Jazz Nekrolog 2010

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Other events | General necrology 2010

Manfred Schulze
(born August 17, 1934 - † July 25, 2010)

This is a list of well-known personalities from the field of jazz who died in 2010 . The entries are made analogous to the general Nekrolog 2010 in descending order and alphabetically with the same date.

January

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
31 January	John Norris	Canadian publisher (CODA) and producer (Sackville Records)	66	[1]
January 25th	Jane Jarvis	American pianist and organist	94	[2]
January 25th	David Via	American drummer and music educator	59	[3]
22nd of January	Surendran Reddy	South African pianist and composer	47	[4]
January 19th	Ian Christie	British clarinetist	82	[5]
January 19th	Lumark "Mark" Gulley	American drummer	39	[6]
January 17th	Maki Asakawa	japanese singer	67	[7]
January 16	Bruno De Filippi	Italian guitarist, harmonica player and composer	80	[8th]
January 16	Jimmy Wyble	American guitarist	87	[9]
January 14th	Bela Kamocsa	Romanian guitarist	65	[10]
13th January	Gosta Rundqvist	Swedish pianist and organist	65	[11]
13th January	Ed Thigpen	American drummer	79	[12]
13th January	Bob Thompson	American drummer and band leader	83	[13]
11th January	Georgi Garanian	Armenian saxophonist, orchestra leader and composer	75	[14]
11th January	Dennis Stock	American photographer	81	[15]
10. January	Dick Johnson	American saxophonist	84	[16]
6th January	Gigi Campi	Italian jazz impresario	81	[17]
January 5th	Willie Mitchell	American trumpeter and producer	81	[18]
January 3rd	Joyce Collins	American pianist, singer and music educator	79	[19]
January 2nd	Brenton Banks	American pianist and violinist	?	[20]
January 1st	Lhasa de Sela	American-Mexican singer	38	[21]

February

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
February 28	Ray Smith	American drummer and radio presenter	87	[22]
February 26th	Nujabes	Japanese hip hop and jazz DJ and producer	36	[23]
February 24th	Nevil Skrimshire	British guitarist, banjo player and author	≈86	[24]
February 22	Dan Kleiman	American producer, arranger and keyboardist	55	[25]
19th of February	Ernest "Doc" Watson	American saxophonist	77	[26]
February 18	Gloria Coleman	American organist	≈65	[27]
February 15th	Art Van Damme	American accordionist	89	[28]
13th February	Jake Hanna	American drummer	78	[29]
13th February	Tom Saunders	American cornetist and singer	71	[30]
February 9	Marek Bychawski	Polish composer	56
February 8	Jamil Nasser	American bass player	77	[31]
February 6th	John Dankworth	British saxophonist, big band leader and composer	82	[32]
February 7th	Karl De Karske	American trombonist	94	[33]
February 6th	Roger Guérin	French trumpeter and singer	84	[34]
3 February	Kurt P. Ardrey	American musician, actor, and poet	69	[35]

March

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
March 30	Nicola Arigliano	Italian singer	86	[36]
March 30	John Bunch	American pianist	88	[37]
March 30	Jeff Tillman	American guitarist	62	[38]
28th March	Herb Ellis	American guitarist	88	[39]
27th of March	Peter Herbolzheimer	German trombonist, arranger and band leader	74	[40]
March 24th	Jim Marshall	American photographer	74	[41]
March 23	Eugene Amaro	Canadian saxophonist	74	[42]
March 22	Ken Baldock	British bass player	≈78	[43]
March 22	Diz Disley	Canadian guitarist and cartoonist	78	[44]
March 22	Jackie Mills	American drummer	88	[45]
March 21st	Bernard "Bunchy" Johnson	American drummer and actor	57	[46]
March, 20th	Erwin Lehn	German musician and orchestra leader	90	[47]
March 18th	Claude Sifferlen	American pianist	?	[48]
17. March	Paul Polansky	Czech band leader and composer	85	[49]
17. March	Tadeusz Prejzner	Polish composer, pianist and arranger	85	[50]
March, 15	Steve Neil	American bass player	56	[51]
the 14th of March	Junior Collins	American French horn player ( Birth of the Cool )	82
the 14th of March	"Colonel" Sahle Degago	Ethiopian musician, songwriter and arranger	78	[52]
the 14th of March	Samson Mtukudzi	Zimbabwean saxophonist	21st	[53]
March 12th	George Ricci	American cellist	87	[54]
March 11	George Webb	British pianist, band leader and concert promoter	93	[55]
March 10th	Harold Kaufman	American lawyer, psychiatrist, pianist, and nightclub owner	77	[56]
9th March	Werner Deinert	German musician and orchestra leader	78	[57]
7th March	Tony Campise	American saxophonist	76	[58]
4th of March	Etta Cameron	Danish singer	70	[59]
3 March	Big Tiny Little	American pianist	79	[60]

April

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
April, 30th	Mike Arena	American saxophonist and band leader	82	[61]
April 29	Luigi Trussardi	French bass player	72	[62]
April 23	Georgia Lee	Australian singer	89	[63]
April 22	Gene Lees	Canadian music journalist and songwriter	82	[64]
20th of April	Rudi Fuesers	German trombonist	81	[65]
20th of April	Johnny Scott	Canadian saxophonist and singer	72	[66]
April 19th	guru	American rapper and fusion musician	48	[67]
April 16	Milton Kabak	American trombonist, arranger, and composer	84	[68]
April 16	Dominique Voquer	French guitarist	≈62	[69]
April 15th	George Melvin	American organist	63	[70]
April 13th	Steve Reid	American drummer	66	[71]
April 13th	Benny Rosario	Indian guitarist	?	[72]
April 8th	Alan John Rosewell	British trumpeter and cartographer	80	[73]
7th of April	Eddie Johnson	American tenor saxophonist	89	[74]
7th of April	Graciela Perez Gutierrez	American singer	94	[75]
April 6th	Luigi Waites	American vibraphonist and drummer	82	[76]
2nd of April	Mike Zwerin	American trombonist, pianist, and author	79	[77]

May

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
30th May	Kristian Bergheim	Norwegian saxophonist	83	[78]
May 29th	Dany man	German singer and actress	72	[79]
May 29th	Jochen Rose	German trumpeter	68	[80]
May 26	Brian Farnon	Canadian saxophonist, arranger and composer	98	[81]
May 24th	Andy McCloud	American bass player	61	[82]
23. May	Beaver Morrison	New Zealand singer	60	[83]
May 21	Niranjan Jhaveri	Indian singer and music teacher		[84]
May 20th	Bent Axes	Danish pianist and composer	84	[85]
May 20th	Donald Gardner	American drummer	53	[86]
May 18	Edgar Bateman	American drummer	81	[87]
May 18	Joe Broughton	American producer (Jump Records) and impresario	76	[88]
May 18	Larry Warrilow	American guitarist and arranger	64	[89]
17th of May	Max Lucas	American tenor saxophonist	99	[90]
May 16	Hank Jones	American pianist	91	[91]
May 9	Lena Horne	American actress and singer	92	[92]
May 7th	Francisco Aguabella	Afro-Cuban drummer and percussionist	83	[93]
May 6th	Ivy Graydon	Jamaican band leader	97	[94]
1st of May	Rob McConnell	Canadian trombonist, arranger and band leader	75	[95]

June

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
June 30th	Harry Klein	British saxophonist and clarinetist	81	[96]
June 28th	Earl Clark	American saxophonist	58	[97]
June 28th	Joya Sherrill	American singer	82	[98]
June 26th	Benny Powell	American trombonist	80	[99]
June 24th	Fred Anderson	American saxophonist	81	[100]
June 24th	Chuck Hedges	American clarinetist	78	[101]
June 24th	Francis Dreyfus	French music publisher	70	[102]
23rd June	Allyn Ferguson	American pianist, flugelhorn player, arranger and composer	85	[103]
June 21st	Stanlay "Kay" Kaufman	American drummer and music manager	86	[104]
June 21st	Tam White	Scottish singer and actor	67	[105]
June 19th	Jay Wadenpfuhl	American horn player, composer and university professor	60	[106]
18th of June	Aaron Dodd	American tuba player	62	[107]
18th of June	George Genduso	American trumpeter	88	[108]
18th of June	Joe Rinaldi	American saxophonist	85	[109]
17th of June	Thomas Eric Johnson	American trumpeter	59	[110]
June 16	Bill Dixon	American trumpeter and pianist	84	[111]
June 16	Jimmy Wyble	American guitarist	87	[112]
15th June	Wendell Logan	American university professor, composer and musician	69	[113]
15th June	Busi Mhlongo	South African singer	62	[114]
June 11th	Johnny Parker	British pianist	80	[115]
June 10th	Gene Conners	American trombonist	79	[116]
June 10th	Vinnie Dean	American saxophonist	80	[117]
June 9th	Paul Moer	American pianist	94	Paul Moer all music biography
June 9th	Harold Ivory Williams	American pianist and keyboardist	61	[118]
8th June	Porfi Jiménez	Dominican band leader and composer	82	[119]
June 5th	Danny Bank	American saxophonist and clarinetist	87	[120]
3rd of June	Frank Dawson	American guitarist and music teacher	72	[121]
June 1st	Ra'mon Quinones	American drummer	45	[122]

July

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
July 31	Mitch Miller	American music producer	99	[123]
29th of July	Martin Drew	British drummer	66	[124]
July 28th	Chris Dagley	British drummer	38	[125]
July 25th	Steve location	American pianist and bass player	62	[126]
July 25th	Manfred Schulze	German saxophonist, clarinetist and composer	75
July 25th	Fritz Trippel	Swiss pianist	72	[127]
July 23	Willem Breuker	Dutch jazz musician, band leader and composer	65
22nd of July	Harry Beckett	British trumpeter	75	[128]
22nd of July	Dick Buckley	American broadcaster	85	[129]
17th July	Brian Grice	American drummer	54	[130]
15th of July	Michael Porter	American clarinetist	58	[131]
July 14th	Gene Ludwig	American organist	72	[132]
July 12	Paulo Moura	Brazilian saxophonist and clarinetist	77	[133]
July 12	Harvey Pekar	American comic book writer and jazz critic	70	[134]
July 4th	Paul Fredericks	American trumpeter	87	[135]
10th of July	Francis Alfred Moerman	French guitarist	74	[136]
7th of July	Robbie Jansen	South African saxophonist, flautist and singer	61	[137]
5th July	Nana "Coyote" Motijoane	South African singer ( Stimela )	55	[138]
5th July	Robert Politzer	Austrian saxophonist, arranger, tuba player and bass player	70
3rd of July	Rick Blanc	American bass trombonist	≈60	[139]
3rd of July	David E. Chapman	American clarinetist, saxophonist and unionist	81	[140]

August

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
August 30th	Robert Emmett "Bob" Bowen III	American bass player and university professor	45	[141]
August 30th	Bob Lenox	American pianist, singer and composer	65	[142]
August 28th	Heinz Both	German musician, band leader, arranger and music teacher	84	[143]
August 28th	William P. Foster	American band leader and music educator	91	[144]
August 24th	Ryszard Misiek	Polish saxophonist	63
August 23	Tito Burns	British accordionist, band leader and promoter	89	[145]
August 23	Buddy Hughes	American big band vocalist	91	[146]
August 23	George David Weiss	American songwriter and composer (" Lullaby of Birdland ")	89	[147]
20th of August	Paco Charlery	Martinique-French percussionist	62	[148]
18th of August	Johnny Moon	American guitarist	89	[149]
17th August	Steve Fowler	American saxophonist and flautist	61	[150]
17th August	Dick Maloney	Canadian singer	77	[151]
15th of August	Ahmad Alaadeen	American jazz musician and music teacher	76	[152]
August 14th	Gene Hernández	American singer, percussionist and composer	62	[153]
August 14th	Herman Leonard	American photographer	87	[154]
August 14th	Abbey Lincoln	American jazz singer and actress	80	[155]
13 August	Esteban Jordan	American accordionist	71	[156]
August 11th	Leon Breeden	American musician	88	[157]
August 10	Bobby Paunetto	American vibraphonist	66	[158]
August 9	Betty MacDonald	American violinist	72	[159]
August 9	Ezra Ngcukana	South African saxophonist, pianist and singer	56	[160]
8th August	Jack Parnell	British music producer	87	[161]
6th of August	Clyde Kerr	American trumpeter and music teacher	67	[162]
5th of August	Derek Boulton	British music manager	82	[163]
5th of August	Armand Conrad	French saxophonist and clarinetist	77	[164]
before August 5th	Brian Crowther	British alto saxophonist	76	[165]
August 2nd	Friedrich Beyer	Austrian jazz musician and moderator	80

September

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
30. September	Ernst Gerber	Swiss saxophonist	69	[166]
September 27th	Buddy Morrow	American trombonist and band leader	91	[167]
September 27th	Ed Wiley Jr.	American blues and jazz saxophonist	80	[168]
25th of September	Irving Storm	American club owner (The Iridium)	77	[169]
September 24th	Jimmy Baum	American drummer	61	[170]
September 24th	LaVerne Christie	American guitarist	64	[171]
September 19th	Buddy Collette	American saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist	89	[172]
September 19th	Doug Edwards	American radio presenter ("Sir Doug of Edwards")	80	[173]
September 19th	Max Salazar	American author	78	[174]
September 15th	Claire-Chantal Bouasse	French guitarist	54	[175]
September 15th	Ahmed Salaheldeen	American saxophonist and music teacher	79	[176]
September 14th	Alf Kjellmann	Norwegian saxophonist, arranger and composer	72	[177]
13.september	Dumi Ngulube	Zimbabwean musician	41	[178]
September 11	Gunnar Hoffsten	Swedish musician, composer and band leader	86	[179]
September 8th	Hadley Caliman	American saxophonist	78	[180]
7th of September	Donald Faffley	American trumpeter	80	[181]
September 4th	Wally "Gator" Watson	American drummer	67	[182]
September 3	Noah Howard	American saxophonist	67	[183]
September 3	Vincent Kolbe	South African pianist, bookseller and political activist	77	[184]

October

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
28th of October	Jack Brokensha	Australian vibraphonist, drummer, composer and arranger	84	[185]
28th of October	Walter Payton	American bass player and music teacher	68	[186]
October 27	Alfons M. Duration	German musicologist and ethnologist	89	[187]
October 27	Ean Wood	British director, screenwriter and biographer	73	[188]
October 25	Brian Brocklehurst	British bass player	80	[189]
23rd October	Richard Dean Nunneley	American guitarist and music teacher	56	[190]
October 22nd	S. Neil Fujita	American graphic designer ( Time Out , Mingus Ah Um )	89	[191]
October 21	Chris Smildiger	Dutch bass player, pianist	81	[192]
the 20th of October	Harvey Phillips	American tuba player	80	[193]
October 19th	Michał Banasik	Polish pianist and composer	69	[194]
October 18	Gary Bannister	American concert promoter, jazz radio host, and producer	61	[195]
October 18	Marion Brown	American saxophonist and musicologist	79	[196]
October 18	Jack Lemaire	American guitarist, actor, and comedian	99	[197]
October 18	Michael York	American saxophonist	55	[198]
October 17th	Dennis Taylor	American saxophonist and author	56	[199]
October 13th	Soriba Kouyate	Senegalese griot and kora player	46	[200]
October 13th	Hans Martini	Canadian saxophonist and band leader	73	[201]
October 11th	Michael Morake "Rex" Rabanye	South African producer	66	[202]
October 7th	T Lavitz	American fusion keyboardist, composer and producer	54	[203]
October 6th	Serge Ermoll	Australian pianist	67	[204]
October 3	Campbell Scotty Hood	American bass player	76	[205]
October 3	Steve Richko	American pianist	33	[206]
October 3	Wendell Edward Echols	American music producer	83	[207]
October 1	Andrzej Brzeski	Polish trombonist, composer and arranger	66

November

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
30th of November	Monty Sunshine	British clarinetist and band leader	82	[208]
November 29th	Roy Kirby	British guitarist, banjo player and band leader	68	[209]
November 28th	Roy Reynolds	British saxophonist and flautist	81	[210]
November 26th	John Evers	Austrian trumpeter and radio presenter	71
November 26th	Mario Pacheco	Spanish music producer and photographer (Nuevos Medios)	60	[211]
22nd of November	Jun Fukamachi	Japanese pianist, synthesizer player and composer	64	[212]
November 19th	Albert "June" Gardner	American drummer	79	[213]
November 17th	Harry Whitaker	American pianist and composer	68	[214]
November 16	Mimi Perrin	French singer and pianist	84	[215]
15th of November	Roberto Pregadio	Italian musician, band leader and presenter	81	[216]
November 11th	William Charles "Chuck" Credo Jr.	American clarinetist and band leader	84	[217]
November 10th	Lee Harper	American trumpeter	65	[218]
November 10th	Rudy Reunes	Belgian trumpeter	43	[219]
November 9th	Bob Smale	American pianist	79	[220]
November 5th	Myrna Lake	American singer		[221]
November 5th	Sid Simmons	American pianist	63	[222]
November 4th	Rudy Regalado	Venezuelan percussionist	67	[223]
November 3rd	Hotep Idris Galeta	South African pianist, composer and music teacher	69	[224]
November 2	Eddie Hazell	American guitarist and singer	76	[225]

December

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
30th of December	Frank Robinson	British pianist	85	[226]
December 29th	Mondine Garcia	French guitarist	75	[227]
December 29th	Reed Vaughan	American drummer	75	[228]
December 28th	Billy Taylor	American pianist, composer and university professor	89	[229]
December 27th	Richard Carmel	American psychiatrist and musician	69	[230]
December 27th	Bill Maddox	American drummer	54	[231]
December 27th	Rory Thomas	Australian trumpeter	68	[232]
24th of December	Frank Beech	British saxophonist, clarinetist and entrepreneur	84	[233]
24th of December	Ricardo Batista Ximénez "Tarragona"	Catalan percussionist	46	[234]
23rd of December	Tom Castles	American pianist, singer and songwriter	102	[235]
23rd of December	Jack Towers	American Sound Engineer ( Ellington at Fargo )	96	[236]
21st December	Jack Tracy	American Editor ( Downbeat ) and Producer ( Chess , Mercury )	83	[237]
20th of December	Jean-Pierre Leloir	French photographer (Portraits Jazz)	79	[238]
19. December	Harold Blanchard	American pianist, arranger and composer	80	[239]
19. December	Trudy Pitts	American organist	78	[240]
December 17th	Captain Beefheart	American singer, band leader and painter	69	[241]
December 16	Tuomas Kalliala	Finnish bass player	76	[242]
15th December	John Mosley	American trumpeter	59	[243]
December 14th	Richard Lee Sisco Jr.	American saxophonist	50	[244]
13th December	Tony Castillo	Singaporean child actor, trumpeter and music official	64	[245]
12th of December	Rudy Stevenson	American guitarist, flautist, composer and producer	81	[246]
10th of December	Juanita Bramlette	American singer	87	[247]
10th of December	George Pickow	American photographer, filmmaker, and music producer	88	[248]
9th of December	Tommy Koverhult	Swedish saxophonist	64	[249]
9th of December	James Moody	American saxophonist and flautist	85	[250]
9th of December	Tony signs	South African pianist	73	[251]
3rd of December	Amit Golan	Israeli pianist and teacher	46	[252]
3rd of December	Catherine Potter	Canadian flautist	52	[253]

Exact date unknown

Day	Surname	Origin / occupation	Age	receipt
December 2010	Dave Tanner	British guitarist, composer and arranger	67	[254]
Announcement of death on August 19th	Daniel Cho	American cellist	33	[255]
Before May 1, 2010	Jesse Drakes	American trumpeter	≈85
Before June 22, 2010	Freddy Syer	British saxophonist and arranger	80	[256]
2010	Yvette Vickers	American actress and singer	82	[257]
2010	Valdo Williams	American pianist	≈81	[258]

Web links

• Deaths in 2010 , compiled by W. Royal Stokes and Ken Franckling in JJA News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marek Bychawski in the Polish-language Wikipedia
2. ↑ Jazz musician Manfred Schulze has died . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 27, 2010
3. ^ "Jazz clown" Willem Breuker dies ( Memento from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Jazz Podium 9/2010: 50
5. ↑ Ryszard Misiek in Polish-language Wikipedia
6. ^ Obituary in the Jazz Podium , 10/2010.
7. ↑ Andrzej Brzeski (muzyk) in the Polish-language Wikipedia
8. ↑ Jazz trumpeter John Evers dies ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Jesse Drakes in the English language Wikipedia