Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Musical Passings of 2008
1/04/08 Earl May, 80, jazz bassist
1/11/08 Pete Candoli, 84, big band trumpeter
1/12/08 Gabriel Manelli, 38, Babasonicos bassist
1/15/08 El Koquillo de Sinaloa, 20, grupero musician
1/18/08 John Stewart, 68, folk-rock singer-songwriter
1/19/08 Andy Palacio, 47, Belize musician
1/24/08 Francis Clay, 84, blues drummer
1/31/08 Butch Berman, 58, guitarist and jazz booster
2/04/08 Tata Guines, 77, Cuba's "King of the Congas"
2/0408 Chris Anderson, 81, jazz pianist
2/10/08 Freddie Bell, 76, Vegas rocker
2/13/08 Henri Salvador, 90, French crooner
2/16/08 Charles Ryan, 92, co-wrote "Hot Rod Lincoln"
2/16/08 Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido, 26, Tijuana banda musician
2/19/08 Teo Macero, 82, jazz producer
2/21/08 Calvin Owens, 78, Houston blues trumpeter and bandleader
2/21/08 Joe Gibbs, 65, reggae producer
2/26/08 Herschel "Speedy" Haworth, Jr., 85, Ozarks sideman
2/27/08 Buddy Miles, 60, rock drummer
2/28/08 Mike Smith, 64, singer in the Dave Clark Five
3/02/08 Jeff Healey, 41, blues guitarist
3/03/08 Norman "Hurricane" Smith, 85, pop star and music executive
3/15/08 Mikey Dread, 53, reggae star
3/15/08 King Alex Littlejohn, 73, Kansas City blues musician
3/22/08 Israel "Cachao" Lopez, 89, Cuban inventor of mambo
3/26/08 Patti Bown, 76, jazz vocalist
3/21/08 Klaus Dinger, 61, Neu!
4/07/08 Phil Urso, 82, jazz tenor saxophonist
4/08/08 Cedella Marley Booker, 81, Bob's mother
4/09/08 Bob Kames, 82, the "Chicken Dance"
4/09/08 Ozzie Cadena, 83, jazz producer
4/09/08 George Butler, 76, jazz executive
4/09/08 Flora Pereira, 79, Portuguese Fado singer
4/13/08 Robert Reed, 50, keyboardist for Trouble Funk
4/17/08 Chris Gaffney, 58, roots rocker
4/15/08 Sean Costello, 28, blues musician
4/17/08 Danny Federici, 58, E Street Band
4/21/08 Al Wilson, 68, soul man
4/22/08 Paul Davis, 60, soft rock singer and songwriter
4/24/08 Jimmy Giuffre, 86, jazz composer and musician
5/08/08 Eddy Arnold, 89, countrypolitan legend
5/08/08 Larry Levine, 80, engineer for Phil Spector
5/15/08 Bob Florence, 75, jazz composer
5/18/08 Ed Fenner, 72, Kansas City's "jazz activist"
5/19/08 Earl Robinson, 85, founding member of The Scamps
5/23/08 Utah Phillips, 73, folk legend
5/23/08 Earle H. Hagen, 88, wrote TV themes and "Harlem Nocturne"
5/24/08 Sonny Okosuns, 61, Nigerian singer
5/25/08 Connie Vitale, 61, Kansas City retail store owner
5/28/08 Jerry Cole, 68, session guitarist
5/31/08 Pretty Black, 25, Oakland rapper
6/02/08 Bo Diddley, 79, rock pioneer
6/03/08 James DeRigne, 53, Kansas City record store owner and drummer
6/14/08 Esbjorn Svensson, 44, jazz pianist of EST
6/28/08 Ronnie Matthews, 72, jazz pianist
7/07/08 Bobby Durham, 71, jazz drummer
7/13/08 Gerald Wiggins, 86, jazz pianist
7/22/08 Joe Beck, 62, jazz guitarist
7/25/08 Johnny Griffin, 80. jazz saxophonist
7/25/08 Hiram Bullock, 52, session guitarist
7/25/08 Michael Berniker, 73, producer
7/31/08 Yusuf Salim, 79, jazz pianist
7/31/08 Lee Young, 94, jazz drummer, producer and brother of Lester
8/02/08 Erik Darling, 74, folk artist of Rooftop Singers
8/10/08 Isaac Hayes, 65, soul giant
8/11/08 Don Helms, 71, steel guitarist for Hank Williams
8/15/08 Jerry Wexler, 91, R&B producer
8/16/08 Ronnie Drew, 73, Dubliners,
8/16/08 Dizzy Johnny Moore, 70, trumpeter in the Skatalites
8/16/08 Caymmi, 94, Brazilian songwriter
8/18/08 Pervis Jackson, 70, original member of the Spinners
8/19/08 LeRoi Moore, 46, Dave Matthews Band saxophonist
5/31/08 Pretty Black, 25, Oakland rapper
8/20/08 Phil Guy, 68, blues artist
8/21/08 Jerry Finn, 39, producer and mixer
8/23/08 Steve Foley, 49, drummed for the Replacements
8/23/08 Jimmy Cleveland, 82, jazz trombonist
8/28/08 Gilbert Moorer, 67, Esquires vocalist
9/01/08 Jerry Reed, 71, country star
9/09/08 Bheki Mseleku, 53, jazz pianist
9/12/08 Charlie Walker, 81, Grand Ole Opry member
9/15/08 Richard Wright, 65, Pink Floyd
9/16/08 Norman Whitfield, 65, Motown songwriter
9/19/08 Earl Palmer, 84, legendary drummer
9/20/08 Nappy Brown, 78, blues artist
9/20/08 Steve Gray, 64, session musician
9/22/08 Connie Haines, 87, big band vocalist
9/26/08 Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz fusion artist
9/29/08 Pat Crumly, 66, British saxophonist
10/01/08 Nick Reynolds, 75, original member of the Kingston Trio
10/03/08 Johnny "J", 39, hip hop producer
10/11/08 Alton Ellis, 68, reggae star
10/11/08 Neal Hefti, 85, TV and jazz composer
10/15/08 Edie Adams, 81, singer and pitch woman
11/16/08 Tony Reedus, 49, jazz drummer
10/17/08 Levi Stubbs, 72, Four Tops vocalist
10/18/08 Dave McKenna, 78, jazz pianist
10/18/08 Dee Dee Warwick, 63, soul singer
10/19/08 Rudy Ray Moore, 81, comedian, musician and filmmaker
10/24/08 Merl Saunders, 74, keyboardist
10/25/08 Muslim Magomayev, 66, Russian pop star
10/15/08 Frankie Venom, 51, Teenage Head
10/24/08 Ray Ellis, 84, arranger for Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Four Lads
10/30/08 Nathaniel Mayer, 64, Detroit soul singer
10/30/08 Mike Terry, 68, Motown saxophonist
10/31 Frank Navetta, 46, Descendants guitarist
11/01/08 Yma Sumac, 86, quirky exotica artist
11/02/08 Jimmy Carl Black, 70, Native American rock musician
11/04/08 Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican innovator
11/09/08 Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer
11/09/08 Mitch Mitchell, 61, drummer for Jimi Hendrix
11/22/08 MC Breed, 36, rapper
11/22/08 Nico Rohas, 87, Cuban musician
11/23/08 Richie Edwards, 27 (declared dead), Manic Street Preachers
11/23/08 Robert Lucas, 46, blues man
11/24/08 Kenny Maclean, 51, Platinum Blonde bassist
12/02/08 Odetta, 77, folk artist
12/06/08 Alex McEwen, 73, British musician and businessman
12/07/08 Dennis Yost, 65, Classics IV vocalist
12/15/08 Davy Graham, 68, British folk musician
12/19/08 Page Cavanaugh, 86, jazz pianist
12/25/08 Eartha Kitt, 81, pop star
12/25/08 Robert Ward, 70, blues and soul man
12/27/08 Delaney Bramlett, 69, rock musician
12/29/08 Freddie Hubbard, 70, jazz trumpeter
(Original image of Isaac Hayes by There Stands the Glass.)
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