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Johnny Alf Bossa Nova's "Father" Dies at 80
Johnny Alf, a Brazilian pianist and singer credited with inventing Bossa Nova, has died. He was 80... Alf died Thursday in a Sao Paulo hospital of multiple organ failure after a fight with prostate cancer. Alf always rejected the term bossa nova, but musicians who came after him, including Tom (Antonio Carlos) Jobim, Leny Andrade and ...
The Singer-Songwriter Known as Sparklehorse is Dead
Mark Linkous, a singer-songwriter whose music, released under the name Sparklehorse, was renowned in the indie-rock and alt-country worlds for its dark, allusive themes and fragile beauty, committed suicide on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 47. He shot himself in the heart in an alley outside a friends home, said his manager, Shelby Meade. Lt. ...
Ron Banks Founder of R&B group Dramatics
Ron Banks, 58, whose silky falsetto helped give the Dramatics one of the most enduring careers in R&B, died Thursday at his home in Detroit after apparently suffering a heart attack, said Billy Wilson, president of the Motown Alumni Assn. Banks was one of the founding members of the Detroit vocal group, which formed in the ...
Lolly Vegas Redbone Musican Dies
Lolly Vegas, 70, the lead singer and guitarist for Redbone, a Native American rock band that had a million-selling hit in 1974 with the bouncy"Come and Get Your Love,"died in his sleep Thursday at his home in Reseda. He had lung cancer and had been in poor health since suffering a stroke 15 years ago, said ...
Bossa Nova Pioneer Johnny Alf Dies
RIO DE JANEIRO/ A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. Pianist Johnny Alf was called the “true father of Bossa Nova" by Ruy Castro, who wrote a definitive history of the music. Alf widely influenced later stars. A statement from a hospital near Sao Paulo says ...
Nathan Scott film and TV composer, arranger and conductor
Nathan Scott, a film and television composer, arranger and conductor whose credits include composing music for the TV classics “Dragnet" and “Lassie," has died. He was 94. Scott, the father of jazz saxophonist and composer-arranger Tom Scott, died Saturday of age-related causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, said his daughter, Linda Colley. In a four-decade ...
Bobby Espinosa Keyboardist for '70s Latin Soul Band El Chicano Dies
Bobby Espinosa, played keyboard for El Chicano. The East L.A. band had top-40 hits in the 1970s with “Viva Tirado" and “Tell Her She's Lovely." “El Chicano hit a groove that defined 'Latin soul' on the West Coast," said guitarist and producer Ry Cooder. Bobby Espinosa, a keyboard player who helped create the confluence of jazz, ...
David Soyer (1923-2010)
David Soyer, the founding cellist of the regal Guarneri String Quartet who also appeared on many jazz and pop record dates in the 1940s and 1950s, including Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin, died on February 25th at his home in New York. He was 87. David was best known in the classical world as a sublime ...
Hall & Oates Bassist Tom Wolk Dies
Tom “T-Bone" Wolk, who performed with scores of musicians but was best known as the longtime bass player for the band led by pop-rock stars Daryl Hall and John Oates, has died. He was 58. Wolk died Sunday in New York, hours after completing a recording session with Hall, who was working on a solo ...
John Reed, Master of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patter Songs Dies
John Reed, a silver-tongued Gilbert and Sullivan singer renowned for urbanity, verbal inanity, touching humanity, antic insanity and (a noteworthy trait in a world-famous player quite used to performing for crowned heads of state) a singular lack of theatrical vanity, died in Halifax, England, on Feb. 13, his 94th birthday. From 1959 to 1979, Mr. Reed ...
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