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Crawford died in Los Angeles, California on February 1, 1996 after battling Alzheimer's disease and is buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside California. He is the subject of a 2015 biography by Andrew Layton titled Ray Crawford - Speed Merchant. Dick Wallen, a noted auto racing photographer and publisher, also contributed to the book.
Ray Crawford (February 7, 1924 – December 30, 1997) was an American jazz guitarist who originally played tenor saxophone, [1] until tuberculosis prevented him continuing with the instrument. [2] He made notable contributions to albums by Ahmad Jamal, Gil Evans, and Sonny Criss, and pioneered a technique of rhythmic bongo-style guitar ...
The book explain how Crawford was known to all as 'Jungle Boy' because of his army service in Malaya. He had his own Jungle Boy chant used a lot by the fans. Crawford now works as a summariser on Express FM commentaries on Portsmouth matches and occasionally on Radio Suffolk on Ipswich Town games. He is known for his loud cheers and shouts and ...
Ray Hildebrand, who topped the pop charts in the 1960s as half of the duo Paul & Paula, died Friday in Kansas City at age 82. No cause of death has been given. Paul & Paula reached No. 1 in 1963 ...
Crawford was president of the real estate firm Crawford Edgewood Managers and chaired the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. [58] Crawford was diagnosed with prostate cancer around 1997. [59] Crawford died on February 10, 2017, at the age of 78. [60] He received a Catholic funeral at St Francis Xavier Church ...
The 1953 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1953.
Jamal made his first records in 1951 for the Okeh label with The Three Strings [18] (which would later also be called the Ahmad Jamal Trio, although Jamal himself avoided using the term "trio"): the other members were guitarist Ray Crawford and a bassist, at different times Eddie Calhoun (1950–52), Richard Davis (1953–54), and Israel Crosby ...
Daniel Ray Crawford, 42, was arrested on a bench warrant on Nov. 25 and taken into custody. The bench warrant had been issued after Crawford fled from his trial in Third District Court during a ...