings. All were given piano ...
Russell Malone (1963-2024)
Russell Malone, a jazz guitarist and composer who could play with a brash attack and lightening-fast fingers as a soloist and with a powdery, gentle feel and sturdy rhythm as a sideman, died of a heart attack on August 23 while on tour in Tokyo with bassist Ron Carter and pianist Donald Vega. He was 60. ...
Tribute To Angela Bofill - Livestreamed funeral mass set for Friday, June 28, 2024 at 1pm Pacific time on St. Dominic’s Catholic Church's YouTube channel in Benicia, CA
On June 13, 2024, jazz/R&B/pop singer-songwriter Angela Bofill's death at 70 years old was announced in a post on Angela Bofill’s Facebook page by Rich Engel—her long-time friend and manager: “On behalf of my dear friend Angie, I am saddened to announce her passing on the morning of June 13th.” Angela Bofill passed away at the ...
John Pisano (1931-2024)
John Pisano, a Los Angeles studio guitarist who began recording in the mid-1950s and was so proficient that he appeared on some of jazz's finest chamber jazz recordings and pop's flashiest hits, died May 2. He was 93. [Photo above of John Pisano] Pisano, like dozens of other excellent Italian jazz guitarists of the era who ...
Bill Holman: (1927-2024)
Willis “Bill" Holman, a three-time Grammy-winning arranger, composer and saxophonist and one of the last-surviving orchestrators who shaped West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, died May 6 in his sleep of natural causes. He was 96. Influenced most by Gerry Mulligan's arranging and the sound of Count Basie's band, Bill began writing for Kenton just ...
Michael Cuscuna: 1948-2024
Michael Cuscuna, a titan in the world of jazz, passed away on April 20, 2024, leaving behind a legacy that will resonate for generations. Michael is survived by his wife Lisa, his children, Max and his wife Jackie, and Lauren, and two grandchildren, Nicolas and Penelope Cuscuna. His passing leaves a void in the hearts of ...
Carlos Lyra (1933-2023)
Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, and one of the fathers of the bossa nova who, with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Luiz Bonfá, Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli, among others, turned a new form of middle-class aspirational music into a global sensation, died in Rio de Janeiro on December 16. He was 90. ...
Les McCann (1935-2023)
Les McCann, a self-taught soul-jazz pianist and singer whose essence and feel were deeply rooted in the black church of his youth and the bars in black neighborhoods where jukeboxes were stocked with early soul-pop and blues singers such as Al Hibbler, Arthur Prysock, Ray Charles. Brook Benton, Clyde McPhatter and Floyd Dixon, died on December ...
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