01-16b: Ike Quebec : Blue & Sentimental 1961 - Ponchielli : La Gioconda / Caballé | Pavarotti | Milnes | Bartoletti 1980 - Bach English Suites / Leonhardt 1984 - Delibes : Coppelia | Sylvia Suites / Fournet 1953

Not shown: Antonín Josef Alois Volanek & Annie Patterson

 

Not shown: Henryk Klejne & Charlie Galbraith

1703 – Matteo Coferati (Italian priest, composer & music theorist)
1817 – Antonín Josef Alois Volanek (Czech composer)
1864 – Anton Schindler (Austrian associate, secretary & biographer of Beethoven)
1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli (Italian composer)
1891 – Léo Delibes (French ballet & opera composer)
1911 – Wilhelm Berger (German composer, pianist & conductor)
1919 – Jaroslav Jeremiáš (Czech composer, conductor & pianist, son of Bohuslav, brother of Otakar)
1920 – Reginald De Koven (American music critic, operetta composer & conductor)
1934 – Annie Patterson (Irish organist, teacher, writer & composer)
1935 – Richard Wetz (German composer)
1957 – Arturo Toscanini (Italian conductor)
1961 – János Viski (Hungarian composer & violinist, pupil of Kodály)
1963 – Gilardo Gilardi (Argentine composer, pianist & conductor)
1963 – Ike Quebec (American jazz tenor saxophonist)
1969 – Vernon Duke [Vladimir Dukelsky, Владимир Дукельский] (Russian-born American musical theater & classical composer & songwriter)
1972 – David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.] (American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor & record producer, Alvin and the Chipmunks)
1974 – Roy Bargy (American pop composer, conductor, arranger & pianist, first to record Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F)
1976 – Henryk Klejne (Polish composer, conductor & pianist)
1995 – Bill Dillard (American jazz trumpeter, singer & actor)
1996 – Marcia Davenport (American novelist, music critic & radio commentator)
1997 – Charlie Galbraith (English jazz trombonist)
2000 – Will "Dub" Jones (American R&B bass singer, The Coasters, The Cadets)
2000 – John Morris Rankin (Canadian country & folk fiddler & pianist, The Rankin Family)
2012 – Gustav Leonhardt (Dutch harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, claviorganist, fortepianist, conductor, musicologist & music editor)

12-26: Curtis Mayfield : Curtis / Live! 1971 - Larry Young : Into Somethin' 1964 - Nasum : Doombringer 2008 - Pablo Sorozábal : La del manojo de rosas 1962

Not shown: Jan David Holland, Jules François Blasini & Robert Levine Sanders

1827 – Jan David Holland (German-born Polish composer)
1836 – Hans Georg Nägeli (Swiss composer, music publisher, musicologist & author)
1838 – Franciszek Lessel (Polish composer, pianist & glass harmonica player, pupil of Haydn)
1887 – Jules François Blasini (Curaçaos pianist & composer)
1905 – Fritz Spindler (German pianist & composer)
1916 – Bernhard Scholz (German conductor & composer)
1918 – Bertram Luard-Selby (English composer & organist)
1937 – Ivor Gurney (English composer & poet)
1947 – Marguerite Carré (French soprano)
1950 – Emile Enthoven (Dutch composer)
1957 – Artur Malawski (Polish composer, conductor & violinist)
1958 – Harry Newton Redman (American composer, writer & artist)
1966 – Noël Gallon (French composer & teacher, pupils included Duruflé, Dutilleux, Lukas Foss & Messiaen)
1974 – Knudåge Riisager (Danish composer & violinist)
1974 – Robert Levine Sanders (American composer, conductor & organist)
1974 – Jack Benny (American comedian, actor & violinist)
1974 – Farid al-Atrash [فريد الأطرش] (Syrian-born Egyptian composer, singer, oud player & actor, "King of the Oud")
1988 – Pablo Sorozábal Mariezcurrena (Basque-Spanish composer & conductor)
1989 – Sir Lennox Berkeley (English composer)
1992 – Nikita Magaloff [Никита Магалов] (Russian pianist of Georgian ancestry)
1994 – Buddy Ace (American blues singer, "Silver Fox of the Blues")
1999 – Curtis Mayfield (American soul, R&B & funk singer, songwriter & record producer)
2002 – Armand Zildjian (American cymbal manufacturer of Turkish ancestry)
2003 – Hugh Bean (English violinist, leader of Philharmonia Orchestra & BBC Symphony)
2004 – Sigurd Køhn (Norwegian jazz saxophonist & composer, perished in Thailand in Indian Ocean Tsunami)
2004 – Mieszko Talarczyk (Polish-born Swedish grindcore singer & guitarist, Nasum, perished in Thailand in Indian Ocean Tsunami)
2004 – Aki Sirkesalo (Finnish pop singer & radio announcer, perished in Thailand in Indian Ocean Tsunami)
2005 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon (American mezzo-soprano)
2007 – Joe Dolan (Irish easy listening singer & entertainer)
2009 – Felix Wurman (American cellist & composer, founder of the Church of Beethoven)
2010 – Teena Marie (American R&B, disco & jazz singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & producer)
2011 – Sam Rivers (American jazz saxophonist, bass clarinetist, flutist, harmonica player, pianist, composer & arranger)

The collage turned out really small today, didn't it? Sometimes it just happens that way. I think it's regrettable in particular that the three prominent musicians who were victims of the 2004 tsunami (that's them to the upper-right of Curtis Mayfield) turned out so tiny, but then again poor Jack Benny (who was actually quite a good violinist, despite what you might have gathered from his act) turned out hardly any larger. Incidentally, if you're a fan of Nasum, for which Mieszko Talarczyk was the frontman, the surviving members are doing one last tour this year to mark the 20th anniversary of their formation. Follow the link above to see if they are playing in a city near you.

08-30: UPDATE! Miles Davis : Steamin' 1956 - Ike Quebec : Blue and Sentimental 1960

1985 – Philly Joe Jones (American jazz drummer)

Well, I knew it would happen eventually. That I'd manage to neglect a really, really important musician. And here he is. Philly Joe Jones... how does a person neglect Philly Joe Jones?!? Well, anyway, I hope this post makes up for it, at least a little bit...