My friend Lee Hildebrand died in January 2025 at the age of 78. I have some words of remembrance. Born and raised…
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Drummer and composer Phil Raskin (June 10, 1957 – June 9, 2025) told me more than once more than once he was…
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Michael Cuscuna, known best as a record producer associated with Blue Note Records and co-founder of Mosaic Records, has died. A sophisticated…
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An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died…
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Arnold Jay Smith died peacefully on October 4 at his Brooklyn home, surrounded by family and friends. A writer, publicist, educator, founding…
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The passing of Eric Jackson on September 17, after years of health issues, marked the end of his more than half-century as…
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Broadcaster, journalist and critic Michael Bourne died of natural causes on August 21 at 9:42 pm at the Actor’s Fund Home in…
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Tall and lanky with a hearty laugh often dripping in sarcasm and a sneer to match his acerbic wit, Gene Santoro was…
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Award-winning music journalist and editor John Swenson, who covered a wide swath of musical genres throughout his career, died March 28 at…
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Prominent jazz critic Don Heckman died November 14, 2020 in Los Angeles at age 89, just five weeks before his 90th birthday.…
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Terry Teachout, jazz. literature, dance and drama critic, podcaster, blogger, playwright, album annotator, opera librettist and biographer of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,…
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An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died…
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