Several of my favorite musicians- Ahmad Alaadeen, Solomon Burke, Bobby Charles, Alex Chilton, Guru, Gregory Isaacs, Hank Jones, Abbey Lincoln, Willie Mitchell, Teddy Pendergrass and Carl Smith- passed in 2010. Yet it's the murder of my acquaintance Sliccs Gotcha that truly saddens me. His entry is among the local figures I've highlighted below.
1/01 Gregory Slay, 40, Remy Zero drummer
1/01 Lhasa de Sela, 37, singer-songwriter
1/05 Willie Mitchell, 81, legendary soul producer
1/10 Dick Johnson, 84, jazz clarinetist
1/10 Dannie Flesher, 58, co-founder of Wax Trax! Records
1/11 Mick Green, 66, guitarist for Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
1/12 Jimmy O, 27, Haitian hip hop artist
1/12 Yabby You, 63, reggae artist
1/13 Jay Reatard, 29, indie rocker
1/13 Teddy Pendergrass, 59, soul star
1/13 Ed Thigpen, 79, jazz drummer
1/14 Bobby Charles, 71, Louisiana songwriter and musician
1/16 Carl Smith, 82, country star
1/16 Jimmy Wyble, 87, guitarist for Bob Wills
1/17 Gerald McCabe, 82, proprietor of McCabe's guitar shop
1/18 Kate McGarrigle, 63, singer-songwriter
1/22 Apache, 45, rapper
1/23 Earl Wild, 94, classical pianist
1/31 Pauly Fuemana, 40, of OMC
2/06 John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician
2/13 Sliccs Gotcha, 27, Kansas City rapper (Jabrielle Francis)
2/13 Jake Hanna, 78, jazz drummer
2/13 Dale Hawkins, 73, Southern rock pioneer
2/14 Doug Fieger, 57, the Knack
2/14 Lil' Dave Thompson, 40, blues musician
2/15 Art Van Damme, 89, jazz accordionist
2/17 Kathryn Grayson, 88, star of musicals
2/17 Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer-songwriter
2/25 David Soyer, 87, cellist
2/27 T-Bone Wolk, 58, session bassist
3/04 Ron Banks, 58, of the Dramatics
3/04 Johnny Alf, 80, father of bossa nova
3/06 Mark Linkous, 47, of Sparklehorse
3/07 Tony Campise, 67, jazz saxophonist
3/09 Theodore Jan Wilson, 63, jazz bassist
3/17 Alex Chilton, 59, of Big Star and Fhe Box Tops
3/23 Marva Wright, 62, soul singer
3/24 Johnny Maestro, 70, of The Crests and Brooklyn Bridge
3/24 Jim Marshall, 74, rock and roll photographer
3/27 Oscar "Lucky" Wesley, 82, bassist of The Scamps
3/28 Herb Ellis, 88, jazz guitarist
3/30 John Bunch, 88, jazz pianist
4/06 Luigi Waites, 82, Omaha jazz musician
4/07 Graciela Perez-Grillo, 94, Cuban vocalist
4/08 Malcom McLaren, 64, punk svengali
4/08 Pete Eye, 77, Kansas City jazz pianist
4/10 Dixie Carter, 70, cabaret singer and actress
4/13 Steve Reid, 66, jazz drummer
4/14 Mississippi Slim, 66, blues artist (Walter Horn, Jr.)
4/14 Peter Steele, 48, vocalist for Type O Negative
4/16 Devon Clifford, 30, drummer for You Say Party! We Say Die!
4/19 Guru (Keith Elam), 43, of Gang Starr
4/20 Hutch Carlock, 86 founder of Music City Record Distributors
4/22 Gene Lees, 81, jazz author and lyricist
4/27 Morris Pert, 62, Scottish drummer and composer
4/30 Mo Kash, 23, Kansas City rapper (Bernard Jackson)
4/30 Will Owsley, 44, singer-songwriter
5/01 Rob McConnell, 75, big band jazz artist
5/04 Roy Carrier, 62, zydeco musician, father of Chubby
5/05 Willie Pooch, 72, blues artist
5/09 Lena Horne, 92, vocalist and activist
5/16 Ronnie James Dio, 67, heavy metal vocalist
5/16 Hank Jones, 91, jazz pianist
5/24 Paul Gray, 38, Slipknot bassist
5/30 Ollie Woodson, 59, of The Temptations
6/05 Danny Bank, 87, jazz baritone saxophonist
6/06 Marvin Isley, 56, Isley Brothers
6/13 Jimmy Dean, 81, country star
6/16 Bill Dixon, 84, jazz composer and trumpeter
6/16 Maureen Forrester, 79, opera singer
6/16 Garry Shider, 56, of Parliament/Funkadelic
6/17 Tommy Johnson, 59, Kansas City jazz trumpeter
6/23 Pete Quaife, 66, bassist for the Kinks
6/24 Fred Anderson, 81, jazz saxophonist
7/08 Ruth Rhoden, 85, jazz radio host on KCUR's "Just Jazz"
7/10 Sugar Minott, 56, reggae vocalist
7/11 Walter Hawkins, 61, gospel artist
7/12 Harvey Pekar, 70, cartoonist and jazz critic
7/12 Tuli Kupferberg, 86, The Fugs
7/12 Paulo Moura, 77, Brazilian clarinetist
7/12 Olga Guillot, 87, Cuban bolero vocalist
7/14 Gene Ludwig, 72, jazz organist
7/15 Hank Cochran, , country artist and songwriter
7/19 Andy Hummel, 59, Big Star bassist
7/22 Philip Walker, 73, blues man
7/26 Ben Keith, 73, steel guitarist
7/26 Josh Broadhead, 29, vocalist for KC metal act Saved By Grace
7/26 Al Goodman, 67, of Ray, Goodman & Brown
7/30 Richard Lopez, 65, of Cannibal & the Headhunters
7/31 Mitch Miller, 99, easy listening icon
8/02 Mitch Jayne, 80, bassist of The Dillards
8/03 Bobby Hepp, 72, wrote and recorded "Sunny"
8/08 J.P. Tha Mex, 28, Kansas City rapper
8/12 Richie Hayward, 64, drummer for Little Feat
8/14 Herman Leonard, 87, jazz photographer
8/14 Abbey Lincoln, 80, jazz vocalist
8/15 Ahmad Alaadeen, 76, Kansas City jazz saxophonist
8/19 Michael Been, 60, vocalist of The Call
9/08 Hadley Caliman, 78, jazz saxophonist
9/15 Arrow, 60, soca star
9/19 Buddy Collette, 89, jazz saxophonist
9/21 Don Partridge, 68, "king of the buskers"
9/22 Eddie Fischer, 82, popular vocalist
9/27 Buddy Morrow, 91, trombonist and bandleader
10/08 Albertina Walker, 81, gospel singer
10/10 Solomon Burke, 70, soul giant
10/10 Joan Sutherland, 83, opera star
10/10 Marion Brown, 75, jazz saxophonist
10/13 General Johnson, 67, of the Chairmen of the Board
10/17 Eyedea, 28, rapper
10/20 Ari Up, 48, of The Slits
10/25 Gregory Isaacs, 59, reggae star
10/26 James Phelps, 87, gospel singer
10/28 Walter Payton, 68, New Orleans bassist
11/03 Jerry Bock, 81, cowriter of Fiddler on the Roof
11/03 Sonia Pottinger, 79, reggae producer
11/05 Shirley Verrett, 79, opera singer
11/12 Henryk Gorecki, 76, classical composer
11/17 Harry Whitaker, 68, jazz pianist and composer
11/20 Little Smokey Smothers, 71, blues man
11/24 Dave Conn, 63, Kansas City retailer and music enthusiast
10/24 Joseph Stein, 98, co-wrote Fiddler on the Roof
11/30 Elbert W. "Big Woody" Davis Jr, 61, regional blues man
11/30 Monty Sunshine, 82, English jazz clarinetist
12/06 Steve Herold, 62, Kansas City saxophonist
12/09 James Moody, 85, jazz saxophonist
12/13 Enrique Morente, 67, flamenco singer
12/17 Lina Romay, 91, sang with Xavier Cugat
12/17 Robin Rogers, 55, blues woman
12/17 Don Van Vliet, 69, aka Captain Beefheart
12/19 Trudy Pitts, 78, Philadelphia jazz organist
12/20 Magnolia Shorty, 28, New Orleans rapper
12/24 Myrna Smith, 69, of the Sweet Inspirations
12/25 Dorothy Jones, 76, singer in The Cookies
12/26 Teena Marie, 54, soul star
12/26 Bernard Wilson, 64, member of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
12/27 Billy Maddox, 57, Austin-based drummer
12/28 Billy Taylor, 89, jazz pianist
12/28 Jack Towers, 96, remastered jazz recordings
12/30 Bobby Farrell, 61, of Boney M.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
4 comments:
That's pretty hard to digest laid out in chronological order. Enjoy every bite. I'm dreading the list for 2011 already. And we still have a few days left in 2010.
Sorry to nitpick, but Pete Quaife was the bassist for the Kinks, not the drummer.
It is rough, BGO, isn't it?
Thanks, Steve. (I missed a similar Kinks kwestion at Robert Moore's trivia this week.)
Yeah, Robert said drummer too, and I let it go then. But I know your blog has higher standards for accuracy, especially if you want to be *the* authoritative death blog.
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