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NEC Mourns the Death of Jazz Giant George Russell, Faculty Member from 1969
NEC Mourns Death of Jazz Giant George Russell 05 Hon. D.M. Composer, Theorist, Author of Lydian Chromatic Concept, was Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Emeritus MacArthur Fellow, NEA Jazz Master, Living Jazz Legend Taught at NEC from 1969 George Russell, author of the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization that under-girded the pioneering modal experiments of John Coltrane and ...
Jazz Composer George Russell Dies at 86
BOSTON--Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died. His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from Alzheimer's. Russell was born in Cincinnati in 1923 and attended Wilberforce University. He played ...
Merce Cunningham Dies at 90; Revolutionary Choreographer
Merce Cunningham refused to interpret music, tell stories, depict characters or even to accept the idea of the choreographer as a kind of all-knowing god. Cunningham challenged the conventions of how dances are performed, letting chance lead him to new possibilities. A former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, he formed his own company in ...
Betty Allen Mezzo-Soprano and Music Teacher Dies
Allen was one of the first black singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage. Later as a teacher and mentor she introduced classical music to children who, like her, grew up poor. Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications ...
Earma Thompson, 1923-2009: Pianist Was a South Side Classic
Musical career spanned more than half-century Chicago pianist Earma Thompson never really had a chance to become famous. Emerging as a professional in the early 1940s, when few female instrumentalists attained stardom in the male-dominated world of jazz, she focused instead on honing her craft and raising her family. But in a career spanning more than ...
John 'Marmaduke' Dawson Founder of New Riders of the Purple Sage Passes
John “Marmaduke" Dawson had original tunes in his pocket and a guitar in his hand in 1969 when a buddy just learning to play pedal steel guitar often joined his weekly gig at the Underground, a Bay Area hofbrau house. The friend was Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and those sessions set the stage for ...
Seattle Sound Engineer Fatally Shot as He Tried to Enter Wrong Motel Room
More details emerged Sunday in the bizarre shooting death of renowned local sound engineer Tom Pfaeffle. Pfaeffle, 49, who had worked with music groups that include Nirvana, The Black Crowes and Heart, owned and operated The Tank, a recording studio adjacent to his home in the woods of Black Diamond. He also worked as an instructor ...
Beverly Roberts Singer with Dorsey Brothers Passes
Beverly Roberts, 95, who co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1936 film “Two Against the World," died July 13 at her home in Laguna Niguel of natural causes, her second cousin Christina Baker said. Born May 19, 1914, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Roberts became a Warner Bros. contract player in 1935. She made her first film the ...
Dee Dee Bellson Singer, Daughter of Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson
Dee Dee Bellson, 49, the daughter of Broadway entertainer and singer Pearl Bailey and jazz drummer Louie Bellson who went on to craft her own singing career, died July 4 at her home in Charlottesville, Va., after a heart attack. Bailey and Louis Bellson married in London in 1952 and later adopted two children, Dee Dee ...
Gordon Waller 60's Pop Duo Peter and Gordon Dies
Gordon Waller of the pop duo Peter and Gordon, who were part of the 1960s British Invasion and had a string of hits including several written by their friend Paul McCartney, has died. He was 64. Waller died Friday at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., nursing supervisor Nity Oris confirmed Monday. The duo's ...
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