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Jim Kincaid, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, died from a heart attack he was , 76.

Jim Kincaid was a former news correspondent for ABC News and local news anchor for WVEC in Norfolk, Virginia for over 18 years died from a heart attack he was , 76..

(October 23, 1934 – July 17, 2011)

Biography and early career

Kincaid was born on October 23, 1934 in Houston, Texas, to the late Herbert and Ethel Schulze. He grew up in Arkansas, often joking that his parents "moved there as soon as they heard about it". He started working for a radio station there in 1949, then served three years in the United States Army after being drafted in 1956. In 1960, he joined WWL in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he won a National Gold Bell award for his reporting on the death of Pope John XXIII in 1963. He later moved to what was then KMOX-TV (now KMOV) and WCBS-TV before moving to ABC News.

Network correspondent

Hired to work as a network correspondent, Kincaid reported in Vietnam for ABC in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War. A military helicopter in which Kincaid was riding was shot down by rocket fire near the village of Bu Dop. He sustained a broken back in the crash and spent several months recovering in Hong Kong.

WVEC-TV

In 1978, Kincaid left ABC to become the local news anchor for WVEC. During his time with WVEC, he returned to Vietnam to do a special series of stories covering the changes that had taken place over the previous 25 years. While shooting the award-winning documentary, Kincaid reunited a Vietnamese refugee with her family in Ho Chi Minh City. The woman, Norfolk resident Thao Nguyen, left Vietnam by boat in the 1970s with her infant daughter, and had not seen her family in over 20 years.
Kincaid also wrote a documentary in 1995 entitled "D-Day to VE Day". Three D-Day veterans from the Norfolk area accompanied Jim to several historic World War II sites, including Weymouth, England, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, the Dachau concentration camp, and Margraten in the Netherlands, site of the largest American cemetery in Europe. In 1996, Kincaid stepped down as WVEC's primary news anchor; he continued with the station as a commentator until his retirement.[2]
Jim Kincaid authored several books, with collections of his humorous anecdotes.[3]

Post-news career and death

In 1997, Kincaid left WVEC. He and his wife Catherine moved to a farm which he owned near Elam, an unincorporated area in Virginia's Prince Edward County. In 2006, they moved into a community near Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.[4] While retired from the news business, Kincaid continued to work, providing narration and voice-over work. Kincaid died of a heart attack on July 17, 2011 at the age of 76. [5]

 

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John Kraaijkamp, Sr, Dutch actor and comedian died he was 86.

Jan Hendrik (John) Kraaijkamp, Srwas a Dutch Golden Calf and Louis d'Or winning actor, comedian and singer. For years, he formed a comedy team with Rijk de Gooyer. One of The Netherlands' most popular comedians, praised for his perfect timing, he also played in more serious plays, including the title role in King Lear (1979) and in the Academy Award winning WOII drama film The Assault (1986). From 1993 until 2003, he starred in the successful sitcom "Het Zonnetje in Huis" along his son John Kraaijkamp, Jr.


(19 April 1925 - 17 July 2011)

Early life

Kraaijkamp was one of four children of a greengrocer and a housecleaner. He grew up in the Kinkerbuurt in Amsterdam. After an accident, his father was declared unfit for work and Johnny had to find work at a young age. At the age of 14, he already performed as a boy soprano in the famous Amsterdam theatre Carré.[1]

Career

With Rijk de Gooyer

Kraaijkamp worked for a short while as acrobat, but then moved on to become a singer in a show orchestra. He performed as an entertainer and bass player in local bars, where he was discovered in the 1950s by Rijk de Gooyer.
Together they recorded the song "Twee jongens op een gitaar" (Two guys on a guitar). It was the start of a long and successful partnership. John (then "Johnny") and Rijk began to perform together on radio and television. In spring 1956, they joined the "Weekendshow", an entertainment show from the broadcasting company AVRO which also included comedians Huub Matron and later René van Vooren. They also toured with the Snip & Snap Revue and perform in several comedy plays written for TV, together and apart.
In 1962, they got together again for Open het dorp, an exremely well-watched TV benefit marathon presented by Mies Bouwman, in which they performed in their pyjamas. In the 1960s and 1970s they performed regularly together on Dutch TV. In 1964, they began with the Johnny & Rijk shows (later called 'n Paar Apart). In 1968, they presented another "Weekendhow". In all these shows, Rijk was the "feeder" and John the comedian. Even when they worked apart, they held close contact. In 1963, John got his own TV show at the broadcasting company KRO, the Johnny Kraaijkamp Show, for which De Gooyer wrote. The duo also recorded a couple of hit singles, including "De Bostella", for which they received a golden record in 1968. From 1970 to 1971, they even had a show on German TV, Spass durch Zwei.

Solo work

In 1973, De Gooyer started a film career. Kraaijkamp didn't sit still, and made a couple of shows for the NCRV, with Tonny Huurdeman as his new feeder. Unfortunately, these were not very successful: the show only lasted three episodes. The TROS later produced a new series of Johnny Kraaijkamp Shows. De Gooyer performs in two episodes. In 1985, he joined old partner De Gooyer in the AVRO TV series De Brekers, which also starred Adèle Bloemendaal and Sacco van der Made. He also played in a couple of movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including Jos Stelling's De Wisselwachter and Fons Rademakers' The Assault (both 1986), as the bittered resistance fighter Cor Takes, and Iris (1987), with Monique van de Ven.
Kraaijkamp also was a prolific stage actor. With theatre company Ensemble he plays in The Taming of the Shrew from 1958 to 1959. From 1962 to 1964 he's a member of the Amsterdams Volkstoneel. He also starred in a couple of free productions, including musicals Irma la Douce (1962–1964) and Man of La Mancha (1969–1970). After a period of comic plays, he joined the Ro Theater in 1979 to play in a number of classic roles. The title role in Shakespeare's King Lear that year is considered his big breakthrough as a serious actor.[1] He also performed in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1984 he won the Louis d'Or, the most prestigious award in stage acting in The Netherlands, for his lead role in Jacques de fatalist en zijn meester.

Later years

From 1988 until 1990, he starred in the prison sitcom Laat maar zitten, based on the British TV series Porridge. His most successful role in recent years was the part of Piet Boverkerk in the RTL comedy series Het zonnetje in huis (1993–2003). In the show, he played a pig-headed old man that comes to live with his son and daughter-in-law (played by his own son, John Kraaijkamp, Jr., and Martine Bijl) after his wife passed away.
He continued to perform in various plays, including The Sunshine Boys (1994), along with his son, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (2001), and Gouwe Handjes (2002–2003), which was written especially for him by Haye van der Heyden. In 2000, theater producer Joop van den Ende named a musical award after him. The John Kraaijkamp Musical Awards are awarded every year to musical actors and actresses. In recent years, his only public appearances were these gala shows, except for a brief role in the Dutch TV comedy series "Kinderen geen bezwaar" in 2007.[2]

Personal life

Kraaijkamp was married three times and had four children. With Riemada Elisabeth Panhuysen, he had two children, son John (1954) and daughter Ellissigne. With his second wife, Tilly van Duijkeren, he had a son, Michiel. With Mai Lun Lee he had a daughter, Sanne. John, Ellissigne and Sanne became actors.
Kraaijkamp spend his final years in the Rosa Spier Huis in Laren, in the room where famous Dutch comic book artist Marten Toonder used to live. His 85th birthday was celebrated there. Among the attendants were important Dutch comedians and television personalities including André van Duin, Rijk de Gooyer and Mies Bouwman.

Death

Kraaijkamp died on 17 July 2011 in the Rosa Spier Huis in the presence of his children, ex-wife and friends.[3] He was 86 years old. The next day, several TV stations paid tribute to the comedian with TV specials. On Friday 22 July, the Dutch public can bid him farewell in the recently renewed DeLaMar Theater. The next day, he will be cremated.[4]

Awards

Throughout his life, Kraaijkamp received several acting awards, both for the stage, TV and film. In 1984, Kraaijkamp received the Louis d'Or for his role as Jacques in the play Jacques de fatalist en zijn meester. In 1986, he received the Golden Calf for Best Actor for his roles in the films The Assault and De Wisselwachter. The next year, in 1987, he was awarded with the Johan Kaartprijs for his contribution to stage comedy and entertainment. In 1998, he received a Gouden Beeld, a television award, for Best Actor in a Comedy for his role in Het Zonnetje in Huis. On October 21, 2007 he received the Blijvend Applaus Prijs for his exceptional contribution to Dutch theater, television and film.

 

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Joe Morris, Sr., American Navajo World War II code talker died he was , 85.

 Joe Morris, Sr. was an American World War II United States Marine veteran and Navajo code talker died he was , 85..

(April 19, 1926 - July 17, 2011)

Morris was born as one of four children on April 19, 1926, in Indian Wells, a village on the Navajo Nation in northeast Arizona, as a member of the Kin'lichii'nii Clan.[1][2] He took care of his parents horse, sheep and livestock. According to the Los Angeles Times, Morris described the reservation where he was raised as having "no electricity, no running water, no school."[1] He began attending a government-run boarding school approximately 70 milies from his home when he was twelve years.[1] Morris was taught English at the school.[1] Morris' school was closed at the outbreak of World War II and the building was turned into a Japanese-American internment camp.[1]
Morris told the U.S. draft board in 1943 that he was 18 years old, when he was actually 17 years old, in order to gte his draft card.[1] He worked on in an ore mine in Arizona for several months before he was drafted into the United States Marines.[1] In an 1988 interview with the Modesto Bee, Morris said that a Navajo medicine man prayed for him for a day and a half upon his drafting, which Morris credited with surviving the war unharmed.[1][3]
Morris was sent to Camp Pendleton, where he and approximately 400 other Navajos received communications training to become code talkers.[1] Morris served as a Marine code talker throughout the Pacific Theater, serving with the 2nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division, including Guadalcanal and Guam.[2] He was a participant in the Battle of Okinawa, where the Japanese blocked the Navajo's messages.[1] In 2004, Morris told a Veterans Days observance in San Bernardino, California, that "My weapon was my language...We saved a lot of lives."[1] At the end of World War II, Morris was told by his commanders not speak of the Navajo code talkers with anyone.[1] That included Morris' parents and wife, whom he did not tell either.[1] Morris began revealing the details of the Navajo code talkers only the code talkers' mission and role in the war was declassified in 1968.[1]
Morris was honorable discharged from the Marines in 1946 and married his wife, Charlotte Morris.[1] He was hired at a Marine supply center in Barstow, California, and settled in the small town of Daggett, a small town in the Mojave Desert.[1] He worked as a maintenance department supervisor at the same supply center until his 1984 retirement.[1]
Joe Morris spoke extensively about the experience of the Navajo code talkers during the 1990s and 2000s. Morris and his fellow Navajo code talkers were honored by in an exhibit at Pentagon in 1992, which he attended.[1] Morris also attended Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in 2001, in which President George W. Bush presented the award to four or the original twenty-nine Navajo code talkers.[1] He and 200 surviving code talkers were awarded the Congressional Silver Medal on November 25, 2001, at a ceremony in Window Rock, Arizona.[2]
Joe Morris Sr. died from complications of a stroke on July 17, 2011, at Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, at the age of 85.[1] President of the Navajo Nation Ben Shelly ordered American flags in the Navajo Nation to be lowered to half staff in Morris' honor.[1][2]

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David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor died he was , 44.

David Ngoombujarra was an Indigenous Australian actor of the Yamatji people. Born David Bernard Starr in Meekatharra, Western Australia, his acting career spanned over two decades from the 1980s to the present; he won three Australian Film Institute Awards. On 17 July 2011 he was found in a park in Fremantle, and taken to Fremantle Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
(27 June 1967 – 17 July 2011)

Filmography

Awards


 

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Alex Steinweiss, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover died he was , 94

Alexander "Alex" Steinweiss  was a graphic designer known for inventing the album cover died he was , 94.


(March 24, 1917 – July 17, 2011)

Early life

Alex Steinweiss was born on March 24, 1917, in Brooklyn. His father was a women's shoe designer from Warsaw and his mother was a seamstress from Riga, Latvia. They moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan and eventually settled in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn.[2]
Steinweiss said he was destined to be a commercial artist. In high school he marveled at his classmates who "could take a brush, dip it in some paint and make letters," he recalled. "So I said to myself, 'If some day I could become a good sign painter, that would be terrific!"'[2]
Steinweiss earned a scholarship to the Parsons School of Design.[2]

Career

After graduation Steinweiss worked for three years for the Austrian poster designer Joseph Binder, whose flat color and simplified human figures were popular at the time and influenced his own work. During World War II, Steinweiss became Columbia Records' advertising manager. He left for a job at the Navy's Training and Development Center in New York City, where he produced teaching materials and cautionary posters.[2]
After the war, Steinweiss freelanced for Columbia. During one lunch meeting there, the company's president, Ted Wallerstein, introduced him to an innovation that the company was about to unveil: the long-playing record. But there was a problem. The heavy, folded kraft paper used to protect 78 rpm records left marks on the vinyl microgroove when 33 1/3 rpm LPs were stacked.[2]
Steinweiss was asked to develop a jacket for the new format and, with help from his brother-in-law, found a manufacturer willing to invest about $250,000 in equipment. Steinweiss had the original patent for what became the industry packaging standard (he did not develop the inner sleeve, only the outer package), but under his contract with Columbia he had to waive all rights to any inventions made while working there.[2]
In the 1930s recorded music was sold in plain packaging, or record shop advertising 'bags'; sets of discs were also usually issued in plain albums. However, colored artwork had been used on special albums, from World War I. This was separately printed and pasted onto album covers and occasionally inside the albums: for example, HMV's issue of Liza Lehmann's "In a Persian Garden" and operettas by Edward German and Gilbert & Sullivan were all available by 1918 in such decorated albums.[3]
In 1939, Alex Steinweiss was the first art director for Columbia Records, where he introduced a wider application of album covers and cover art.[4] Steinweiss was active in record cover design from 1939 until 1973, when he semi-retired to devote himself to painting. By his own admission, he has designed roughly 2500 covers.
Steinweiss' career can be divided into roughly five periods. From 1939 to perhaps 1945, he designed all the covers for Columbia. During this period, he developed the entire graphic "language" of album design.
The second period is from 1945 to roughly 1950, during which he was no longer the sole designer for Columbia. He also began designing for other companies. This period is sometimes described as the "First Golden Age" of the album cover.
Steinweiss' signature font, the "Steinweiss scrawl," first appeared in roughly 1947. Steinweiss claims to have invented the LP cover, which first appeared in 1948.
Starting in around 1950, Steinweiss did the covers and record label for Remington, and began a more than 20 year association with both Decca and London Records. Like his earlier periods, most of his early 1950s designs are drawn, for Columbia, RCA, Remington, Decca and London. This is his third period, when he did drawing, lettering, and layout that was often brilliant but perhaps not as memorable as his late 1940s period. It was during this period that he collaborated with Margaret Bourke-White on a memorable series of covers for Columbia.
Starting in the mid-1950s, Steinweiss added photography to his palette. Steinweiss's photographic covers are remarkably distinctive. He utilized strange garish colors, odd lighting, and numerous visual puns and reference points.
He continued to work for Decca and London, and did the entire series of covers (and the logo and label) for the startup Everest label from 1958 until roughly 1960. This was his fourth period, characterized by photography but continuing to use the entire range of tools he had developed. Steinweiss' final period of record cover design was from 1960 to roughly 1973, again working for Decca and London. His new developments of the period were in die-cut designs and collage.
Steinweiss also designed liquor bottles, posters, magazine, pamphlet, book covers and titles for TV shows. He remains semi-active, having designed at least one book cover in the 1980s and four cd covers for Harmonie Ensemble/New York, Steven Richman,conductor: Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat, Premieres and Rarities [2001] GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATION Koch International Classics; Copland: Rarities and Premieres [2004] Bridge Records; Symphonic Jazz: Ferde Grofe and George Gershwin in Original Paul Whiteman Orchestra Versions [2006] Bridge Records; Dvorak Day Concert [2001] Dvorak Festival Orchestra of New York, Steven Richman, conductor [2001] Music and Arts
Steinweiss's cover for the original Broadway cast recording of South Pacific (1949) has been in almost continuous use ever since for the 78 rpm set, for the LP, for the 45 rpm set, for various tape formats and for the CD. The only other graphic design in America to be used for so many years is the Coca-Cola bottle.[citation needed]
In 1942, Steinweiss hired Jim Flora, which launched Flora's 40+ year career as a commercial artist.
In 2001, Steinweiss was featured in Carlo McCormick's gallery show "The LP Show," originating in New York's Exit Art and then in 2002 traveling to the Experience Music Project in Seattle and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.[5]
He was interviewed for a chapter in Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

Death

Alex Steinweiss died on July 18, 2011 in Sarasota, Florida. His death was confirmed by his son, Leslie. In addition to his son, he is survived by a daughter, Hazel Steinweiss, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.[2]

Alex awards

In 2003, CMP Information and the International Recording Media Association created the Alex Awards for Excellence in Entertainment Packaging, which were named in honor of Alex Steinweiss.[4]

 

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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
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

 

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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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