Jazz Nekrolog 2006

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Maynard Ferguson
May 4, 1928 - August 23, 2006

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2006 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
January 2nd	Michael Scott Smith	American producer	59	[1]
January 4th	Bob Weinstock	American producer	77	[2]
January 5th	Karl Fian	Austrian trumpeter	45	[3]
6th January	Lou Rawls	American singer	73	[4]
January 8th	Jamie Hodgson	British photographer	76	[5]
11th January	Jesse Cryor	American singer	99
January 18th	Östen Warnerbring	Norwegian clarinetist, saxophonist and singer	71	[6]
21th January	Liz Diamond	American singer	79	[7]
22nd of January	Sherman Ferguson	American drummer	61	[8th]
January 25th	Bob Kalin	American drummer	95	[9]
January 28th	Niels Richard Hansen	Danish banjoist	72
3 February	Romano Mussolini	Italian pianist	78	[10]
February 4th	Bob van Oven	Dutch bass player	83	[11]
February 7th	Elton Dean	British saxophonist	60	[12]
February 7th	Jack Montrose	American saxophonist	78	[13]
February 11th	Roberta Como	American musician and arranger	83	[14]
February 12th	Harry DiVito	American trombonist	≈82	[15]
14th of February	Putte Wickman	Swedish clarinetist	81	[16]
February 7th	Ray Barretto	American percussionist	76	[17]
February 12th	Henri Guédon	French percussionist and big band leader	61	[18]
February 18	Roy Parnell	American club owner	63	[19]
February 28	Irv Kluger	American drummer	84	[20]
7th March	Hans Ruland	German author	≈57	[21]
8th of March	Raphe Malik	American trumpeter	57	[22]
9th March	Otto Flückiger	Swiss music critic	≈76	[23]
17. March	Narvin Kimball	American singer and banjoist	97	[24]
28th March	Don alias	American drummer	66	[25]
March 31	Jackie McLean	American saxophonist	74	[26]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
April 1st	Oscar Treadwell	American broadcaster	79	[27]
April 16	Schnuckenack Reinhardt	German violinist	85	[28]
April 23	William P. Gottlieb	American photographer	89	[29]
5th of May	Dick Gerhart	American saxophonist	77	[30]
May 7th	Hans-Jürgen Bock	German pianist	63	[31]
10th of May	John Hicks	American pianist	64	[32]
May 13th	Lew Anderson	American saxophonist	84	[33]
May 19th	Charles Turner	American trumpeter	69	[34]
May 20th	Tommy Watt	British pianist	80	[35]
May 22	Jack Fallon	British bass player	90	[36]
May 27th	Kenny Poole	American guitarist	58	[37]
30th May	Fredi Lüscher	Swiss pianist and publicist	63	[38]
June 1st	Hans Marius Stormoen	Norwegian bass player	62	[39]
2th of June	Goony Strömmer	Finnish drummer	91	[40]
3rd of June	John Blair	American violinist	62	[41]
6th of June	Hilton Ruiz	American pianist and composer	54	[42]
14th June	Roland Alexander	American saxophonist and pianist	70	[43]
June 16	Vlasta Průchová	Czech singer	79	[44]
25th June	Arif Mardin	Turkish-American producer and arranger ( Atlantic Records )	74	[45]
June 26th	Dietrich Unkrodt	German tuba player and bass player	72	[46]
June 30th	Ross Tompkins	American pianist	68	[47]

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
July	Stu Hacohen	Israeli multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger	≈76	[48]
July 4th	Ed Leddy	American trumpeter		[49]
5th July	Don Lusher	British trombonist	82	[50]
5th July	Cal Lampley	American music educator and producer	82	[51]
10th of July	Mikesch van Grümmer	German pianist	56
July 11th	Bill Miller	American pianist and band leader	91	[52]
July 12	Egon Christmann	German trombonist and composer	74	[53]
16th of July	Malachi Thompson	American trumpeter	56	[54]
July 18th	John Garvey	American music educator	85	[55]
July 19	Lazy ade Monsbourgh	Australian trumpeter, trombonist, saxophonist and pianist	89	[56]
August 1st	Rufus Harley	American bagpiper, saxophonist, and flutist	70	[57]
6th of August	Moacir Santos	Brazilian composer, saxophonist, arranger and singer		[58]
8th August	Duke Jordan	American pianist	84	[59]
August 9	Miguel "Anga" Diaz	Cuban-Spanish percussionist	45	[60]
12. August	Tony Hicks	British drummer	58	[61]
August 14th	Hank Kohout	American pianist	82	[62]
15th of August	Jorma Weneskoski	Finnish bass player	77	[63]
August 23	Maynard Ferguson	American trumpeter and band leader	78	[64]
August 28th	Pip Pyle	British drummer	56	[65]
August 30th	Burt gold leaf	American cover designer	82	[66]
September 1	Richard Egües	Cuban flautist	82	[67]
September 2nd	Tony DeNicola	American drummer and music educator
September 2nd	Dewey Redman	American saxophonist	75	[68]
September 3	Ian Hamer	British trumpeter	73	[69]
September 4th	Alberto Alberti	Italian producer	74	[70]
September 4th	Moses Khumalo	South African saxophonist	27	[71]
5th September	Hollis Gentry	American saxophonist	51	[72]
the 9th of September	Mel Wanzo	American trombonist	75	[73]
September 20th	Jimmy Vass	American saxophonist and flautist	69	[74]
September 24th	Aladár Pege	Hungarian bass player	66	[75]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
October 6th	Claude Luter	French clarinetist and saxophonist	83	[76]
8th October	Irv Manning	American bass player	88	[77]
9th October	Bernard Primeau	French-Canadian drummer	67	[78]
9th October	Sheldon Meyer	American historian	80	[79]
9th October	Rosanna Tavares	Brazilian singer	44	[80]
October 10th	Ed Summerlin	American saxophonist, composer, and music educator	78	[81]
the 20th of October	Frank Vicari	American saxophonist		[82]
23rd October	Emmanuel Soudieux	French bass player	87	[83]
October 27	Bob January	American multi-instrumentalist and arranger	72	[84]
November 3rd	Malachi Ritscher	American musician and sound engineer	52	[85]
November 5th	Woody Woodhouse	American singer and drummer	69	[86]
November 7th	Sonny Cohn	American trumpeter	81	[87]
November 17th	Ruth Brown	American singer	78	[88]
November 19th	Al Jackson	American saxophonist	86	[89]
22nd of November	Warren Bell	American saxophonist	77	[90]
November 23	Anita O'Day	American singer	87	[91]
November 24th	Walter Booker	American bass player	72	[92]
25. November	Bobby Byrne	American trombonist and band leader	88	[93]
November 27th	Don Butterfield	American tuba player, composer and publisher	83	[94]
December 1	Hank Shaw	British trumpeter	80	[95]
December 4th	Dave Black	American drummer	78	[96]
December 7th	Jay McShann	American pianist and band leader	90	[97]
December 8th	Martha Tilton	American singer	88	[98]
9th of December	Georgia Gibbs	American singer	87	[99]
12th of December	Kenny Davern	American clarinetist	71	[100]
12th of December	Oscar Klein	Austrian trumpeter and guitarist	76	[101]
December 14th	Ahmet Ertegün	American producer	83	[102]
December 14th	Frédéric Schlick	French accordionist	71	[103]
20th of December	Gerlach Bommersheim	German artist and musician	62	[104]
20th of December	Mick Mulligan	British trumpeter and band leader	78	[105]
December 22	Al Duffy	American violinist	100	[106]
24th of December	Kenneth Sivertsen	Norwegian guitarist, singer and composer	45	[107]
25 December	Bob Bodley	American bass player	56	[108]
December 26th	Betty Owens	American singer		[109]
December 28th	Nick Liebmann	Swiss drummer and music critic	56	[110]
December 28th	Dinerral Shavers	American jazz drummer and music educator	25th	[111]
December 27th	Wesley Robinson	American music promoter	80	[112]
30th of December	Tomasz Sacha	Polish musician	53

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
August	Henri Tallourd	French trombonist and singer	≈80	[113]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Pruter and Robert L. Campbell: The Premium Label ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ cf. there: Niels Richard Hansen
3. ↑ cf. fi: Jorma Weneskoski
4. ↑ cf. pl: Tomasz Sacha