More Rockers From The 50's & 60's

Little Richard ~ 87 ~ Iconic 1950's New Orleans R&R singer/pianist ("Tutti Frutti", "Keep A Knockin", "Lucille")

LITTLE RICHARD ~ "TUTTI FRUTTI";


LITTLE RICHARD ~ "KEEP A KNOCKING";


LITTLE RICHARD ~ "LUCILLE";


Simeon Coxe ~ 82 ~ Singer/songwriter electronic player w/pioneering 1960's New York electronic band the Silver Apples

THE SILVER APPLES ~ "OSCILLATIONS";


THE SILVER APPLES ~ "WATER";


THE SILVER APPLES ~ "I HAVE FOUND LOVE";


Jimmy Winston ~ 75 ~ English keyboardist with the Small Faces

THE SMALL FACES ~ "I'VE GOT MINE";


THE SMALL FACES ~ "WHATCHA GONNA DO A BOUT IT";


Brian Locking ~ 81 ~ English rock bass guitarist w/Instro Guitar band The Shadows ("Apache") & Cliff Richards ("Do You Wanna Dance)

CLIFF RICHARDS & THE SHADOWS ~ "MOVE IT";


THE SHADOWS ~ "APACHE";


Dave Munden ~ 76 ~ Drummer & singer with UK 1960's band the Tremelos

THE TREMELOES ~ "HERE COMES MY BABY";


THE TREMELOES ~ "SUDDENLY YOU LOVE ME";


THE TREMELOES ~ "YELLOW RIVER";


Jimmy Rabbitt ~ Texas C&W singer/songwriter with Waylon Jennings & David Allen Coe, radio D and singer w/1960's Garage band Positively 13 O'Clock

POSITIVELY 13 O'CLOCK ~ "PSYCHOTIC REACTION";


Roy Head ~ 79 ~ Texas 1960's R&R singer ("Treat Her Right")

ROY HEAD ~ "TREAT HER RIGHT";


ROY HEAD ~ "TEENAGE LETTER";


TOMMY DEVITO ~ 92 ~ Singer/guitarist with 1950's Doo Wop group Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons ("Walk Like A Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry"

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS ~ "WALK LIKE A MAN";


FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS ~ "BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY";


FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS ~ "SHERRY";


Len Barry ~ 78 ~ American 1960's Pop singer with Doo Wop group and solo ("1-2-3", "Bristol Stomp")

LEN BARRY & THE DOVELLS ~ "BRISTOL STOMP";


LEN BERRY ~ "1,2,3";


LEN BERRY ~ "LIKE A BABY";


Carl Mann ~ 78 ~ American rockabilly singer with Sun Records "Mona Lisa"

CARL MANN ~ "LET'S PRETEND";


Chad Stuart ~ 79 ~ Singer with 1960's English folk/pop duo Chad & Jeremy ("Summer Song", "Yesterdays Gone"

CHAD & JEREMY ~ "SUMMER'S SONG";


CHAD & JEREMY ~ "JEREMY'S SONG";


Terry Porter ~ 70's ~ Drummer for 1960's American Psyche band The Lemon Pipers ("My Green Tamborine"), later music executive & agent

THE LEMON PIPERS ~ "MY GREEN TAMBORINE" & "RICE IS NICE;


THE LEMON PIPERS ~ "NO HELP FROM ME";


Ronnie Peel ~ 74 ~ Australian guitarist and singer with 1960's & 70's UK band Thunderclap Newman ("Something In The Air")

THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN ~ "SOMETHING IN THE AIR";


Leslie West ~ 75 ~ American guitarist & singer with 1960's & 70's groups the Vagrants and Mountain ("Mississippi Queen")

THE VAGRANTS ~ "OH THOSE EYES";


MOUNTAIN ~ "MISSISSIPPI QUEEN";


Guitar Crusher (real name Sidney Shelby) ~ 89 ~ American blues singer/guitaris/harpist from the 1950's onward

THE GUITAR CRUSHER ~ "I CAN'T HELP IT";


THE GUITAR CRUSHER ~ "THE MONKEY";


Stan Kesler - 92 - American Sun Records studio musician, songwriter ("I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone", "I Forgot to Remember to Forget") and producer w/Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Warren Smith, Charlie Feathers, James Carr, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs ("Wully Bully")

ELVIS PRESLEY ~ "I'M LEFT YOU'RE RIGHT SHE'S GONE";


SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS ~ "WULLY BULLY";


SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS ~ LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD";


Pepe Salvaderi ~ Guitarist and singer with Italian 1960's & 70's pop band Dik Dik

DIK DIK ~ "CALIFORNIA DREAMING";


DIK DIK ~ "WHITER SHADE OF PALE";


Stefano D'Orazio ~ 72 ~ Italian percussionist w/1960's & 70's Pop band Pooh

POOH ~


Laszlo Benko ~ 77 ~ Keyboradist with 1960's & 70's Hungarian Psyche & Prog band Omega

Tamás Mihály ~ 73 ~ Hungarian bassist with 1960's & 70's Hungarian Psyche band Omega

OMEGA ~ "GYONGYHAJU LANY";


OMEGA ~ "REGI CSIBESZEK";


Ossi Runne ~ 93 ~ Finnish trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer

ANN-CHRISTINE NYSTROM & OSSI RUNNE ORCH ~ "PLAYBOY";


OSSI RUUNE ~ "PATRICIA";


Phillis McGuire ~ 89 ~ Singer with 1950's Pop vocal group the McQuire Sisters ("Sincerly", "Sugartime")

THE McGUIRE SISTERS ~ "YOU BELONG TO ME";


THE McGUIRE SISTERS ~ "SUGAR TIME";


THE McGUIRE SISTERS ~ "SINCERLY";

Some African & Jamaican Musicians

Toots Hibbert ~ 77 ~ Jamaican singer w/Toots and the Maytals ("Pressure Drop")

TOOTS & THE MAYTALS ~ "54-46 THAT'S MY NUMBER";


TOOTS & THE MAYTALS ~ "PRESSURE DROP";



TOOTS & THE MAYTALS ~ "FUNKY KINGSTON";


Lynford Hux Brown ~ 75 ~ Jamaican guitarist w/Jimmy Cliff, ("The Harder They Come"), Toots & the Maytals, the Melodians and Paul Simon

JIMMY CLIFF ~ "THE HARDER THEY COME";


Albert Griffiths - 74 - Jamaican reggae musician with 1960's Ska band The Gladiators

THE GLADIATORS ~ "JAH WORKS";


Joseph Shabalala ~ 78 ~ South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo who sang on Paul Simon's "Graceland" album

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO ~ "AMAZING GRACE";


LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO ~ "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT";


PAUL SIMON & LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO ~ "DIAMONDS ON THE SOULS OF THEIR SHOES";


Tony Allen, 79, Nigerian drummer (Fela Kuti, The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Rocket Juice & the Moon)

FELA KUTI & EGYPT 80 ~ "BEAST OF NO BURDON";


Kofi B ~ Ghanaian highlife singer

KOFI B ~ "YAW DOMPRE";
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Prince Kudakwashe Musarurwa ~ 31 ~ Zimbabwean Afro-Jazz singer-songwriter
PRINCE K. MUSARURWA ~ "NYAMATSATSE";


Kizito Mihigo, 38, Rwandan gospel singer, organist and peace activist

KIZITO MIHIGO ~ "AMAHORO Y'IMINA";


Manu Dibango ~ 86 ~ Saxophonist with 1970's Cameroonian Afro Jazz group Soul Makossa

SOUL MAKOSSA;


John Nzenze ~ 80 ~ Kenyan Afro-Jazz singer/guitarist from the late 60's onward

JOHN NZENZE ~ "NI VIZURI KUO";


Hachalu Hundessa ~ 33 ~ Ethiopian pop singer (assassinated)

HACHALU HUNDESSA ~ "MALAAN JIRA!";


Bob Andy ~ 75 ~ Jamaican 1960's Reggae singer w/The Paragons ("The Tide Is High") and Bob & Marcia

THE PARAGONS ~ "THE TIDE IS HIGH";


Apple Gabriel ~ 68 ~ Jamaican reggae singer w/Israel Vibration

APPLE GABRIEL & ISRAEL VIBRATION ~ "WALK THE STREETS OF GLORY";


Delroy Washington ~ 67 ~ British-Jamaican reggae singer

DELROY WASHINGTON ~ "JAH WONDERFUL";

Some Jazz Figures

Viola Smith ~ 107 ~ Big Band drummer in all-girl band Frances Carroll & Her Coquettes and Ada Leonard & Her All-Girl Band from the 1940's onward, known as the "Female Gene Krupa", also played with Chic Webb & Ella Fitzgerald

FRANCES CARROLL & HER COQUETTES;


ADA LEONARD & HER ALL-GIRL BAND:


McCoy Tyner ~ 81 ~ Jazz pianist w/John Coltrane, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey, George Benson, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Stitt, Stanley Turentine and solo

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET ~ "MY FAVORITE THINGS";


JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET ~ "IMPRESSIONS";


MCCOY TYNER QUINTET ~ "ATLANTIS";


Cleveland Eaton ~ 80 ~ American jazz bassist w/Ramsey Lewis & Count Basie

RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO ~ "THE IN CROWD";


Eugene Wright ~ 97 ~ Bassist with the Dave Brubeck Quartet

DAVE BRUBECK ~ "BLUE RONDO A'LA TURK";


DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET ~ "TAKE FIVE";


Jimmy Cobb ~ 91 ~ American jazz drummer w/Miles Davis Quintet, John Coletrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington

MILES DAVIS ~ "SO WHAT";


JOHN COLETRANE ~ "STARDUST";


Jymie Merritt ~ 93 ~ American jazz bassist w/Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Chet Baker, Sonny Clark, Lee Morgan, Max Roach, Jimmy Witherspoon, Wayne Shorter, The Forerunners

ART BLAKEY & JAZZ MESSENGERS ~ "MOANIN";


Harry Grimes ~ 87 ~ American Free Jazz bassist w/Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Mose Allison, Lee Konitz, Roy Haynes, Shafi Hadi, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Shirley Scott, Cecil Taylor, Lennie Tristano, McCoy Tyner and bandleader on ESP Records

SONNY ROLLINS ~ "LOVE LETTERS";


SONNY ROLLINS, DON CHERRY, HARRY GRIMES & BILLY HIGGINS;


Gary Peacock ~ 85 ~ American Jazz bassist w/Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Ralph Towner, Shorty Rogers, Ravi Shankar

GARY PEACOCK w/ SHORTY ROGERS;


Herman Green ~ 90 ~ Memphis jazz and blues saxophonist w/BB King & John Coletrane

HERMAN GREEN;


Hal Cornbread Singer ~ 100 ~ American R&B and Jazz saxophonist & band leader from the 1940's onward w/Duke Ellington, Jay McShann, Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Milt Buckner, Earl Fatha Hines, Roy Eldrich, Hot Lips Page and solo

HAL SINGER & RED ALLEN ~ "HAL SINGER'S BOOGIE";


HAL SINGER ~ "AUTUMN LEAVES";


Claude Bolling - 90 - French jazz pianist, band leader and composer (Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio)

CLAUDE BOLLING ~ "RAG TIME";


Harold Betters - 92 - American jazz trombonist and band leader from the 1950's solo and with Ray Charles, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine, Roy Eldridge, and Sonny Rollins

HAROLD BETTERS ~ "RAM-BUNK-SHUSH";


HAROLD BETTERS ~ "STAND BY ME";


HAROLD BETTERS ~ "TALL GIRL";


Stanley Cowell - 79 - American jazz pianist, from the 1960's onward w/Rasaan Roland Kirk, Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Heath Bros, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble and trumpeter Charles Tolliver & Music Inc, also co-founder of Strata-East Records

CHARLES TOLLIVER & MUSIC INC ~ "PRAYER FOR PEACE";


Giuseppi Logan ~ 84 ~ American Free Jazz saxplayer on ESP Records

GIUSEPPI LOGAN ~ "DANCE OF SATAN";


Danny Ray Thompson ~ 72 ~ American Jazz sax player with Sun Ra

SUN RA ~ "RETROSPECTIVE" & "FACE THE MUSIC";


SUN RA ~ "TAKE THE A TRAIN";


Overton Berry ~ 84 ~ Seattle based Soul Jazz pianist from the sixties onward

OVERTON BERRY ~ "HEY JUDE";


Cándido Camero ~ 99 ~ Cuban Jazz and Disco conga player and percussionist with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton and solo band leader

CANDIDO CAMERO ~ "MANTECA";


Jimmy Heath ~ 93 ~ American saxophonist with Jazz Fusion group the Heath Bros from the 1970's onward

THE HEATH BROS ~ "THERE'S A TIME & PLACE";


Othella Dallas ~ 95 ~ American Jazz singer & dancer

OTHELLA DALLAS;


Frank Kimbrough ~ 64 ~ American Post Bop Jazz pianist from the 1970's onward

FRANK KIMBROUGH ~ "ALABAMA SONG";


Wolfgang Dauner ~ 84 ~ German Jazz fusion pianist w/the Joki Freund Sextet in the 1960's and the United Jazz & Rock ensemble from the 1970's onward

JOKI FREUND SEXTET ~ "CARAVAN";


Richard Teitelbaum ~ 80 ~ American Avant Garde and Jazz Electronic player & composer w/Anthony Braxton and George Lewis

RICHARD TEITELBAUM ~ "DER GOLEM";