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News from the darkest corners of the
musical universe:
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Monday, August 22, 2005 ◦
Sad news: electronic music pioneer Bob Moog died yesterday afternoon. He was 71 years old.
Moogmusic.com reports:
Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.
Bob was warm and outgoing. He enjoyed meeting people from all over the world. He especially appreciated what Ileana referred to as "the magical connection" between music-makers and their instruments.
No public memorial is planned. Fans and friends can direct their sympathies or remembrances to www.caringbridge.com/visit/bobmoog.
Bob's family has established The Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to the Advancement of Electronic Music in his memory. Many of his longtime collaborators including musicians, engineers and educators have agreed to sit on its executive board including David Borden, Wendy Carlos, Joel Chadabpe, John Eaton, David Mash, and Rick Wakeman. For more information about the foundation, contact Matthew Moog at mattmoog@yahoo.com.
We'll miss you Bob.
You can read Bob Moog's biography here.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 ◦
18 August 2005 sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of Enoch Light. Check out Spaced Out - The Enoch Light website for news, updates and links to free Enoch Light album downloads!
We join in on the fun with our own Enoch Light album share. Grab it before it's gone!
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Saturday, August 13, 2005 ◦
Belgian jazz pianist and arranger Francy Boland died at his home in Switzerland. He was 75. The high point of Boland's career was a big band that he led in the 1960s and '70s with American drummer Kenny Clarke, Belgian news agency Belga reported Friday.
He also worked as a songwriter and arranger for more famous jazz artists including Count Basie and pop singer Gitte Haenning. The time of Boland's death was not immediately reported.
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Sunday, August 07, 2005 ◦
Ibrahim Ferrer, a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club of traditional Cuban performers, died Saturday, his representative in Cuba said. He was 78. A cause of death was not given, but Ferrer's colleagues said he suffered from emphysema and was feeling ill earlier in the week.
Known for his trademark cap and graying mustache, Ferrer was a wiry, animated figure who clearly enjoyed performing Cuba's traditional "son" music of the 1940s and 1950s for new generations of fans. Among a group of older Cuban performers recruited by U.S. musician Ry Cooder, Ferrer performed on the "Buena Vista Social Club album" that won a Grammy in 1999, and was among those appearing in the film of the same name.
Ferrer was also featured in one of a string of albums that followed, "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer," and he won a Latin Grammy for best new artist in 2000. Two other well-known members of the original Buena Vista group, singer Compay Segundo and pianist Ruben Gonzalez, died in 2003.
Originally from Cuba's eastern city of Santiago, Ferrer was born on Feb. 20, 1927, during a dance at a social club after his mother unexpectedly went into labor. Ferrer was still a boy when he began singing professional with Santiago groups in 1941. By the late 1950s, he was a well-known singer performing regularly with the late bandleader Pacho Alonso.
Alonso's group moved to Havana in 1959, and Ferrer came along, remaining with the group for more than two decades. By the early 1980s, Ferrer had left the musical scene, but came out of retirement to perform with the Buena Vista group.
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Saturday, August 06, 2005 ◦
Lucky Thompson, a legendary tenor and soprano saxophonist who took his place among the elite improvisers of jazz from the 1940's to the 1960's and then quit music, roamed the country and ended up homeless or hospitalized for more than a decade, died on Saturday in Seattle. He was 81.
More here.
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Monday, August 01, 2005 ◦
Billboard reports: A host of previously unreleased recordings by late lounge music pioneer Juan Garcia Esquivel are due Sept. 6 via Bar/None. Recorded in 1975, the material on "The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel!" was originally intended for release as a promotional item for Chicago's La Margarita restaurant chain.
Recorded live in the studio with Esquivel's band - with canned applause overdubbed later - the set includes arrangements of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," the Ervin Drake/Dan Fisher/Irene Higginbotham standard "Good Morning Heartache" and the Tanya Tucker-popularized "Delta Dawn." The bandleader's widow, Yvonne Debourban Esquivel, contributes the disc's liner notes.
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