Jazz Nekrolog 2005

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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
May 27, 1946 - April 19, 2005

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2005 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
January 4th	Guy Pedersen	French bass player	74	[1]
6th January	Les Robinson	American saxophonist	90	[2]
January 7th	Clive Burrows	British saxophonist	65	[3]
10. January	Theo Meurs	Dutch trumpeter	64	[4]
January 18th	Billy great	American saxophonist	81	[5]
21th January	Gianni Bedori	Italian musician	74	[6]
21th January	Mort Fega	American disc jockey and radio presenter	83	[7]
January 27th	Paul Nash	American guitarist and composer	56	[8th]
February 2nd	Christoph Eidens	German vibraphonist	46
February 4th	Ed Kelly	American organist and pianist	69	[9]
February 4th	Warren Vaché senior	American bass player	90	[10]
February 8	Jimmy Smith	American organist	76	[11]
February 9	Tyrone Davis	American singer	66	[12]
February 15th	Bill Potts	American pianist, composer and arranger	76	[13]
February 16	Danny Moore	American trumpeter	64	[14]
20. February	Pam Bricker	American singer		[15]
February 25	Pappo	Argentinian rock and blues guitarist, singer and composer	54	[16]
January 28th	Luizão Maia	Brazilian bass player and composer	55	[17]
3 March	Martin Denny	American pianist	93	[18]
4th of March	Marvin Jenkins	American pianist	72	[19]
5. March	Raymond Horricks	British music critic	72	[20]
8th of March	Larry Bunker	American drummer and vibraphonist	76	[21]
March 12th	Tom Justice	American trumpeter	85	[22]
March 16	Timofey Dokshitser	ukrainian trumpeter	84	[23]
March 16	Wayne Pedzwater	American bass player	48	[24]
March, 20th	Bobby Short	American singer and pianist	80	[25]
March 24th	Bernard Planchenaud	French drummer	80	[26]
March 30	RC Jones	American pianist	72	[27]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
April 13th	Johnnie Johnson	American pianist	80	[28]
April 13th	Salvador "Toots" Camarata	American trumpeter	91	[29]
April 14th	Benny Bailey	American trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer	79	[30]
17th April	Juan Pablo Torres	Cuban trombonist	58
April 19th	Stan Levey	American drummer	80	[31]
April 19th	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Danish bass player	59	[32]
April 22	Arnie Lawrence	American tenor saxophonist, music educator, and composer	66	[33]
April 23	Robert Farnon	American composer and arranger	87	[34]
April 23	Jimmy Woode	American bass player	75	[35]
April 25	Francis Bay	Belgian trombonist and clarinetist	90	[36]
April 28	Percy Heath	American bass player	78	[37]
April 29	Dianne Brooks	American singer	66	[38]
April, 30th	Jothan Callins	American bass player and trumpeter	62	[39]
April, 30th	Lars-Gunnar Pettersson	Swedish saxophonist		[40]
May	Billie Poole	American singer	≈75	[41]
May 3rd	Pierre Moerlen	French drummer and composer	52	[42]
5th of May	Brian Minter	British trumpeter	67	[43]
May 6th	Gary Frommer	American drummer	70	[44]
2005	Henry Cain	American pianist	≈70	[45]
12th of May	Monica Zetterlund	Swedish singer	67	[46]
May 13th	Eddie Barclay	French producer	84	[47]
May 26	Stig "Lalle" Johansson	Swedish saxophonist	81
28th of May	Walter Schaap	American music critic	87	[48]
May 29th	Oscar Brown Jr.	American singer and songwriter	78	[49]
30th May	Kasper "Stranger" Malone	American bass player	95
31. May	Daniel F. Traisci	American clarinetist and saxophonist	83	[50]
14th June	Bob Slata	Canadian bass player		[51]
2th of June	Wilma Dobie	American journalist and author	≈87	[52]
June 7th	Mark Manetta	American guitarist	49	[53]
8th June	Stan Wilson	American musician and songwriter	83	[54]
15th June	Per Henrik Wallin	Swedish pianist, big band leader and composer	58	[55]
17th of June	Billy Bauer	American guitarist	89	[56]
June 16	Henghel Gualdi	Italian clarinetist	80	[57]
18th of June	Chris Griffin	American trumpeter	89	[58]
18th of June	Basil Kirchin	British drummer and composer	77	[59]
17th of June	Charlie Harmon	American saxophonist	85	[60]
18th of June	Chris Griffin	American trumpeter	89	[61]
18th of June	Georgia Woods	American radio presenter	≈77	[62]
June 22	Bernard Hilda	French violinist	≈89	[63]
June 24th	Terry Morel	American singer	80	[64]
June 26th	John Darville	Danish trombonist	83	[65]
June 28th	Dale Norris	American saxophonist	68	[66]
June 29th	Mikkel Flagstad	Norwegian saxophonist and clarinetist	75	[67]

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2nd July	Tom Talbert	American pianist	80	[68]
3rd of July	Pierre Michelot	French bass player, composer and arranger	77	[69]
July 4th	Big Al Downing	American pianist, singer and songwriter	65	[70]
July 4th	John Stubblefield	American saxophonist and flautist	60	[71]
July 9	Darrel De Vore	American pianist	66	[72]
July 9	J. Spencer [Spencer McCormick]	American saxophonist	36	[73]
July 11th	Derek Hilton	British pianist	78	[74]
July 11th	Warren Luckey	American saxophonist	85	[75]
July 14th	Joe Harnell	American pianist, composer and arranger	≈81	[76]
16th of July	Blue Barron	American band leader	91	[77]
16th of July	Jackie Armstrong	British trombonist	85	[78]
17th July	Frank Deniz	British guitarist	91	[79]
17th July	Henryk Majewski	Polish trumpeter	69	[80]
July 18th	Joe Pagan	American percussionist	78	[81]
July 23	Ted Greene	American guitarist	58	[82]
24th July	Cathedral at Romao	Brazilian percussionist	80	[83]
July 25th	Albert Mangelsdorff	German trombonist	76	[84]
July 27th	Guy Lefebvre	French singer	≈58	[85]
29th of July	Al McKibbon	American bass player	86	[86]
30th July	Lucky Thompson	American saxophonist	79	[87]
July 31	Bernard Maury	French pianist and arranger	61	[88]
August 1st	Bernard Maury	French pianist	61	[89]
6th of August	Spud Murphy	American multi-instrumentalist, band leader and film composer	96	[90]
August 7th	Buddy Banks	Canadian bass player	78	[91]
August 7th	Keter Betts	American bass player	77	[92]
August 9	Detroit Junior	American pianist and singer	74	[93]
August 11th	Billy Robinson	American saxophonist	67	[94]
12. August	Francy Boland	Belgian band leader, pianist and arranger	75	[95]
15th of August	Joyce wine	American music manager, co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival	76	[96]
15th of August	Earl Zindars	American composer and percussionist	77	[97]
August 16	Vassar Clements	American fiddle player	77	[98]
August 19th	Joseph G. Carley	American entrepreneur, clarinetist, and music publisher	84	[99]
August 23	Glenn Corneille	Dutch pianist	35	[100]
August 23	Brock Peters	American actor and singer	78	[101]
26th of August	David Pitman	American trombonist and saxophonist	81	[102]
26th of August	Howard Overton	American drummer	64	[103]
August 27	Aleksander Ryabov	Estonian conductor and clarinetist	76
August 31	Artie Wagner	American pianist and arranger	85	[104]
September 1	Erik Frank	Swedish accordionist and composer	89
September 3	Alonzo Pookie Johnson	American saxophonist and singer	≈78
September 4th	Helmut Schlitt	German trumpeter	70	[105]
the 9th of September	Ezzie Samuels	American saxophonist	83	[106]
the 9th of September	Mel Wanzo	American trombonist	74	[107]
September 11	Al Casey	American guitarist	89	[108]
12th September	Willi Meerwald	Austrian trumpeter, trombonist and bassist	80	[109]
September 14th	Mike Elliott	American guitarist	65	[110]
25th of September	Georges Arvanitas	French pianist and organist	75	[111]
25th of September	Lou Carter	American pianist	87	[112]
25th of September	Steve Marcus	American saxophonist	66	[113]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
October 3	Alfredo Rodríguez	American jazz musician	68
October 14th	Oleg Lundstrem	Russian orchestra leader	89	[114]
October, 16th	Len Dresslar	American singer	80	[115]
the 20th of October	Shirley Horn	American singer	70	[116]
October 24th	Ron Simmonds	Canadian trumpeter, pianist and singer	77	[117]
October 29th	Rodney Richardson	American bass player	88	[118]
November 1st	Skitch Henderson	American pianist and band leader	87	[119]
November 3rd	Eddie Alley	American drummer	95	[120]
November 5th	Dennis Armitage	British saxophonist, pianist and painter	77	[121] (PDF; 211 kB)
November 12th	Arne Forchhammer	Danish pianist	71	[122]
November 13th	Harry Gold	British saxophonist, arranger and band leader	98	[123]
November 16	Roy Brooks	American drummer	67	[124]
November 19th	Bob Enevoldsen	American trombonist, bassist and arranger	85	[125]
22nd of November	Ken Mackintosh	British saxophonist	86	[126]
3rd of December	Al Mattaliano	American trumpeter	75	[127]
December	Francois Postif	French music critic	78	[128]
December 4th	Joe Jones	American singer	79	[129]
December 5th	Harry Pepl	Austrian guitarist	60	[130]
10th of December	Finn Ziegler	Danish violinist and vibraphonist	70	[131]
December 14th	Lulu Gontsana	South African drummer	45	[132]
December 14th	Fred Sharp	American guitarist	82	[133]
December 17th	Adolphus Morris	American bass player	90	[134]
19. December	Billy Amstell	British clarinetist	94	[135]
25 December	Derek Bailey	British guitarist	73	[136]
December 26th	Bill De Arango	American guitarist	84	[137]
December 29th	Jan Jirucha	Czech trombonist and singer	60	[138]

Exact date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
March	Gerd Mayer-Mendez	German bass player		[139]
2005	Ozren Depolo	Croatian saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger	≈75	[140]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. fr: Toots Camarata
2. ↑ Juan Pablo Torres at Discogs (English)
3. ↑ cf. sv: Stig "Lalle" Johansson
4. ↑ cf. en: Kasper "Stranger" Malone
5. ↑ ALEKSANDER RJABOV 28. VIII 1928 - 27. VIII 2005 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ cf. sv: Erik Frank
7. ↑ Jazz and Ragtime in Indianapolis ( Memento from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )