Jazz Nekrolog 2002

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Lionel Hampton
April 20, 1908 - August 31, 2002

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2002 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
21th January	Peggy Lee	American singer, composer and actress	81	[1]
February 1st	Streamline Ewing	American trombonist	85	[2]
February 2nd	Remo Palmieri	American guitarist	78	[3]
February 2nd	Kermit Scott	American saxophonist	87	[4]
February 6th	Wendell Marshall	American bass player	81	[5]
February 7th	Walter Bolden	American drummer, arranger and composer	76	[6]
February 8	Nick Brignola	American jazz baritone saxophonist	65	[7]
February 22	Ronnie Verrell	British drummer	76	[8th]
February 28	Helmut Zacharias	German violinist	82	[9]
4th of March	Malcolm Pinson	American drummer	≈60	[10]
6th March	Oliver Johnson	American drummer	57	[11]
March 10th	Shirley Scott	American organist	67	[12]
March 16	Edmonia Jarrett	American singer and actress	69	[13]
March 18th	John Patton	American organist	66	[14]
29th of July	Ben Lindgren	American bass player	55	[15]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
9th April	Weldon Irvine	American keyboardist and composer	58	[16]
9th April	Laro Sollero	French guitarist	≈64
April 18	Cy Laurie	British clarinetist and band leader	75	[17]
April 28	Jeff Pressing	American keyboardist and composer	≈52	[18]
April 29	Pete Jacobsen	British pianist	59	[19]
5th of May	Rolf Kronqvist	Finnish musician and producer	73	[20]
May 6th	Bjørn Johansen	Norwegian saxophonist and flautist	61	[21]
June 5th	Curtis Amy	American saxophonist and flautist	71	[22]
June 5th	Truck Parham	American bass player	91	[23]
14th June	Stanley Black	British composer, pianist, arranger and orchestra leader	89	[24]
June 21st	Matt Dennis	American singer, pianist, composer and arranger	88	[25]
June 24th	Joe Derise	American singer, guitarist and pianist	76	[26]
June 27th	Russ Freeman	American pianist	76	[27]
June 29th	Rosemary Clooney	American singer and actress	74	[28]

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2nd July	Ray Brown	American bass player	75	[29]
5th July	Harold Dejan	American saxophonist and band leader	93	[30]
7th of July	Ray Foxley	British pianist and arranger	73	[31]
8th of July	Vincent Forchetti	American trombonist	76	[32]
8th of July	Ward Kimball	American trombonist and band leader	88	[33]
July 11th	Erni Bieler	Austrian jazz and pop singer	77	[34]
July 13th	Jerry Fuller	British drummer	62	[35]
22nd of July	Marian Montgomery	American singer	67	[36]
July 23	Dieter Flimm	German drummer and designer	77	[37]
July 23	Idrees Sulieman	American trumpeter	77	[38]
July 26th	Tamio Kawabata	Japanese bass player	53	[39]
29th of July	Bobby Rodriguez	American bass player	75	[40]
August 2nd	Roy Kral	American pianist, singer and composer	80	[41]
4th of August	Daphne Hellman	American harpist	86	[42]
8th August	Wilber Morris	American bass player	64	[43]
8th August	Ronnie Stephenson	British drummer	65	[44]
August 14th	Larry Rivers	American painter and musician	78	[45]
20th of August	Chris Columbus	American drummer and band leader	100	[46]
August 22nd	Fernando Álvarez	Cuban singer	74	[47]
August 27	John S. Wilson	American author and radio host	≈90	[48]
August 31	Gordie Fleming	Canadian accordionist, pianist, arranger and composer	71	[49]
August 31	Lionel Hampton	American vibraphonist, drummer and band leader	94	[50]
September 1	Turk Van Lake	American guitarist, composer, arranger, author and music educator	84	[51]
September 3	Charles Frazier	American saxophonist and flautist	95	[52]
5th September	Charles McGhee	American trumpeter	69	[53]
5th September	Frank Hewitt	American pianist	66	[54]
17th of September	Dodo Marmarosa	American pianist	76	[55]
21st September	Peter Kowald	German bass player	58	[56]
September 23rd	Claudio Szenkar	German pianist and vibraphonist	62	[57]
30. September	Ellis Larkins	American pianist	79	[58]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
4th of October	Stanley Mendelson	American pianist	79
October 10th	Abe Most	American clarinetist and saxophonist	82	[59]
October 12th	Ray Conniff	American composer, arranger, orchestra conductor and trombonist	85	[60]
October 13th	Bill Berry	American trumpeter, cornet player and band leader	72	[61]
October 17th	Chuck Domanico	American bass player	58	[62]
October 17th	Tommy Loy	American trumpeter	72	[63]
October 17th	Henri Renaud	French pianist and composer	77	[64]
October 26th	Roman Kunsman	Soviet-Israeli musician and composer	70	[65]
28th of October	Johnny Dover	Belgian musician, band leader, arranger and composer	≈73	[66]
November 3rd	Lonnie Donegan	British folk and skiffle musician	71	[67]
November 5th	Gunnar Almstedt	Swedish bass player	76	[68]
November 13th	Nancie Banks	American singer and band leader	51	[69]
November 13th	Bill Berry	American trumpeter	70	[70]
November 13th	Roland Hanna	American pianist and composer	70	[71]
November 17th	Gösta Tönne	Swedish trumpeter and orchestra leader	89
22nd of November	Taswell Baird	American trombonist	≈80	[72]
2. December	Sometimes Waldron	American pianist	77	[73]
December 5th	Bob Berg	American saxophonist	51	[74]
11th December	Dolly Dawn	American singer	86	[75]
11th December	Lou Stein	American pianist	80	[76]
15th December	Dennis Moorman	American pianist and arranger	62	[77]

Exact date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
November	Moses Vinson	American pianist	≈83	[78]
November	Johnny Weed	British bass player	≈73	[79]
2002	Danny Negri	American pianist	≈82	[80]
2002	Alfred Cobbs	American trombonist	≈87	[81]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. fr: Laro Sollero
2. ↑ cf. sv: Gösta Tönne