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 2001
 JANUARY

Les Brown

Milan Hlavsa

Jimmy Zambo

James Carr

Willie Johnson

Bryan Gregory

Jerry Wick

Luiz Bonfa

Michael Cuccione

Stan Freeman

Norris Turney

Emma Kelly

Eddie LeJeune

Jack McDuff

Lou Levy

Sonny Kenner

Roy L. "Tanglefoot" McCoy

Lynne Nixon Denicker

Phil Flowers

2001
FEBRUARY

J.J. Johnson

Jesse Arreola

Vince Montgomery

Rick Barse

Dale Evans

Bernard Asbell

Buddy Tate

George Simon

Moses Molelekwa

Fadhili Williams

Charles Trenet

Reid Diamond

Joe Ferguson III

Ronnie Hilton

John Fahey

Sonny Morris

Malcolm Yelvington

Iannis Xenakis

Leroy Sanders

Theophilus Beckford

Ray Scragg

2001
MARCH

Lonnie Glosson

Glenn Hughes
(Village People)

Frankie Carle

Benny Martin

Ted McMichael

Robert Ealey

Lancelot Pinard

Papa John Phillips

Herbie Jones

Michael "Smitty" Smith

Mario Parillo

Earl Beal

Randall Hylton

Moe Koffman

John Lewis

Richard Stone

William Cooper Glenn

Kenny Shauntee

2001
APRIL

Jimmy Miller

Trinh Cong Son

Paul Peek

Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey

Danny Gaither

Van Stephenson

Pedro Depestre

Jimmy Miller

Milton Batiste

Sandy Bull

Joey Ramone
Joey Ramone Place

Rupert Nurse

Jeanette Kimball

John Stoneman

Al Hibbler

Ike Cole

Charlie Applewhite

Herman "Rock'' Johnston

Billy Mitchell

Jerri Kruger Pollak

Evelyn Kuenneke

Davey Steele

Joe Viola

Ken Rattenbury

Sonya Hedenbratt

Required Reading List

2001
MAY

Billy Higgins

Boozoo Chavis

Bob Douglas

Edwin Finckel

Perry Como

Susannah McCorkle

Lorez Alexandria

Renato Carosone

Willie Foster

Top Jimmy

Tony Ashton

Francis Bebey

Brian Pendleton

Joe Graydon

 

 

2001
JUNE

John Hartford

Makanda (Ken) McIntyre

Mike Sammes

Amalia Mendoza

Smokey Montgomery

John Lee Hooker

Chico O'Farrill

Chet Atkins

Joe Henderson

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My friend Chuck Schuldiner

(of the Metal bands "Death" and "Control Denied" is VERY seriously ill.  Please visit the link below for the latest news. Could you please post a "Positive vibrations" request for him?
Thanks for your time.
Take care and stay well,
Tony


Chuck sadly passed away in December of this year. ~GP

2001
JULY

Johnny Russell

Sayed Khalifa

Delia Derbyshire

Helmut Brandt

Ernie K-Doe
(his music)

Fred Neil
(his music)

Herman Brood
(his music)

Ritchie Galvin

Color Blind James

Mimi Farina
(Positively 4th Street : The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina by David Hajdu)

Mark Hannon

Leon Wilkeson

Harold Land

Judy Clay

Roy Nichols

Don Wherry

Napoleon Strickland


July History

Billie Holiday
July 18, 1959

Louis Armstrong
July 6, 1971

2001
AUGUST

Joseph Cooper

Ron Townson

Larry Adler

Billy Byrd

Steve Runkle

Dori Shoss

J. Cecil O'Daniel

Too Poetic

Flip Phillips
(his music)

Betty Everett

John Nelson

Cal Collins

Sam "Flash" McFadin

Frank Emilio Flynn

Aaliyah
(autopsy)
(her music)
(the investigation)

(Pilot)

Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan

2001
SEPTEMBER

Fuller Up would like to send heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those victimized by the attacks of 9-11-01, and to all of us in this time of burgeoning violence worldwide.  May we stand together for Peace.

Jay Migliori
(Supersax music)

Eddie Stoneman
(The Stoneman's music )

Stelios Kazantzidis
(his music)

Hank Levy

Isaac Stern
(his music)

Jens Nygaard

Sil Austin

Brian Knight

 

September History

Miles Davis, Trumpeter, Dies; Jazz Genius, 65, Defined Cool (September 29, 1991) By JON PARELES

2001
OCTOBER

Manny Albam
(his music)

John Collins
(his music w/ Nat King Cole)

Etta Jones
(her music)

Aldo Jones
(Ben Vaughn's music)

Derek Moffat
(The McCalmans' music)

George Feyer
(his music)

Spike Robinson
(Spike Robinson's music )

Les "Carrot Top" Anderson

Jimmie "Lloyd" Logsdon
(his music)

Smoky Dacus
(Texas Playboys music)

Paul Bridge

Bill Le Sage

Charles Ables

Auntie Irmgard
(From Irmgard with Love)

"Rusty" Kershaw

Ronnie Lovejoy

Kenny Greene died of AIDS on October 1st 2001

Of Special Interest

Altaneze Taylor
Jay Livingston
Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro

2001
NOVEMBER

"Champ" Hood
(Uncle Walt's Band)

Buddy Starcher

Gene Wooten
(Hello Operator...This Is Country Gazette)

Panama Francis
(bio)
(His music)
(David Gets His Drum )

Babik Reinhardt
(Babik's results on Amazon;
Django: A Jazz Tribute, VHS)

Tommy Flanagan
(His music)

Jerry Jerome
 (CD:Boca Raton FL, 5.19.98)

Melanie Thornton
(Ready to Fly)

Passion Fruit:
Maria Serrano-Serrano, and Nathaly van het Ende
(Spanglish Love Affairs)

O.C. Smith
(His music)

Michael Karoli
(Can: Deluge)

Blackie Forestier

Ralph Burns
(Ralph Burns' music)

George Harrison
(Books and Music)

Rosemary Brown
(Unfinished symphonies; voices from the beyond)
(an interesting related site)

Albert Hague

Pappy Sherrill

Robert Whitstein


Of Special interest

Kal Mann

Norman Granz
(The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic)

 

2001
DECEMBER

Grady Martin
(Cowboy Classics)

Valerie Jones

Conte Candoli
(Conte Candoli CD's)

Chuck Schuldiner
(Sound of Perseverance by Death)

Rufus Thomas
(Rufus Thomas CD's)

Stuart Adamson
(Undercover by Big Country)

Bianca Butthole
(Get Off by Betty Blowtorch)

Lee Robinson
A-10, Sin City Six

Gilbert Becaud
French Singer
Le Meilleur De

Clifford T. Ward
British Singer Songwriter
Gaye & Other Stories

Lance Loud
The Mumps
Fatal Charm

Jose Fajardo
Cuban flutist
buy: Johnny Pacheco /Jose Fajardo

Ralph Sutton
Stride Pianist
Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 30

Christine Kittrell, 72

Gareth Williams
This Heat

Frankie Gaye, 60

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Other Notable Deaths of 2001

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"See them live" DVD's

Careless Love : The Unmaking of Elvis Presley  by Peter Guralnick

Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music Thomas Fitterling, Steve Lacy, Robert Dobbin (Translator)

George Harrison byAlan Clayson

Death Discs by Alan Clayson

When Elvis Died: Media Overload and the Origins of the Elvis Cult by Neal Gregory, Janice Gregory (Contributor)

The Black Elvis - Jackie Wilson by Doug Carter

Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley by Peter Harry Brown, Pat H. Broeske

Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West (Music of the African Diaspora) by Phil Pastras

Jazz Generations: A Life in American Music and Society (Bayou) by Buddy Collette, Stephen Isoardi

Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott by Horace Tapscott, Steven Louis Isoardi

Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams by Linda Dahl

The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'N' Roll by James M. Salem

Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death by Jackie Daly, Tom Carter

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain   by Charles R. Cross

John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums by Chris Welch, Geoff Nicholls

Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend by Tony Fletcher --(Keith Moon book)

Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography of Buddy Holly by John Goldrosen, John Beecher (Contributor)

Behind the Music: The Day the Music Died by Martin Huxley, Quinton Skinner --(Buddy Holly book)

The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens --by Larry Lehmer

Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter  by Nick Catalano

Don't Forget Me : The Eddie Cochran Story by Julie Mundy, Darrel Higham

El Sid: Saint Vicious by David Dalton

Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley by David Browne

Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline by Margaret Jones

Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway by Colin Escott, Kira Florita, Marty Stuart (Introduction)

Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons by Ben Fong-Torres

Gram Parsons: A Music Biography by Sid Griffin, John Delgatto (Editor)

Marc Bolan: A Tribute

Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story by Peter Morton Coan

Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: 'the World's Greatest Bass Player'

Django Reinhardt by Charles Delaunay, Michael James (Translator)

Positively 4th Street : The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina

Death of a Rebel/a Biography of Phil Ochs  by Marc Eliot, Vin Scelsa

The Final Days of Michael Hutchence by Mike Gee

Just a Man: The Real Story of Michael Hutchence by Tina Hutchence and Patrician Glassop

Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon

You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke

Peace at Last: The After-Death Experiences of John Lennon by John Lennon

Catch a Fire : The Life of Bob Marley  by Timothy White 

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire by Joe Nick Patoski, Crawford Bill, Bill Crawford

The Final Days of Jimi Hendrix

The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison

Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye

Tupac  Shakur's poetry: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

The Killing of Tupac Shakur

The Murder of Biggie Smalls

LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal     by Randall Sullivan

Garcia: An American Life

The Year Jerry Garcia Died a novel by Fred Beauford

Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin

Brian Jones: The Last Decadent

Selena

Liberace: An American Boy  by Darden Asbury Pyron

Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker

Chet Baker: His Life and Music

The Covert War Against Rock : What You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs..

Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend

Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon

 

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