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David Sanborn, an influential saxophonist, who found success across the genres of pop, R&B, jazz and more, died Sunday. David Sanborn, Grammy award-winning saxophonist, dead at 78 Skip to main content
David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist.He worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. [1]
Alto Reed, the longtime saxophone player for Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, died Wednesday of complications from colon cancer. Reed’s notable performances with the Silver Bullet Band ...
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.
Bumpus suffered a heart attack on February 3, 2004, while on an airline flight from New York to California, where he was scheduled to perform at the Columbia College Jazz Concert Series. The plane made an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, so he could get medical assistance, but Bumpus had died by the time the plane reached the ground. He ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more The post Wayne Shorter, innovative ...
Alto sax in the Buddy Morrow Band in the early 60s; Bari sax in the Maynard Ferguson Band; Lead alto sax in the Ray McKinley Band; Tenor sax in the Benny Goodman Octet; Bari sax in the Count Basie Orchestra for two years; Ramsay was hired in April 1984, three weeks before Basie died, to sub for Johnny C. Williams (born 1941), who had been hospitalized; Ramsay got the call from Basie's road ...
In other words, if a performer had a heart attack on stage, collapsed, and was taken off stage, dying shortly thereafter, then they should be in this category. However, if a performer died off stage shortly after performing, but showed no evidence of illness or injury during the performance, they probably shouldn't be listed.