Banshees Scream 110 Posted September 20, 2013 Four-page spread in The Wire and a 2-hour tribute on Strange Fruit coming soon? Strange fruit? Did you like her music? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,622 Posted September 22, 2013 Bloody hell, why haven't we got an avant-prog/free improvisation/contemporary classical thread?! I blame the disappearance of Anubis, but surely Maryport could've started one instead? Anyway, the world won't have to suffer anymore squawking/honking/droning from Henry Cow/Comus etc member and composer Lindsay Cooper, who's died of MS (so I guess she hadn't been skronking for a while). Four-page spread in The Wire and a 2-hour tribute on Strange Fruit coming soon? Fair point, but maybe it'd be fitting if the thread was randomly spread around here in a way that allowed only those truly tuned in to appreciate the pattern. Cheers for the heads up Harry; I suggest at least two pints duration of banter next weekend is devoted to selecting the precise running order of Henry Cow tracks for a two hour bovine blast of Strange Fruit. I'll start making my list now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,539 Posted September 23, 2013 (edited) Legendary jazz pianist Paul Kuhn has died at age 85. In the 1960s he had some success with German schlager songs like "Der Mann am Klavier" and "Es gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii" (1963 No.5 in the German charts). Later on he was a highly esteemed jazz musician. Sorry, the link is in German, didn't find an English one: http://www.spiegel.d...n-a-923898.html English: http://en.haberler.c...awaii-s-306016/ Edited September 24, 2013 by Book Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted October 18, 2013 Tommy Whittle has died at 87.Maybe his best claim to fame is the fact that he was born in my home town http://www.jazzwisem...ittle-1926-2013 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,544 Posted October 18, 2013 Everytime someone posts in this topic I think it might be to announce that Cleo Laine has died. Still it means I've got something to look forward to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted November 26, 2013 It's Chico's time. Jazz drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton dies aged 92. His brother was Capt Dobie in Starsky & Hutch. And here's Chico and the chaps in the great Sweet Smell of Success. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted December 6, 2013 Godot, as a means of checking the possibilities of enticing George to join us do you think we should start a thread on his site dedicated to the long term survival of the ageing jazzers of the UK. Humphrey Lyttleton, Stan Tracey, George and the rest? Just askin' like. UK jazzer Stan Tracey is ageing no longer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 110 Posted December 7, 2013 There is a legend of New Orleans .. how famous is his name? I believe he still performs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scraggy Taters 290 Posted December 10, 2013 There is a legend of New Orleans .. how famous is his name? I believe he still performs. If it's a jazz musician, it'll be performing 'oral sax'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,949 Posted December 11, 2013 Jazz guitarist Jim Hall, dead at 83 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/jim-hall-dead-jazz-guitar-master-obituary_n_4424175.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted December 24, 2013 Legendary Jazz musician Yusef Lateef dead at 93 http://www.hollywood...end-dies-667589 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,496 Posted January 6, 2014 Thought I'd make an up-to-date list of some of the oldest jazz musicians/singer-songwriters/critics etc. 90+ Lionel Ferbos (1911-2014) Herb Jeffries (1913-2014) Coleridge Goode (b. 1914) Frances Klein (1915-2012) Joe Evans (1916-2014) Svend Asmussen (b. 1916) Bill Graham (b. 1918) Gerald Wilson (b. 1918) Candido Camero (b. 1921) Jon Hendricks (b. 1921) Ray Anthony (b. 1922) Bob Carter (b. 1922) Joe Wilder (1922-2014) Kay Starr (b. 1922) Sol Yaged (b. 1922) Toots Thielemans (b. 1922) Bob Dorough (b. 1923) Buddy DeFranco (b. 1923) Eugene Wright (b. 1923) Johnny Pate (b. 1923) Orrin Keepnews (b. 1923) Paul Bacon (b. 1923) Ralph Sharon (b. 1923) NEARLY 90 Armando Peraza (1924-2014) Rudy Van Gelder (b. 1924) Little Jimmy Scott (1925-2014) Roy Haynes (b. 1925) Tony Bennett (b. 1926) Any additions welcome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,496 Posted January 22, 2014 Amended list for the death of Joe Evans > http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p=13913 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,496 Posted February 6, 2014 Amended list for the death of Joe Wilder > https://jazzlives.wo...lder-1922-2014/ EDIT: Author has since updated his post saying it was an "error". > http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/when-an-error-is-a-good-thing-concerning-joe-wilder Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2014 Before I post this death please promise not to laugh.. The jazz musician Dick Berk has died at 74 http://oregonmusicne...lander-dead-74/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Taylor Posted February 21, 2014 Maybe its old news but the singer from Johnny Hates Jazz has cancer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,416 Posted March 13, 2014 Yet again disinvested and missed the hit. RIP Dave Brubeck - really lovely chap - shame these wonderfull people have to leave us. Iola, Brubeck's wife of 70 years, has died. Unsurprising as they seemed quite besotted with each other in the recent documentary. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted April 13, 2014 Composer and sexophonist Fred Ho has died at 56 http://www.nytimes.c...-dies.html?_r=1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Garn2 34 Posted April 17, 2014 Composer and sexophonist Fred Ho has died at 56 http://www.nytimes.c...-dies.html?_r=1 Minority jazz musician and left-wing social activist, I thought, equalled textbook Guardian coverage. But that's looking pretty unlikely now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted April 17, 2014 What is the world coming to? Actually it's only been four days, you never know this might be one that gets mentioned but not in his own article. Does the Guardian do a sort of "people who died this week" type thing? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted May 10, 2014 Jazz trumpeter Joe Wilder has died at 92 http://www.washingto...a72c_story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted June 18, 2014 Jazz pianis Horace Silver has died http://ottawacitizen...silver-has-died Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,098 Posted June 18, 2014 Jazz pianis Horace Silver has died http://ottawacitizen...silver-has-died What's a pianis? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted June 18, 2014 Jazz pianis Horace Silver has died http://ottawacitizen...silver-has-died What's a pianis? You have an adult son and you don't know what one of them is?? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted July 11, 2014 Influential bassist Charlie Haden, 77. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
