Joel Hastings (July 22, 1969 – May 26, 2016) was a Canadian pianist and faculty member at Florida State University’s College of Music. He was the winner of the 8th International Web Concert Hall Competition in 2006 and the 1993 International Bach Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Cecil Bustamente Campbell (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that later reggae and ska artists would draw upon. Dominic Duval (1944 – July 22, 2016) was an American free jazz bassist. Since the 1990s, Duval was active principally on the New York City jazz scene. He did not begin recording regularly until the 1990s, but since then had appeared on a very large number of albums, particularly on the labels CIMP, Cadence Jazz, and Leo Records. As a result, Duval was described by Allmusic as “unquestionably…one of the most-recorded free jazz bassists on the planet”. Heinrich Schiff (18 November 1951 – 23 December 2016) was an Austrian cellist and conductor. He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971. In 2004, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Léo Marjane (26 August 1912 – 18 December 2016) was a French singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Her early recordings – a mixture of original songs and standards of the era such as “Begin the Beguine” and “Night and Day” – were well received and popular. The peak of Marjane’s career came in the early 1940s, when she was regarded as one of France’s biggest female singing stars. Her career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II as she was accused of having appeared many times at venues frequented by German officers. Jacques Werup (14 January 1945 – 12 November 2016) was a Swedish musician, author, poet, stage artist and screenwriter, born in Malmö. Werup’s poetry is often associated to jazz. He was a childhood friend of Mikael Wiehe and Göran Skytte and had his first novel published in 1971. He has co-written many songs with long-time collaborator and composer Michael Saxell. Freddie Wadling (2 August 1951 – 2 June 2016) was a Swedish singer and actor born in Gothenburg, whose over 30-year musical career extended from punk to classical ballads. He played in bands Liket Lever (which translates as The Corpse Lives), cult band Cortex, and alternative pop/rock duo Blue for Two, before releasing 10 solo albums. The song “The Freaks” by Cortex, sung by Wadling, became a signature song for him. Guillermo Anderson (February 25, 1962 – August 6, 2016) was one of the best known Honduran musicians. His music is about the beauty in different forms in Honduras, sometimes talks about social problems, but also personal topics. His music mixes tropical rhythms, garifuna drums and contemporany music. Some of his discs were created to be enjoyed by kids. Jadranka Stojaković (24 July 1950 – 3 May 2016) was a Sarajevo-born Yugoslav singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique voice. Her best known hits are “Sve smo mogli mi”, “Što te nema”, and “Bistre vode Bosnom teku”. At the 1984 Winter Olympics, held in her native Sarajevo, she sang the official theme song of the Games. Ruby Wilson (February 29, 1948 – August 12, 2016) was an American blues and gospel singer and actress. She was known as “The Queen of Beale Street” as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for over 40 years. She also had a successful touring and recording career, and appeared in a number of films. Emile Ford (16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016), was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with “What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?”. He was also a pioneering sound engineer. Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016) was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri, and Milton Nascimento. Réagissez à cet article / Comment this article commentaires / comments
