Alvin Lubis (June 8, 1978 – April 11, 2016), was an Indonesian musician, arranger, and music producer. He had been working around the local music industry since 1999. Lubis initially worked as a music director in a local music school alongside his friends. He spent years performing jazz and pop music around Jakarta as a session musician. Connie Crothers (May 2, 1941 – August 13, 2016) was an American jazz pianist. She majored in music at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a student of Lennie Tristano. Marshall “Rock” Jones (January 1, 1941 – May 27, 2016), was an American bass player. He is best known as a founding member and bassist of the funk, soul music and R&B band Ohio Players. John Fischer (11 August 1930 – 17 August 2016) was an American pianist, composer, and visual artist. He was a pioneer in the field of computer art.[citation needed] In the 1970s, during the loft jazz era in New York City, Fischer ran a performance loft and gallery known as Environ. He was leader of the group Interface. Adrian Enescu (31 March 1948 – 19 August 2016) was a Romanian composer of film soundtracks and contemporary music. As an individual musician, he also pioneered the local electronic scene during the 1970s and 1980s. David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as “one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians.” Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960. Horacio Salgán (June 15, 1916 – August 19, 2016) was an Argentine tango musician. He received one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, as the most important personality in the popular music of his country in the last decade. Anne-Marie Nzié (1932 – 24 May 2016) was a Cameroonian bikutsi singer. She won a government-sponsored guitar competition organised by the German guitarist/composer Siegfried Behrend, after which in the later 1950s she became a solo singer, accompanying herself on Hawaiian guitar. Making a mark on the international scene, she recorded in Paris, and signed with the Pathé-Marconi label. Her successful album Liberté was recorded in 1984, following which Nzié retired to her village. Derek Smith (17 August 1931 – 19 August 2016) was a British jazz pianist. He played with Ella Fitzgerlad, Benny Goodman, Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra and was the pianist in Doc Severinsen’s band for The Tonight Show. Louis Smith (May 20, 1931 – August 20, 2016) was an American jazz trumpeter from Memphis, Tennessee. He played with visiting musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thad Jones and Billy Mitchell, before going on to play with Sonny Stitt, Count Basie and Al McKibbon, Cannonball Adderley… Louis Stewart (5 January 1944 – 20 August 2016) was an Irish jazz guitarist who joined Benny Goodman’s band in 1970. In the late 1970s he began working with George Shearing, touring America, Brazil and major European festivals, and recording eight albums, including several in trio with bassist Niels-Henning Orsted-Pedersen. Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. Stanley began playing music in 1946, originally as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys. He was part of the first generation of bluegrass musicians. “Hoot” Hester (August 13, 1951 – August 30, 2016) was an American fiddle player, multi-instrumentalist, and country music and bluegrass artist. He was born on a small farm near Louisville, Kentucky, on August 13, 1951. Hester played with a number of well-known bands, and later became a session musician and a longtime member of the Grand Old Opry’s staff band. Réagissez à cet article / Comment this article commentaires / comments
