Terry “T” Lavitz
April 16, 1956 – October 7, 2010
T Lavitz was an influential jazz fusion keyboardist who is perhaps best remembered for his work with the Dixie Dregs and later, Jazz Is Dead. Lavitz was still a child when he started playing the piano, and by the time he was studying music in college, he was asked to join the Dixie Dregs. Throughout the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Dregs built a solid legion of fans, drawn to their jazz rock fusion that encorporated elements of bluegrass, southern rock and classical. Over the next two decades, Lavitz played with Mother’s Finest, Widespread Panic, Jefferson Starship, and Jazz Is Dead, a popular Grateful Dead instrumental cover band. T Lavitz was 54 when he passed away in his sleep on October 7, 2010. Cause of death was not immediately released.
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April 1, 2011, strange day that I should seek some of what I considered a most unforgetable person,friend and down right great guy to ever know ,have known after this most heartbreaking notice I received from another great friend’s website, Rod Morgenstein. Shocked and sadened by his untimely passing to a greater place of ultimate peace. I was looking forward to perhaps seeing and meeting him again here in Charleston,SC with fellow musician Rod and the Jazz is Dead troupe. A great loss to the music world and to all that had the pleasure to have ever met him. He will always live on through the finest music he recorded. I will miss ya T, until we meet on that astral plain+++