MUSICIANS WHO DIED IN MARCH 2020
MUSICIANS WHO DIED IN MARCH 2020
MARCH 2
SUSAN WEINERT (54) / GERMAN JAZZ GUITARIST AND SONGWRITER, JAZZ FUSION MASTER. MADE 13 ALBUMS, HER LAST ONE DER BAUM VOR MEINEM FENSTER WAS RELEASED IN 2020. HER FIRST ONE MYSTERIOUS STORIES (1992) WAS CHOSEN A JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR BY WDR RADIO. PLAYED OVER 3000 SHOWS.
MARCH 4
BARBARA MARTIN (76) / AMERICAN SINGER, ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE MOTOWN FEMALE SINGING GROUP THE SUPREMES. THE OTHER THREE WERE DIANA ROSS, MARY WILSON AND FLORENCE BALLARD.
MARCH 6
McCOY TYNER (81) / AMERICAN JAZZ PIANIST AND COMPOSER. BORN IN PHILADELPHIA, STARTED PLAYING THE PIANO AT 13. AT 17 CONVERTED TO ISLAM AND BECAME SULIEMAN SAUD. HIS NEIGHBOURHOOD FRIENDS THEN WERE JAZZ LEGENDS BUD POWELL AND RICHIE POWELL. AT 24 RICHIE, HIS WIFE NANCY (19) AND TRUMPETER CLIFFORD BROWN (25) WERE KILLED IN A CAR CRASH. IN 1960 McCOY TYNER BEGAN WORKING WITH THE JAZZTET FOUNDED BY ART FARMER AND BENNY GOLSON. HALF A YEAR LATER BECAME A MEMBER OF A LEGENDARY JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET WITH JIMMY GARRISON ON BASS AND ELVIN JONES ON DRUMS.
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