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December 29, 2011Rainwater got his start with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys in 1949.
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December 27, 2011A leading figures in the postwar jazz avant-garde, Williams played with Tony Williams, T-Bone Walker, and Miles Davis.
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December 27, 2011Motorhead’s vocals were featured in Ruben and the Jets, and MOI’s “Burnt Weeny Sandwich”.
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December 26, 2011Taylor was one of the final links to Kansas City’s heyday as a jazz mecca in the 1930s.
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December 24, 2011A drummer, leader, composer, educator, and author, DeRosa was co-founder of the International Association for Jazz Education.
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December 24, 2011including the London House and Mister Kelly’s in Chicago, formed with his wife one of the top bands for local...
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December 20, 2011A list of artists who died in 2011 compiled by Bill Reichblum for the KadMusArts blog (includes links to obituaries).
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December 19, 2011As an artist Havel played a key role in the Czech underground scene that included avant-garde band: Plastic People of...
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December 19, 2011Brookmeyer was integral to groups led by Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, and Clark Terry.
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December 19, 2011Appearing on countless jazz, funk, rock and pop albums spanning several decades, MacDonald might be the most recorded percussionist in...
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December 18, 2011She brought the music of the tiny Cape Verde islands off Senegal to a worldwide audience.
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December 10, 2011The Highwaymen made “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” into an international hit in 1961.
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December 07, 2011A versatile singer/songwriter who had many hits but was best known for his enduring 1973 soul anthem, “Drift Away.”
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December 05, 2011Sumlin played the guitar parts on Smokestack Lightning, Spoonful, and Ain’t Superstitious.
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December 04, 2011The musician, pioneer and bandleader introduced Latin American music to British audiences.
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December 03, 2011Vega played w/Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Count Basie and Duke Ellington and later led his own trio at...
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December 03, 2011‘Tappy’ performed with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, taught Clark Gable to play.
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December 02, 2011Leader of Keef Hartley Band and on and off again sideman of John Mayall, Hartley [8 April 1944 – 26...
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November 30, 2011Blackfoot was a longtime solo artist and a member of Stax vocal group the Soul Children.
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November 29, 2011Roady died in his sleep from heart problems. Roady also had cancer, but Kelley says it did not contribute to...
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November 28, 2011In 1955 MacManus joined Joe Loss and his Orchestra as trumpeter and featured vocalist, alongside the band’s female singer, Rose...
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November 28, 2011Khan once said that “The art of giving good sangat (accompaniment) is that you must subdue your ego.”
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November 28, 2011Motian is best known for his work w/Bill Evans trio (1950s-1960s) and in Keith Jarrett’s quartet during the 1970s.
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November 25, 2011The name ‘Shot’ was given to him by his mother at a young age, owing to his fondness for wearing...
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November 21, 2011He recorded w/Kitty Wells, George Strait, Les Paul, Everly Brothers, Louvin Brothers, Woody Herman and many others.
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November 16, 2011Rundgren reformed Utopia for a single NYC show to raise money for Klingman’s medical bills.
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November 16, 2011Pockriss wrote pop hits like Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Catch a Falling Star and Johnny Angel.
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November 16, 2011She spent much of her life playing jazz and welcoming aficionados to her French Quarter Club.
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November 13, 2011This incredible finger-picking blues musician and folklorist made St. John’s, Newfoundland his home for nearly 40 years.
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November 13, 2011The Stevie Ray Vaughan collaborator helped write some of the most recognizable blues songs of the 1980s.
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