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Sonny Igoe, 1923-2012
Sonny Igoe, who played drums with a succession of prominent leaders, died this week at the age of 88. In 1939 when Igoe was 16, he won the first Gene Krupadrum competition. After four years in the United States Marine Corps in World War Two, he worked briefly in a band of former Marines, then began ...
Leon Spencer Jr. (1945-2012)
Leon Spencer Jr., one of the most melodically funky organists during Prestige's Hammond B-3 era in the early 1970s and whose voicings and guitar-like touch on the instrument provided a powdery groove behind lead horn players, died on March 11. He was 66 and lived in Houston. Spencer's recording career began in 1968 but didn't become ...
Khalil Shaheed, Noted Jazz Trumpet Player, Dies
Khalil Shaheed, a trumpet player who served as one of the Bay Area's most prominent jazz music educators and performed for several years with the drummer Buddy Miles, died Friday in Oakland. He was 63. His family confirmed the death. In 2009, the trumpeter was diagnosed with lung cancer. Mr. Shaheed's music career began in the ...
Bill Caldwell, Noted Wichita Jazz Musician, Dies
Bill Caldwell, a gifted musician who brightened the lives and the musical arrangements of jazz enthusiasts all over the country, died this week at his home in Wichita. He was 49. Tim Henry, Mr. Caldwell's Wichita-based business partner and fellow jazz musician, found him dead in his home early Monday after he missed a rehearsal Sunday ...
Jazz Radio Host Chuck Workman Dies
Popular WICR host, a veteran broadcast professional, died Sunday at his home harles “Chuck" Workman, a veteran of Indianapolis broadcasting who was best-known as a courtly, smooth-voiced spokesman for jazz, died Sunday at his home. He was found after failing to report to WICR-FM, where he hosted two jazz shows three days a week. A station ...
Khalil Shaheed, Oakland Jazz Trumpeter And Educator, Dies At 63
A genre-bending trumpeter known for his ability to bridge distinct styles, Khalil Shaheed had a passion for music matched only by his desire to teach. That passion kept him active despite the toll lung cancer was taking on his body. Three weeks ago, the Oakland resident was teaching at Oaktown Jazz Workshops, the youth music program ...
Cape Cod Trumpeter Lou Colombo Dies
Our prayers, sorrow and appreciation go out to the family of Lou Colombo, legendary jazz trumpet player on Cape Cod, who died in a car accident in Ft. Meyer, Florida this week. The Brockton-born musician played on Monday nights for decades at the family-owned Roadhouse Cafe in Hyannis, building a faithful clientele who loved top flight ...
R.I.P., Eddie Fritz
Though there's been no published obituary or other official announcement, StLJN has learned that longtime St. Louis jazz pianist Eddie Fritz has died at age 70. The news of his passing comes from guitarist Steve Schenkel, who on Tuesday posted a message on Facebook with remembrances of Fritz. The pianist, who lived in Webster Groves, apparently ...
Frank Jolliffe, "Touchstyle" Guitarist, Dies at 53
Jazz instrumentalist and music educator Frank Jolliffe, 53, died of a heart attack on February 8. Jolliffe originally embarked on his musical career playing electric guitar, but made an early switch to the Chapman Stick, the electric stringed instrument designed by Emmet Chapman in the 1970s and played by tapping its fret board with the fingers ...
Jazz Face: Red Holloway, 1927-2012
One of the still-active veterans of bebop, saxophonist Red Holloway died on February 25th at age 84. And he went down swinging—he had been touring through September 2011 with the Lionel Hampton All-Stars and, although he had postponed some dates this winter, had some upcoming on his 2012 calendar. Red was best known for his work ...
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