Rudy Regalado, Venezuelan percussionist and bandleader (El Chicano),died from complications of pneumonia he was , 67

 Héctor José Regalado  was a Venezuelan Latin musicbandleader, percussionist, composer and educator. He played professionally under the name Rudy Regalado died from  complications of pneumonia he was , 67.^[1]


(January 29, 1943 - November 4, 2010)

Profile

Although he toured extensively in a career spanning more than 50 years, Rudy Regalado is better known for being one of the founding members of El Chicano, which surfaced during theSantana and Malo Latin-tinged rock era in the early 1970s. Besides this, he led his own groups and performed on countless recording sessions with distinguished artists. In addition to recording five albums with El Chicano, Regalado also collaborated in projects led by Alex Acuña, Quincy Jones, Alphonse Mouzon, Bill Summers and Joe Zawinul, among others.^[2]

Early life

Regalado was born and raised in a working class family in Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. Largely self-taught, he started to playdrums and timbales as a teenager in his home town. A devoted baseball fan, he adopted his nickname after former Cleveland Indians infielderRudy Regalado.^[3]

Professional career

In 1963, Regalado moved to Puerto Rico and started playing in hotels and clubs in the San Juan area, while studying harmony andpercussion at Pablo Casals Conservatory of Music. He settled in Los Angeles, California in 1970, where he played with local jazz and Latin groups before joining El Chicano late in the year.^[2]

Regalado spent twelve years with El Chicano, singing and playing the timbales in five albums, which included Top 40 hits during the 1970s with the songs "Viva Tirado" and "Tell Her She's Lovely". El Chicano also created the theme song for the television series Baretta, which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978.^[1][4]

After spending 12 years with El Chicano, Regalado formed his own Latin Jazz All-Star Band in 1983, which included a select group of musicians from Los Angeles. Initially known as Todos Estrellas, the band eventually became known as Chévere and appeared at the Playboy Jazz Festival, Disneyland and Fiesta Broadway, among other engagements. The band also performed overseas in summer festivals inCanada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and throughout the European continent.^[2]

As part of an El Chicano reunion in 2009, Regalado performed during the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Festival at the Golden Gate Park Music Concourse in San Francisco, where the group actually celebrated their own 40th Anniversary, and last played with them at the Greek Theatre of Los Angeles.^[2][4][5]

Other credits

Regalado also toured with Aretha Franklin in charge of her percussion section, was a drummer for Los Melódicos on its 1980 tour of United States, and performed on the Tonight Show, the Nancy Wilson Show and American Bandstand.^[2][6]

His film credits include The Skeleton Key (2005), as well in the television series Pepe Plata (1990) and Clubhouse (2004).^[7]

Regalado moved later to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he died from complications of pneumonia at the age of 67.^[4]

Selected discography

Year	Album	Artist	Credit
1972	Celebration	El Chicano	Percussion, Drums
1973	Chicano	El Chicano	Percussion, Drums
1974	Cinco	El Chicano	Percussion, Drums
1974	Yaqui	Yaqui	Drums
1975	Pyramid of Love & Friends	El Chicano	Percussion, Drums
1976	Viva El Chicano! Their Very Best	El Chicano	Vocals, Timbales, Percussion
1977	Blue Note Live at the Roxy	Alphonse Mouzon (Various Artists)	Timbales, Percussion
1977	Roots	Quincy Jones	Percussion
1988	Immigrants	Joe Zawinul	Vocals, Percussion
1990	Thinking of You	Alex Acuña and the Unknowns	Percussion
1992	Iroko	Bill Summers	Composer
1994	La Gloria	Rudy Regalado y Chévere	Producer, Drums, Vocals, Timbales
1996	My People	Joe Zawinul	Percussion, Composer
1998	Painting the Moment	El Chicano	Percussion, Timbales
1999	Suckers	Original Soundtrack	Percussion
2000	Late Night Sessions	Caravana Cubana	Cata, Timbales
2000	Acuarela de Tambores	Alex Acuña	Maracas, Chekere
2002	Faces & Places	Joe Zawinul	Percussion
2002	Cinco de Mayo Celebration	Various Artists	Timbales, Percussion
2002	Del Alma	Caravana Cubana	Timbales, Cata
2004	20th Century Masters - Millennium Collection	El Chicano	Timbales, Percussion

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Charles Reynolds, American magician, died from liver cancer he was , 78

Charles Raymond Reynolds ^[1] was a behind-the-scenes magician involved with virtually every elements of magic production—inventing illusions, producing and direction magic acts, helping performers perfect their acts, and writing on the subject  died from liver cancer he was , 78.

(September 9, 1932 – November 4, 2010)

Reynolds was born in in Toledo, Ohio, and as a child, he saw Harry Blackstone, Sr. perform. Reynolds was immediately drawn to magic, starting with a Gilbert Mysto Kit.

He majored in theater at the University of Michigan, and earned his masters degree there too. He undertook a number of jobs in media and journalism. He met Doug Henning while writing an article on magic, and Henning hired him as a consultant. He was chief magic consultant for Henning's popular network TV magic shows, which ran from 1975 for nearly a decade. He did other work with Henning, including Merlin.

He also worked frequently with Harry Blackstone, Jr., the son of his childhood hero. He designed numerous illusions for Blackstone, Jr., including assisting him in cutting his wife in half with a buzz saw for the Broadway production of Blackstone!, and creating a new levitation illusion for a live show in Las Vegas.

He invented two different ways to make an elephant vanish, and made a horse and rider disappear.

He produced and directed productions all over the world and in various media—live, film, and television, wrote and co-wrote extensively on magic, collected notable magic memorabilia, and lectured at the Smithsonian.

He died of liver cancer at the age of 78 at his Greenwich Village home. He was survived by his wife Regina.

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Noel Taylor, American Emmy Award-winning costume designer died he was , 97

Noel Taylor  was an American costume designer of the stage, television, and film. A four time Emmy nominee, Taylor won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his designs for the PBS drama Actor: The Paul Muni Story  died he was , 97.^[1][2]
Taylor, who designed costumes for more than 70 Broadway shows, as well as thirty films and television shows, was the recipient of the Costume Designers Guild lifetime achievement award in 2004.^[1][2]

(17 January 1917 - 4 November 2010)

Life and career

Taylor was born Harold Alexander Taylor Jr. in Youngstown, Ohio on January 17, 1917.^[1] He was the second of his family's two sons.^[1] He moved to Paris, France, with his family when he was seven years old.^[1] Taylor dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to pursue a career as an actor.

His first and only leading leading role on Broadway was in 1935 at the age of 18 as Peter in Cross Ruff, a play which he had also written. Abandoning his acting career, he studied painting and design during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Taylor began vacationing in Austria when he was in his 20s, where he began to witness growing discrimination against Jewish residents in the years preceding World War II.^[1] Taylor asked his mother for $200,000 USD to help Jewish refugees who had fled from the Nazis.^[1] He was arrested by for attending pro-Jewish meetings, but was released by an Austrian interrogator after four days and returned to the United States.^[1] He worked as an equestrian trainer for the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.^[1]
Taylor began his career as a costume designer in the 1940s when Chagall invited him to assist on costumes for productions with the New York City Ballet. He first worked on Broadway as a designer for Dennis Hoey's 1946 play The Haven. He went on to design costumes for more than 70 Broadway productions, including the original productions of Stalag 17 (1951), Bernardine (1952), Dial M for Murder (1952), The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953), No Time for Sergeants (1955), Auntie Mame (1956), The Body Beautiful (1958), Tall Story (1959), Write Me a Murder (1961), The Night of the Iguana (1961), Great Day in the Morning (1962), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1963), What Makes Sammy Run? (1964), Hughie (1964), Slapstick Tragedy (1966), Lovers (1968), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1972), The Norman Conquests (1975), and Chapter Two (1977). He also designed costumes for revivals of Twentieth Century (1950), The Wild Duck (1951), The Apple Cart (1956), Strange Interlude (1963), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1972), Mourning Becomes Electra (1972), The Glass Menagerie (1994), and The Gin Game (1997). His last Broadway show was designs for the 1997 revival of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys.
Taylor made his first foray into television designing costumes for several television films made for the Hallmark Hall of Fame between 1955-1965. He received his first Emmy nomination for one of these files, The Magnificent Yankee in 1965. In 1966 he designed the costumes for Gian Carlo Menotti's television opera Labyrinth. He continued to design costumes for television up into the mid 1990s, garnering further Emmy nominations for Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982) and Ironclads (1991). He won the Emmy Award in 1978 for Actor: The Paul Muni Story. He also designed costumes for seven feature films during his career, including Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971), Rhinoceros (1974), An Enemy of the People (1978), and The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981).
Noel Taylor died at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on November 4, 2010, at the age of 97.^[1] He was a resident of West Hollywood, California.^[1]

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Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and viola player died he was , 86

 Rudolf Borisovich Barshai  was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist died he was , 86.


(Russian: Рудольф Борисович Баршай, September 28, 1924 – November 2, 2010 ^[1] [2] )

Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and as a member of a trio with Mstislav Rostropovich and Leonid Kogan. He won numerous Soviet and international competitions. He was the founding violist of the Borodin Quartet in 1945^[3] and was a member until 1953.
Rudolf Barshai
In 1955, Barshai formed the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, which he led and conducted until he emigrated to the West in 1977. He was the artistic director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra from 1976 to 1981. From 1981 until 1982 Barshai was principal conductor of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestre National de France (National Orchestra of France)1985-1986. He was principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to 1986.
Barshai achieved fame as a musical interpreter and arranger of Shostakovich's and Prokofiev's music. He is particularly noted for his arrangement of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 for chamber orchestra.^[4] In 2000, Barshai produced a completion of Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony, which was left unfinished at the composer's death. In addition, he has recorded a number of Shostakovich's works. Many of his recordings have earned critical acclaim and have won international awards:

• 1988 Gramophone Awards – Concerto : Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 2, Rudolf Barshai conducting Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; solo: Donohoe (EMI)
• 2003 Cannes Classical Music Award: Orchestral 20 Century: Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies; Barshai (Brilliant Classics)
• 2003 Editor's Award (ClassicsToday.com): Record of the Year: Shostakovich: Complete Symphonies; Barshai (Brilliant Classics).

In 1954, Barshai married Anna Martinson, a Russian painter and costume designer, and daughter of the Soviet comic Sergey Martinson. They have a son, Walter Barshai, born June 6, 1955. After their divorce in 1963 and his marriage to a Japanese translator, Teruko Soda (son Takeshi, b. January 10, 1967), he married concert organist Elena Barshai (Raskova). Barshai resided in Switzerland until his death.
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Sarah Doron, Israeli politician and government minister has died she was , 88

Sarah Doron was a former Israeli politician who served as a Minister without Portfolio from July 1983 until September 1984 has died she was , 88.

(Hebrew: שרה דורון‎, 20 May 1922 – 2 November 2010)

Biography

Born in Kaunas in Lithuania, Doron made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1933. She attended high school in Tel Aviv, and was later elected to the city's council, where she chaired the municipal education committee.
A chairwoman of Liberal Women's Organization, she was elected to the Knesset in 1977 on Likud's list. Re-elected in 1981, she was appointed Minister without Portfolio by Menachem Begin on 5 July 1983. She remained a cabinet member when Yitzhak Shamir formed a new government in October 1983.
Although Doron retained her seat in the 1984 elections, she was left out of the national unity government cabinet. She was re-elected again in 1988, but lost her seat in the 1992 elections.
Doron died on 2 November 2010 at the age of 88.

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Andy Irons, American professional surfer died he was , 32

Philip Andrew Irons  was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Oahu, Hawaii.surfer died he was , 32. Over the course of his professional career, he won three world titles (2002, 2003, 2004), three Quiksilver Pro France titles (2003, 2004, 2005), two Rip Curl Pro Search titles (2006 and 2007) and 20 elite tour victories including the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing four times from 2002-2006.^[3] On September 3, 2010 he won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti. He and his family hosted the Annual Irons Brothers Pinetrees Classic, a contest for youngsters. The Governor of Hawaii declared February 13 forever "Andy Irons Day". He is the only surfer to have won a title at every venue on the ASP calendar.^[4]

(July 24, 1978 – November 2, 2010)

Career

His younger brother, Bruce Irons, is a former competitor on the World Championship Tour of Surfing (WCT). During his childhood Andy regularly lost to Bruce in contests, but that changed once he entered the World Championship Tour.
In 2009, Irons withdrew from doing the full ASP World Tour season for personal reasons, though he did participate in a few events. He requested a wildcard entry for the 2010 ASP World Tour season, which was granted by ASP President Wayne Bartholomew. As a result, Irons did not have to re-qualify in 2010 via the World Qualifying Series (WQS). Irons won the Billabong Pro Tahiti 2010.^[5]
He was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in 2008.^[6]
Billabong produced an "Andy Irons" line of board shorts.

Death

Irons died on November 2, 2010; according to The Association of Surfing Professionals, "he had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease."^[7] It is believed that this may be linked to his death. Professor Robert Booy, an infectious disease academic, however, was suspicious of this, saying that dengue fever deaths are rare.^[8] Investigators have ruled out foul play as a cause but are currently waiting on toxicology reports.^[8] He was found lying in bed on his back with the sheets pulled up to his chin, by two hotel staff after he had failed to respond to knock on the door and they went in to investigate.
In response to Irons's death, a World Championship Tour event in Puerto Rico was postponed for two days with competitors holding a "paddle out" memorial service for Irons.^[8] Irons had withdrawn from the event citing ill health and was flying back to his home in Hawaii before dying during a stopover in Dallas, Texas.^[8] He had reportedly stopped in Miami after leaving Puerto Rico and early reports said he was put on a saline drip. Later reports suggest he went to South Beach to party.^[9] He was reported to have been vomiting on the Hawaii bound plane before being removed prior to take-off.^[10] In the days immediately following his death it was reported that, in Dallas, an extremely ill Irons had attempted to board his connecting flight to Honolulu at 11:30 a.m. but was turned away at an American Airlines gate—a claim the company denies.^[9]
Local officials said the cause of death was not immediately known but Hawaii's Star Advertiser reported that his death was being investigated as a possible overdose of methadone, citing information provided by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office.^[11] Irons was diagnosed at one point with sleep apnea. A toxicologist said combining methadone with that condition could be risky. According to the official police report Alprazolam and Zolpidem were found in Irons' hotel room. Despite many rumors that methadone was also found in his room, the official police report does not confirm that theory.^[8]
A memorial service was held November 14 in Hanalei Bay, Kauai. His wife Lyndie and brother Bruce, scattered his ashes outside Hanalei Bay where thousands of family, friends and admirers said their last goodbyes.^[12]
Rival surfer and friend Kelly Slater dedicated his November 6, 2010 victory to Irons. "I just want to send my condolences to Andy's family," Slater said. "I'm a little overwhelmed right now but I want to dedicate this to Andy... It's like exact opposites. This doesn't really offset that, I'd give this title away in a second if Andy could come back."^[13]

Personal life

Irons married Lyndie Dupuis on November 25, 2007 in Princeville, Kauai. She was seven months pregnant with their first child at the time of his death.^[7]

Films

The 2004 movie Blue Horizon (directed by surfing filmmaker Jack McCoy), paralleled his life on the WCT tour with that of free surfer, David Rastovich. The film also touched on his long-time rivalry with ten-time world champion Kelly Slater.^[14] Although the film was created in a documentary-like style, there has been some debate over whether or not the film offered an accurate and fair portrayal of Irons' surfing lifestyle. In addition to "Blue Horizon", Irons was also a subject of many other surf films, including his screen appearance in Trilogy, which starred himself, Joel Parkinson, and Taj Burrow.

Rivalry with Kelly Slater

Irons had a much-publicized, and, according to him, over-hyped, rivalry with fellow professional surfer Kelly Slater.^[15] In an interview, Irons said:

For me, just being affiliated with Kelly--to be next to him--I mean, that's awesome. He's the ultimate surfer. He's the best surfer in the world. Ever. Best competitive, best free surfer, you name it, and to have my name put next to his everywhere really is flattering. He's the Michael Jordan of our sport. Kelly knows how I feel about him. Despite all the media hype that comes out of a rivalry there's a lot of respect given both ways. People don't realize there are times when we hang out. We'll go check the waves together. We talk about boards. He invited me personally to his contest on Tavarua. There's a ton of respect there.^[15]

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Clyde King, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds) and manager (New York Yankees). died he was , 86

Clyde Edward King  was an American pitcher, coach, manager, general manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. King, whose career in baseball spanned over 60 years, was perhaps best known for his longtime role as a special baseball advisor to George Steinbrenner, late owner of the New York Yankees died he was , 86.  During his on-field career he managed the San Francisco Giants (1969–70), Atlanta Braves (1974–75) and Yankees (part of 1982), finishing with a career record of 234 wins and 229 defeats (.505).

(May 23, 1924 – November 2, 2010)

 Career

King attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A right-handed pitcher, he made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers at age 20 in 1944, his first professional season, during the manpower shortage caused by World War II. Although King would be sent to the minor leagues for seasoning after the war, he proved to be a solid member of the Brooklyn pitching staff (1944–45, 1947–48, 1951–52), winning 14 games for the 1951 Dodgers. When he finished his major league career with the Cincinnati Reds in 1953, King had appeared in an even 200 games, winning 32 and losing 25 with an earned run average of 4.60.
Before becoming a major league manager, he managed several higher-level minor league clubs, including the Atlanta Crackers, Hollywood Stars, Phoenix Giants and Rochester Red Wings, and served as a pitching coach for the Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
King joined the Yankees' front office in 1976 and played a number of key roles for almost 30 years — super scout, pitching coach, general manager and special advisor, in addition to managing them for the final 62 games of 1982. Replacing Gene Michael, he won 29 games and lost 33 as the defending American League champions fell to fifth place in the AL East division. The Yankees players believed King was a spy for Steinbrenner.^[1]

Personal

King died in his native Goldsboro, North Carolina, at the age of 86,^[2] survived by his wife Norma, their three daughters and sons-in-law, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.^[3]

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