Galerie verstorbener Musiker
- Barbarin, Lucien
- 08.01.1905 - 27.03.1955
Lucien Barbarin (July 17, 1956 – January 30, 2020) was an American trombone player. Barbarin toured internationally with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and with Harry Connick Jr.
He made his debut at the age of six, playing drums in the Onward Brass Band, with his great-uncle Paul Barbarin.
In Ne...
- Busse, Henry
- 19.05.1894 - 23.04.1955
- Trompeter, Komponist
Henry Busse Sr. (May 19, 1894 – April 23, 1955) was a German-born jazz trumpeter. A 1948 review in Billboard magazine said that Busse had "a keen sense of musical commercialism"....
- Davenport, Cow Cow
- 23.04.1894 - 03.12.1955
- Sänger
Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport (April 23, 1894 – December 3, 1955) was an American boogie-woogie and piano blues player as well as a vaudeville entertainer. He also played the organ and sang.
Davenport, who also made recordings under the pseudonyms of Bat The Humming Bird, George Hamilton and ...
- Gray, Wardell
- 13.02.1921 - 25.05.1955
- Saxophonist
- Todesursache: Überdosis (Drogen)
Wardell Gray (February 13, 1921 – May 25, 1955) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist....
- Johnson, James P.
- 01.02.1894 - 17.11.1955
James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventual...
- Martin, Sara
- 18.06.1884 - 24.05.1955
- Sängerin
Sara Martins (born 19 August 1977) is a Portuguese-French actress. She is known in France for her roles on television and in film and theatre. She also appeared as Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey in the joint British-French crime comedy-drama Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe, a French overs...
- Parker, Charlie
- 29.08.1920 - 12.03.1955
- Saxophonist, Komponist
- Todesursache: Leberzirrhose, Magengeschwür, Lungenentzündung, Heroin-Sucht
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic techniqu...
- Raglin, Junior
- 16.03.1917 - 10.11.1955
- Bassist
Alvin "Junior" Raglin (March 16, 1917 – November 10, 1955) was an American swing jazz double bassist.
Raglin started out on guitar but had picked up bass by the mid-1930s. He played with Eugene Coy from 1938 to 1941, in Oregon, and then joined Duke Ellington's Orchestra, where he replaced Jimmy Bl...
- Stokes, Frank
- 01.01.1888 - 12.09.1955
- Gitarrist
- Todesursache: Schlaganfall
Frank Stokes may refer to:
Frank Stokes (musician) (1888–1955), American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel
Frank Stokes (footballer) (1881–1945), English professional footballer
Frank Stokes (rugby league) (born 1972), Australian rugby league player
Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858–1...
- Twardzik, Richard
- 30.04.1931 - 21.10.1955
- Pianist
- Todesursache: Überdosis (Drogen)
Richard Henryk Twardzik (April 30, 1931 – October 21, 1955) was an American jazz pianist who worked in Boston for most of his career....
- van’t Hoff, Ernst
- 13.07.1908 - 16.05.1955
- Trompeter, Pianist
- Todesursache: Herzinfarkt
- Washington, Buck
- 16.10.1903 - 31.01.1955
- Sänger, Pianist
Ford Lee "Buck" Washington (October 16, 1903 – January 31, 1955) was an American vaudeville performer, pianist, and singer. He was best known as half of the duo Buck and Bubbles, who were the first black artists to appear on television, with John W. Bubbles, his performance partner for 40 years....