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Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.
Over recent years The Firebirds toured Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Spain, as well as a successful tour in the United States. They were the only British band to play the 2002 Rockabilly Festival, which marked the 50th anniversary of Sun Records and 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley 's death.
She was pronounced dead at 11:43 pm. [4] Guyard-Guillot's death was the first on-stage accident resulting in death in Cirque du Soleil's 30-year history. She was 31 at the time of her death. [2] On July 2, 2013, the Clark County Coroner's Office said Guyard-Guillot fell around 90 feet (27 m), which is almost twice the distance reported initially.
Peggy Gilbert (January 17, 1905 – February 12, 2007), born Margaret Fern Knechtges, [1] was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader.. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa.. When she was seven years old, she played piano and violin with her father's band; she later discovered jazz and started to play the saxop
One of the most memorable, if infamous and incongruous, moments in Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys is that crazy concert scene, when a hulking, shirtless, and most ...
"The outstanding female jazz vocalist of her generation," said critic Francis Davis, attending the recording. [ 5 ] No More Blues (1989), her first album for Concord Jazz , was recorded with guitarists Emily Remler and Bucky Pizzarelli and pianist Dave Frishberg . [ 6 ]
David Sanborn, the influential saxophonist whose Grammy-winning career included collaborations with Stevie Wonder and David Bowie, has died. He was 78.
Betty Smith (6 July 1929 – 21 January 2011) was an English jazz saxophonist and singer. She began playing the saxophone at the age of nine and left school six years later to perform with the travelling all-female septet Archie's Juveniles. She performed in the Middle East in 1947 and flew to Germany the following year.