Those that left us in 2006

[Hardbopjazz]

With the year coming to a close, there has been a slue of artists leaving this Earth for the big jam session in the sky. So who has left us this year?

Some names that come to mine.

Jay McShann

Duke Jordan

Walter Booker

We just have to remeber the music and they will live on forever.

[Bright Moments]

hilton ruiz

[Free For All]

Jackie McLean

Maynard Ferguson

Don Alias

Don Lusher

Arif Mardin

Edited December 10, 2006 by Free For All

[rostasi]

These were just in January of this year:

• Alex St. Clair (guitarist with Beefheart - "Owed t' Alex")

• Lou Rawls

• Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon of Jam & Spoon)

• Bob Weinstock (Prestige)

• Wilson Pickett

• Rick van der Linden (keyboardist with Ekseption)

• Sherman Ferguson

• Janette Carter (Carter Family)

• Gene McFadden (McFadden & Whitehead)

• Nam-June Paik

• Coretta Scott King (not really a recording artist,

but it's nice to remember her).

[White Lightning]

Malachi Thompson

Rufus Harley

Dewey Redman

Raphe Malik

Ray Barretto

Jack Montrose

Hamza El-Din

Elton Dean

Ruth Brown

Rober Lockwood Jr.

[brownie]

Too many

Aaron Bell

William Gottlieb

Dodo Greene

Ian Hammer

Claude Luter

[sidewinder]

Sonny Cohn

[Tony Pusey]

Arthur Lee.

[GA Russell]

Pip Pyle

Moacir Santos

[rostasi]

February:

• Romano Mussolini (Italian jazz musician and son of Benito)

• Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster)

• Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin (amazing Qawwali singer)

• Akira Ifukube (film composer "Godzilla")

• Jack Montrose

• Elton Dean

• Jay Dee (hip-hop producer)

• Jockey Shabalala ("Ladysmith Black Mambazo")

• Lenny Dee

• Putte Wickman (Swedish jazz orch leader)

• Lynden David Hall (British soul singer)

• Bill Cowsill (lead singer of "The Cowsills")

• Ray Barretto

• Larry Neill (big band singer: Paul Whiteman)

• Anthony Burger (gospel pianist)

• Don Knotts (hey, why not...)

• Darren McGavin

• Thomas Koppel ("Savage Rose")

• Tsakani Mhinga (South African R&B singer)

• Milton Katims (conductor: Seattle Symphony)

March:

• Johnny Jackson ("Jackson 5")

• Willie Kent (blues bassist)

• Charlie Hodge (guitarist/backup singer for Elvis)

• Ivor Cutler

• King Floyd

• Ali Farka Touré

• Jesse "Guitar" Taylor

• Gordon Parks

• Raphe Malik

• Anna Moffo

• Narvin Kimball (banjo player - founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band)

• Lumumba Carson (Professor X: "X-Clan")

• Pío Leyva (Buena Vista Social Club)

• Buck Owens

• Nikki Sudden

• Stanislaw Lem

• Don Alias

• Jackie McLean

Edited December 14, 2006 by rostasi

[HolyStitt]

Thank you for posting these month by month lists. I didn't even know some of these people had passed away.

[rostasi]

April

• Bernard Seigal (Buddy Blue - "Beat Farmers")

• Martin Gilks (drummer w/"The Wonder Stuff")

• Gene Pitney

• Allan Kaprow (Fluxus artist)

• June Pointer ("The Pointer Sisters")

• Phil Walden (founder of Capricorn Records)

• William Gottlieb

• Bonnie Owens (singer/ex-wife of Merle Haggard who helped define his sound - she died 30 days after the death of her first husband, Buck Owens)

• Helen Hobbs Jordan (music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, and Paul Simon)

• Leighton Kerner (classical music critic for The Village Voice)

May

• Johnny Paris ("Johnny and the Hurricanes")

• Rosita Fernandez (Tejano singer)

• Naushad Ali (Bollywood composer)

• Grant McLennan (lead singer for "The Go-Betweens")

• John Hicks

• Johnnie Wilder, Jr. (founder of the band "Heatwave" - "Boogie Nights")

• Lew Anderson (bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on "The Howdy Doody Show")

• Cheikha Rimitti (famous Algerian rai singer - collaborations with Robert Fripp and Flea from the "Red Hot Chili Peppers")

• Freddie Garrity ("Freddie and the Dreamers")

• Billy Walker (country music singer - "The Tall Texan")

• Jack Fallon (jazz double-bassist - Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Sarah Vaughan, et al.)

• Hamza El Din

• Clifford Antone (owner of Antone's blues club)

• Desmond Dekker

• Lula Mae Hardaway (Stevie Wonder's mom)

[paul secor]

Thanks for posting Rod. I didn't know that Bonnie Owens and Johnny Paris had passed. Both were part of my musical life at different times.

[rostasi]

Sure, no prob. There's always a few folks whose deaths may not have received much media attention.

Of course, there's some personal leanings here, but I'm trying to keep it to somewhat well-known folks.

Going thru these kinda slowly, but we'll make it thru December:

June:

• Vince Welnick ("Grateful Dead")

• Hilton Ruiz

• Billy Preston

• György Ligeti

• Duane Roland ("Molly Hatchet")

• Claydes Charles Smith ("Kool and the Gang")

• Moose ("Eddie" from "Frasier")

• Arif Mardin

• Elkan Allan (created British pop music show "Ready, Steady, Go!")

• Johnny Jenkins (blues guitarist who helped launch the career of Otis Redding. Hendrix was also influenced by his guitar stylings)

• George Page (creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature)

• Ross Tompkins

July:

• Jan Murray (comedian)

• Don Lusher (British jazz trombonist)

• Kasey Rogers (Louise Tate on "Bewitched" - also was an accomplished motorcross racer)

• Mícheál Ó Domhnaill ("Bothy Band")

• Syd Barrett

• Milan Williams (keyboardist with the "Commodores")

• Red Buttons

• Malachi Thompson

• Dodo Greene

• Jessie Mae Hemphill

• Floyd Dixon

• Murray Bookchin

Edited December 14, 2006 by rostasi

[Chuck Nessa]

Do we need another thread for "wish lists"?

[Joe G]

Chuck! I was about to send out an email to make sure you hadn't "left" us. :rsmile:

[JSngry]

Do we need another thread for "wish lists"?

He's BACK!

[rostasi]

August:

• Rufus Harley

• Kim McLagan (British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon)

• Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

• Arthur Lee

• John Locke (keyboardist with Spirit)

• Ed Thrasher (album cover designer - Hendrix, Sinatra, Beach Boys, et al)

• Moacir Santos

• Duke Jordan

• Anga Diaz (Cuban conga player - Afro Cuban All Stars, The Buena Vista Social Club, et al)

• Barbara George (R&B singer)

• Mike Douglas (American talk show host)

• Johnny Duncan ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime")

• Walter "Li'l Wally" Jagiello (popular polka musician and songwriter)

• Joseph Hill (lead singer for reggae band Culture)

• Buck Page (country musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage)

• Ustad Bismillah Khan (Indian shehnai musician)

• Bruce Gary (drummer with The Knack)

• David Schnaufer (Appalachian dulcimer player)

• Maynard Ferguson

• James Tenney

• Jesse Pintado (guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death)

• Pip Pyle

• Jumpin' Gene Simmons (rockabilly musician)

• Burt Goldblatt (jazz album cover designer)

• Glenn Ford

September:

• Dewey Redman

• Moses Khumalo (South African jazz saxophonist)

• Steve Irwin

• Frank Middlemass (English character actor As Time Goes By)

• Bennie Smith (blues guitarist)

• Pat Corley (actor: Phil the barkeep on Murphy Brown)

• Al Casey (session guitarist)

• Peter Tevis (musician who specialized in the Spaghetti Western sound. Ennio Morricone produced one of his songs)

• Ann Richards

• Nancy Arlen (drummer, "Mars")

• Joe Glazer (folk musician - often referred to as the "labor's troubador")

• Danny Flores (saxophonist and vocalist on the Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila")

• Boz Burrell (bassist and vocalist: Bad Company/King Crimson)

• Tommy Olivencia (salsa singer and bandleader)

• Aladár Pege (Hungarian jazz musician, dubbed "the Paganini of double bass")

• Sir Malcolm Arnold

• Ian Hamer

• Henry Townsend

• Byron Nelson

• Josh Graves (bluegrass dobro player)

Edited January 1, 2007 by rostasi

[AllenLowe]

boy, this is depressing - and I'm not feeling so well myself -

[Bright Moments]

August:

• Moses Khumalo (South African jazz saxophonist)

damn! i just recently "found" moses - a terrific talent.

[Big Beat Steve]

September:

• Al Casey (session guitarist. Had early career in Fats Waller's band)

Uh oh ... are you sure?

There were TWO Al Caseys who played guitar. The "session" guitarist you are talking about is the one born in 1936 who worked mostly in the country, surf and rockabilly idoms.

The one with Fats Waller has been dead since Sept. 2005 (he died at age 90!).

Edited December 14, 2006 by Big Beat Steve

[rostasi]

Uh oh ... are you sure?

There were TWO Al Caseys who played guitar. The "session" guitarist you are talking about is the one born in 1936 who worked mostly in the country, surf and rockabilly idoms.

The one with Fats Waller has been dead since Sept. 2005 (he died at age 90!).

Ooops! Yup, you're right. Got them mixed in my mind. Probably cause it was after midnight...Thanks for the correction.

Rod

[rostasi]

October:

• Tamara Dobson (star of blaxploitation movie Cleopatra Jones)

• Claude Luter

• Edgar Summerlin (Tenor saxophonist who "brought jazz to the church")

• Freddy Fender

• Tommy Johnson (tuba player session musician - most notable was his playing in John Williams' Jaws score,

in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark)

• Christopher Glenn (American CBS News radio and television news anchor)

• Anna Russell

• Jane Wyatt

• Sandy West (drummer and vocalist with The Runaways)

• Arthur Hill

• Lebo Mathosa (South African singer)

• Emmanuel Soudieux (French double bass player who performed and recorded with Django and many visiting Americans in France - among them Kenny Clarke & Art Simmons)

• Tillman Franks (bassist, songwriter - co-wrote the hit single Sink the Bismark with Johnny Horton)

• Rogério Duprat (Brazilian composer/musician - began his studies with Stockhausen & Boulez -

later, he wrote many arrangements for tropicália albums by artists such as Caetano Veloso,

Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes - he later became known as

the "George Martin of Tropicalia" and the "Brian Wilson of Brazil".

• Joe Niekro

• Marijohn Wilkin (country music songwriter - wrote songs for Wanda Jackson, Lefty Frizzell, Eddie Cochran, et al)

• Brian Brolly (co-manager of McCartney's Wings, co-founder of Jazz FM and Classic FM)

• Trevor Berbick (last boxer to face Muhammad Ali)

• Red Auerbach

• Ian Rilen (bass player for Rose Tattoo)

November:

• William Styron

• Adrienne Shelly (actress: Trust, The Unbelievable Truth)

• Buddy Killen (record producer and founder of Dial Records)

• Marie Rudisill (known as The Fruitcake Lady on The Tonight Show - aunt to Truman Capote)

• Malachi Ritscher (musician, recording engineer, and anti-war protester - fixture on the Chicago jazz and experimental music scene)

• Paul Mauriat (French orchestra leader - best known for his recording of the André Popp tune, L'Amour est bleu ("Love is Blue"))

• Sonny Cohn

• Ed Bradley

• Jack Palance

• Gerald Levert

• Joseph Ungaro (American journalism editor and executive whose question led to Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" response)

• Milton Friedman

• Ruth Brown

• Dirk Dirksen (punk rock promoter at San Francisco's nightclub Mabuhay Gardens)

• Chris Hayward (creator of Dudley Do-Right and co-creator of The Munsters)

• Robert Altman

• Robert Lockwood Jr.

• John Allan Cameron (pioneer of Celtic music in Canada)

• Anita O'Day

• Betty Comden (lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including Singin' in the Rain)

• Robert McFerrin (first African-American to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin)

• Walter Booker

• David Hermance (Toyota engineer responsible for the Prius)

• Tony Silvester (soul singer with The Main Ingredient)

• Dave Cockrum (comic book artist: X-men, Legion of Super-Heroes)

• Don Butterfield

• Allen Carr (well-known anti-smoking campaigner and author)

• Perry Henzell (film director: The Harder They Come)

Edited January 7, 2007 by rostasi

[rostasi]

Brownie, I don't have a date of death for Ian Hammer.

Also, didn't Aaron Bell die 3 years ago or am I thinking of another one (again)?

Rod

[frank m]

Don't forget Georgia Gibbs who just left us this week