A few years back, Roman Carter was touring with his brother Albert in Tokyo. As the Alabama-born blues singer tells it, “I was in a little nightclub, and they had some guy there playing the drums, saying he was Roman […]
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The irreplaceable jazz drummer Max Roach died in his sleep August 15. Roach played with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. He was one of the creators of bebop and a determined civil rights activist. […]
Jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul died September 11 of Markel cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. He was a member of Weather Report and worked with Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, and Dinah Washington. He was 75.
Outlaws founding guitarist Hughie (Hugh Howard) Thomasson died of a heart attack in his sleep September 12. Thomasson toured with the reconstituted Lynyrd Skynyrd for nine years before reassembling the Outlaws. He finished an album titled Once An Outlaw that […]
Gordon A. “Specs” Powell died September 15 of complications from kidney disease. As a pianist and drummer, he recorded with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. He was 85.
Blues harmonica player Gary Primich died of unknown causes September 23 in Austin, Texas. He released eight albums for labels including Flying Fish and Antone’s as a solo artist, and formed the Mannish Boys with former Frank Zappa drummer Jimmy […]
Bluegrass and gospel guitarist Larry Fuller perished when his tour bus caught fire in his Richmond, Kentucky, driveway on September 22. He recorded 21 albums, most recently as the leader of the Larry Fuller Band. Fuller was 58.
Former Emerson Drive bassist and singer Patrick Borque died September 25 in Montreal, Quebec, of undisclosed causes. He was 29, and had left the band in August.
Janis Martin, the rockabilly artist once billed as “The Female Elvis,” passed away peacefully after a short battle with an aggressive cancer on September 3 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. She was 67. Janis began performing […]
I first met Hilly Kristal in the summer of 1974, when the Ramones made their debut at his club, CBGB. At the time he was quite an imposing figure — tall, brawny, and dressed like a lumberjack — and I […]
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