Andraé Crouch Funeral Arrangements Announced
(LOS ANGELES, CA) — A celebration of Andraé Crouchs life will take place on Tuesday, January 20th and Wednesday, January 21st at West Angeles Church of God In Christ, located at 3045 Crenshaw Blvd in Los Angeles, California. Both services will be open to the public.
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Andraé Crouch Dead at 72
(LOS ANGELES, CA) — Music legend Andraé Crouch has died. The Grammy and Dove Award winner passed away on Thursday, January 8, 2015 at approximately 4:30pm PST at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in the Los Angeles area. Andraé, 72, was hospitalized on January 3rd.
Joe Sample Funeral Services
Friday September 19th
There will be a Wake and viewing, open to the general public
6:00 – 9:00pm
at
Our Mother of Mercy Church
4000 Sumpter St.
Houston Tx, 77020
Funeral services on Saturday will be private, for family and friends.
By A. Scott Galloway
JOE SAMPLE: Pianist, Composer, Keyboard Master, Consummate Accompanist and Sideman, Storyteller – Rainbow Seeker and Jazz Crusader – made his Earthly transition this day. May he rest in a peace as deep as the warm wraparound blanket of sound he left behind…
photo credit: Anna Webber
Beloved Multi-Instrumentalist Gerald Wilson Passes Away – Monday, September 8, 2014
Gerald Wilson, beloved conductor, bandleader, composer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist, passed away in his Los Angeles home on Monday, September 8, 2014 after being diagnosed with pneumonia two weeks earlier. He was 96-years-old.
“Gerald Wilson, who I considered a good friend, was one of the most versatile of men,” says Gretchen Valade, owner of Mack Avenue Records (Wilson’s label since 2007). “He was a composer, had a wonderful band and still remained humble and gentle. The Mack Avenue family will miss him dearly.”
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Bobby Martin, legendary producer, arranger, and composer, best known for his contributions to R&B music and the Sound of Philadelphia as well as arranging the theme song to “Soul Train” has passed away, but his legacy continues through the efforts of his wife, Bessie Martin, and Martin’s grandson and Personal Manager, Miguel Martin.
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From Adderley to Zappa…and All the Space Between:
An Appreciation of George Duke
by A. Scott Galloway
Some losses leave unfathomable fissures in the foundation of family, community and industry. The transition of George Duke at age 67 from Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is such a loss. The proof lies in the first 48 hours of homage that swept across social media – emanating as much from the hearts of folks who knew him as among the warmest, funniest and most generous of men to walk the earth as from musicologists who strained to mainline the panoramic palette of his musical breadth and depth. The passing of George Duke demands that one ponder long and hard of the experience, wisdom, perspective and personality that has ascended. Yet voluminous traces have been left behind for generations to study and enjoy long into the future. It is “the future” that the electric keyboard and synthesizer wizard always had his third eye locked on…heart anchored in ancient reveries of Afro-acoustic ivories…and The Spirit ever in it.
GRAMMY® Award-winning keyboardist/composer/arranger/producer George Duke has died in Los Angeles at age 67. He was battling and being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
With almost a half a century career, Duke was one of the world’s most prolific jazz legends.
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After his death, James Brown’s irrevocable trusts took on his children, his girlfriend and the Attorney General of South Carolina and won. His dying wish to have the bulk of his estate to go to the education of poor children in the community will be fulfilled.
Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 21, 2013
On February 27th, 2013, the Supreme Court of South Carolina [In re: Estate of Brown, 022713 SCSC, 27227, (2013)] decided part of the $100 million estate settling saga of James Brown and his irrevocable trust’s against his girlfriend, Tommie Rae Hynie, five of his six children and the Attorney General of South Carolina.
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