Dead in 2009

[Phanatic]

Character actor Pat Hingle dies at 84 Played commish in batman...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/05/obit.hingle/index.html

[BigEd76]

Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad

[MadMarchHare]

Character actor Pat Hingle dies at 84 Played commish in batman...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/05/obit.hingle/index.html

Pish Posh.  That Batman was an atrocity.  More importantly, he played the hanging judge in Hang 'Em High.

[ice grillin you]

how the hell is freddie hubbard not in this thread

rip freddie hip-hop loves you

[Diomedes]

who the farg is freddie hubbard?

[Zanshin]

Mother Hubbard's kid, obviously.

[Susquehanna Birder]

who the farg is freddie hubbard?

Pretty much an iconic beebop trumpeter. I knew a guy in college who was a huge fan of the style, and he talked about Hubbard all the time. I never really got into it...at least not without chemical assistance.

[BigEd76]

not dead yet but Patrick Swayze checked into a hospital with pneumonia

[ice grillin you]

lolololol + a billion if youve never heard of freddie hubbard....farging white people (cept sus...holla!)

freddie got more soul than combat boots

heres a compilation of some of his best

thank me later

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YISVEWG4

In December 1960 Hubbard was invited to play on Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation after Coleman had heard him playing withDon Cherry.[3]

Then in May 1961, Hubbard played on Olé Coltrane, John Coltrane's final recording session with Atlantic Records. Together with Eric Dolphy, Hubbard was the only 'session' musician who appeared on both Olé and Africa/Brass, Coltrane's first album with ABC/Impulse! Later, in August 1961, Hubbard made one of his most famous records, Ready for Freddie, which was also his first collaboration with saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Hubbard would join Shorter later in 1961 when he replaced Lee Morgan in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.


Throughout the 1960s Hubbard played as a sideman on some of the most important albums from that era, including, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil.[5] He recorded extensively for Blue Note Records in the 1960s: eight albums as a bandleader, and twenty-eight as a sideman.[6]


Hubbard achieved his greatest popular success in the 1970s with a series of albums for Creed Taylor and his record label CTI Records, overshadowing Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, and George Benson.[8]. Although his early 1970s jazz albums Red Clay, First Light, Straight Life, and Sky Dive were particularly well received and considered among his best work, the albums he recorded later in the decade were attacked by critics for their commercialism. First Light won a 1972 Grammy Award and included pianists Herbie Hancock and Richard Wyands, guitarists Eric Gale and George Benson, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and percussionist Airto Moreira.[9]


Hubbard's trumpet playing was featured on the track Zanzibar, on the 1978 Billy Joel album 52nd Street (the 1979 Grammy Award Winner for Best Album). The track ends with a fade during Hubbard's performance. An "unfaded" version was released on the 2004 Billy Joel box set My Lives.

In the 1980s Hubbard was again leading his own jazz group, attracting very favorable notices for his playing at concerts and festivals in the USA and Europe, often in the company of Joe Henderson, playing a repertory of hard-bop and modal-jazz pieces.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I played poker with someone last night that had just found out the previous week of Al Green's death in 2007.

Al Green isn't dead, by the way.

[Diomedes]

Ricardo Montalban

[Phanatic]

That sucks.... Kahhhhhnn!


Also Steve Jobs isn't doing so well...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes medical leave

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/apple_jobs

[Geowhizzer]

Preston Gomez, former MLB player, manager

[rjs246]

Longshanks from Braveheart.

[phattymatty]

this is bullshtein.  i go on one little week long bender, come back check the news and think i got 2 scores already on my list.  then i see that both guys (montalban and griffin bell) were between 21-25 on my list.  so gay.