Death By Jazz

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Candido Camero, a percussionist and Afro Cuban jazz pioneer, has died. He was 99.

 

https://www.wbgo.org/post/remembering-candido-camero-percussionist-and-afro-cuban-pioneer-who-has-died-99#stream/0

 

 

 

 

[drol 11,957]

On 24/04/2018 at 12:12, Ulitzer95 said:

 

Candido Camero (b. 1921)
 

As already noted, Camero is dead, which leaves Ray Anthony as the oldest living jazz great.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

9 hours ago, drol said:

As already noted, Camero is dead, which leaves Ray Anthony as the oldest living jazz great.

1. Assumes Bitchin Camero was a jazz great.

2. Assumes drol in charge of list of jazz greats and Anthony is the oldest.  Anyone older isn’t great.

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Multi-instrumentalist Andrew White, who has performed with Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding or Elvis Jones, died at 78 years:

https://www.wbgo.org/post/andrew-white-prolific-multi-instrumentalist-scholar-and-washington-dc-legend-dies-78#stream/0

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

On 16/12/2019 at 00:11, Ulitzer95 said:

List updated. Kudos to anyone who can find out what happened to Bill Graham. Can't find anything recent on this guy.

Turns out jazz musician Bill Graham (wiki), b. 8th September 1918, died on 29th December 1975.

Somebody added a FindAGrave memorial for him just two months ago. It checks out. Here is the official death record on Ancestry.

Mentioning because he's been picked in the DDP in the past and was recently discussed on @chilean way's centenarian deadpool.

[Leon Brittan 294]

19 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Turns out jazz musician Bill Graham (wiki), b. 8th September 1918, died on 29th December 1975.

Somebody added a FindAGrave memorial for him just two months ago. It checks out. Here is the official death record on Ancestry.

Mentioning because he's been picked in the DDP in the past and was recently discussed on @chilean way's centenarian deadpool.

Somebody please update this mans wickepedia page 

[YoungWillz 21,059]

Scottish bass guitarist and double bassist Ron Mathewson, who performed with Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott, reportedly dead from the COVID:

 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Jeff Clayton, co-founder of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and who worked with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Madonna and Count Basie, among others, has died. He was 65.

 

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/18/jazz-great-jeff-clayton-who-performed-with-sinatra-madonna-dies-at-65/

 

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Big news just in in the world of jazz ! Claude Bolling is dead at 90  https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/deces-de-claude-bolling-jazzman-et-compositeur-de-musiques-de-films-30-12-2020-2407688_23.php

[YoungWillz 21,059]

Make of this what you will, but there's a report here that the last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Eugene Wright, has plucked his last bass string:

One for the Singles Thread too @Ulitzer95 if it turns out to be reported true.

 

DDP pick anaw.

[drol 11,957]

2020 kept the best day for last?

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Make of this what you will, but there's a report here that the last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Eugene Wright, has plucked his last bass string:

One for the Singles Thread too @Ulitzer95 if it turns out to be reported true.

 

DDP pick anaw.

Confirmation.

[time 8,618]

16 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Make of this what you will, but there's a report here that the last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Eugene Wright, has plucked his last bass string:

One for the Singles Thread too @Ulitzer95 if it turns out to be reported true.

 

DDP pick anaw.

Eugene Wright QO.

[YoungWillz 21,059]

15 minutes ago, time said:

Eugene Wright QO.

Counts for the 2020 DDP afaik, as the obit comes through in time and courtesy of @time!

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Jazz artist Bobby Few, known for delicate, lush romantic melodies and for his unique use of the sustain pedal, died at 85 years:

https://www.francemusique.fr/actualite-musicale/mort-du-pianiste-bobby-few-91299

[YoungWillz 21,059]

A pick for @Phantom in last year's DDP, brass and reed instrumentalist Howard Johnson, reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/hojotuba/posts/4131693800191601

 

Led the Saturday Night Live band for a while. Of more importance to me, appeared on John Lennon's Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy albums.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425241/

[Phantom 2,534]

10 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

A pick for @Phantom in last year's DDP, brass and reed instrumentalist Howard Johnson, reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/hojotuba/posts/4131693800191601

 

Led the Saturday Night Live band for a while. Of more importance to me, appeared on John Lennon's Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy albums.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425241/

I don't recall ever selecting him

[msc 18,479]

12 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

A pick for @Phantom in last year's DDP, brass and reed instrumentalist Howard Johnson, reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/hojotuba/posts/4131693800191601

 

Led the Saturday Night Live band for a while. Of more importance to me, appeared on John Lennon's Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy albums.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425241/

 

2 different John Howards picked but no Howard Johns(on)!

[YoungWillz 21,059]

2 minutes ago, Phantom said:

I don't recall ever selecting him

 

On ‎01‎/‎01‎/‎2020 at 07:03, Phantom said:

Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix

1. Linda Nolan
2. Trevor Peacock
3. Leslie Phillips
4. Clarissa Eden
5. Nobby Stiles
6. Emperor Akhito
7. Jill Gascoigne
8. George P. Schultz
9. Johnny Gilbert
10. Alex Trebeck
11. Joanne Woodward
12. Alex Trebec
13. Rose Lee Maphis
14. George "Johnny" Johnson
15. Patricia Hitchcock
16. Peter Sutcliffe
17. Kirk Douglas
18. Prunella Scales
19. Terry Jones
20. Macaulay Culkin

Sub 1. Leonard Fenton
Sub 2. Glen Glenn


SAD LAST DAYS (THEME TEAM)

1. Macaulay Culkin (Joker)
2, Prince Philip
3. Sean Connery
4. Michael Douglas
5. Ursula Andress
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Angela Lansbury
8. Little Richard
9. Linda Ronstadt
10. Kenny Rogers
11. James Caan
12. Sophia Loren
13. Robert Redford
14.  Michael J Fox
15. Joanne Woodward
16. Jerry Lee Lewis
17.  Queen Elizabeth II
18. Gina Lollobrigida
19 Phil Spector
20. Bill Cosby

Sub 1: Cher
Sub 2: Angelina Jolie
Sub 3: Val Kilmer

The Last Waltz (Theme Team)

1. Ronnie Hawkins
2. Garth Hudson
3. Neil Young
4. Robbie Robertson
5. Laurence Ferlinghetti
6. Joni Mitchell
7. Eric Clapton
8. Neil Diamond
9. Bob Dylan
10. Emylou Harris
11. Van Morrison
12. Mavis Staples
13. Ringo Starr
14. Stephen Stills
15. Ronnie Wood
16 Neil Young
17 John Simon
18  Bob Margolin
19 Howard Johnson
20  Michael McClure

I did say last year! Howard Johnson there and on the list of celebs.

[YoungWillz 21,059]

8 minutes ago, msc said:

 

2 different John Howards picked but no Howard Johns(on)!

So a definite List of the Missed for 2021?

[Phantom 2,534]

1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

 

I did say last year! Howard Johnson there and on the list of celebs.

ok now I remember, I had totally forgotten that I had submitted that theme team

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Jazz musician Howard Johnson, who worked with artists ranging from John Lennon to Miles Davis and was a member of TV’s “Saturday Night Live” house band during the ’70s, died today at age 79.  Johnson, a Montgomery (AL) native, died after “a long illness.” 

A self-taught musician, Johnson was known for his prowess on tuba and baritone sax. He was also skilled on other instruments, like flugelhorn, bass clarinet, cornet and penny whistle.   He went on to record with jazz luminaries like Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. He played on “Miles & Quincy Live: at Montreux,” Davis’ collaboration with conductor/producer Quincy Jones.

Johnson teamed up with Canadian folk-rock musicians The Band on “The Last Waltz,” widely considered to be one of the best concert films ever. Johnson also worked on two Lennon albums: “Walls and Bridges” and “Double Fantasy,” the last studio album the legendary Beatle released before his 1980 murder.

Other Johnson credits include bluesman Muddy Waters on “The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album,” fusion bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius’ solo debut LP and early classics by eclectic roots musician Taj Mahal, and R&B singer Chaka Khan, too.

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[Ulitzer95 12,654]

11 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Jazz musician Howard Johnson, who worked with artists ranging from John Lennon to Miles Davis and was a member of TV’s “Saturday Night Live” house band during the ’70s, died today at age 79.  Johnson, a Montgomery (AL) native, died after “a long illness.” 

A self-taught musician, Johnson was known for his prowess on tuba and baritone sax. He was also skilled on other instruments, like flugelhorn, bass clarinet, cornet and penny whistle.   He went on to record with jazz luminaries like Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. He played on “Miles & Quincy Live: at Montreux,” Davis’ collaboration with conductor/producer Quincy Jones.

Johnson teamed up with Canadian folk-rock musicians The Band on “The Last Waltz,” widely considered to be one of the best concert films ever. Johnson also worked on two Lennon albums: “Walls and Bridges” and “Double Fantasy,” the last studio album the legendary Beatle released before his 1980 murder.

Other Johnson credits include bluesman Muddy Waters on “The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album,” fusion bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius’ solo debut LP and early classics by eclectic roots musician Taj Mahal, and R&B singer Chaka Khan, too.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

40 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

I searched first like always, it didn't bring back any results.  So I posted.  Meh.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

Sammy Nestico (wiki), American jazz composer and arranger for the Count Basie Orchestra, died this morning aged 96 according to his Facebook page.

Expect a Grauniad obit.