Those that left us in 2006

[rostasi]

Thanks Frank.

When I make up the December list,

I'll make sure and add her.

[brownie]

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

That was Ian Hamer. He died on Sept. 23 in Brighton. He was 73.

Ian Hamer

Correct about Aaron Bell. He died in 2003.

[rostasi]

That was Ian Hamer. He died on Sept. 23 in Brighton. He was 73.

Ian Hamer

Correct about Aaron Bell. He died in 2003.

Ok, you had me confused there - but not for the first time

I added Hamer's name to the list.

thanks,

Rod

[brownie]

I'm all confused

[Chalupa]

Pluto, 1930 - 2006 R.I.P.

[rostasi]

Too many

Aaron Bell

William Gottlieb

Dodo Greene

Ian Hammer

Claude Luter

I think it's all straightened out now.

[rostasi]

December:

• Mariska Veres (singer, "Shocking Blue")

• Dave Mount (drummer, "Mud")

• Darren "Wiz" Brown (singer, "Mega City Four")

• Jay McShann

• Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Desmond Briscoe (sound engineer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop)

• Martha Tilton (singer with Benny Goodman)

• Fred Marsden (drummer, "Gerry & the Pacemakers")

• Georgia Gibbs (singer, Kiss of Fire)

• Walter Ward (singer, "The Olympics")

• Homer Ledford (bluegrass legend)

• Alan Shugart (pioneer of the disk drive, co-founder of Seagate Technology)

• Oscar Klein (trumpeter, Lionel Hampton, and others)

• Kenny Davern

• Peter Boyle

• Sivuca

• Mike Evans (actor who played Lionel on The Jeffersons, also co-created Good Times)

• Ahmet Ertegun

• Tom McManamon (banjo player, "Shane MacGowan and The Popes")

• Pnina Salzman (Israeli pianist, known as the "First Lady of Piano")

• Goce Nikolovski [Macedonian singer, known for his hit Biser Balkanski ("Pearl Of The Balkans")]

• Denis Payton (sax player, "The Dave Clark Five")

• Daniel Pinkham (composer, organist, harpsichordist)

• Joseph Barbera (cartoonist and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions)

• Mary Bates Burns (Canadian swing singer)

• Neville Willoughby (Jamaican radio broadcaster)

• Galina Ustvolskaya

• Dennis Linde (songwriter, wrote the 1972 Elvis hit Burning Love)

• Norman "Dutch" Mason (Canadian blues musician)

• James Brown

• Gerald Ford

made a few additions to the other months as well...

also: I didn't include Pluto because I feel that it didn't "leave" us -

it just got demoted.

Rod

Edited January 2, 2007 by rostasi

[BruceH]

Jackie McLean

[rostasi]

Jackie McLean

Yup, March 31...just doesn't seem that long ago...

[GA Russell]

I didn't know about Freddie Marsden. I've got a couple of Gerry & the Pacemakers CDs, as well as the soundtrack LP of Ferry Cross the Mersey. RIP

[umum_cypher]

Hadn't heard about Malachi Thompson. He was a lovely bloke with a lot to say. And a pleasingly raw way of saying it.

[nemo7]

• Sivuca moved on, eh?

well, shitdamn, there goes the scat accordian.

[birdanddizzy]

Emmanuel Soudieux, a French double bass player who performed and recorded with Django and many visiting Americans in France (among them Kenny Clarke & Art Simmons) died the 23th of October.

Edited January 7, 2007 by Steven

[rostasi]

Thanks Steven. I put that in using your own words.