Jazz Nekrolog 2007

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Oscar Peterson
August 15, 1925 - December 23, 2007

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2007 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age
January 1st	Tad Jones	American music historian	54	[1]
January 4th	Dick Wetmore	American violinist and trumpeter	79	[2]
6th January	Jerry Gilgor	American drummer	82	[3]
January 9th	Ed Sarkesian	American club owner, concert promoter and music manager	89
January 12th	Jimmy Cheatham	American trombonist	82	[4]
January 12th	Alice Coltrane	American pianist, organist and harpist	69	[5]
13th January	Michael Brecker	American saxophonist and band leader	57	[6]
15. January	Steve Logan	American bass player	48	[7]
15. January	Hugh Walker	American drummer	64	[8th]
January 16	Pat Harrison	American percussionist	75	[9]
January 17th	Virtue Hampton	American bass player	85	[10]
January 20th	Esmond Edwards	American producer ( Impulse Records )	79	[11]
21th January	Frederick "Shep" Sheppard	American saxophonist	61	[12]
22nd of January	Siegfried Kessler	German-born French pianist and composer	71	[13]
22nd of January	Floyd Standifer	American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer	78	[14]
January 28th	Chico Chism	American blues musician	79	[15]
January 30th	Floyd Levin	American music critic and historian	84	[16]
31 January	Ronald Muldrow	American guitarist	57	[17]
February 1st	Whitney Ballet	American jazz writer and critic	80	[18]
February 1st	Lea Bishop	Swiss singer	70	[19]
3 February	Ralph de Toledano	American music critic	90	[20]
February 4th	Paul Burwell	British drummer	57	[21]
February 4th	Barbara McNair	American singer and actress	72	[22]
February 10th	Max Ray Clevenger	American club owner	80	[23]
February 10th	Hans-Georg Klauer	German drummer	70	[24]
February 12th	Peggy Gilbert	American saxophonist	102	[25]
February 12th	Eldee Young	American bass player	71	[26]
13th February	Hilton Felton Jr.	American pianist	60	[27]
February 17th	Mary Kaye	American guitarist and singer	83	[28]
20. February	Vilmos Jávori	Hungarian drummer	61	[29]
21st of February	Al Viola	American guitarist	91	[30]
February 23	Estella Etta Williams	American singer and pianist	89	[31]
February 24th	Leroy Jenkins	American violinist and composer	74	[32]
February 24th	Buddy protection	American drummer	92	[33]
27th of February	Burt Collins	American trumpeter	75	[34]
27th of February	Bobby Rosengarden	American drummer and band leader	82	[35]
7th March	Norrie Cox	American clarinetist	75	[36]
7th March	Murray Grand	American pianist, composer and songwriter	87	[37]
7th March	Ronnie Wells-Elliston	American singer	64	[38]
March 11	Tyrone Hill (musician)	American trombonist	56	[39]
March 13th	Gilbert Rovère	French bassist and cellist	67	[40]
the 14th of March	Werner Schmidt	German composer and pianist	81
March, 15	Zbigniew Kitliński	Polish drummer	60
March 22	Sim Simons	Belgian music critic	67	[41]
27th of March	Jürg Grau	Swiss urban planner and jazz musician (trumpet, guitar)	63	[42]
28th March	Tony Scott	American clarinetist, saxophonist and composer	85	[43]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age
April 1st	Danny Barcelona	American drummer	77	[44]
2nd of April	Richard B. Allen	American historian	80	[45]
April 15th	Emil Ludvík	Czech composer and arranger	89	[46]
10th of April	Dakota Staton	American singer	76	[47]
April 13th	Andrzej Kurylewicz	Polish piasnist, trombonist and composer	74	[48]
April 14th	Hermann Riley	American saxophonist	66	[49]
April 18	Peter Müller	German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist	60	[50]
April 18	Jan Cato Poulsen	Norwegian pianist	70	[51]
20th of April	Andrew Hill	American pianist and composer	75	[52]
April 25	Carmen Costa	Brazilian percussionist and singer	86	[53]
26th of April	David Salomon	American music critic ( metronome )	81	[54]
1st of May	Tim Eyermann	American saxophonist	60	[55]
2.May	Akbar DePriest	American drummer	76
May 6th	Alvin Batiste	American musician, composer and university professor	74
May 6th	Nükhet Ruacan	Turkish singer	56	[56]
May 7th	Ron Jefferson	American drummer	81	[57]
8th of May	Rod Levitt	American jazz trombonist and composer	77
May 9	Carla White	American singer	55	[58]
10th of May	Jack Wilson	American pianist, arranger and composer	70	[59]
12th of May	Humphrey Stewart Davis	American saxophonist	57	[60]
May 16	Topper Price	American singer	54	[61]
May 18	Herbie Lewis	American bass player	66	[62]
May 20th	Kalil Madi	American drummer	85	[63]
May 27th	Morris Edwards	American bass and tuba player	81	[64]
May 27th	Marco Ratti	Italian bass player	75
May 21	Peter Witte	German bass player	77
May 24th	Buddy Childers	American trumpeter	81	[65]
May 24th	Cédric Dumont	Swiss composer, conductor and author	90	[66]
3rd of June	Johnny Hope	British saxophonist	81	[67]
June 10th	Jacques Gauthé	French clarinetist and soprano saxophonist	67	[68]
June 4th	Fritz Münzer	German saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist	72	[69]
8th June	Nellie Lutcher	American singer and pianist	95	[70]
17th of June	Durval Ferreira	Brazilian guitarist and composer	72	[71]
18th of June	John William Barber	American tuba player	87	[72]
June 30th	Al Lirvat	French musician, band leader and composer	91	[73]

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age
July 1	Earl Watkins	American drummer	87	[74]
3rd of July	Johnny Frigo	American bass player and violinist	90	[75]
3rd of July	Boots Randolph	American saxophonist	80	[76]
5th July	George Melly	British singer	80	[77]
July 6th	Don Mumford	American drummer and percussionist	53	[78]
7th of July	Charles Cochran	American pianist and songwriter	61	[79]
July 9	Varty Hart	American saxophonist and nightclub owner	85	[80]
July 9	Elvina Makarian	Armenian singer and songwriter	56	[81]
21 July	Gerald Chamberlain	American trombonist	65	[82]
22nd of July	Sonny Dallas	American bass player	75	[83]
July 23	Jon Marks	British pianist	60	[84]
July 28th	Sal Mosca	American pianist	80	[85]
29th of July	Art Davis	American bass player	73	[86]
30th July	Manny Green	American big band leader	86	[87]
July 31	Bill LaVorgna	American drummer	74	[88]
3rd August	Earl Turbinton	American saxophonist	65	[89]
5th of August	Paul Rutherford	British trombonist	67	[90]
August 7th	George Triffon	American trumpeter	74	[91]
August 10	Kitty Grime	British music critic and singer	77	[92]
August 10	Harald Gundhus	Norwegian saxophonist and flautist	65	[93]
August 10	Mario Rivera	Dominican-American Latin jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist	68	[94]
August 11th	Herb Pomeroy	American trumpeter and university professor	77	[95]
August 14th	Jon Lucien	American singer, bassist and guitarist	65	[96]
15th of August	Leon Merian	American trumpeter	83	[97]
August 16	Max Roach	American drummer, band leader and composer	83	[98]
18th of August	Jon Lucien	American singer	65	[99]
August 19th	Johnny Fourie	South African guitarist	70	[100]
August 22nd	Alan Cooper	British saxophonist and clarinetist	76	[101]
August 22nd	Masahiko Togashi	Japanese drummer	67	[102]
August 25	Richard Cook	British author ( The Penguin Guide to Jazz )	50	[103]
August 25	Douig Riley	Canadian pianist, arranger and composer	62	[104]
29th August	Arnvid Meyer	Danish trumpeter	80	[105]
September 2nd	Henry McKenzie	Scottish woodwind	84	[106]
September 11	Willie tea	American R&B pianist and singer	63	[107]
September 10	Juma Santos	American percussionist	69	[108]
September 11	Joe Zawinul	Austrian keyboardist, band leader and composer	75	[109]
September 15th	Generoso Jiménez	Cuban trombonist and band leader	90	[110]
September 15th	Generoso Jiminez	Cuban trombonist	90	[111]
September 15th	Specs Powell	American drummer	85	[112]
September 19th	Mike Osborne	British saxophonist	65	[113]
September 15th	Aldemaro Romero	Venezuelan pianist, composer and orchestra leader	79	[114]
September 29th	Cees Slinger	Dutch pianist	78	[115]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age
October 3	Lloyd Trotman	American bass player	84	[116]
5th October	Jack Wilson	American pianist	71	[117]
October 12th	Jim Howe	British bass player		[118]
October 17th	Georg Oddner	Swedish photographer, screenwriter and drummer	82	[119]
≈ October 17th	Joe Palin	British pianist	73	[120]
October 17th	Teresa Brewer	American singer, wife of Bob Thiele	76	[121]
October 19th	Joe "Habao" Texidor	Puerto Rican percussionist and photographer	66	[122]
the 20th of October	Ruby Glover	American singer	77	[123]
October 25	Gift Essien	British clarinetist	72	[124]
October 27	Jack Brownlow	American pianist	84	[125]
October 29th	Kerwin James	American tuba player	≈35	[126]
30th of October	Les Condon	British jazz musician trumpeter, arranger and composer	77	[127]
30th of October	Hubie Crawford	American bass player	43	[128]
November 7th	Don Ayler	American trumpeter	65	[129]
November 8th	John Arpin	Canadian composer, pianist, musician, arranger and entertainer	70	[130]
November 12th	Aletra Hampton	American pianist and singer	92	[131]
14th November	Hans-Joachim Wiese	German restaurateur and organizer	67	[132]
November 16	Luqman Ali	American trumpeter and band leader	100	[133]
November 17th	Pavel Pešta	Czech bass player and band leader	62	[134]
20th November	Doc Paulin	American drummer	≈66	[135]
20th November	George Gaber	American drummer	91	[136]
November 24th	Alexandru Avramovici	Romanian guitarist, arranger and composer	≈75
25. November	Elaine Lorillard	American sponsor and co-founder of the Newport Jazz Festival	93	[137]
November 27th	Günter Noris	German band leader, pianist, arranger and composer	78	[138]
November 27th	Cecil Payne	American baritone saxophonist	84	[139]
December 1	Freddy Christmann	German trumpeter	76
December 1	Herbert Katz	Finnish guitarist	80	[140]
December 4th	Patato Valdes	American percussionist	81	[141]
December 5th	H. Wiley Hitchcock	American musicologist ( New Grove Dictionary of American Music )	84	[142]
December 8th	Billy Giddens	American pianist and arranger	83	[143]
December 14th	Frank Morgan	American saxophonist	73	[144]
December 17th	Joel Dorn	American producer ( Atlantic Records )	65	[145]
23rd of December	Oscar Peterson	Canadian pianist	82	[146]
December 28th	Bjørn Pedersen	Norwegian bass player	72	[147]

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
before May 28th	Take Toriyama	Japanese-American drummer	≈37	[148]

References and comments

1. ^ Zbigniew Kitliński in the Polish language Wikipedia
2. ^ Obituary ( memento of October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
3. ↑ Alvin Batiste and his student Wynton Marsalis . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 11, 2007
4. ^ Rod Levitt in the English language Wikipedia
5. ↑ Marco Ratti in the Italian language Wikipedia
6. ↑ Alexandru Avramovici in the Romanian language Wikipedia