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Remembering Karl Watt
One of the many delights of having a blog is meeting people--not always in person--who enrich your life with their presence, their music, their stories. One such person is banjo player Candace Brown, who's a member of Chris Tyle's Silver Leaf Jazz Band. I had posted a clip of that band in full flower, playing the ...
Award-Winning Blues Guitarist and Vocalist Phillip Walker, 1937 - 2010
Celebrated blues guitarist and vocalist Phillip Walker passed away as the result of heart failure in Palm Springs, CA (near his hometown of Los Angeles) on July 22, 2010. He was 73. Over the course of his 50-plus year career, Walker recorded many solo albums, toured with zydeco master Clifton Chenier and played behind countless blues ...
Phillip Walker R.I.P.
PHILLIP WALKER 1937-2010 From Delta Groove Music: “It is with deepest sorrow that we report on the sudden and unexpected passing of legendary blues guitarist Phillip Walker. He died of apparent heart failure at 4:30 AM, early Thursday morning, July 22, 2010. He was 73 years old. Born February 11, 1937 near Lake Charles, Louisiana, in ...
Dick Buckley Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Tba: Chicago Jazz Radio Legend Dies at 85
Dick Buckley, a jazz radio icon and Chicago jazz treasure passed away this morning July 22, 2010 at the age of 85...more details will be forthcoming on services in the next few days. Growing up in the Chicago area, my fondest memories of listening to jazz on the radio are the shows that were hosted by ...
RIP Harry Beckett (1935-2010)
The much-admired trumpeter and flugelhorn player Harry Beckett died this afternoon after a stroke on Tuesday. His last gig was Big Band Britannia with Guy Barker's orchestra last month. The roll-call of bands he was in makes him a central figure of the 60s/70s British scene: Ian Carr's Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication ...
Dick Buckley, 85, riffed on jazz for a half century
One of the “good old good ones," Dick Buckley, 85, longtime jazz presence on Chicago radio stations, died on July 22, 2010 of pneumonia at West Suburban Medical Center. Buckley, an Oak Park resident, discovered jazz growing up during the Depression in Indiana. His radio career in Chicago spanned more than 50 years, 1956-2008, and he ...
Gene Ludwig Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Info: Pittsburgh Jazz Organ Legend Dies at 72
Gene Ludwig, jazz Hammond organist from the Pittsburgh jazz scene passed away at age 72 on Wednesday July 14, 2010... at the West Penn-Forbes Regional Campus. Starting at age 6 on the piano and being inspired by the recordings of vocalists Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner and organ players such as Bill Doggett and Wild Bill ...
Gene Ludwig: Legendary jazz organist in Pittsburgh music scene
When Gene Ludwig was 21, he flipped a coin to determine which career path he would follow. Heads, he would continue the job he had at the time as a civil engineer. Tails, music would win out. The coin came up tails--and a legend was born. Mr. Ludwig, a leading figure in the Pittsburgh jazz scene ...
Gene Ludwig, 1937-2010
Organist Gene Ludwig passed away on July 14, 2010. I didn't know him well, but he was a guest on The Jazz Session in August, 2009, and we spoke several times in person and by phone and email. Gene and his wife Pattye were extremely kind to me and to everyone with whom I saw them ...
Correspondence: On Harvey Pekar
Rifftides reader Allen Mezquida writes: It seems that Pekar had a greater perception about jazz than many musicians I know. He listened with a rich open mind and a big heart. I created this animation for him. It was finished about a week before he died. Allen Mezquida animates ...
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