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RIP Singer Smokin' Joe Frazier [video]
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Joe Frazier died on Monday. Also known as Smokin' Joe, he was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion beating and later losing to Muhammad Ali, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981. But did you also know he was a singer, releasing a string of songs like ...
Gordon Beck: British Piano Legend Dies at 76
British piano legend Gordon Beck passed away on November 5th, 2011. Gordon performed and recorded with many of the worlds finest musicians including Tubby Hayes, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Clyne, John McLaughlin, Tony Oxley, Lena Horne, {{Helen Merrill, John Stevens, Jimmy Deuchar, Alan Ganley, Kenny Wheeler and many more. His musical legacy lives on in the dozens ...
Andy Rooney dead at 92
Andy Rooney, the “60 Minutes" commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays—a unique genre he is credited with inventing—died Friday night in a hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery. He was 92, and had homes in New York City, Rensselaerville, N.Y. and Rowayton, Conn. “It's a sad ...
Walter Norris, 1931-2011
Pianist Walter Norris died this week at his home in Berlin. He was two months short of his 80th birthday. Because of his early recording with Ornette Coleman and later experimental work, he is often described as associated primarily with free jazz, but Norris's stylistic range was virtually unlimited. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas ...
Graham Collier, 1937-2011
Written by Duncan Heining Composer, bassist and bandleader Graham Collier left town on Friday, September 9,, 2011. He was holidaying with his partner, John, in Crete, when a sudden heart failure took his final breath. It was quick, relatively painless but unexpected. We all felt sure Graham had too much sparkle, too much music in him ...
Band leader Edmundo Ros dies, 100
Band leader Edmundo Ros, the man credited with popularising Latin American music in the UK, has died at the age of 100. His death was confirmed by showbusiness charity the Grand Order of Water Rats. Secretary John Adrian said: “He died last night peacefully at his home in Spain, two months short of his 101st birthday." ...
Pete Rugolo (1915-2011)
Pete Rugolo, a jazz-classical maverick in the late-1940s andarchitect of a brassy, West Coast orchestral sound that helped establish Stan Kenton and the music of television and the movies in the 1950s and 1960s, died on October 16 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 95. [Photo by William P. Gottlieb] Starting in 1944 with his first ...
Jeff Sultanof on Pete Rugolo
Shortly after Pete Rugolo died this week, Jeff Sultanof offered to contribute a piece putting Rugolo's work in perspective. I was delighted to accept and flattered that he considered Rifftides the proper place for his essay. Jeff is a native of New York City, where he lives and works. He is a composer, orchestrator, editor, educator ...
Pete Rugolo, 1915-2011
Pete Rugolo has died in Los Angeles at the age of 95. Rugolo's composing and arranging, particularly for the Stan Kenton Orchestra,had much to do in the 1940s and '50s with the creation of what came to be called progressive jazz. As a discoverer of talent and as a producer, he was responsible for recording a ...
Micky Correa - Big Band Leader - Bombay Jazzman 1913-2011
Micky Correa- The Sultan of Swing from Bombay, India passed away on September 22nd 2011 He would have turned 98 on September 26. Micky's career was almost legendary, with a longevity that is cherished both by his fans in Bombay, and those who got to know him from visits to the Taj Hotel, where he was ...
