Jazz Nekrolog 2004

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Other events | General necrology 2004

Artie Shaw
May 23, 1910 - December 30, 2004

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2004 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
January 2nd	André Persiani	French jazz pianist, arranger, composer and band leader	76	codexflores.ch
January 3rd	Don Leight	American trumpeter	80	local802afm.org
January 4th	Johannes Fehring	Austrian composer	77	musik-steiermark.at
January 5th	John Guerin	American drummer, producer and arranger	64	jazzhouse.org
January 8th	Frank Ténot	French journalist, jazz critic, jazz patron and publisher	78	deces-celebres.skynetblogs.be
21th January	Bill Yancey	American bass and tuba player	70	boards.rootsweb.com
22nd of January	Milt Bernhart	American trombonist and band leader	77	theguardian.com
22nd of January	Billy May	American trumpeter, composer, arranger and band leader	87	independent.co.uk
January 24th	Charles Bateman	American pianist	≈83	discogs.com
January 24th	Harry Verbeke	Dutch saxophonist	81	members.quicknet.nl
January 26th	Sam Furnace	American saxophonist and flautist	49	jazzhouse.org
January 30th	Malachi favors	American bass player	66	nytimes.com
January 30th	Frank Mantooth	American jazz arranger, pianist, composer and university professor	56	articles.latimes.com
February 1st	Buzz Gardner	American trumpeter	≈72	united-mutations.com
February 12th	Preston Love	American saxophonist	82	discogs.com
February 12th	Walter Perkins	American drummer	72	jazzhouse.org
14th of February	Grover Sales	American journalist	83	discogs.com
February 15th	Gil Coggins	American pianist	75	jazzhouse.org
February 16	Billy Brooks	American bass player and violinist	86	local802afm.org
February 16	Ella Johnson	American singer	80	nytimes.com
February 17th	Yuzuru Sera	Japanese jazz pianist	71
21st of February	Bart Howard	American composer	88	news.scotsman.com
February 23	Paul Affeldt	American author and record producer	73	roseleafragtimeclub.com
February 23	Neil Ardley	English pianist, composer and author	66	theguardian.com
February 23	Don Cornell	American singer	85	independent.co.uk
February 26th	Dick Borden	American drummer	68	[1]
February 26th	Jimmy Coe	American R&B saxophonist	82	hubcap.clemson.edu
February 26th	Alvino Rey	American guitarist and band leader	95	nytimes.com
February 26th	Heinz Niemeyer	drummer	73
2nd March	Berndt Egerbladh	Swedish pianist and television presenter	71
4th of March	Claude Nougaro	French singer	74	theguardian.com
5. March	Manu Teittinen	Finnish drummer	72	discogs.com
9th March	John Mayer	Indian-British composer	73	obituary
9th March	Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson	American pianist, composer and conductor	71	jazzhouse.org
9th March	Tony Lee	British pianist	69	independent.co.uk
March 16	Hank Marr	American pianist	77	jazzhouse.org
March 18th	Wallace Davenport	American trumpeter	78	allaboutjazz.com
March 18th	Delsey McKay	American pianist and songwriter	80	post-gazette.com
March 21st	Don Thompson	Canadian saxophonist	71	jazzhouse.org
25th March	Artie Baker	American woodwind	88	local802afm.org
26th of March	Joseph Dumas	American bass player	77	local802afm.org
March 31	Gunnar Johnson	Swedish bass player	79

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
April 6th	Jan Horne	Norwegian filmmaker, journalist and drummer	≈63
April 14th	Porky Cohen	American trombonist	79	[2]
April 16	Hannu Saxelin	Finnish journalist and musician	66	discogs.com
17th April	Joe Kennedy, Jr.	American violinist	80	jazzhouse.org
April 25	Claude Williams	American violinist and guitarist	96	theguardian.com
May 6th	Barney Boiler	American guitarist	80	timesonline.co.uk
12th of May	John LaPorta	American saxophonist and clarinetist	84	independent.co.uk
May 18	Elvin Jones	American drummer	76	nytimes.com
May 20th	Tommy Watt	British pianist and band leader	80
May 24th	John RT Davies	British saxophonist, trombonist and guitarist	77	telegraph.co.uk
3rd of June	Michael Gehrke	German jazz organizer	60	wietze-online.de
June 4th	Augie Cólon	American percussionist	76	the.honoluluadvertiser.com
June 4th	Steve Lacy	American saxophonist and composer	69	nytimes.com
June 5th	Carlo Bohländer	German musician, restaurateur and music teacher	84	saxophonforum.de
June 9th	Bent Jædig	Danish saxophonist and flautist	68	jazzzeitung.de
June 9th	Thomas Raymond Kelly	American bass player	76	independent.co.uk
June 10th	Ray Charles	American singer	73	nytimes.com
June 10th	Rosinha de Valença	Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer	62	[3]
15th June	Lennie Bush	British bass player	73	independent.co.uk
17th of June	Jackie Paris	American singer	79	nytimes.com

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2nd July	Carsten Klouman	Norwegian pianist, arranger and composer	80
5th July	Arthur Harper	American bass player	≈65	[4]
16th of July	Billy Mo	British-German trumpeter and pop singer	81	spiegel.de
July 19	Caitro Soto	Peruvian percussionist	69	[5]
20th of July	James Williams	American pianist, composer and arranger	53	jazzhouse.org
22nd of July	Sacha thistle	French singer and guitarist	71	theguardian.com
22nd of July	Illinois Jacquet	American saxophonist and band leader	81	independent.co.uk
July 23	Piero Piccioni	Italian film composer and lawyer	83	theguardian.com
July 26th	Gloria Agostini	Canadian harpist	81
July 26th	Julio "Chocolate" Algendones	Peruvian percussionist, composer and band leader	~ 70	[6]
July 26th	Sipho Gumede	South African bass player and singer	52	allafrica.com
August 9	Tony Mottola	American guitarist	86	discogs.com
August 10	Rolf Schneebiegl	German vibraphonist and trumpeter	80	stadtkapelle-freistett.de
August 14th	Brian Ogilvie	Canadian saxophonist and clarinetist	60	riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu
18th of August	Joe Dodge	American drummer	82
29th August	Jim Beebe	American trombonist and band leader	73	articles.chicagotribune.com
7th of September	Roland Dupont	American trombonist	95	legacy.com
September 8th	Frank Thomas	American pianist	92	discogs.com
September 10	Gordon Brisker	American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist and university professor	66	jazzzeitung.de
16th September	Dolly Rathebe	American singer	76	news.scotsman.com
September 23rd	Lucille Dixon	American bass player and band leader	81	local802afm.org

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
October 2nd	Bjørnar Andresen	Norwegian bass player and guitarist	59
October 2nd	Roland Faulkner	American guitarist	72	[7]
October 2nd	Max Geldray	American harmonica player	88	independent.co.uk
October 3	Vernon Alley	American bass player	89	sfgate.com
October 10th	Dora Musumeci	Italian pianist	70
October 12th	Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer	German music producer	77	allaboutjazz.com
15th October	Bill Eyden	British drummer	74	discogs.com
October 17th	Jean Bonal	French guitarist	79	[8th]
October 26th	Robin Kenyatta	American alto saxophonist and flautist	62	query.nytimes.com
November 1st	Mark Ledford	American jazz singer, trumpeter, guitarist and drummer	44	allaboutjazz.com
November 3rd	Joe Bushkin	American pianist	88	independent.co.uk
November 6th	Pete Jolly	American pianist and accordionist	72	timesonline.co.uk
November 7th	Basil Spears	American singer and pianist	83	[9]
14th November	Michel Colombier	French pianist and composer	65	michelcolombier.com
November 18	Cy Coleman	American composer	75	theguardian.com
25. November	Frank Haggerty	American guitarist and banjoist	86	discogs.com
November 28th	Gil Mellé	American visual artist, jazz musician, and film composer	72	allaboutjazz.com
October 29th	Jimmy Lovelace	American drummer	64	[10]
20th November	Bob Maize	American bass player	59	jazzhouse.org
12th of December	Frank Isola	American drummer	80	timesonline.co.uk
December 17th	Dick Heckstall-Smith	British saxophonist	70	timesonline.co.uk
23rd of December	John Duarte	British guitarist, composer, music educator and music critic	85	timesonline.co.uk
23rd of December	Leslie Gourse	American journalist and jazz writer	65	query.nytimes.com
December 26th	Sigurd Køhn	Norwegian saxophonist	45
December 27th	Hank Garland	American guitarist	74	independent.co.uk
30th of December	Artie Shaw	American clarinetist, arranger, composer and band leader	94	independent.co.uk

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2004	Kind of Ryerson	American banjoist and guitarist	≈91	discogs.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ J. Wölfer: Jazz in Germany. P. 246.