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The following is a list of deaths in March 2009. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
In August 1997, The Lew Anderson Big Band began an open-ended engagement at Birdland, then on the Upper Wide Side of Manhattan. The introduction to Birdland was made by American Music Projects' Janet Solesky (born 1949). [6] The band, until Anderson's death, remained in residence during the same time — early set, Fridays — at Birdland Jazz ...
From 1985 to 1989, Duchin had a professional partnership with Jimmy Maxwell, leader of the traditional society jazz band in New Orleans. By 2009, Duchin's band had played at an estimated 6,000 performances. [2] Duchin is an honorary member and former Vice-Chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts.
Benjamin Lothair Shook was a bandleader, singer, and composer. He and his band along with the bands of Theodore Finney and Fred S. Stone "monopolized" Detroit's "entertainment and social world to the almost complete exclusion of white performers.. up into the 1920s."
Rich was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents Bess Skolnik and Robert Rich, both American vaudevillians. [5]: 6 At 18 months old, he became part of his parents' vaudeville act, dressed in a sailor suit playing an arrangement of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" behind a large bass and snare drum - an act which concluded with him emerging from behind the drums tap-dancing ...
In 2013, a featured song called "K.C.S." was included on the album Savages by the heavy metal band Soulfly that was released on October 4, 2013, and was written by Harris and Max Cavalera. [ 3 ] His latest band project is called Brave the Cold, and their debut album, Scarcity , is set to be released digitally on October 2, 2020, on the label ...