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Jim Dickinson, Memphis Producer, Musician and Father of 2 North Mississippi Allstars, Dies
Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67. His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson ...
Rashied Ali, Free-Jazz Drummer, Dies at 76
Rashied Ali, whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltrane’s final years, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Patricia Ali. Mr. Ali, who first encountered Coltrane in their Philadelphia neighborhood in the late 1950s, made the leap from admiration to collaboration in ...
Mike Seeger Versatile Musician Major Influence on Folk Music Revival Dies
Mike Seeger, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence on the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died last Friday of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75. The younger half brother of folk musician Pete Seeger and part of a renowned ...
Les Paul's Innovations Paved the Way for Rock 'N' Roll
The virtuoso picker influenced a generation of guitarists and had a series of hits in the '50s with wife Mary Ford. He invented an early solid-body electric guitar and pioneered new recording methods. Les Paul was often called rock royalty, but for the people who knew the man before his death Thursday at age 94, that ...
Rashied Ali, Jazz Drummer, Dies
Rashied Ali, whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltranes final years, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 76. The cause of his death was a heart attack, his wife, Patricia Ali, said. Mr. Ali, who first encountered Coltrane in their Philadelphia neighborhood in the late 1950s, made the leap from admiration ...
Les Paul
Les Paul, who affected the course of popular music in profound ways, died yesterday at the age of 94. Jazz devotees may remember the guitarist most fondly from the days in the 1930s when he collaborated with Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Art Tatum, or his involvement with Jazz At The Philharmonic and a memorable 1944 ...
Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali, a drummer who applied his advanced technique to free jazz, died today in New York. He was 76. Born Robert Patterson, Ali became a disciple and close colleague of his fellow Philadelphian John Coltrane. He played on some of the most uninhibited recordings of Coltrane's final years, including the astonishing Interstellar Space, a series ...
'Lit' Drummer Allen Shellenberger Dies of Brain Cancer
The drummer for the rock band 'Lit,' Allen Shellenberger, died on Thursday at age 39 of brain cancer. Shellenberger was diagnosed in May 2008 with rare form of brain tumor, a malignant glioma. He underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute in Los Angeles. According to the group's publicist Ken Phillips, ...
Rashied Ali, an Iconic Musician, Has Left Time
Rashied Ali, the great free jazz drummer, who is mainly known as a member of John Coltrane's last band, passed away yesterday, August 12, 2009 in New York City. In addition to Coltrane, Ali had worked with numerous musicians; Paul Bley, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, John Zorn and several generations of younger musicians. Rashied Ali, who ...
Rock Hall Issues Statement Regarding Les Paul's Death
In response to the death of 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Les Paul, the Rock Hall has issued the following two statements: “Without Les Paul, we would not have rock and roll as we know it,” said Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. “His ...
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