Woody Herman

PASSINGS: Yvette Wilson, Margie Hyams

2012-06-16 00:00:00

Yvette Wilson Actress on 'Moesha,' 'The Parkers' Yvette Wilson, 48, a stand-up comedian and actress best known for her roles on the TV sitcom "Moesha" and its spinoff, "The Parkers," died Thursday after a battle with cervical cancer. Wilson's friend...

Joe Smith's candid artist talks heading to Library of Congress

2012-06-18 16:37:33

PASSINGS: Dick Kniss, Kazimierz Smolen, Miguel Nazar Haro, Dimitra Arliss, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

2012-02-01 00:00:00

Dick Kniss Bass player with Peter, Paul and Mary Dick Kniss, 74, who played stand-up bass with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," died Wednesday of pulmonary disease at a hospital near his...

PASSINGS: Larry Zarian, Paul Kent, Marty Harris

2011-10-15 00:00:00

Larry Zarian Former Glendale mayor and TV, radio host Larry Zarian, 73, a former mayor of Glendale and the first Armenian American to be elected to the City Council, died of blood cancer Thursday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Zarian also served...

PASSINGS: Howard H 'Tim' Hays

2011-10-16 00:00:00

Howard H 'Tim' Hays Former Press-Enterprise editor, publisher Howard H "Tim" Hays, 94, a former editor and publisher of the Press-Enterprise who led the Riverside newspaper when it won a Pulitzer Prize for an expose in the 1960s and won two landmark U....

Hollywood Forever comes alive with music

2011-05-27 21:36:52

The best CDs that fuse classical and jazz music

2011-01-15 16:32:53

Jake Hanna dies at 78; versatile jazz drummer was in Merv Griffin's TV show band

2010-02-16 00:00:00

Jake Hanna, a versatile drummer who played with such jazz figures as Woody Herman and was a longtime member of the band on Merv Griffin's television show, has died. He was 78. Hanna died Friday at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center of...

Stacy Rowles dies at 54; jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player

2009-11-08 00:00:00

Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player and vocalist who was the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, has died. She was 54. Rowles died Tuesday at her home in Burbank of complications after a car accident, said her sister, Stephanie...

Gene Lees dies at 82; jazz historian and critic

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Gene Lees, a jazz historian and critic known for his pugnacious, highly personal essays and biographies of such jazz greats as Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman and Johnny Mercer, died Thursday at his home in Ojai. He was 82. Lees had struggled for many years...

Jack Nimitz dies at 79; baritone sax player

2009-06-15 21:56:00

Jack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group "Supersax," died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City. He was 79. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Nimitz...

Berle Adams dies at 92; co-founder of Mercury Records and an MCA executive

2009-08-29 00:00:00

Berle Adams, a onetime big-band booking agent who co-founded Mercury Records in the 1940s and later became a senior executive at MCA before launching his own successful business as an international television program sales representative and distributor,...

The circular white casino building, opened in 1929, is Avalon's most recognizable sight. It towers over the yachts riding at anchor on Avalon Bay, dwarfs the village's other structures and has become the scenic focal point for hundreds of thousands of snapshots.

2010-02-20 15:47:48

INSTRUMENTAL IN HIS SUCCESS: "Four Brothers," a 1947 composition of Jimmy Giuffre's, created the signature sound of the Woody Herman band and helped establish him as one of the important figures on the West Coast jazz scene.

2008-04-25 00:00:00

Fiddle virtuoso Vassar Clements, Aug. 16 Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician, died at his home in Nashville on Aug. 16 after a battle with lung cancer. He was 77.

2005-08-17 08:33:46