Musician

Died On This Date (April 13, 2010) Steve Reid / Notable Jazz Drummer

Steve Reid
January 29, 1944 – April 13, 2010

Steve Reid was an accomplished jazz drummer who, over the course of a long career played with the likes of Miles Davis, Sun Ra, James Brown, and Ornette Coleman.  He also served as a house drummer for Motown.  Reid was still a teenager when he started drumming, and by the time he went off to college, he had already worked in the house band at the Apollo Theater.  Reid released several albums under his own name including those he self-distributed on his own label.  During the 2000s, Reid performed with electronic wiz, Kieran Hebden, also known as Four Tet.  Steve Reid passed away on April 13, 2010 at the age of 66.

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Died On This Date (April 13, 2010) Noah Crase / Played Banjo For Bill Monroe

Noah Crase
December 10, 1934 – April 13, 2010

Noah Crase was a respected banjo player who’s best known for his time playing with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys.  He played with Monroe between 1954 and 1956, but never played on any of his recordings.  Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, Crase played with Paul “Moon” Mullins in Valley Ramblers.  He later played with the Nu-Grass Pickers and the Boys From Indiana. Noah Crase was 75 when he passed away on April 13, 2010.



Died On This Date (April 12, 2010) Lisa Hodapp / Florida Punk Legend

Lisa Hodapp
DOB Unknown – April 12, 2010

Lisa Hodapp was a popular Fort Lauderdale-area punk musician during the ’80s and ’90s.  She first came to prominence as singer and bassist for area punk legends, Morbid Opera.  Later she played guitar in the all-girl group, the Gargirls.  And in recent years, Hodapp fronted her own band, Fraulien.  She also found time through all that to earn a degree in law.  Lisa Hodapp was 49 when she died of cancer on April 12, 2010.



Died On This Date (April 12, 2009) Rubin “Zeke” Zarchy / Jazz Trumpeter

Rubin “Zeke” Zarchy
June 12, 1915 – April 12, 2009

zekeRubin Zarchy was a jazz trumpeter who made his mark in the big bands of the ’30 and ’40s.  Over the years he’s played lead trumpet with jazz’s biggest names including Tommy Dorsey, Joe Haymes, Bob Crosby, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra, Ray Anthony and most famously, Glenn Miller, in whose orchestra he played throughout the ’40s.  Contrary to other published reports, Zarchy passed away on April 12, 2009 of pneumonia at the age of 93.



Died On This Date (April 11, 2001) Sandy Bull / Folk Guitar Great

Sandy Bull
January 1, 1941 – April 11, 2001

sandy-bullSandy Bull was a musical genius.  Best known for his brilliant folk guitar playing, he was also a master of the banjo, aud, pedal steel and other stringed instruments.  Like Vanguard Records label mate, John Fahey, Bull’s finger-picking incorporated various styles of music – in Bull’s case, classical, jazz and middle Eastern.  And like Fahey, he rose to prominence during the ’60s folk revival and influenced the likes of Leo KottkeRy Cooder, Richard Thompson, and later, M. Ward.  Bull struggled with drug addiction which forced him into early retirement in the early ’70s.  After successfully completing rehab, Bull was back in the studio and on stage by the early 80s.  He died of lung cancer on April 11, 2001 at the age of 60.

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