The Nat Hentoff Memorial at St. Peter’s Church Friday, Feb 24, attested to the many facets of the civil libertarian and tireless…
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An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, vocalists and adherents of those arts who died in 2016.…
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Tom “the Jazzman” Mallison, a veteran broadcaster and highly regarded, active member of the JJA among other professional organizations, reportedly died in a…
MoreCompiled by W. Royal Stokes and Ken Franckling Listed in chronological order of their deaths, earliest first. Sources include periodicals, personal communication…
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Sad news for jazzers and walkers, not only of New York City: writer, editor, broadcaster and tour guide Paul Blair died suddenly…
MoreCompiled by W. Royal Stokes and Ken Franckling [This list has been updated.] JOHN NORRIS, BILL DIXON, JOHN DANKWORTH, HERB ELLIS, MIKE…
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This article originally appeared on Doug Ramsey’s Rifftides blog, published by ArtsJournal.com. Gene Lees died on April 22. We lost a writer…
MoreCompiled by W. Royal Stokes and Ken Franckling This is an addendum to R.I.P: Deaths in 2009, which appeared in the Winter…
MoreCompiled by W. Royal Stokes and Ken Franckling This article appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of Jazz Notes. See addendum. DAVID…
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