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Dec 24, 2022 · Maxi Jazz, the lead singer of British dance act Faithless, has died aged 65. The musician and DJ, whose real name was Maxwell Fraser, was a core member of the group which is best known for its...
Dec 24, 2022 · Maxi Jazz, lead singer of the British dance act Faithless, died at the age of 65 on Friday night, his former bandmate revealed. The Brixton-born singer is said to have died “peacefully in his sleep”.
Dec 24, 2022 · Faithless singer Maxi Jazz has died at the age of 65, with tributes pouring in for the late singer from fans and celebrity pals following his death being announced via social media earlier...
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- Bix Beiderbecke
- Charlie Christian
- Fats Waller
- Nat King Cole
- Chick Webb
- Eric Dolphy
- Charlie Parker
Another jazz trumpeter suffered a similar fate, robbing the world of his promise. Clifford Brown received the New Star award in the 1956 Down Beatcritics’ poll. Six years earlier, after attending Maryland State University, Brown had been in a serious car accident that delayed his recording debut until 1952. Four years later, just hours before his d...
Edward Lee Morgan was 33 years old when he died in very different circumstances. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a hard bop trumpeter and joined the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at 18. Morgan was one of those artists who transcended musical genres, and, in 1956, he began his prolific recording stint with Blue Note, releasing 25 albums and...
Fats Navarro was considered Dizzy’s main rival, as superbly demonstrated on the Fats Navarro Memorial Album, issued shortly after his death. Navarro, born in Key West, Florida, and of Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage, was a major influence on Clifford Brown and many others that followed him, but he died aged just 26. Navarro was a heroin addict and he...
The Mississippi riverboat that the 20-year-old Louis Armstrongworked on cruised up and down the mighty river, and one day in 1921 he met a 17-year-old white guy with pretensions to play hot trumpet. Bix Beiderbecke, from a well-off family of German immigrants, lived in Davenport, Iowa, and introduced himself to Louis. The two became friendly, and B...
Another early jazz pioneerwho succumbed to tuberculosis was the brilliant guitarist Charlie Christian. Born in Bonham, Texas, he took the electric guitar from the staccato rhythm swing style of Freddie Green to the more modern bebop and cool jazz sounds that were then taken up by Oscar Moore, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis. Christian was...
Thomas Wright Waller – The King Of The Harlem Stride Pianists – was born the son of a preacher man in New York City, and his first musical experiences were playing the harmonium for his father’s sermons. While his piano-playing become an inspiration to many, it was not until the man more commonly known as “Fats” began singing, in 1930, that he foun...
As Fats’ life was coming to an end another, very different, pianist’s career was just getting underway. Nat King Colebegan performing in the mid-30s, while still a teenager, and his first hit was “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” which sold over 500,000 copies for Capitol Records in 1943. It was as a singer that Nat Cole captivated so many, and this s...
Drummers generally lived longer lives than their musical contemporaries, but not so the tragic figure of Chick Webb. When 18-year-old Ella Fitzgeraldlanded a job as the singer with Chick Webb And His Orchestra, in 1935, the drummer was already a sick man. Webb had contracted tuberculosis of the spine while he was a child, leaving him both extremely...
There are a number of jazz saxophonists that have been taken too soon, including the great Eric Dolphy, who was just 36 years old when he died in Berlin, Germany, while on tour, shortly after recording his seminal album Out To Lunch. Just before he went on tour in the early summer of 1964, Dolphy said, “I’m on my way to Europe to live for a while. ...
Charlie Parker Jr, the man nicknamed “Bird” was one of the most important figures in the development of jazz and was two years younger than Dolphy when he died of lobar pneumonia. Parker hailed from the jazz well that was Kansas City, and, by 1940, he’d joined pianist Jay McShann’s Band, writing arrangements as well as leading the sax section. By 1...
Dec 25, 2022 · Maxi Jazz, the lead singer of dance group Faithless, has died at 65. Announcing his death on Facebook, the group said: "We are heartbroken to say Maxi Jazz died last night. He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways. "He gave proper meaning and message to our music.
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Dec 24, 2022 · Faithless lead singer Maxi Jazz has died aged 65. The group announced on Facebook: ‘We are heartbroken to say Maxi Jazz died last night. ‘He was a man who changed our lives in so many...
Dec 24, 2022 · CNN — Maxi Jazz, the British musician best known as the lead vocalist for dance group Faithless, has died, according to the band. The band announced Jazz’s passing in a Facebook post on Saturday....
