Legendary jazzmen and women who are still with us.

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Max Roach
Sonny Rollins

Anyone else?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Lee Konitz, Oscar Peterson, Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

George Russell

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

George Shearing

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Dave Brubeck's still alive too, isn't he?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Anita O'Day

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Lena Horne and Tony Bennett, if either counts as jazz.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Ornette Coleman!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Pharoah Sanders
Alice Coltrane

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Charlie Haden

Herbie Hancock

Wayne Shorter

Ron Carter

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Note: I kinda meant pre-sixties players, the fact that Pharoah Sanders or Herbie Hancock are alive at 65 isn't that surprising.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

ROY HAYNES

He's 80 and he looks like he's 50, it's nuts.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Does Les Paul count?

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

I got beat to the punch on Les Paul and Roy Haynes, but here are a couple more.

Teo Macero
Jim Hall

― earlnash, Monday, 8 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I guess all that snap crackle keeps you young, Jordan.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Roy Haynes could kick my ass.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Hank Jones

― Not Thaat Chuck, Monday, 8 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

For a while, Hurting, I thought you meant as a drummer, but now I think you mean in a fight.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

How legendary is Oscar Peterson? Ahmad Jamal?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I just saw McCoy Tyner last week, and he seemed to be in pretty good shape, but I guess he's not old enough for Tuomas.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

xpost, Seriously. The man is all muscle.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

i always think that jazzmen seem to have surprisingly long lives considering the drugs and era they come from. Obviosuly, there are some exceptions, but I thinlk if you were to compare rock musicians to jazz ones, jazz ones on average live longer

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Could he go toe to toe with Iggy Pop?

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Bobby Hutcherson

― deej.., Monday, 8 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Drummers definitely seem to live/play the longest.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Horace Silver?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Blossom Dearie

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

k - I'd put my money on Haynes. Low center of gravity, tough to take down.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Horace Silver IS still alive. Which reminds me - Benny Golson.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Harold Land

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Griffin

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Wait, Jordan's mom is a jazz legend and she's still alive...

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

(kidding) (ducks)

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

For realz?

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I thought Harold Land was dead tho?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

(I do know that there are one or two other drummers out there with the same name as Jordan)

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Pretty sure Harold Land is still alive, if not very active. A

And my mom has never held sung two notes in the same key in her life!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Also, Jimmy Cobb!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, it was a strange, failed joke.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

He's kind of the Tommy/Marky Ramone equivalent for Kind Of Blue.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Sam Rivers
Yusef Lateef

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Wait, Jordan's mama is Abbey Lincoln?!!?

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I really don't get this joke.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I didn't get it either, I was just running with it. You know, it's that old jazz thing- somebody makes a mistake, sometimes it's best to follow along.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Brubeck is still alive. Clark Terry too.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

i get to do sound for McCoy Tyner in less than a month. im so stoked.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Mose Allison

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Rick Braun
Boney James
Russ Freeman

― Nick Sylvester, Monday, 8 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Chico Hamilton--83 and still playing.

In addition to about a dozen criminally underrated records as a bandleader, he's played with Duke Ellington,Count Basie, and Billie Holiday, he helped Gerry Mulligan form his legendary quintet in '52, and he discovered Eric Dolphy, Gabor Szabo, Larry Coryell, and Charles Lloyd.

― Sean Howe (seanmhowe), Monday, 8 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

ornette coleman

― buyabiznatch, Monday, 8 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

How about (for jazz guitarists) Kenny Burrell and/or Herb Ellis?

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Lee Konitz!

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 8 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Harold Land died in July 2001.

― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Monday, 8 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

ruth brown

― anthony, Monday, 8 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure Kenny Burrell died last year.

checks

No, wait. I'm thinking of Barney Kessel.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 8 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

andrew hill
archie shepp
andrew cyrell
roswell rudd
anthony braxton
henry grimes
lou donaldson
jack dejonette
keith jarrett
donald byrd
marion brown
toshiko akiyoshi
yusef lateef

― ERIC LASKA (Ricky Ben-Udi), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Dewey Redman
Roscoe Mitchell
Andy Bey
Frank Wess
Milford Graves
...

...Newk pretty much towers over this entire thread of course, like some benevolent presence..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

Fred Anderson!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

isn't Philly Joe Jones still alive?

― drumnjazz, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Oscar Peterson is 80 now, but he seems to have disappeared out of all forms of media. Anyone know if hes still playing and how his health is? Any websites with this information would be great to have if possible.

― jazzenthusiast, Monday, 15 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Helen Merrill.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 15 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Too bad about Harold Land. Philly Joe Jones died a long time ago ('85 says AMG).

Louis Hayes is still around and playing great, though!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

wow, Anita O'Day is still alive?

man, I saw her footage in that Newport '58 film recently. she was something--a *fine* woman. really gorgeous and just a little twisted-looking. and for my money, one of the great jazz singers, not to get all whitney balliett on everyone...

I guess now I need to check out Lucky Thompson's work.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Barry Harris is 80 today. Happy Birthday, Barry!

― Tlön, Uqbar, Morbius Tertius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

So, I guess Jordan's mom is presumably named Sheila, right?

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:55 (sixteen years ago)

And a good friend of Barry Harris!

― Tlön, Uqbar, Morbius Tertius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/music/30jazz.html

― Tlön, Uqbar, Morbius Tertius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

Patty Andrews, the lead singer of the Andrews Sisters is still going at 91.

― everything, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

Yay Barry Harris, saw him a couple years ago and he was great.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

Al Foster

― anagram, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Saw Yusef last night and he was great. 92! Still searching!

― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 April 2013 13:57 (thirteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Lee Konitz!

RIP

― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:04 (six years ago)

From the first 10 in this thread, only Sonny Rollins is still with us.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:44 (six years ago)

so with konitz gone, that leaves no living members of the “birth of the cool” sessions. an incredible loss.

― budo jeru, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:15 (six years ago)

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