1941 - John Steel - Singer and musician with the Animals - "House of The Rising Sun". Age 71
1944 - Florence LaRue - Singer with the Fifth Dimension - "Up Up and Away". Age 68
1945 - John Stubblefield - A tenor saxophonist able to fit into a wide variety of advanced settings. During the 1970's, he worked with the Collective Black Artists' big band, Mary Lou Williams, Charles Mingus, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Tito Puente, Anthony Braxton, Abdullah Ibrahim, Miles Davis (1973), McCoy Tyner, Gil Evans, and Lester Bowie, among others. Age 67
1948 - Alice Cooper - (Vincent David Furnier) Singer - "School's Out". Age 64
1952 - Rickie Monie - A pianist and native of the 9th ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. His parents played piano in church, and at home they would spin records by Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, and other pianists. In 1982 he began sitting in for the aging Sweet Emma Barrett on piano. The time I spent sitting next to Sweet Emma was like going back to school, he remembers. Rickie has performed with Dave Bartholomew, Clarence Frogman Henry, Dr. Michael White, Gregg Stafford, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Topsy Chapman. When he's not on tour, performs weekly at Preservation Hall and regularly plays the organ in churches around New Orleans.
Age 60
1909 - Harold Dejan - Saxophonist from New orleans, Louisiana. He led small Rhythm and Blues groups and played in his brother, Leo's 'Moonlight Serenader's' as a teenager. Later he frequently performed with the 'Young Tuxedo Brass Band' and was the leader of the 'Olympia Brass Band'.
1925 - Robert (Catman) Caffrey - Saxophonist and native of New Orleans, Louisiana. During his career he worked with Roy Brown, Earl King, ‘Guitar Slim’, ‘Smiley’ Lewis, Joe Turner and Huey "Piano" Smith. He passed away in New Olreans in 2002 at the age of 76.
1927 - Tony Fruscella - A cool jazz trumpeter in the vein of Chet Baker, Tony Fruscella unfortunately lived a similarly addictive lifestyle that led to a tragically premature death. He died in 1969.
1937 - "A Study in Brown" was recorded by Glenn Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra for Decca Records on this day.
1950 - New Orleans, Louisiana native and blues guitarist and singer, Lonnie Johnson, entered the R&B charts on this day with 'Confused'. The song was written by fellow Louisiana native, Paul Gayten.
1961 - Alphonse Picou, traditional jazz clarinetist from New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day. He began his musical career in the late 1890's with Bouboul Valentin, and later organized the 'Acordiana Band'. He played with Oscar Duconge, Freddie Keppard's Olympia Orchestra, the Excelsior Brass Band and the Tuxedo Brass Band. In the late forties he played with the Celestin band and worked in the Paddock on Bourbon Street. Alphonse died during Mardi Gras, and had one of the biggest funerals in the history of New Orleans.
1972 - The Philharmonic Hall in New York was the scene as Charles Mingus performed on this day.
1973 - Merritt Brunies, traditional jazz trumpeter and trombonist from New Orleans, Louisiana died on this day. He was a member of the Brunies musical family that included brothers, Albert, Henry and George, and nephew Albert. His band recorded seven sides for Okeh and Autograph and they are among the rarest of collector's items. He recorded for American Music in the 1950's and died in Biloxi, Mississippi.
1978 - Louisiana native, Frank Lucas, hit the R&B charts on this day with the hit 'Don't Put Out The Fire'.
1982 - Scottish Rocker Alex Harvey passed away on this day. In the 50's he was known as the 'Tommy Steele of Scotland' and throughout the 60's and 70's different variations of bands that carried his name.
1987 - Today was a sad day in the glitz world as Liberace died at his California estate at the age of sixty-seven.
1989 - Sheriff's hit 'When I'm With You' arrived at #1 on the pop charts on this day.
2000 - Johnny Vincent (John Vincent Imbragulio), a record producer for Art Rupe at Specialty Records and founded Ace Records in 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi passed away on this day at the age of 72. He was a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. At Specialty he worked with John Lee Hooker, Earl King, and Huey "Piano" Smith. His greatest hit was with Guitar Slim and "The Things That I Used to Do" an R&B # 1 in 1954. Ace enjoyed several national hits in the late 1950s, such as Huey "Piano" Smith's "Rockin' Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu," and Frankie Ford's "Sea Cruise"; both of which Vincent produced.
1925 - Robert (Catman) Caffrey was born on this day. Saxophonist and native of New Orleans, Louisiana. During his career he worked with Roy Brown, Earl King, ‘Guitar Slim’, ‘Smiley’ Lewis, Joe Turner and Huey "Piano" Smith. He passed away in New Olreans in 2 ...see
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