Jazz Nekrolog 2003

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Herbie man
April 16, 1930 to July 1, 2003

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2003 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
6th January	Larry Charles	American woodwind	65	[2]
January 8th	Bobby Montez	American Latin musician and band leader	67	[3]
11th January	Bill Russo	American trombonist, pianist, composer and arranger	74	[4]
15. January	Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta	Chilean guitarist and singer	57	[5]
January 17th	Jaime Vivanco	Chilean pianist	42	[6]
21th January	Paul Haines	American poet and filmmaker	70	[7]
January 24th	Cy Touff	American trumpeter and trombonist	75	[8th]
31 January	Ludwig Stimmler	German bass player	62	[9]
February 1st	Mongo Santamaría	Cuban percussionist	80	[10]
3 February	Sven Svärd	Swedish musician	63	[11]
February 4th	Charles Biddle	Canadian bass player	76
February 5th	Werner Dies	German tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and guitarist	75
February 9	Ruby Braff	American cornetist	73	[12]
February 11th	Tommy Gwaltney	American multi-instrumentalist	81	[13]
February 16	Melvin Solomon	American trumpeter	90	[14]
February 18	Michel Graillier	French pianist	65	[15]
27th of February	Ameen Muhammad	American jazz musician, music educator, and composer	48	[16]
6th March	Linton Garner	American pianist and arranger	87	[17]
8th of March	Nathen Page	American guitarist	65	[18]
March 12th	Tom Boras	American saxophonist		[19]
March 24th	Artie Shapiro	American bass player	87
March 29	David Azarian	Armenian pianist	51	[20]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2nd of April	Maurice Merle	French saxophonist and composer	67	[]
April 5th	Rob Madna	Dutch pianist	71	[21]
April 6th	Babatunde Olatunji	Nigerian percussionist	75	[22]
7th of April	Andy Fitzgerald	American woodwind	87	[23]
7th of April	Jutta Hipp	German pianist, painter and designer	78	[24]
April 13th	Allen eager	American saxophonist	76	[25]
April 18	Fred Noble	American pianist, arranger and composer	89	[26]
20th of April	Teddy Edwards	American saxophonist	78	[27]
April 21	Nina Simone	American singer	70	[28]
April 25	Al Hood	American pianist and composer	67	[29]
April, 30th	Bill Napier	American clarinetist	76	[30]
5th of May	Frank D'Annolfo	American trombonist	95	[31]
May 20th	Paul Termos	Dutch saxophonist and composer	51	[32]
30th May	Tommy Mitchell	American bass trombonist	76	[33]
June 5th	Ola Calmeyer	Norwegian pianist	73
June 11th	Rudolf Tomsits	Hungarian trumpeter	57
June 13th	Harold Ashby	American saxophonist	78	[34]
14th June	Jimmy Knepper	American trombonist	75	[35]
15th June	Momo change Soumah	Guinean singer, saxophonist and composer	77	[36]
14th June	Volker Kriegel	German guitarist	59	[37]
June 19th	Peanuts Hucko	American clarinetist and saxophonist	85	[38]
June 27th	Lou Mecca	American guitarist	≈76	[39]

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
July 1	Herbie man	American flautist	73
7th of July	Oscar Valdés	Cuban percussionist	90	[40]
July 11th	Mickey Deans	American pianist	68
July 12	Benny Carter	American saxophonist, trumpeter, arranger and composer	95	[41]
July 14th	Tito Duarte	Cuban multi-instrumentalist	56	[42]
17th July	Alvin Alcorn	American trumpeter	90	[43]
July 18th	Ivar Brodahl	Norwegian violinist	75	[44]
July 27th	Artie Anton	American drummer	76	[45]
July 28th	Aaron Bell	American bass player and pianist	81
29th of July	Luther Henderson	American composer and arranger	84	[46]
6th of August	Grover Mitchell	American trombonist	73	[47]
August 9	Bill Perkins	American saxophonist and flautist	79	[48]
12. August	Andreas Skjold	Norwegian trombonist	73
August 23	Edward Zandy	American trombonist	83	[49]
26th of August	Wayne Andre	American trombonist	71
the 9th of September	Charles Harris	American bass player	≈87	[50]
September 19th	Frank Lowe	American saxophonist	60	[51]
September 20th	Johnny Best	American trumpeter	89
21st September	Joseph Habig	American trombonist and music producer	79	[52]
September 22	Hans Koller	Austrian saxophonist and painter	82	[53]
September 26th	Shawn Lane	American guitarist	40
September 26th	Stanislav Poschlakov	Russian composer and orchestra leader	66
September 28th	Gene Casey	American pianist, composer and arranger	70	[54]
30. September	Eddie Gladden	American drummer	65	[55]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
October 1	Chubby Jackson	American bass player	75	[56]
October 7th	Peter Gullin	Swedish saxophonist	44	[57]
9th October	Carl Fontana	American trombonist	75	[58]
9th October	Don Lanphere	American saxophonist	75	[59]
23rd October	Eraldo Volontè	Italian saxophonist	≈85
October 24th	Painted Johnson	Swedish saxophonist and band leader	90
October 26th	Roy Harte	American drummer	77
October 26th	Peter Niklas Wilson	German double bass player, musicologist and journalist	46	[60]
November 3rd	Aaron Bridgers	American pianist	85
November 9th	Buddy Arnold	American saxophonist and clarinetist	77	[61]
November 11th	Jean-Pierre Bionda	Swiss pianist	75	[62]
November 13th	Webster Young	American trumpeter and cornet player	71	[63]
November 26th	Meyer Kupferman	American composer and clarinetist	77	[64]
December 8th	Rubén González	Cuban pianist	84	[65]
10th of December	Ron Aspery	British saxophonist and keyboardist	60	[66]
19. December	Maynie Sirén	Finnish singer	79	[67]
December 22	Fred Zabin	American bass player	55	[68]
23rd of December	Don Lamond	American drummer	82	[69]

Exact date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2003	Bob helmet	American clarinetist	≈88
2003	Erik Parker	Danish trumpeter	≈85
2003	Jaime Vivanco	Chilean pianist	43

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. fr: Charles Biddle
2. ↑ Edward Bebko ( Memento of 8 August 2007 at the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ cf. no: Ola Calmeyer
4. ↑ cf. hu: Tomsits Rudolf
5. ↑ Herbie Mann ( Memento from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ cf. en: Mickey Deans
7. ↑ cf. no: Andreas Skjold
8. ↑ cf. en: Wayne Andre
9. ^ Johnny Best ( Memento of April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ cf. en: Shawn Lane
11. ↑ cf. ru: Пожлаков, Станислав Иванович
12. ↑ cf. Italian: Eraldo Volontè
13. ↑ cf. sv: Malte Johnson
14. ↑ cf. es: Roy Harte
15. ↑ cf. fr: Aaron Bridgers , en: Aaron Bridgers
16. ↑ cf. da: Erk Parker [1]
17. ↑ cf. es: Jaime Vivanco