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Nonagenarian Jazz Musicians


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2 minutes ago, Milestones said:

I know that quite a few are no longer playing, which is fine at that age.  I know most musicians would prefer to play until they drop, but sometimes you just have to retire.

Is Benny Golson still active?

 

I saw Benny in spring 2019. Don’t know bout now but would understand he does not perform these days with COVID and stuff…

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13 minutes ago, Milestones said:

I know that quite a few are no longer playing, which is fine at that age.  I know most musicians would prefer to play until they drop, but sometimes you just have to retire.

Is Benny Golson still active?

 

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2 hours ago, Stereojack said:

With the recent death of Barry Harris at 91, I got to wondering how many major jazz artists are still with us over 90? So far, I've been able to come up with five:

Sonny Rollins, 91

Kenny Burrell, 90

Roy Haynes, 96

Lou Donaldson, 95

Bill Crow, 94

Any others? 

So good that we now have nonagenarians in a profession where people used to die at 25 (Charlie Christian, Clifford Brown, Scott LaFaro) or 26 (Fats Navarro).

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I was lucky I saw quite some of those from your list performing live:

Sonny Rollins (oh boy, he was 49 when I saw him)
Lou Donaldson (the last time I saw him he was 87 )
Benny Golson on several occasions when he was in his early 70´s 
Roy Haynes when he was about 80
Marshall Allen when he was 95 and looked much younger. 
But sorry to say I never saw Kenny Burrell live. It seems he didn´t tour that much in Europe/Austria.....
I saw Dick Hyman only on the Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie film "Hot House", but some idiots filmed only his hands, so you can´t see him playing. 

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2 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Arthur Edgehill is still alive? I know he was living in a retirement community down in Deltona, FL. Glad to hear he's still with us.

+1. Same with Dizzy Reece and Dave Bailey. Kind of assumed at this stage they'd moved on, glad to know they are still with us.

 

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