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Musician Lil Hardin Armstrong, the former wife of Louis Armstrong, was appearing on a Chicago tribute to the jazz legend in August, a month after Louis Armstrong had died. She was playing St. Louis Blues on piano when she had a heart attack and fell to the floor. [19]
Following his time with Ellington, Marshall joined pit orchestras on Broadway and freelanced with Mary Lou Williams, Art Blakey, Donald Byrd, Milt Jackson, and Hank Jones among others. He retired in 1968, and died of colon cancer in St. Louis, aged 81.
Many musicians have been murdered during their active career. Most of the musicians had been shot or stabbed to death. Some of them have received extensive media attention, including the murder of John Lennon in 1980, the killing of Marvin Gaye in 1984, the murder of Selena in 1995, the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, the murder of XXXTentacion in ...
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 2000s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Jeanette Sliwinski (born 1982) is an American former model. She was found guilty of reckless homicide for an incident on July 14, 2005 when she attempted suicide while driving, causing a crash that resulted in the deaths of three local musicians, John Glick, Douglas Meis, and Michael Dahlquist. [1]
He left Ellington's orchestra in 1962, and went on to play with Dizzy Gillespie before taking a series jobs on Broadway as a pit musician. He and Ellington collaborated again in 1967 on a tribute album dedicated to Billy Strayhorn. Bell was a resident artist at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City from 1969 to 1972.
The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage to Helen Burger, and various cameos by ...
Bruce Patane Altomari Yarnell [1] (December 28, 1935 – November 30, 1973) was an American film, television, theatre actor and singer. [2] [3] He was known for playing the role of Deputy Marshal Chalk Breeson in the final season of the American western television series Outlaws. [1]