Taiji, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), committed suicide by hanging he was , 45.

 Taiji Sawada also known as TAIJI, was a Japanese hard rock and heavy metal musician  committed suicide by hanging he was , 45.. He is most widely known as a bassist, and as a former member of the heavy metal band X (currently known as X Japan), with whom he also served as an arranger, composer, and occasional acoustic guitarist. After leaving the group in 1992 he went on to work with several other bands, including Loudness and D.T.R.

(Sawada Taiji^?, July 12, 1966 – July 17, 2011),

History

1982–1992: Early bands and X

After dropping out of high school in 1982, Taiji formed his first band, Trash,^[1] where he was the leader and guitarist. In late 1984 he switched to bass and going by the name Ray, joined the metal group Dementia,^[1] staying until 1985. He then played briefly with Prowler, as well as a few shows with X.^[2] Until 1986 when he joined the very short-lived Dead Wire, whose line-up also included future Saver Tiger and D'erlanger members, Kyo and Tetsu. Soon after he officially rejoined X at the end of 1986.^[2]
Although he wrote many songs for the band, "Phantom of Guilt", "Desperate Angel" and "Voiceless Screaming" were some of the few that were officially released. In 2001, some of the unpublished songs were finally released in Rose & Blood -Indies of X-. Taiji left X in 1992, the official reason given by the band was due to musical differences. However, in his autobiography Taiji claims he was asked to leave because he confronted Yoshiki due to the substantial income gap between Yoshiki and each of the other members.^[1] His last concert with the band was the last day of three consecutive nights at the Tokyo Dome, it was released on DVD as On the Verge of Destruction 1992.1.7 Tokyo Dome Live.

1992–2006: Loudness, D.T.R, Cloud Nine

In April he was invited to join Japanese metal band Loudness.^[3] He left them in November 1993, after recording only one studio album and one live album. In July 1994 he formed his own band and named it D.T.R, which stood for "Dirty Trashroad" and featured Mitsuo Takeuchi (ex:Joe-Erk) on vocals, Taiji Fujimoto (The Dead Pop Stars, ex:Judy and Mary) on guitar and Toshihiko Okabe on drums.^[4]
In 1995 he joined the short-lived supergroup Kings, with Shuichi Aoiki (Night Hawks) on vocals, Luke Takamura (Seikima-II) on guitar and Satoshi "Joe" Miyawaki (44 Magnum, Spread Beaver) on drums.
Guitarist Tomoyuki Kuroda later joined in 1995, but a year later Yoshihiko left, and then D.T.R was put on hold when Taiji was going through personal problems.^{[unreliable source?][4]} During this time Taiji got divorced from his wife, whom he married in 1989, and became homeless.^[1]
In 1998 he created Cloud Nine, but left in 2001 and they decided to continue on without him.^[3] He then formed Otokaze with his sister Masayo on vocals, they released one self-titled album on November 9, 2004.
In 2005 Taiji was in a motorcycle accident where he badly injured the ligaments in his foot. D.T.R resumed activity in 2006 with keyboardist Kenji Shimizu and their former support drummer Kazuhisa "Roger" Takahashi now official members.

2006–2009: Taiji with Heaven's, The Killing Red Addiction

Also in April 2006, he formed another band, Taiji with Heaven's, with Taiji on bass and Dai on vocals, later guitarist Ryutaro joined.^[3] In 2009 they officially started activities, in May 2010 Takanari joined on drums and they released their first mini album on January, 13, 2010.^[3]
In 2007, Taiji returned to Cloud Nine.^[3] In 2009 he announced that he would once again be playing bass in a supergroup, The Killing Red Addiction with guitarist Tatsu (Gastunk), drummer Kenzi (Anti Feminism, The Dead Pop Stars, ex:Kamaitachi) and vocalist Dynamite Tommy (ex:Color).^[6] They had their debut performance on June 22 at the famed Whiskey A Go Go, in Los Angeles, California, United States.^[6] Their second performance was in Osaka, Japan at the Shinjuku Loft on December 29, and they released a cover of Gastunk's "Devil" on iTunes on January 13, 2010.
In December 2008, Taiji's staff announced on his blog that since September his Epilepsy and chronic strokes had worsen,^[7] that he was suffering from necrosis after a hip joint replacement of the Femoral Component on his left hip,^[7] and that on December 2 he was hospitalized again after falling and hurting his chest and throat.^[7]

2010–2011: TSP, Reunited with X

In 2010, he formed TSP (Taiji & Shu Project), with Taiji on bass, guitarist Shu (Cloud Nine, Crazy Quarter Mile), vocalist Dai (Taiji with Heaven's) and drummer Hina (Crazy Quarter Mile).^[2]
On August 12, Taiji joined X (now known as X Japan) founders Yoshiki and Toshi at a press conference, to announce that he would be performing as a guest with X Japan at their August 14 and 15 shows at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama.
On October 9, it was announced that Dai was leaving TSP and would be replaced by Hiroshi "Tazz" Maruki, which resulted in their debut album being delayed.^[8]
On January 23, 2011, it was announced that Ryutaro was withdrawing from Taiji with Heaven's due to bad health and personal reasons. On February 17, Tokiya joined as guitarist and it was announced that Taiji with Heavens would now be written without the apostrophe.

2011: Arrest and suicide

On July 11, 2011, Taiji was arrested for interference with a flight attendant due to an incident on a Delta Airlines flight en route from Japan to Saipan.^[9][10] During the flight, Taiji was subdued by other passengers and a flight attendant after a violent outburst, and was arrested upon landing in Saipan.^[11] He faced federal charges in the United States for this.^[9] On July 14, Taiji was rushed to an intensive care unit at Saipan's Commonwealth Health Center after allegedly attempting suicide by hanging himself with a bed sheet in his detention cell,^[10][12] which left him brain dead and on life support.^[12][13][14] Taiji died on July 17 at 11 a.m., after his mother and fiancée made the decision to turn off his life support system.^[14][15]

Discography

• "Jungle" (June 15, 2000)
• Came with Taiji's autobiography titled Uchuu o Kakeru Tomo e: Densetsu no Bando X no Sei to Shi.
• "Rain Song" (December 12, 2000)
• Came with a photobook titled Photograph.

With Trash

• "Toramaturi Ondo" (1982)

With Dementia

• Dementia Live! (June 1985)

With X Japan

Main article: X Japan discography

With Loudness

• Loudness (June 10, 1992)
• Once And For All (April 25, 1993, live album)

With D.T.R (Dirty Trashroad)

• Dirty Trashroad - (July 1, 1994)
• Dirty Trashroad ~ Acoustic (July 1, 1994)
• "Chain<絆>/I Believe..." (May 25, 1995)
• Daring Tribal Roar (May 25, 1995)
• Drive To Revolution (August 1, 1996, live and remix compilation album)
• "Wisdom/Lucifer" (November 10, 2007)

With Kings

• "Misty Eyes" (October 25, 1995)
• Kings (November 1, 1995)

With Cloud Nine

• "Bastard" (November 2000)
• "1st Demonstration" (February 2001)
• Hard 'N' Heavy Religion 2 (March 2008, with the song "Hells Rage")
• Various artists compilation album in Vol. 3 of We Rock magazine
• Hard 'N' Heavy 2010 (February 13, 2010, with the song "Bastard")
• Various artists compilation album in Vol. 15 of We Rock magazine

With Otokaze

• Otokaze (November 9, 2004)

With The Killing Red Addiction

• "Devil" (January 13, 2010)

With Taiji with Heaven's

• Taiji with Heaven's (February 13, 2010)
• Hard 'N' Heavy 2010 (February 13, 2010, with the song "Keep the Faith")
• Various artists compilation album in Vol. 15 of We Rock magazine

With TSP (Taiji & Shu Project)

• Hard 'N' Heavy Religion 2011 (May 14, 2011, with the song "Rest in Peace")
• Various artists compilation album in Vol. 21 of We Rock magazine

Other work

• The Inner Gates (Baki, December 16, 1989, bass on "Taste of Flower", "A Kiss in the Storm" and "Flying")
• Cozy Powell Forever (Various Artists, September 1998)
• Attitude the Original Soundtrack -Fuck the System- (July 2008, music director for the movie)

 

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Joe Lee Wilson, American jazz singer died he was , 75

 Joe Lee Wilson was an American gospel-influenced jazz singer, originally from Bristow, Oklahoma died he was , 75. His voice is best recognized from several Archie Shepp albums recorded for Impulse! Records.



(December 22, 1935 - July 17, 2011)

Biography

Wilson was born to farming parents in Bristow. He was part African American and part Creek Native American.
As his band's name, Joy of Jazz, suggests, Wilson's baritone personified the life-affirming nature of jazz and blues. Seeing Billie Holiday perform in 1951 began his interest in a career in music industry. He studied in Los Angeles before touring the West Coast, where he sat in with Sarah Vaughan, and down to Mexico. In New York in the 1960s, he worked with Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders and Jackie McLean; during the 1970s, he operated a jazz performance loft in New York's NoHo district known as the Ladies' Fort at 2 Bond Street. His regular band, Joe Lee Wilson Plus 5, featured the alto saxophonist Monty Waters (from Modesto, California) and for several years the Japanese guitarist, Ryo Kawasaki, before the latter left to lead his own group. Archie Shepp, and Eddie Jefferson were frequent collaborators at these sessions.
He also sang with Eddie Jefferson, Freddie Hubbard, and Kenny Dorham. He recorded a live radio program at WKCR-FM, Columbia University, on July 16, 1972, which was released as an album, Livin' High Off Nickels & Dimes, on the short-lived Oblivion Records in New York. Wilson's rendition of "Jazz Ain't Nothing But Soul" was a radio hit on New York jazz radio in 1975.
While based in Paris, Tokyo and the United Kingdom, he recorded regularly with the American pianist Kirk Lightsey, including the Candid recording Feelin’ Good. One of his last albums was an Italian recording with Riccardo Arrighini and Gianni Basso, Ballads for Trane (Philology W707.2).
Wilson was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in November of 2010, where he gave his last public performance.

Discography

As leader

• 1969: Without a Song (Inner City)
• 1974: Livin' High Off Nickels & Dimes (Oblivion)
• 1976: Shout For Trane (Whynot)
• 1977: Secrets from the Sun (Sun)
• 1992: Acid Rain (with Kirk Lightsey (p), Jack Gregg (b), Sangoma Everett (dr))
• 2008: Ballads for Trane (Philology)
• 2008: I Believe (Philology)

As sideman

With Archie Shepp

• Things Have Got to Change (1971)
• Attica Blues (1972)
• The Cry of My People (1972)
• A Touch of the Blues (Fluid Records, 1977)

 

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Milo Anstadt, Dutch journalist and writer died he was , 91.

 Samuel Marek (Milo) Anstadt was a Dutch Jewish writer and journalist died he was , 91.

(July 10, 1920 - July 16, 2011),

Biography

Andstadt was born and lived in Lwów (Poland, nowadays Lviv in Ukraine) until 1930. At the age of 10, Milo, his parents and sister Sera emigrated to Holland.^[1] In Holland, he completed primary school but did not go to secondary school.^[2]
When Anstadt was fourteen years old, he worked for the Transformatorfabriek Besra in Amsterdam, he often went to ANSKI a cultural club for mostly Jewish eastern European immigrants where you could assist at political and other lectures and all kind of performances, where he also received mentoring and was helped to become more spiritually developed. Later, he received a masters degree in law from the University of Amsterdam, specializing in criminology.
In 1941, he married Lydia Bleiberg, and they had a daughter Irka in March 1942. After a warning in the evening of the 9th of July 1942, they had to go immediately into hiding. Their daughter was taken afterwards to a foster family in Beverwijk by the Resistance.
From 1945 to 1950, he was an editor of the magazine Vrij Nederland. Next, he worked as a journalist with the Dutch Radio Union, and wrote the spoken parts of 1955 documentary programs for television such as In, Televisierechtbank, Spiegel der Kunsten ("Mirror of Arts") and Bezetting ("Occupation"). For the latter two, he received the 1960 Television Award of the Prince Bernhard Foundation. In 1960, he was commissioned by Wereldvenster Publishing to write a book about Poland. It was published in 1962 under the title Polen, land, volk, cultuur.
As an employee of NRC Handelsblad, Anstadt wrote a large number of opinion articles. In 1994, he was appointed as a knight in the Order of Orange Nassau. He died in Amsterdam.

Bibliography

Anstadt's works include:

• Op zoek naar een mentaliteit
• Met de rede der wanhoop
• Kind in Polen
• Polen en Joden
• Jonge jaren
• De verdachte oorboog
• Servië en het westen
• En de romans De opdracht

His novels include:

• Niets gaat voorbij
• De wankele rechtsgang van Albert Kranenburg

 

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Bertalan Bicskei, Hungarian footballer and coach died he was , 66

Bertalan Bicskei was a football goalkeeper and coach.

(17 September 1944 – 16 July 2011)

Active career

As a youth player, he played for the most famous Hungarian club side, Ferencvaros, and he also honed his skills in Honved and MTK Budapest, both Premier Division Hungarian sides. As a goalkeeper of great talent, he played many games for the National Youth Team of Hungary, as well as the 13 and A senior National teams. After his playing days were over, he devoted much of his time to coaching and teaching young soccer players on the highest level.

Team manager

From 1977 to 1982, he worked as the coaching director for the MTK Budapest's youth programme, and from 1982 to 1986 he was the Youth Coach Director for the Hungarian national football team. As one of his greatest achievements on that level, under his coaching and guidance, the Under-18 National Team of Hungary, captured the European Youth Championship in Moscow, in 1984.
Before moving on to the senior level, Bicskei successfully completed the, work, and graduated at the world renowned soccer academy in Cologne, Germany in 1986. He is one of just a few Hungarian-born coaches who was able to earn one of the most respected coaching diplomas in the world. While in Germany, he also studied philosophy, and learned to speak excellent German.
In 1987/88 Bicskei become head coach of Honved Budapest, (that year, Honved won the National title and the Hungarian cup) and his professional career was off to a flying start. In 1999/90 he, was selected to coach the senior national team of Hungary. In 1991 he could not refuse a challenging offer from South Korea and he become head coach of Daewoo Royals. Under his direction, the club won the national title, national cup, and he was voted, coach of the year in South Korea. From 1992 to 1994 he coached club FC Luzern^[1] in Switzerland. In the 1995/96 he returned home briefly to coach MTK Budapest.
Bicskei packed his suitcase again in 1995, this time to Saudi Arabia where he coached the Al-Riyadh club in the 1995/96 seasons. During his stay in Saudi Arabia, he started working on his book, "Preparation of Young Footballs", a soccer achievement that not only complements, but also challenges everything that was written thus far on teaching young soccer players to achieve the highest level. After returning home, he coached Honved Budapest once again, 1996/97 seasons, and he was technical director at RABA ETO Gyor in the 1998/99 seasons.
Between 1998 and 2001 he served his second stint as the national coach of Hungary,^[2] later becoming the technical director of the Hungarian Football Federation between 2006 and mid-2008.
In the second half of 2004, the Football Association of Malaysia selected Bertalan Bicskei, to succeed Allan Harris. Bicskei led the national side to third place at the regional Tiger Cup competition, but was demoted to youth development duties by FAM for his actions during a friendly against Singapore in Penang on 8 June 2005. Bicskei, disgusted by the standard of officiating, threw a bottle onto the pitch before confronting a Singapore player. In September 2005 the contract was terminated after mutual agreement.
Bicksei was given the job of Liberia's national coach in July 2010 on a four-year contract, but had to take a leave of absence in February 2011 after being poisoned in Liberia.^[3]
He has an adopted son called Wilson.

 

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Rouhollah Dadashi Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, was stabbed and died he was , 30.

Rouhollah Dadashi was an Iranian Powerlifter, Bodybuilder and Strongman, competing for Iran in international strongman competitions was stabbed and died he was , 30. 

(January 24, 1982 - July 16, 2011)


He participated five times in Iran's Strongest Man competition,^[8] reaching the final round each time, and becoming the champion twice (2009 and 2010). ^[9]
Dadashi was stabbed and killed on 16 July 2011, 11:45 p.m in a fight which started as an argument with another driver and his passengers.^[10][11] On 17 July 2011, two of the killers were arrested by the police in the city of Karaj. The third and main murderer was arrested the next day while trying to escape the city.
Thousands of people attended Dadashi's burial ceremony. He was buried in Imamzadeh Mohammad in Karaj on 18 July 2011.^[12]

 

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Cesare Mazzolari, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998) died he was , 74.

Cesare Mazzolari (or: Caesar Mazzolari,) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, in the newly-independent Republic of South Sudan died he was , 74..

(9 February 1937–16 July 2011)

Bishop Mazzolari was born Feb. 9, 1937 in Brescia, Italy. He joined the Comboni Missionaries, and on 17 March 1962 was ordained a priest in San Diego, USA. His mission brought him to Cincinnati, in the United States, where he worked among African American and Mexican American miners.
In 1981, in response to the invitation of Bishop Joseph Gasi, he was appointed by his Comboni Congregation to the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio then the south-central Archdiocese of Juba, Southern Sudan. He was then aged 44. In that diocese, he worked in Nzara parish as curate and he was a sought-after Spiritual Director at St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary at Rimenze, Yambio. From there, he went to Juba to serve as Comboni Provincial of Southern Sudan for six years.
In 1990, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the war-torn Diocese of Rumbek (Southern Sudan). He zealously set to work, re-opening missions and negotiating humanitarian assistance and the freedom of very young slaves. That same year, he helped free 150 child slaves.
He rebuilt the Diocese of Rumbek almost from scrap, as the two Southern Sudanese Secession Wars (1955-1973 and 1083-2005) had devastated the country and the Government of Khartoum had expelled all foreign missionaries from the country in the 1960ies. In 1991, he reopened the mission of Yirol, the first of many, some of which subsequently had to be abandoned during the protracted Second Sudanese Civil War. In 1994 he was captured and held hostage for 24 hours by guerrillas of the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army), the separatist armed group fighting against the Khartoum government. On 6 January 1999 he was ordained a bishop by Pope John Paul II. ^[1][2][3]
He took to heart the mandate given to him on that day by the Holy Father, John Paul II, namely, to relieve “a people who have suffered too much for too long” from “the anguish of an unjust war” and “to help them to restore the dignity of their human rights.” And indeed, his years as Bishop of Rumbek reflect his faithfulness to this extraordinary and challenging mission.
Bishop Mazzolari promoted formal and informal education through the establishment of learning institutions. He coordinated the provision of health services. He passionately responded to human need at every level. And to answer the educational, health, pastoral and humanitarian needs of the geographically vast diocese, he went beyond the borders of Sudan to seek help from religious congregations worldwide. Today every continent is represented in the Diocesan personnel of Rumbek Diocese. He also worked tirelessly to promote reconciliation among our people, always optimistic and courageous in the face of often apparently insurmountable obstacles.
On Saturday, July 9, 2011, Bishop Mazzolari joyfully witnessed the birth of the Republic of South Sudan when he presided over the official opening prayer during the Independence Day celebration at Freedom Square in Rumbek. This event was also a culmination of his unique pastoral initiative, Ten Steps to Unity in South Sudan.
Bishop Mazzolari died a week after those events on 16 July 2011, at the age of 74, while concelebrating a Mass; he abruptly gasped for air and clutched at his chest and fell back, leading many to believe his death was from cardiopulmonary disease-related causes. He was widely mourned and appreciated for having seen the region and the country through the war, to the cessation of much of the hostilities, and finally to independence.^[4]

 

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John Crook, British ethnologist died he was , 80.

John Hurrell Crook, BSc, PhD, DSc was a British ethologist who filled a pivotal role in British primatology died he was , 80.

(27 November 1930 – 15 July 2011)

As Reader in Ethology (animal behaviour) in the Psychology Department, Bristol University, he led a research group studying social and reproductive behaviour in birds and primates throughout the 1970s-80s, turning to the socio-psychological anthropology of Himalayan peoples in the 1990s.^[2] In his later years he was the Teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship.^[3]

Early life

He was educated at Oakmount School, Southampton and Sherborne School, Dorset.
He completed his National Service in Hong Kong, where he first encountered Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhism.^[4]

Academic career

Crook was a pioneer in the early development of socio-ecology, adding this dimension to ethology which was then dominated by the ideas of Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His student paper on the gulls of Southampton Water^[5] while at University College, Southampton, led to his doctoral study at Jesus College, Cambridge^[6] of the weaver birds (Ploceinae) of West Africa, supervised by William Thorpe and Robert Hinde. This was followed by further research in India, the Seychelles Islands and East Africa. His theoretical interpretation subsequently contributed to David Lack’s discussion of the behavioural component in avian population research.^[7] His fieldwork was further supported by laboratory experimentation on the endocrinal basis for the behaviour observed in the field.^[8]
After moving to Bristol University, he collaborated with Professor K.R.L. Hall in establishing a centre for primate studies, extending socio-ecological principles to primates,^[9] supervising doctoral projects and leading field research in Ethiopia on the Gelada Baboon and in Morocco on the Barbary Macaque, subsequently developed by Robin Dunbar and John Deag respectively.
His year^[10] as Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in California introduced him to the new techniques of humanistic psychotherapy. On return to Bristol, his students requested him to demonstrate these methods, leading to the creation of the Bristol Encounter Centre and to his teaching of the subject widely in the UK, especially based on workshops run at his retreat centre in mid Wales.
In 1977 Crook led an expedition to Zanskar in the Ladakh Himalayas, a pilot study focussing on polyandrous marriage.^[11] For several years, he and colleagues led further expeditions studying the geology, agriculture, social and family life and monastic practices in this remote, high-altitude region.^[12] He later returned with James Low, a Tibetologist fluent in the texts and language, to study the lives of Buddhist hermits in the mountains.^[13]
Retiring early, he began practicing Zen Buddhism in intensive retreats taught in New York by Chan Master Sheng Yen of Dharma Drum Monastery, Taiwan, who in 1993 transmitted to him the authority to teach Chinese Zen.^[14] Forming the Western Chan Fellowship with colleagues, Crook developed a programme of retreats adapted to Western Zen practitioners.
Crook published around a hundred scientific papers in ornithology, ethology and evolutionary psychology, and several books focussing on consciousness^[15] and Zen practice.^[16] His last work was World Crisis and Buddhist Humanism (New Age Books, Delhi 2009).
He died on 15 July 2011, shortly after a gathering of many former students and colleagues in Somerset to celebrate his life. Dr Innes Cuthill, Professor of Behavioural Ecology at Bristol University, described him as "a pivotal figure in the rise of British primatology and socio-ecology".^[1]

Honours

• Osman Hill Medal. Primate Society of Great Britain. 1992.
• Fellow. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. 1968-69.
• Honour plaque. Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages. 2003.

 

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