Home » Search Center » Results: Obituary
Results for "Obituary"
Saxophonist Sir John Dankworth Dies
Sir John Dankworth, a totemic figure of the British jazz scene who worked as a musical director for artists including Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 82. The saxophonist, whose career spanned more than half a century, died yesterday in King Edward VII hospital, London. He had been ill for ...
Vocal Coach to Stars Maurice Finnell Dies
Teacher, composer and vocal coach Maurice Finnell, who taught talent including Tony Bennett, Bette Midler, Tyne Daly and Warren Beatty, died Jan. 5 in New York from complications from a fall. He was 93. Finnell was born in New Jersey, and started singing as a boy, performing the theme song for Douglas Fairbanks film “Reaching For ...
Going and Coming: John Norris, Infinite Quintet
GOING To repeat: I have no intention of Rifftides becoming an obituary service, but as James Moody says his grandmother told him, “Folks is dyin' what ain't never died before," and some passings demand to be observed. John Norris died yesterday in Toronto at the age of 76. He was the founder of the Canadian jazz ...
Joyce Collins, 1930-2010
The pianist and singer Joyce Collins died recently in Los Angeles following a long illness. She was 79. Highly respected in jazz circles, Collins played with a sensitive touch and subtle use of chords. Her singing was an outgrowth of those values, with attention to interpretation of the meaning of songs and, as Marian McPartland put ...
Paul R. Jones Major Collector of African American Art Dies
Jones acquired drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures and other works by black artists. 'My goal has been to incorporate African American art into American art,' he once said. Paul Jones began buying pieces in the 1960s after noting that African American art was underrepresented in public galleries. In 2008, he donated about 1,700 pieces valued at $5 ...
J.D. Salinger: A Gift of Words and Silence
AN APPRECIATION In his greatest works, a clash between self-expression and self-effacement. “Don't ever tell anybody anything," J.D. Salinger wrote in the closing lines of “The Catcher in the Rye." “If you do, you start missing everybody." For more than two decades now, I've thought about that ending as a piece of code. Not ...
J.D. Salinger, Reclusive Author of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' Dies
J.D. Salinger, one of contemporary literature's most famous recluses, who created a lasting symbol of adolescent discontent in his 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye," has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural causes Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., his son Matthew said in a statement released by the author's literary representative. ...
Chief Sandrell Rivers: 1947-2010 - Florida Cultural Leader
By Holly Spillane The South Florida arts world lost a dynamic leader and passionate advocate of jazz and blues on the first morning of the new year. Chief Sandrell Rivers' efforts affected countless area residents over a lifetime of service and tireless promotion of arts, culture and education. Through her associations with the Sunshine Jazz Organization, ...
Jimmy Wyble Eclectic Guitarist for Benny Goodman and Red Norvo Dies
Jimmy Wyble, 87, a guitarist of great range who played with country-western swing bandleader Bob Wills as well as with the Benny Goodman and Red Norvo jazz combos, died of heart failure Jan. 16 while under hospice care at his home in Altadena, according to his friend and fellow guitarist Larry Koonse. James Otis Wyble was ...
Larry 'L.A.' Johnson Dies at 62; Filmmaker Collaborated with Neil Young
Johnson brought realism and whimsical surrealism to various film and multimedia projects with the rocker, from 1974's 'Journey Through the Past' to last year's 'Neil Young: Archives: Volume I.' Larry “L.A." Johnson met Neil Young at Woodstock in 1969, where Johnson was working on the film of the concert. Their collaboration lasted more than 40 years. ...
