Jazz Nekrolog 2008

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Esbjörn Svensson
* April 16, 1964; † June 14, 2008

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2008 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data.

1st quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
January 4th	Earl May	American bass player	80	[1]
January 4th	Irene Reid	American singer	77	[2]
January 5th	Paul Swain	American saxophonist and arranger	96	[3]
January 9th	Jean-Claude Naude	French trumpeter and composer	74	[4] (PDF; 8.6 MB)
11th January	Pete Candoli	American trumpeter	84	[5]
11th January	Bob Enos	American trumpeter	60	[6]
11th January	Steve Harris	British drummer and composer	≈59	[7]
January 14th	Pepe Torres	Spanish pianist and composer	≈47	[8th]
January 16	Marcin Małecki	Polish composer and pianist	43	[9]
January 17th	Stompie Mavi	South African singer	52	[10]
January 20th	Tommy McQuater	British trumpeter	93
21th January	Francis Clay	American blues musician	≈84	[11]
3 February	Conrad O. Johnsson	American music educator	≈92	[12]
3 February	Jackie Orszaczky	Hungarian-Australian bass guitarist, arranger and producer	59	[13]
February 4th	Chris Anderson	American pianist	81	[14]
February 7th	Sławomir Kulpowicz	Polish pianist	56	[15]
February 7th	Sławomir Kulpowicz	Polish pianist, composer and producer	56	[16]
February 12th	John Brunious	American trumpeter and band leader	67	[17]
13th February	Hansi Lang	Austrian actor and singer	53	[18]
13th February	Henri Salvador	French singer and guitarist	90	[19]
14th of February	Gene Allen	American woodwind	79	[20]
19th of February	Teo Macero	American producer, saxophonist and composer	82	[21]
21st of February	Mel Zelnick	American drummer	83	[22]
February 23	Stanisław Łałowski	Polish pianist	53
February 26th	Buddy Miles	American drummer	55	[23]
1st March	Sid Bulkin	American drummer	83	[24]
2nd March	Jeff Healey	Canadian singer, guitarist, trumpeter and composer	41	[25]
March 10th	Dennis Irwin	American bass player	56	[26]
March 13th	Wilfred Middlebrooks	American bass player	74	[27]
March 16	Ola Brunkert	Swedish drummer	63	[28]
March 16	Pete Chilver	British guitarist and hotelier	83	[29]
19th March	Eivind Solberg	Norwegian trumpeter and journalist	74	[30]
March 21st	Patti Bown	American pianist and composer	76	[31]
March 22	Israel Lopez	Cuban-American bass player	89
25th March	Gene Puerling	American singer, arranger and composer	78	[32]
March 29	Toto Rotblat	Argentine percussionist	38	[33]
March 29	Allan Ganley	British drummer	77
March 31	Ossi Malinen	Finnish musician and arranger	79	[34]

2nd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
April 6th	Donald Walden	American saxophonist and university professor	69	[35]
7th of April	Phil Urso	American saxophonist and composer	82	[36]
9th April	George Butler	American producer	78	[37]
9th April	Ozzie Cadena	American music producer	83	[38]
12. April	Bobby Tucker	American pianist	85	[39]
April 16	John Merritt Young	American pianist	≈86	[40]
17th April	Danny Federici	American accordionist	58	[41]
April 24th	Jimmy Giuffre	American clarinetist, saxophonist and composer	86	[42]
April 25	Humphrey Lyttelton	British trumpeter and jazz writer	86	[43]
April 28	Conny Jackel	German drummer and trumpeter	76	[44]
April 29	Mickey Waller	American drummer	78	[45]
May 6th	Franz Jackson	American clarinetist and saxophonist	95	[46]
May 7th	Arie Van Schutterhoef	Dutch composer and musician	≈51	[47]
May 9	Wayne Wright	American guitarist	80	[48]
10th of May	Mario Schiano	Italian trombonist	74	[49]
May 15	Walt Dickerson	American vibraphonist	76	[50]
May 15	Bob Florence	American pianist, arranger and band leader	76	[51]
May 16	Wilfrid Mellers	British composer and musicologist	94	[52]
May 16	Bill Reichenbach senior	American drummer	84	[53]
May 24th	Jimmy McGriff	American organist	72	[54]
25. May	Chauncey Welsch	American trombonist	81	[55]
May 26	Earle Hagen	American trombonist and composer	88	[56]
May 29th	Danny Moss	British saxophonist	80	[57]
30th May	Campbell Burnap	British trombonist and radio presenter	68	[58]
30th May	Nat Temple	British clarinetist and band leader	94	[59]
31. May	Reginald Rudorf	German jazz author	≈79
June 1st	Yoshitaka Uematsu	Japanese drummer	≈58	[60]
3rd of June	JT Meirelles	Brazilian saxophonist, flautist and composer	≈68	[61]
June 4th	Bill Finegan	American pianist, arranger and band leader	91	[62]
June 13th	Titi Winterstein	German violinist	51	[63]
14th June	Esbjörn Svensson	Swedish pianist and composer	44	[64]
17th of June	Roger Bell	Australian trumpeter	89	[65]
June 28th	Giancarlo Barigozzi	Italian woodwind	78	[66]
June 28th	Ronnie Mathews	American pianist	72	[67]
June 29th	Walter Santos	Brazilian guitarist	77	[68]

3rd quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
July	Ralph Hutchinson	British trombonist	83	[69]
3rd of July	Salah Ragab	Egyptian drummer and composer	73
7th of July	Bobby Durham	American drummer	71	[70]
7th of July	Ralph Hutchinson	British-American trombonist	83	[71]
July 11th	Motonobu Ohde	Japanese guitarist	54	[72]
July 13th	Gerry Wiggins	American organist and pianist	86	[73]
15th of July	Derek Moore	British clarinetist	77	[74]
16th of July	Jo Stafford	American singer	90	[75]
20th of July	Augusto Mancinelli	Italian guitarist	54	[76]
20th of July	Ira Schulman	American flautist, clarinetist and saxophonist	81	[77]
22nd of July	Joe Beck	American guitarist	62	[78]
July 25th	Hiram Bullock	American guitarist	52	[79]
July 25th	Johnny Griffin	American saxophonist	80	[80]
July 26th	Eric Tadla	Polish pianist	33	[81]
July 31	Joe Cocuzzo	American drummer and songwriter	70	[82]
July 31	Yusef Salim	American pianist	≈79	[83]
July 31	Lee Young	American drummer	94	[84]
August	Werner Burkhardt	German jazz author	≈80
August 1st	Yusuf Salim	American pianist
6th of August	Joe Brazil	American saxophonist and flautist	80	[Joe Brazil]
August 7th	Chris Calloway	American singer	65	[85]
August 10	Frankie Tam	American guitarist and band leader	93	[86]
12. August	Donald Erb	American composer and university professor	81	[87]
August 16	Randy D. Kaye	American drummer	61	[88]
August 19th	Clea Bradford	American singer	72	[89]
August 19th	LeRoi Moore	American saxophonist	46	[90]
August 23	Jimmy Cleveland	American trombonist	82	[91]
August 24th	Hansi Lang	Austrian singer	53	[92]
August 27	Peer Wyboris	German drummer	70	[93]
August 31	Walter Stuart	American trumpeter and arranger	82	[94]
August 31	BJ dad	American pianist	72	[95]
September 2nd	Arne Domnérus	Swedish clarinetist, saxophonist, composer	83	[96]
September 3	Pierre Van Dormael	Belgian guitarist	56	[97]
September 3	Roman Polt	Austrian trumpeter and singer	≈82	[98]
September 3	Géo Voumard	Swiss pianist	87	[99]
the 9th of September	Bheki Mseleku	South African guitarist, pianist, saxophonist, singer, composer	53	[100]
13.september	Larry Ernet	American pianist	77	[101]
September 14th	Christian Chevallier	French pianist, composer and arranger	78	[102]
September 15th	Staffan Abeleen	Swedish pianist and band leader	68	[103]
17th of September	Katsuji Abe	Japanese photographer, graphic designer and author	78	[104]
September 20th	Steve Gray	British pianist	72	[105]
September 19th	Dick brew holder	American trumpeter, jazz writer and researcher	69	[106]
September 22	Kofi Ghanaba	Ghanaian percussionist	85	[107]
September 22	Connie Haines	American singer	87	[108]
September 26th	Marc Moulin	Belgian pianist and producer	62	[109]
September 29th	Pat Crumly	British tenor saxophonist	66	[110]

4th quarter

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
4th of October	Al Gallodoro	American band leader	95	[111]
October 6th	Helio Orovio	Cuban musicologist and musician	70	[112]
October 11th	William Claxton	American jazz photographer	80	[113]
October 11th	Neal Hefti	American trumpeter, composer and band leader	81	[114]
October 11th	Nelson Symonds	Canadian guitarist	75	[115]
October 12th	Evelyn Francis "Cookie" Gabriel	American singer	73	[116]
15th October	Edie Adams	American actress and singer	81	[117]
October 18	Dave McKenna	American pianist	78	[118]
October 19th	Andy Goodrich	American jazz saxophonist	80	[119]
October 19th	Lawrence Wheatley	American pianist	73	[120]
October 21	Peter Levinson	American author	74	[121]
October 24th	Merl Saunders	American organist	74	[122]
November	Jozef Dodo Šošoka	Slovak drummer	65	[123]
November 1st	Rosetta Reitz	American critic and producer	84	[124]
November 3rd	Ion Prisada	Romanian saxophonist and flautist	≈79
November 4th	Colin Dunwoodie	British flautist, saxophonist and composer	63	[125]
November 8th	Mel Graves	American bassist, composer and music teacher	62	[126]
November 16	Tony Reedus	American drummer	49	[127]
22nd of November	Nico Rojas	Cuban guitarist and composer	87	[128]
November 27th	Pekka Pohjola	Finnish composer	56	http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Pekka+Pohjola+1952-2008/1135241479324 ( Memento from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
30th of November	Arno Flor	German guitarist and arranger	83
3rd of December	Derek Wadsworth	British trombonist	69	[129]
December 4th	Omar Clay	American drummer		[130]
December 4th	Frances Lynne	American singer	82	[131]
December 5th	Anca Parghel	Romanian singer	54	[132]
December 7th	Jimmy Gourley	American guitarist	82	[133]
10th of December	Klaus Weiss	drummer	66	[134]
12th of December	Prince Lasha	American saxophonist and flautist	79	[135]
15th December	Leo Ball	American trumpeter	81	[136]
19. December	Page Cavanaugh	American pianist	86	[137]
19. December	Buddy Charles	American pianist and singer	81	[138]
19. December	Know Cox	American pianist, composer and university professor	68	[139]
19. December	Susan Meyer Markle	American jazz researcher	80	[140]
23rd of December	Monty Waters	saxophonist	70	[141]
25 December	Eartha Kitt	American singer	81	[142]
25 December	Robert Ward	American guitarist and singer	70	[143]
December 28th	Kenny Mann	American saxophonist and band leader	81
December 29th	Louis Hjulmand	Danish vibraphonist	78	[144]
December 29th	Freddie Hubbard	American trumpeter	70	[145]

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
2008	Jacques Bureau	French author and co-founder of the Hot Club de France	≈94
2008	Jules Jacob	American jazz and studio musician	≈85	[146]
2008	Earl Knight	American pianist		[147]
2008	Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson	Icelandic vibraphonist	≈75	[148]
before October 21	Paul Binnings	American bass player		[149]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.netzeitung.de/entertainment/music/945917.html ( Memento from May 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/allan-ganley-drummer-of-faultless-instinct-who-played-with-all-the-jazz-greats-804925.html ( memento from 7 April 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ According to the obituary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 29, 2008, written by his friend Joachim Kaiser, he was found dead in his Hamburg apartment. An exact date of death was not known at this time.
4. ↑ http://carolinajazzconnectionwithlarrythomas.blogspot.de/2008/08/brother-yusuf-salim-rip.html
5. ↑ cf. fr: acques Bureau (SOE)