He played with Gil Evans, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman and many others.
Jazz drummer Sunny Murray dead at 81
https://pitchfork.com/news/jazz-drum...ay-dead-at-81/
He played with Gil Evans, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman and many others.
Jazz drummer Sunny Murray dead at 81
https://pitchfork.com/news/jazz-drum...ay-dead-at-81/
The 1966 film helped popularize surfing. Brown wrote it, produced it and directed it. Cowabunga!
The Endless Summer filmmaker Bruce Brown dies at 80
http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/11/...own-dies-at-8/
In the early 2000s, DiNizio served as program director and on-air host of XM's Unsigned channel. It was renamed The Verge in 2006.
Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio dies at 62
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/...D=ansmsnnews11
The angel of death has issued The Termination Proclamation to Warrel Dane.
Warrel Dane, lead singer of Nevermore and Sanctuary, dead at 56
http://www.98online.com/2017/12/13/w...uary-has-died/
Among the many tv shows and movies he produced: Mister Ed, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Addams Family, Cagney & Lacey, The Sandpiper, Jagged Edge, Save The Tiger and Ice Station Zebra.
Martin Ransohoff, The Cincinnati Kid producer and Filmways Television co-founder, dies at 90
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ati-kid-809533
Bob Givens, who died December 14, worked at Disney, UPA, Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng and other animation studios. This headline tells what he was best known for:
Bugs Bunny designer Bob Givens dies at 99
http://www.animationmagazine.net/peo...ens-dies-at-99
Reggae singer Michael Prophet, born Michael Haynes, died today, December 16, at age 60. He had been battling lung cancer and a brain tumor. He released 27 albums, 1977-2009, and had several big reggae hits in Jamaica, the UK and parts of Europe. His biggest hits were Gunman and Your Love.
www.zonareggae.ro/2017/12/r-i-p-michael-prophet/
Iconic vocalist Keely Smith dies of heart failure at 89
San Jose Mercury News, Dec 17 2017 12:33 PM
Keely Smith, the iconic jazz and pop vocalist who achieved success as both a solo artist and with her musical partnership with first husband Louis Prima, died of heart failure December 16 in Palm Springs. She was 89.
Smith was a Grammy-winning talent who gained much attention when as a teenager she got the job as the "girl singer" in Prima’s band in 1948. She married Prima in 1953 and achieved success together throughout the entertainment business, starring in stage, television and movies and releasing hit records. They’d win a Grammy in 1959 — the first year the awards were handed out — for best pop vocal performance by a duo or group for their smash That Old Black Magic.
She was born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely in Norfolk, Virginia on March 9, 1928. At 15, she got her first paying job as a vocalist with the Earl Bennett band. After she joined with Prima, the pair delivered such memorable hits as Bei Mir Bist Du Schön and I’ve Got You Under My Skin. She made her solo debut in 1957 with I Wish You Love.
Smith remained active in the music business into the 2000s. She received a Grammy nomination in the traditional pop vocal category for the 2001 album Keely Sings Sinatra. Her final performance came on February 13, 2011, at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center in southern California. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and another on the Walk Of Stars in Palm Springs, where she lived for the past 40 years.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/1...failure-at-89/
Welch was well-known in Mississippi. He released three albums, all when he was in his 80s.
Mississippi bluesman Leo 'Bud' Welch dead at 85
https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2...welch-dead-85/
Baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, boxing, horse racing,
the Olympics.....in a 59-year career, Enberg called them all.
Hall Of Fame sportscaster Dick Enberg dead at 82
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/1...ead-at-82.html