Jazz-Nekrolog 2000

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Jonah Jones
December 31, 1908 - April 30, 2000

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2000 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
January 2nd	Nat Adderley	American cornetist and composer	68	[1]
January 1st	Si hundredweight	American trombonist and band leader	82	[2]
January 4th	Louis Mucci	American trumpeter	90
10. January	Hank Freeman	American woodwind	81	[3]
15. January	Jerome Brainin	American pianist	83
15. January	Harvard I. Davis	American trumpeter	82	[4]
January 16	Gene Harris	American pianist	66	[5]
January 17th	Ray Alonge	American bugler	75	[6]
January 19th	Lars Bagge	Swedish arranger and composer	64	[7]
January 20th	Don Abney	American pianist	76	[8th]
January 20th	Al Avola	American guitarist	85	[9]
January 25th	Lin Halliday	American saxophonist	63	[10]
January 26th	Gérard Pochonet	French jazz drummer, composer and band leader	75	[11]
January 27th	Ray Alonge	American bugler	75	[12]
January 27th	Friedrich Gulda	Austrian pianist and composer	69	[13]
31 January	Ross Russell	American record producer and writer	90	[14]
February 4th	Joachim-Ernst Berendt	German editor, music producer and author	77	[15]
February 6th	Kent Brinkley	American bass player	50	[16]
February 6th	Gus Johnson	American drummer	86	[17]
February 7th	Charles Colin	American music educator, author, and trumpeter	86	[18] [19]
13th February	Donald T. Carson	American pianist	70	[20]
February 15th	Lech Terpiłowski	Polish pianist	70
19th of February	Cornelia Giese	German singer and composer	41
February 28	George Siravo	American musician, arranger and band leader	83	[21]
February 29th	Hidehiko Matsumoto	Japanese saxophonist and actor	73	[22]
4th of March	Władysław Daniłowski	Polish pianist, composer and singer	97
6th March	Ole Jacob Hansen	Norwegian drummer	59
March 11	René Cóspito	Argentine pianist and violinist	94
March 13th	Cab Kaye	American guitarist, pianist and singer	78	[23]
March 18th	Randi Hultin	Norwegian journalist	74
March 24th	Al Gray	American trombonist	74	[24]
28th March	Irving Joseph	American pianist and orchestra leader	75	[25]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
April 13th	Pete Minger	American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player	57	[26]
April 18	Betty O'Hara	American brass player	74	[27]
April 29	Don Johnson	American-Australian trumpeter and university professor	≈60	[28]
April, 30th	Jonah Jones	American trumpeter and band leader	91	[29]
1st of May	David Bryant	American bass player	78	[30]
2.May	Billy Munn	British pianist, accordionist and guitarist	88
2.May	Teri Thornton	American singer	65	[31]
May 7th	Barry Ulanov	American writer and jazz journalist	82	[32]
17th of May	Richard Payne	American bass and tuba player	68	[33]
23. May	Inka Zemánková	Czech singer	84
May 21	Buzzy Drootin	American drummer and band leader	80	[34]
30th May	Tex Beneke	American saxophonist and singer	86	[35]
31. May	Tito Puente	American percussionist	77	[36]
31. May	Joe Puma	American guitarist	72	[37]
June 5th	Arnold Ross	American pianist	79	[38]
6th of June	Clint Houston	American bassist and composer	53	[39]
June 9th	Buddy Jones	American bass player	76	[40]
June 9th	Abe Lincoln	American trombonist	93	[41]
June 12	Bruno Martino	Italian singer, composer and pianist	74	[42]
June 21st	Werner Lüdi	Swiss saxophonist and author	64	[43]
2th of June	Svein Finnerud	Norwegian pianist, painter and printmaker	54
June 9th	Burgher Jones	American bass player	76	[44]
23rd June	Jerome Richardson	American saxophonist and flautist	79	[45]
June 29th	Raymond Droz	Swiss trombonist	66	[46]
June 30th	Winstrup Olesen	Danish violinist, saxophonist and orchestra leader	93
June 30th	Anli Sugano	japanese singer	51

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
5th July	Julius Scheybal	Austrian guitarist	70	[47]
July 6th	Akira Miyazawa	Japanese saxophonist and clarinetist	73	[48]
7th of July	Annick Nozati	french singer	55	[49]
August 14th	Walter Benton	American saxophonist	69	[50]
20th of August	Bill Simon	American musician, songwriter, and music critic	80
August 21	Derek Warne	British pianist, vibraphonist and percussionist		[51]
August 23	Giulio Capiozzo	Italian drummer	54
26th of August	Harry Aaltonen	Finnish drummer	70
29th August	Joe Hackbarth	German drummer and painter	69	[52]
August 30th	Iggy Quail	Guyanese-British pianist	74	[53]
September	Claude Aubert	Swiss saxophonist, clarinetist and music manager	≈75	[54]
September 11	Pello el Afrokan	Cuban percussionist	67	[55]
12th September	Stanley Turrentine	American saxophonist	66	[56]
September 22	Willie Cook	American trumpeter	76	[57]
September 26th	Nick Fatool	American drummer	85	[58]
30. September	Werner Pöhlert	German guitarist and publicist	72	[59]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
October 6th	Pat Flowers	American pianist and singer	82	[60]
October 11th	Stubborn Nordin	Norwegian bass player	66
23rd October	Bengt Nordström	Swedish musician and producer	64	[61]
October 25	Jeanne Lee	American singer, poet and composer	61	[62]
October 29th	Dennis Sandole	American guitarist, music educator, and composer	87	[63]
30th of October	Maurice Cullaz	French music critic	88	[64]
October 31	Britt Woodman	American trombonist	80	[65]
November 2	Robert Scherman	American songwriter and record producer	85
November 4th	Vernel Fournier	American drummer	72	[66]
November 7th	Klaus Koch	German bass player	65	[67]
November 8th	Dick Morrissey	British saxophonist and clarinetist	60	[68]
November 24th	Stefano Cerri	Italian guitarist and bassist	50
25. November	Seppo Rannikko	Finnish saxophonist and composer	70	[69]
30th of November	Skeets Tolbert	American alto saxophonist, clarinetist, singer and band leader	91
December 1	Neal Creque	American pianist	60	[70]
19. December	Milt Hinton	American bass player	90	[71]
December 27th	Jack McVea	American saxophonist	86	[72]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. ru: Брайнин, Джером
2. ↑ cf. pl: Lech Terpiłowski
3. ↑ cf. pl: Władysław Daniłowski (kompozytor)
4. ↑ cf. no: Ole Jacob Hansen
5. ↑ cf. es: René Cóspito
6. ↑ cf. no: Randi Hultin
7. ↑ cf. sv: Billy Munn
8. ↑ cf. cs: Inka Zemánková
9. ↑ cf. no: Svein Finnerud
10. ↑ cf. da: Winstrup Olesen
11. ↑ Cadence, Volume 26, Issues 7-12, Bob Rusch, 2000
12. ↑ See Bill Simon (English WP)
13. ↑ cf. Italian: Giulio Capiozzo
14. ↑ cf. fi: Harry Aaltonen
15. ↑ cf. no: Stubborn Nordin
16. ^ Encyclopedia of the Blues, edited by Edward Komara, 2005, p. 36
17. ↑ cf. it: Stefano Cerri