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Obituaries: John Norris Passes
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Posted by: admin on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 10:10 AM |
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John Norris passed away in Toronto today from a stroke. A sad day for
the Canadian jazz community. John was the owner of Sackville Records
one of the few that regularly released Classic Jazz. A great loss for
jazz not only in Canada but beyond.
Courtesy of Jacques Emond
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Obituaries: Paul Quarrington Passes Peacefully
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Posted by: editor on Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 08:39 AM |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Paul Quarrington's brave battle with cancer is over!
He passed peacefully at home in Toronto surrounded by friends and family in the early hours of January 21, 2010.
It is comforting to know that he didn't suffer; he was calm and quiet holding hands with those who were closest to him. His last few days saw a rapid decline in his ability to breathe.
Quarrington, an author, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, composer and musician who penned the critically acclaimed novel "Whale Music," was 56.
He won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Literary Award in 1989 for "Whale Music," which told the tale of a Brian Wilson like Rock and Roll recluse. He also wrote several other books including "King Leary," "The Ravine" and "Galveston".
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Obituaries: Ed Beach, Host of ‘Just Jazz’ Radio Show, Dies at 86
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Posted by: admin on Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 05:38 AM |
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By MARGALIT FOX
Published: January 13, 2010
Ed Beach, the host of a popular jazz radio show in the 1960s and ’70s, who attracted listeners in New York and elsewhere with his sonorous voice, eclectic taste, vast erudition and pleasurably irascible temperament, died on Dec. 25 in Eugene, Ore. He was 86 and lived in Eugene.
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Obituaries: Singer Lhasa de Sela passed away in her Montreal home
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Posted by: editor on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 - 09:33 AM |
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The singer Lhasa de Sela passed away in her Montreal home on the night of January1st 2010, just before midnight.
She succumbed to breast cancer after a twenty-one month long struggle, which shefaced with courage and determination.
Throughout this difficult period, she continued to touch the lives of those around herwith her characteristic grace, beauty and humor. The strength of her will carried heronce again into the recording studio, where she completed her latest album, followed bysuccessful record launches in Montreal at the Théatre Corona and in Paris at the Théatre des Bouffes du Nord. Two concerts in Iceland in May were to be her last.
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Obituaries: R.I.P. HAYDAIN NEALE...
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Posted by: editor on Monday, November 23, 2009 - 10:44 PM |
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Haydain Neale of the group, Jacksoul passed away yesterday in Toronto of cancer at the age of only 39!!
This is the statement released on behalf of the Neale family:
At 39 years of age Juno Award-winning artist Haydain Neale of jacksoul passed away Sunday, November 22, 2009 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, after a very private seven month battle with lung cancer.
On a beautiful, sunny morning with his wife Michaela, daughter Yasmin, brother-in-law Shawn Hudson and friends Davide DiRenzo and Jennifer Hyland by his side, Haydain passed away peacefully.
Throughout his rehabilitation after a car accident in August 2007 and during his illness, Haydain always maintained a positive spirit.
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Obituaries: Art D'Lugoff, owner of NYC's Village Gate club, dies at 85
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Posted by: editor on Sunday, November 08, 2009 - 10:36 AM |
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Art D'Lugoff, owner of NYC's Village Gate club, dies at 85; performers included jazz greats
Associated Press
D'Lugoff died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital. His brother, Burt D'Lugoff, said a cause of death was not yet known.
D'Lugoff opened the Greenwich Village club in 1958. He hired blacklisted singers Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger and fired Dustin Hoffman as a waiter. Hoffman, then a struggling actor, later said he was so distracted by the performers that he neglected customers.
Other performers included jazz greats John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.
The Village Gate closed in 1994.
Beside his brother, D'Lugoff is survived by his wife, Avital Achai, a son and three daughters.
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Obituaries: Roy DeCarava, Famous Photographer Who Recorded Harlem, Dies at 89
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Posted by: editor on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 10:17 AM |
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Written by Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK, NY (AP)- Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89. DeCarava died in Manhattan of natural causes on Tuesday, said his daughter, Susan DeCarava. He had been teaching an advance photography course at Hunter College, where he joined the faculty in 1975. Born in Harlem, DeCarava was considered to be among the first to give serious photographic attention to the black experience in America. In 1955, he collaborated with poet Langston Hughes on the best-selling pictorial narrative on 20th century African-American life titled "The Sweet Flypaper of Life."
Trained as a painter, DeCarava relied on ambient light, infusing his images with shadows and shades of gray and black — a style that invited the viewer to look closer.
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Obituaries: Eddie Locke, Jazz Drummer, Dies at 79
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Posted by: admin on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 03:30 PM |
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(From www.Jazzpromoservices.com)
Edward “Eddie” Locke, a jazz drummer whose 60-year career included long associations with trumpeter Roy Eldridge and tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, died September 7, 2009, at the age of 79. Prominent in New York's jazz scene since the 1950s, he performed with some of the giants of jazz history, and helped to create many memorable recordings. He can also be seen as a young musician in the widely reprinted photograph A Great Day in Harlem, which depicted a veritable Who’s Who of jazz in 1958.
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Obituaries: Rashied Ali, free-jazz drummer, dies in NYC at 76
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Posted by: editor on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 09:44 AM |
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NEW YORK — Rashied Ali, a free-jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and accompanied him in a duet album in the final months of the jazz master’s life, has died. He was 76.
The Philadelphia native died at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital of a blood clot in his lung on Wednesday, said his wife, Patricia Ali.
When Coltrane decided to use two drummers at a performance at the Village Gate in November 1965, he chose Ali to back up drummer Elvin Jones. He recorded with both men on the 1965 album “Meditations,” and accompanied Coltrane alone on the duet album “Interstellar Space,” recorded shortly before Coltrane died of cancer in 1967.
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Obituaries: Jackie Washington: 1919 - 2009
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Posted by: editor on Monday, June 29, 2009 - 11:17 AM |
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Graham Rockingham
Jackie Washington, a cultural icon who spread joy through his music for more than 80 years, has died.
The Hamilton jazz and blues singer passed away peacefully at Joseph’s Hospital at 1:22 p.m. today, surrounded by about 15 close family and friends.
Washington died from complications resulting from a recent heart attack. He was 89.
“It was very peaceful and lovely,” said friend Margaret Stowe, a Toronto-based jazz guitarist born in Dundas. “Everybody was very quiet. His music was playing softly from a CD player in the background. It was one of his own records, Midnight Choo Choo, one of his favourites.”
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Obituaries: Michael Jackson Dies at age 50
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Posted by: admin on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 07:09 PM |
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Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted “King of Pop” who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world’s most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world’s most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50.
A person with knowledge of the situation says Jackson died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.ap.org/
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Obituaries: Charlie Mariano Passes Away
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Posted by: admin on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 11:32 AM |
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The jazz musician Charlie Mariano has died aged 85. The American, who was a long-time resident of the western German city of Cologne, worked with jazz greats such as Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
Mariano was a frequent performer on the European jazz scene and composed albums with the likes of German singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker and singer-actor Herbert Groenemeyer.
His music brought influences from Asia and lyrical jazz together over decades of devotion to the genre.
Mariano was said to have died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday morning.
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Obituaries: Noted Jazz Bassist, Award-winning Television Writer/Producer and Author, Gordon "Whitey" Mitchell Passes
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Posted by: editor on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 09:41 AM |
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Contact: Lesley Mitchell-Clarke & Amanda O’Reilly 416-486-6742/lmcmedia@sympatico.ca
PALM DESERT – January 20, 2008: Veteran jazz bassist, award winning television comedy writer, producer and author, Gordon “Whitey” Mitchell (Feb. 22, 1932 – Jan. 17, 2009) has passed away on January 17th, at the age of seventy-six following a heroic two and a half year battle with cancer. He died at his beloved Palm Desert home with Marilyn, his wife of thirty-seven years and his three daughters (Lesley Mitchell-Clarke, Karen Mitchell and Michele Mitchell) by his side. Whitey is also survived by his son-in law, Terry Clarke; Paul Canzano (life partner of daughter Michele); nephews Rick Mitchell, Alan Zolnekoff and Martin and Erik Alfzelius as well as five grandchildren: William and Joseph Newkirk, Kristopher and Kyle Clarke and Karlee Grace Balkan. Whitey’s late son, talented jazz saxophonist Brian Mitchell pre-deceased him by six years and Whitey’s late older brother, iconic jazz bassist Red Mitchell also pre-deceased him by sixteen years.
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Obituaries: Makeba, was an outpsoken opponent of apartheid dies.
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Posted by: editor on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 07:54 AM |
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Makeba's career spanned parts of six decades and helped bring African music to a global audience. She was known as the "Empress of African Song" and "Mama Africa."
Makeba is considered by many to be the most important female vocalist to come out of South Africa.
An outspoken critic of apartheid, she had her South African citizenship revoked by the country's government in 1960. For the next 30 years, Makeba considered herself a "citizen of the world" until her citizenship was restored.
She recorded her first single, "Lakutshona Llange," in 1953 as a member of the Manhattan Brothers.
Makeba's breakthrough hit in the United States came in 1967, when "Pata Pata" charted. It was recorded 11 years earlier in South Africa.
Makeba lived in exile for 31 years in the United States, France, Guinea in West Africa and Belgium, The Associated Press reported. She returned to South Africa in 1990, when many long-exiled South Africans returned under reforms instituted by then-President F.W. de Klerk.
"I never understood why I couldn't come home," Ms. Makeba said upon her return, according to an AP report. "I never committed any crime."
Makeba spoke before the United Nations in 1976, denouncing the policy of apartheid, or racial segregation, according to AP. After that, South Africa's government-run radio and television refused to broadcast her songs until 1989.
American entertainer Steve Allen helped launch her career in the United States and she often toured with singer Harry Belafonte during the 1960s. In 1987 she performed with singer Paul Simon on his "Graceland" concert tour.
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Obituaries: Norman Hedman, 63, Conga Master, Dies
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Posted by: editor on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 08:32 AM |
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Crosses Three Decades of Music Genres & Generations
Master Conguero, Percussionist, Producer, Composer, Solo Artist
July 17, 1945 - September 29, 2008
NEW YORK, New York - October 2, 2008 -- Norman Hedman, whose mastery of crossing more than three decades of music genres and generations, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Monday, September 29 at the age of 63. Causes included Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Pneumonia.
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Obituaries: Noted Jazz Drummer and Composer, Keith Sinclair Blackley Passes away peacefully on Friday, August 15th, following a long illness…
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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 07:17 PM |
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Toronto – August 20, 2008: The Toronto Jazz Community has lost one of its beloved members. On Friday, August 15th, inventive jazz drummer and composer Keith Blackley passed away following a valiant six month battle against the brain cancer that eventually took his life at age fifty-eight. He was laid to rest in a private family service on August 17th. Keith was the eldest child of Jim Blackley – world respected teacher and author. He was a long-time integral part of the jazz scene in Toronto, having performed and recorded as a drummer with numerous cutting edge ensembles throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His frequent musical collaborators include noted saxophonist Michael Stewart and bassist Steve Wallace – with whom he recorded the critically-acclaimed LP, Determination. Their music is still heard and appreciated on jazz radio today.
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Obituaries: Oscar Peterson dies at 82
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Posted by: admin on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 03:20 PM |
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HAROLD BARKLEY/TORONTO STAR
Oscar Peterson in 1980.
December 24, 2007
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jazz legend Oscar Peterson, widely counted among the most accomplished pianists in the world for his seemingly magical hands, has died at age 82, the CBC reports.
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Obituaries: NOTED ATLANTIC JAZZ PRODUCER JOEL DORN PASSES AT 65
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Posted by: editor on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 03:40 PM |
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LOS ANGELES -- Joel Dorn, the producer behind many of Atlantic Records'
most successful jazz releases, passed away suddenly yesterday. He was 65.
Dorn's affiliation with Atlantic spanned decades, beginning as an
independent producer for the label in the early 1960s. He soon joined the
company's legendary in-house production staff, and with mentor Nesuhi
Ertegun, recorded some of the greatest jazz artists of the era before
branching out with equal success into pop, rock, and R&B. When Rhino began
to reissue the Atlantic jazz catalog in 1993, Dorn spearheaded the
campaign, producing and annotating nearly two dozen titles. In addition to
his work for Atlantic and Rhino, Dorn released archival recordings on his
own labels Night, M, and 32 Records (including the highly successful Jazz
For A Rainy Afternoon compilations).
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Obituaries: Norm Hacking Passes
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Posted by: editor on Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 01:43 PM |
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Yes, very sad news - NORM HACKING, Toronto songwriter / performer / poet /
columnist, died peacefully late Sunday night, November 25, 2007, at his
home in Toronto. It's thought that he died quickly, of a heart
attack. While better known in the folk community, Norm's events
(especially songwriters' evenings) often featured and encouraged roots
blues. His most recent performances were this summer: June 16 at the
Brampton Folk Festival, June 22 at Hugh's Room as part of Toronto City
Roots festival's "Riverboat Revival" evening, July 11 at the memorial /
85th birthday celebration for his late mother Kathy O. Hacking and on July
19 as featured performer at the open stage of his favourite east-end
Toronto venue Renaissance Cafe.
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Obituaries: Teresa Brewer Died At Age 76
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Posted by: editor on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 09:43 AM |
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Teresa Brewer died early this morning at age 76. As one of the most popular pop singers of the 1950s, the news that Teresa Brewer died will surely bring some sadness to the hearts of many from the older generation.
Those of you that can remember the good ol’ days when Teresa Brewer was singing will remember some of her biggest hits that include Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now and Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall.
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Obituaries: Gordon "Specs" Powell Passes
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Posted by: editor on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 09:50 AM |
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Gordon "Specs" Powell
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jazz drummer Gordon "Specs" Powell, who recorded with Billie Holiday and played for "The Ed Sullivan Show" as part of the CBS network orchestra, has died. He was 85.
Powell, who died Saturday of complications from kidney disease, also had heart trouble. He died at a care center near his home in the northern San Diego County suburb of San Marcos, according to his son, Ted Smith.
Powell began his career doubling as a pianist, but rose to fame as a drummer during the swing era and became a fixture on the 52nd Street jazz scene in New York.
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Obituaries: Steve Weingart on the passing of Joe Zawinul
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Posted by: eJazzNews Reader on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 01:47 PM |
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Hey friends
The last time I felt so much grief was when I was a boy hearing of Terry Kath's (guitarist/composer/singer in the original Chicago band) passing. I remember the first time I heard Weather Report when I was around 8 years old in my room on my portable suitcase record player. Those little 6 x 3 inch speakers never made a sound like that! From that day to this day, and well into the future, Joe will be an inspiration to me as well as countless others around the world.
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Obituaries: SONNY DALLAS MEMORIAL CONCERT
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Posted by: editor on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 11:27 AM |
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A Memorial Concert for jazz bassist Sonny Dallas is scheduled for Monday September 17, 2007 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street, New York City.
Organized by New York area saxophonists Richard Tabnik and Bob Keller, the concert will feature remembrances and performances by some of Sonny’s close friends from over the years. Schedules for some performers remain to be finalized but several musicians associated with jazz
pianist Lennie Tristano will be present including saxophonist Jimmy Halperin and pianist Connie Crothers. The ‘house rhythm section’ will consist of bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Roger Mancuso. Admission is free.
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Obituaries: Doug Riley, a Toronto-born composer, arranger and pianist known as Dr. Music, has died.
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Posted by: editor on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 08:15 PM |
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Doug Riley, Canada's 'Dr. Music,' dies at 62
CBC Arts
Doug Riley, a Toronto-born composer, arranger and pianist known as Dr. Music, has died. He was 62.
Riley died suddenly of heart failure at the Calgary airport on Monday on his way to his home in Little Pond, P.E.I.
Composer, performer and record producer Doug Riley.
Riley is known for composing, arranging and performing with numerous artists in the classical, jazz and commercial genres.
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Obituaries: Lee Hazlewood Passes
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Posted by: editor on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 10:45 PM |
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Lee Hazlewood died peacefully at his home outside Las Vegas, USA after a three year struggle with renal cancer surrounded by family and friends from around the world. He was 78.
He succeeded in a music industry he was dismissive of. He's most famous for his work with Nancy Sinatra - he wrote and produced many of her biggest hits, including "These Boots Were Made For Walking", "Sugartown", "Summer Wine", and "Some Velvet Morning".
Hazlewood started his musical career in Coolidge, Arizona., and hit paydirt producing Sanford Clark's "The Fool" in 1956. He left his deejay work behind and began producing and writing full-time, producing a string of hits for Duane Eddy from 1958-62 including "Ramrod" and "Rebel Rouser".
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Obituaries: "Uncle" John Turner Passes
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Posted by: editor on Friday, August 03, 2007 - 08:37 PM |
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"Uncle" John Turner who was a long-term fixture on the Texas Blues scene and, at one time, drummer with Johnny Winter died Thursday July 26th from hepatitis C. He was 62.
"Unc"-as he was affectionately called-was a childhood friend of Winter's back in Port Arthur, Texas. Turner convinced Winter to commit full-time to the Blues and in 1969 they teamed with bassist Tommy Shannon for some of Winter's early landmark recordings. They also played together at Woodstock in 1969.
In 1970 Unc and Shannon headed back to Austin and formed Krackerjack which featured young guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Through the years, Turner performed with a series of legendary blues and rock acts, including B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Muddy Waters and Lightnin' Hopkins.
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Obituaries: Jimmy T99 Nelson Passes
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Posted by: editor on Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - 07:55 AM |
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Jimmy "T99" Nelson whose recording career spanned over 50 years died from cancer on Sunday July 29th in a Houston nursing home. He was 88. Nelson learned the "ins-and-outs" of performing and singing from Big Joe Turner. His passing also means those mid-century R&B pioneers are fast becoming an extinct breed. .
His earliest hit 1951's "T-99 Blues" (named after a Texas highway) stayed on the R&B charts for twenty-one weeks and reached #1. In 1952, Nelson had another RPM hit with "Meet Me With Your Black Dress On". Nelson felt that BB King being on the same label held him back because they could only afford to promote one of them and it turned out to be BB
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Obituaries: Guitarist Bill Perry Passes at 49
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Posted by: editor on Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 11:47 PM |
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It is sad to have to report that New York guitarist Bill Perry passed away from an apparent heart attack on July 17th. Perry had a solid reputation as a sterling guitar player, Guitar One magazine calling him a "six-string superman more powerful than a locomotive". His gravelly vocals added an important dimension with its emotional range.
Raised n Chester N.Y with a heritage half Afro-American, half Native American, Perry grew up immersed in music. His initial breakthrough occurred in the 80's when singer Richie Havens discovered him in a Greenwich Village club and made him the band's featured guitarist for 4 years. During this period, Perry also did some touring with Garth Hudson and Levon Helm.
His debut 1996 release on Pointblank was "Love Scars", and in 1999 he also did a recording at New York blues-spot Manny's Car Wash. Guitar Player said, "Bill Perry has it all - hip songs, a gritty, emotion-charged voice, devastating tones, and a powerful phrasing delivered with a stranglehold vibrato and knockout attack."
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Obituaries: Gifted Poet Sekou Sundiata -(August 22, 1948 -- July 18, 2007)
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Posted by: editor on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 08:17 AM |
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by Louis Reyes Rivera
On Wednesday, July 18, 2007, at 5:47a.m. (ET), poet Sekou Sundiata passed away. A highly esteemed performing poet, Mr. Sundiata wrote for print, performance, music and theater. Born Robert Franklin Feaster in Harlem, on August 22, 1948, Sundiata came of age as an artist during the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
While attending the City College of New York (CCNY), where he began reciting poetry publicly, Sundiata converged with several other student activists, including once-mayoral candidate of Pittsburgh and longtime friend, Leroy Hodge, to form the basis for what soon became known as the Black and Puerto Rican Student Community of City College (BPRSC). This phalanx of 400 students soon made their own history, closing the 21,000-student campus during the Spring of 1969, to demand, among other things, that CCNY be renamed Harlem University. The net effect of the student takeover culminated in both an Open Admissions Policy that took effect in September 1970, the full legitimization of ethnic studies departments throughout the nation, as well as the requirement that all education majors within the City University take courses in African American History and to have Spanish as a Second Language.
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Obituaries: Tokens Hank Medress Passes
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Posted by: editor on Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 07:10 PM |
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Hank Medress, a founding member of the Tokens, passed away from lung cancer on June 23. He was 68. Back in 1955, he and 3 high school school buddies from the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn founded the Linc-Tones, soon to be re-named the Tokens. The original group included Neil Sedaka who went solo in 1960 and was replaced with Jay Siegel who sang most of the leads. The quartet also included brothers Mitch and Phil Margo.
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