AprilCadence2013

Obituaries
Kenny Ball, (trumpeter) died on March 7, 2013. He was 83.
George Barrow, (saxophonist) died on March 21, 2013 in New York. He was 91.
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, (composer and pianist) died on December 24, 2012.
He was 76.
Jacques Bisceglia (photographer) died on March 1, 2013. He was 72.
Claude Black, (pianist) died of cancer on January 17, 2013 in Toledo, Ohio. He was 80.
Brian Brown, (tenor sax and composer) died from a heart attack on January 27, 2013,
in Melbourne, Australia. He was 79.
Tom Bruno, (drummer) died on August 22, 2012, in New York. He was 75.
Donald Byrd (trumpet great, with over 20 records on Blue Note) died on February 4,
2013. He was 80.
Dom Cerulli, (writer) died on Ocotber 23, 2012, in Terrytown , New York. He was 85.
Rudolf Dašek (guitarist) died on February 1, 2013. He was 79.
James DePriest, (conductor) died from a heart attack on February 8, 2013 in
Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 76.
Mike Durham, (trumpeter) died from a brain tumor on March 12, 2013 in
Newcastle England. He was 60.
Steve Ellington, (drummer) grand-nephew of Duke Ellingon, died on March 22,
2013, in Montgomery, Alabama. He was 71.
Ross Gentile, (radio broadcaster) died from kidney disease on February 23, 2013.
Host of “Standards In Jazz” on WSIE (88.7 FM) He was 60.
Jim Godbolt, (devoted 70 years to jazz as a band manager, booking agent, journalist
and historian) died on January 9, 2013. He was 90.
George Gruntz, (bandleader) died on January 10, 2013. He was 80.
Pat Halcox, (trumpeter) died on February 4, 2013. He was 82.
Rod Hicks, (bass and cello) died from cancer on January 2, 2013 in Detroit,
Michigan. He was 71.
Jef Lee Johnson (musician) died on January 28, 2013. He 54.
Terry Lightfoot, (clarinetist) died March 15 2013. He was 77.
Janos Kőrössy (pianist) died on January 21, 2013. He was 86.
Butch Morris, (cornetist, composer and conductor) died on January 29, 2013, in Brooklyn,
New York. He was 65.
Manfred Niehaus (composer/violist) died on February 19, 2013. He was 79.
Claude Nobs, (founder of Montreux Jazz Fest), died on January 10, 2013, after
several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident. He was 76. The rock group, Deep
Purple referred to him as as “Funky Claude” in the song “Smoke on the Water.”
Melvine Rhyne, (organist) died on March 5, 2013. He was 76 years old.
Sonny Russo, (trombonist) died on February 23, 2013. He was 83.
Ross Taggart, (sax and piano) died on January 9, 2013. He was 46.
Paul Tanner, (last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra) died of
pneumonia on February 5, 2013 in Carlsbad, California. He was 95.
Bebo Valdés, (pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer) died from pneumonia on
March 23, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was 94.
Derek Watkins, (trumpeter) died on March 22, 2013. He was 78.
Virginia Wicks, (jazz publicist) died on March 20, 2013. She was 92.
Victor Ntoni (bassist) died on January 28, 2013. He was 65.
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