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Noah Howard: Free Jazz Alto Saxophonist Dies at 67
American-born free jazz alto saxophonist Noah Howard has died at the age of 67 years early morning Friday, September 3rd, 2010 A free jazz artist of the 60s and 70s, Mr. Howard came to critical acclaim again after returning to free jazz in the 90s due to recorded efforts with Cadence Jazz among other labels...first recorded ...
Carl Leukaufe Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Update: Chicago Bebop Jazz Vibraphonist Dies at 76
Chicago jazz vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe has died at the age of 76 years on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010...after fifty years of playing jazz, vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe made his one and only recording as a leader with the 1996 release of the album Warrior on Delmark Records that offered several mainstream bop standards. He had been compared ...
Gilbert Erskine, New Orleans Jazz Club Founder, Dies At 81
By Charles Suhor The last surviving founder of the New Orleans Jazz Club, Gilbert Erskine, died at age 81 in Malone, New York on December 5th last year, but his passing was unknown in New Orleans for almost nine months. Erskine's sole continuing contact from his New Orleans years, writer Charles Suhor, grew concerned after several ...
Carl Leukaufe Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Tba: Chicago Bebop Jazz Vibraphonist Dies at 76
Chicago jazz vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe has died at the age of 76 years on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010...after fifty years of playing jazz, vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe made his one and only recording as a leader with the 1996 release of the album Warrior on Delmark Records that offered several mainstream bop standards. He had been compared ...
Herman Leonard Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Update: Jazz Scene Photographer Dies at 87
Herman Leonard the jazz scene American photographer has passed away at age 87 years on August 14th, 2010...noted for his great and iconic photographic images of jazz artists beginning with his arrival on the New York jazz scene in 1948-49. He was the first photographer to ever receive a Grammy Foundation Grant (given to him in ...
Summer 2010 Taking a Toll on Jazz Ranks
he summer of 2010 has been a melancholy one in terms of friends and jazz warriors passing on to ancestry. Last weekend's loss of Abbey Lincoln, and prior to that her compadre Hank Jones were well-noted. Good friend and longtime Randy Weston African Rhythms and Basie band trombonist Benny Powell's passing, though at the ripe age ...
Abbey Lincoln Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Info: Jazz Singer/Songwriter Dies at 80
Abbey Lincoln (a.k.a. Anna Marie Wooldridge) Chicago-born jazz singer and songwriter has passed away at age 80 years in her Manhattan home on August 14th, 2010...once married to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach (1962 and later divorced) she made several recordings and acted in movies with the likes of Sidney Poitier during the 1950s and 60s. ...
Joe Lovano on Abbey Lincoln
"Abbey was one of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz. She told some beautiful honest stories about her life and experiences and had a way of expression that touched you in a very personal way. Abbey's tunes and interpretations were full of meaning with each word articulated with deep passion. She was a beautiful story ...
Herman Leonard, 1923-2010
Herman Leonard died last Saturday in Los Angeles at 87. A master of backlighting in smoky atmospheres, and of meticulous darkroom wizardry, Leonard photographed images that caught the mood of music-making by some of the most significant jazz artists of the 20th century. For an obituary, see the New Orleans Times-Picayune's website. Leonard lived and worked ...
Herman Leonard (1923-2010)
Herman Leonard, a photographer with a commanding mastery of light whose dramatic and expressive nightclub portraits of jazz artists starting in the 1940s helped shape and promote jazz's nocturnal image and mystique, died on August 14 in Los Angeles. He was 87. [Photo by Herman Leonard / CTSImages.com] In the years before the Internet, television and ...
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