RIP Roll-Call - 2004

Here's a few:

Ray Charles
Rick James
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Illinois Jacquet
Elvin Jones
Jerry Goldsmith
Elmer Bernstein
Robert Quine

Elliott Smith

John Balance
Cornelius Bumpus

(Smith was late 2003)

Johnny Ramone
Quorthon of Bathory
Dimebag Darrell

Hugh McIntyre, the bassist of the Nihilist Spasm Band, died Dec. 6 at 68. His ILM death notice was consigned to the ether, along with the other posts from that 17-day span.

Rappin Rodney

Rambler
http://johnsons-rambler.blogspot.com/

Musician Deaths in 2004

Renata Tebaldi
Lyric soprano

M.S. Subbulakshmi
Singer of Carnatic music

Sidonie Goossens
BBC Symphony Orchestra harpist

Margaret Fay Shaw
Collector of Gaelic folksong

Jerry Scoggins
Country and Western singer

C.P. Spencer
Motown singer, songwriter and producer

Elena Souliotis
Greek soprano

Dimebag Darrell
Ex-Pantera guitarist

Frederick Fennell
Symphonic wind conductor

Errol Thompson
Jamaican recording engineer

Norman Newell
Record producer

Kevin Coyne
Singer-songwriter

Jacques Levy
Lyricist, worked with Dylan and on Broadway

Billy 'Uke' Scott
Ukulele player and music hall star

John Buller
Composer

George Canseco
Composer of Filippino national hymn

Cy Coleman
Broadway composer

Terry Melcher
Byrds producer

Frederik Prausnitz
Conductor

Michel Colombier
Film composer (New Jack City), and "Godfather of French Fusion"

John Balance
Coil co-founder

Ol' Dirty Bastard
Wu Tang Clan rapper

Bill Reed
Doo-wop bass singer with the Diamonds

Terry Knight
Manager of Grand Funk Railroad

William Yarborough
Conductor

Pete Jolly
Jazz pianist and accordionist

Robert Heaton
New Model Army drummer and songwriter

Joe Bushkin
Jazz pianist

Howard Keel
Baritone

Robin Kenyatta
Jazz saxophonist

Terence Sharpe
Welsh baritone

Lilian Kallir
Pianist

Charles Zawose
Tanzanian musician

Robert Merrill
Leading baritone

John Peel
Radio DJ

Michal Hambourg
Pianist and teacher

Greg Shaw
Garage rock entrepreneur

Dave Godin
Soul CD compiler and music journalist

Heinz Wallberg
German conductor

Wally Harper
Arranger, composer and conductor who worked on Broadway

Vernon Alley
Jazz bassist

Juraj Benes
Slovak composer

Johnny Ramone
Guitarist with the Ramones

Dave Kirby
Country singer-songwriter

Ian Lake
Pianist and composer

Billy Davis
Songwriter - taught the world to sing and buy Coke

Carl Wayne
Lead singer with the Move

Laura Branigan
Singer, songwriter and actress

Hans Vonk
Conductor

Charlie Waller
Bluegrass singer and guitarist

Gnonnas Pedro
African salsa singer

Edmund Kurtz
Cellist and music editor

Melvin Endsley
Composer of 'Singing the Blues'

Gérard Souzay
Lieder singer

Elmer Bernstein
Oscar winning film composer

Michael Eagan
Lutenist

Tony Mottola
Emmy-winning guitarist who played with Sinatra

Robert 'Willie' Egan
Blues legend

Albi Rosenthal
Music collector

David Raksin
Film composer, wrote 'Laura'

Rick James
'Super Freak' songwriter

Piero Piccioni
Italian film composer

Carlos Paredes
Master of the Portuguese guitar

Yoko Watanabe
Opera singer

Jerry Goldsmith
Oscar-winning film score composer

James Williams
Pianist with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers

Sacha Distel
Smooth French crooner

Illinois Jacquet
Legendary saxophonist

Carlos Kleiber
Conductor

Bill Randle
DJ credited with establishing Elvis Presley

Claude "Fiddler" Williams
Jazz violinist

Arthur Kane
Original bassist with the New York Dolls

Edward Reilly
Mahler scholar

Naomi Shemer
Israeli songwriter

Jonathan Kramer
Composer and musicologist

Red Kelly
Jazz bassist

Iona Brown
Violinist and conductor

Ray Charles
Soul singer

Cyril Ehrlich
Economist and music historian

Robert Quine
Guitarist with Richard Hell and Lou Reed

James Savas
Music professor

Etienne Roda-Gil
Chanson writer - wrote 'Joe le Taxi'

Steve Lacy
Soprano saxophonist

Clint Warwick
Moody Blues bassist

Denis ApIvor
Composer

Lorand Fenyves
Violin teacher

Ronald Smith
Pianist, "the Alkan man"

Terence Pamplin
Instrumentalist and musical polymath

Rick Henderson
Saxophonist

'Gatemouth' Moore
Blues singer

Letitia S. Bernhardt
Founder of Baltimore opera

Elvin Jones
Jazz drummer

John la Porta
Clarinettist

Percy Young
Elgar scholar, composer and editor

John Whitehead
R 'n' B legend

Brenda Fassie
Queen of African pop

Erik Smith
record producer

Coxsone Dodd
Dub producer

Barney Kessel
"The best guitarist in the world"

Fred Karlin
Oscar-winning film composer

Ritchie Cordell
Songwriter of 'I think we're alone now' and others

Paul Hamburger
Vocal coach and accompanist

Juanito Valderrama
Flamenco singer

Argeo Quadri
Opera conductor

Colin Smith
Trumpeter with Acker Bilk

James H. Bey
Jazz percussionist

AC Reed
Saxophonist, singer and songwriter

Denis Stevens
Musicologist

Paul Atkinson
Zombies guitarist

Gabriella Ferri
Singer

Nikita Bogoslovsky
Soviet era composer

Sylvia Froos
Actress and singer

Bob Copper
Folk singer

Hubert Gregg
Songwriter

Johnny Bristol
Singer and songwriter

Vilayat Khan
Sitar player

Vilém Tausky
Conductor, composer and champion of Czech music in Britain

Sydney Carter
Folk singer and songwriter of ‘Lord of the Dance’

Preston Love
Jazz Sazophonist

Estelle Axton
Co-founder of Stax records

Tony Lee
Jazz pianist

RIP, all of you.

the list started sometime in March

also

John McGeoch
http://shotbybothsides.com/mag_john.htm

I didn't know about Sacha Distel!

This is great. Thanks everyone!

see The Rambler: Links:
http://del.icio.us/skills/obituary

Laura Branigan died? I had no idea.

i found out about this during the server downtime so couldn't post anything, but i think most of the LTM-heads already know: jenny cassidy, vocalist and keyboardist with section 25, died of cancer of the oesophagus on november 20. RIP.

Kenny Buttrey
Nashville session drummer

Jan Berry (of Jan & Dean)

Dave Blood, bassist for Dead Milkmen, RIP

skeeter davis. sigh.

Iain - cause of death isn't always easy to find out (many obituaries don't bother to include it), but if you go to my del.icio.us thread linked above, that'll take you to links for newspaper obituaries for everyone in my list (which isn't complete, admittedly). All of then have age and date of death; most have place of death too. A lot of the obits are now hidden behind registration walls, but if you try searching Google groups for the names you can often find copies.

Tim - Thanks a lot for that link. That truly is an exhaustive list. You're a good man!

No probs!

I was gonna say, if that isn't DJ Martian. . .

Marvin Santiago, "el sonero del pueblo" from Puerto Rico
Ivan Cáceres (a relatively new name in Puerto Rican salsa who was off to a promising start)

If you're being truly comprehensive, the drummer from crusty skacore band Leftover Crack pegged it in the last day or two

As well as Dick Heckstall-Smith (saxophonist)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=594800

Martha Carson (Gospel singer)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=595071

and Freddie Perren (composer)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/12/22/freddie_perren_61_composer/

... but you've got to draw a line somewhere! ;)

Add blues singer/guitarist Son Seals to that list. He died on Monday.

Mac Dre.

Malachi Favors, bassist for the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Someone with a name that good deserves eternal life.

If they want it.

RIP & ROLL.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Syreeta Wright.

Artie Shaw RIP. True passing of an era.