Music
Billy Bauer, a jazz guitarist who played with Woody Herman’s First Herd band in the 1940s and later with bands led by Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden, has died.
June 25, 2005
Travel & Experiences
Max Kaminsky, 85, jazz trumpeter who brought a New Orleans style with blues overtones to Chicago.
Sept. 10, 1994
“Jazz on a Summer’s Day.” Sony. $29.95.
July 28, 1987
Joe Reisman, a composer, arranger and conductor whose lengthy associations with Patti Page and Perry Como produced such hits as “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window,” “Mockingbird Hill,” “Poppa Loves Mambo” and “Catch a Falling Star,” has died of a heart attack.
Oct. 1, 1987
We music lovers live in exciting times.
June 12, 1988
For decades, Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it.
May 23, 2009
Big Band leader Jimmy Dorsey died in 1957, but his legacy survives through the many incarnations of his band.
Jan. 12, 1991
Jazz historian and collector Mark Cantor has organized “Jazz on Film,” a two-hour program of film clips of such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Howlin’ Wolf, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Big Mama Thornton, the big bands of Count Basie, Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Thelonious Monk and Jack Teagarden.
June 10, 1999
Bix Beiderbecke and Frank “Tram” Trumbauer were the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of the early jazz years.
Dec. 16, 2001
Entertainment & Arts
Revered jazz clarinetist Michael “Peanuts” Hucko, who played with Glenn Miller’s band during World War II and briefly led the band in the 1970s, died Friday in Fort Worth after a long illness.
June 21, 2003