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Died On This Date (August 16, 2007) Max Roach / Jazz Icon

Posted by themusicsover on August 16, 2010

Max Roach
January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007

Many jazz fans consider Max Roach to have been one of the genre’s greatest drummers.  One of the early practitioners of bebop, Roach made his mark playing behind some of popular music’s greatest musicians.  That list includes Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins.  Throughout a recording career that spanned nearly 60 years, Roach performed on over 100 albums, either as a sideman or leader.  Of those albums, 1962’s Money Jungle with Mingus and Ellington has been called the greatest trio album ever recorded.  Off the stage, Roach was an civil rights activist.  He passed away at the age of natural causes at the age of 83.

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Died On This Date (July 22, 2010) Harry Beckett / Respected British Trumpeter

Posted by themusicsover on July 22, 2010

Harry Beckett
May 30, 1935 – July 22, 2010

Over a career that spanned over 40 years, Harry Beckett has been recognized as one of Europe’s leading jazz trumpet players.  He has also been noted as one of the leaders of the British free jazz scene.  Throughout his career, he’s played with the like of Charles Mingus, Phil Manzanera and Charlie Watts.  Beckett recorded several of his own albums as well, the latest being 2008’s The Modern Sound Of Harry Beckett.  He died of a stroke on July 22, 2010.



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Died On This Date (June 16, 2009) Charlie Mariano / Played Sax With Stan Kenton

Posted by themusicsover on June 16, 2010

Charlie Mariano
November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009

charlie-marianoCharlie Mariano was a gifted alto saxophone player who is best remembered for his work with Stan Kenton and Charles Mingus.  In later years, he played in the German jazz rock band, Colours.  Charlie Mariano died of cancer at the age of 85.



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Died On This Date (May 18, 2004) Elvin Jones / Respected Jazz Drummer

Posted by themusicsover on May 18, 2010

Elvin Jones
September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004

Elvin Jones was a jazz drummer who found his fame during the post bop era.  Over the course of his illustrious career, Jones played with just jazz luminaries as Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and John Coltrane with whom he played for six years during the ’60s.  He can be heard on Coltrane’s landmark album, A Love Supreme.  He also played behind several of his own groups over the years.  J0nes’ style was highly influential on rock drummers – Mitch Mitchell and Ginger Baker have cited him as a direct influence.  He was also a tireless educator, often taking part in drum clinics and free performances at prisons.  Elvin Jones died of heart failure on May 18, 2004.

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Died On This Date (April 9, 2008) Ozzie Cadena / Savoy Records Producer

Posted by themusicsover on April 9, 2010

Ozzie Cadena
September 26, 1924 – April 9, 2008

Ozzie Cadena was born in Oklahoma City in 1924, but soon moved to Newark, New Jersey with his family. After he served in WWII, Cadena enrolled in a New York music school where he studied the bass and piano. His first music job was on a jazz radio show back in Newark. It was there that he was hired by the legendary Savoy label to work as an in-house producer. During his eight years at Savoy, Cadena worked on recordings by the likes of Cal Tjader, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Esther Phillips, John Lee Hooker and many more. In the years after he left Savoy, he spent time at Prestige, Blue Note and Fantasy Records. Cadena moved his family to Hermosa Beach, California in the mid-‘70s and continued to work with the music he loved, mostly booking and promoting shows at jazz clubs around Los Angeles, including the legendary Lighthouse, known as one of the flashpoints of West Coast Jazz. Ozzie Cadena suffered a stroke in 2007 and passed away of pneumonia on April 9, 2008 at the age of 83.



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