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September 21, 2010 | Don Heckman
Buddy Collette, a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator who played important roles in Los Angeles jazz as a musician and an advocate for the rights of African American musicians, has died. He was 89. Collette died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering shortness of breath a day earlier, according to his daughter Cheryl Collette-White. Collette's virtuosic skills on saxophones, flute and clarinet allowed him to move easily from studio work in films, television and recording to small jazz groups and big bands.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 18, 2010 | By Richard Eder
All That Follows A Novel Jim Crace Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 230 pp., $25.95 British novelist Jim Crace has written in "Gift of Stones" about a Stone Age community that senses its doom when a Bronze Age tribe settles nearby. He has written in "Quarantine" of a young and annoying Jesus spending his 40 desert days among craggy cave-dwelling neighbors. In "Being Dead" he has written of the life in and around the decaying bodies of a murdered husband and wife. In an odd way, each of those novels is a masterpiece.
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June 18, 2009 | Times Staff and Wire Reports
Charlie Mariano, 85, an alto saxophonist best known for his association with Stan Kenton's big band in the 1950s, his playing on two albums by Charles Mingus in the 1960s, and his later stint in Europe with Eberhard Weber's jazz-rock group Colours, died Tuesday of complications from cancer at a hospice in Cologne, Germany, according to his website. A native of Boston, Mariano served in the Army during World War II and began studying music at what is now the Berklee College of Music after the war. He had two stints with Kenton in the early 1950s before moving to Los Angeles, where he played with trombonist Frank Rosolino and in drummer Shelly Manne's group.
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August 20, 2008 | From the Associated Press
LeRoi Moore, a saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46. Moore, born in 1961, died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, the band said on its website. He was initially hospitalized in late June after the accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va. He had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin physical rehabilitation when complications forced him back into the hospital July 17. It was not immediately clear what the complications were.
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October 11, 2007 | Robin Fields and Chuck Neubauer, Times Staff Writers
Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu had a well-known affection for fine living and all things Clinton. And his collector's taste and eye were on display Wednesday, when federal authorities unsealed documents showing they had seized more than 180 bottles of pricey wine from Hsu's New York apartment, as well as a saxophone believed to have been autographed by President Clinton.
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April 25, 2007 | Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer
Herman Riley, the jazz saxophonist whose hard-driving, soulful playing as a sideman and accompanist with such artists as Count Basie and Jimmy Smith earned him critical acclaim, died of heart failure April 14 at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City. He was 73. Riley was a favorite of vocalists because of his ability to play well without overpowering singers. "There are some musicians ... who certainly shine as soloists out front," said musician and longtime friend George Bohanon.