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Jerry Coker (November 28, 1932 – January 14, 2024) was an American jazz saxophonist and pedagogue. [1]Coker was born in South Bend, Indiana.He attended Indiana University in the early 1950s, but interrupted his studies in 1953 when Woody Herman offered him a job in "The Herd".
William Howard "Monk" Montgomery (October 10, 1921 – May 20, 1982) [1] was an American jazz bassist. He was a pioneer of the electric bass guitar and possibly the first to be recorded playing the instrument when he participated in a 1953 session released on The Art Farmer Septet.
Fairland, Indiana, US: Unknown [5] Del Palmer Bass guitarist and audio engineer: 71: January 5, 2024: Undisclosed [6] Iasos New-age musician: 76: January 6, 2024: Undisclosed [7] Tony Clarkin Magnum: 77: January 7, 2024: Spinal condition [8] Phill Niblock Avant-garde composer and filmmaker: 90: January 8, 2024: Manhattan, New York, US: Heart ...
George R. "Dick" Buckley (August 26, 1924 – July 22, 2010) was an American radio presenter who had hosted the jazz program, Jazz with Dick Buckley, on Chicago Public Radio. [1] His program, which was on WBEZ from 1977 through 2008, tended toward jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, or what he has called "Golden Era" jazz. In the early eighties, he ...
The Sacramento Bee has published a moving obituary for Robert Scott Ringwald — “known to most as Bob, and to a lucky few as Dad and PopPop” — written by his daughter.
Harry Sheppard (April 1, 1928 – December 27, 2022) was an American jazz vibraphonist who recorded and played with Roy Eldridge, Charlie Shavers, Red Allen, Cozy Cole, Sol Yaged, Georgie Auld, Clark Terry, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Lana Cantrell, [1] Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, [2] Barbra Streisand, Doc Severinsen, and Coleman Hawkins. [3]
Indiana was one of the first places where jazz music became popular outside of New Orleans and Chicago. In the late 1910s and through the 1920s the state had numerous bands of young musicians playing the new style for dancing. Richmond, Indiana was home to Gennett Records, known for recording a wealth of jazz, blues, and country music in the 1920s.
Robert Lee Flanigan (August 22, 1926 – May 15, 2011) was an American tenor vocalist and founding member of The Four Freshmen, a jazz vocal group.. The Four Freshmen originated in early 1948 when brothers Ross and Don Barbour, then at Butler University's Arthur Jordan Conservatory in Indianapolis, Indiana, formed a barbershop quartet called Hal's Harmonizers.