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Kalmen Opperman, Master Clarinetist and Teacher Dies
Kalmen Opperman, a master clarinetist whose intensive teaching methods helped mold some of the top players of the last 50 years, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Roie Opperman. Mr. Opperman began his professional career playing for ballet and Broadway, but it was ...
Last South Dakota Code Talker from World War II Laid to Rest
Clarence Wolf Guts of Wanblee was buried Tuesday in Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis. The 86-year-old Wolf Guts died June 16 at the South Dakota Veterans Home in Hot Springs. Wolf Guts was one of 11 Lakota, Nakota and Dakota code talkers from South Dakota. During the war, they transmitted messages from an Army general ...
WWII Nurse in Iconic Times Square Kissing Photo Dies
A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday. The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. ...
William A. Fraker Hollywood Cinematographer
William A. “Bill" Fraker, a cinematographer who was nominated for six Academy Awards including for “Looking for Mr. Goodbar," “Heaven Can Wait" and “1941," died June 2nd at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 86 and had cancer. Fraker, a larger-than-life figure, was one of America's most respected cinematographers, known as much for the ...
Bill Dixon, Leading Edge of Avant-Garde Jazz
Bill Dixon, the maverick trumpeter, composer, educator and major force in the jazz avant-garde movement of the 1960s, died on Wednesday at his home in North Bennington, Vt. He was 84. In the early 1960s, when rock was swallowing popular culture and jazz clubs were taking few chances on the new thing as the developing avant-garde ...
Baseball's Giants of Jazz
We cherish Ernie Harwell and other masters of improvisation because we may not hear a sound like theirs again Tributes poured in from all over the nation as a city that is falling apart united in its heartache. Seventeen hours after the Tigers opened Comerica Park to the public last Thursday, there was a line around ...
Remembering Bill Dixon: 1925-2010
By Ben Young Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon died June 16th at his home in North Bennington, Vermont after a two-year illness. He was 84 years old. Dixon was a revered and idiosyncratic figure in the avant-garde of Jazz music, and a creative force who strived at all times to place the music in ever more ...
Legendary P-Funk Guitarist Garry Shider Dies
Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament and Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56. Shider was known to millions of fans as “Starchild" or “Diaperman," the latter because of the loincloth he often wore onstage. Shider's son, Garrett, says his father died ...
Bill and Fred
Bill Dixon is gone. Fred Anderson is ailing. This week has been one of the worst in recent memory for creative improvised music. Reason enough to interrupt the relatively rigid format under these rafters for a salvo of positive thoughts beaming out to the families and loved ones of both men. I haven't been ...
Memorial for Manuel "Michael" Orias
On Thursday afternoon, June 17, 2010, at 1:00pm, Tula's Jazz Club will host a reception to celebrate and remember the life of Manuel “Michael" Orias. This reception will follow a funeral mass to be held at 10am at Our Lady of the Lake, 8900 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115. As additional information becomes available it ...
