James Edward Ingram

singer, songwriter

16.02.1952 - 29.01.2019

James Edward Ingram was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song.

Since beginning his career in 1973, Ingram had charted eight Top 40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the early 1990s, as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In addition, he charted 20 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart (including two number-ones). He had two number-one singles on the Hot 100: the first, a duet with fellow R&B artist Patti Austin, 1982's "Baby, Come to Me" topped the U.S. pop chart in 1983; "I Don't Have the Heart", which became his second number-one in 1990 was his only number-one as a solo artist. In between these hits, he also recorded the song "Somewhere Out There" with fellow recording artist Linda Ronstadt for the animated film An American Tail. The song and the music video both became gigantic hits. Ingram co-wrote "The Day I Fall in Love", from the motion picture Beethoven's 2nd (1993), and singer Patty Smyth's "Look What Love Has Done", from the motion picture Junior (1994), which earned him nominations for Best Original Song from the Oscars, Golden Globes, and Grammy Awards in 1994 and 1995.

Joseph William Feliciano (Pepe) Smith

guitarist, singer, drummer

25.12.1947 - 28.01.2019

Joseph William Feliciano Smith was a Filipino singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist. Known by his stage names Joey Smith and Pepe Smith, he gained prominence as a member of Juan de la Cruz Band, which became pioneering figures in original Filipino rock music or "Pinoy rock".

Michel Jean Legrand

pianist

24.02.1932 - 26.01.2019

Michel Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many memorable songs. He is best known for his often haunting, jazz-tinged film music. His celebrated scores for the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).

Legrand has also contributed significant work in jazz. While on a visit to the U.S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, and Art Farmer in an album of inventive orchestrations of jazz standards titled Legrand Jazz. The following year, back in Paris with bassist Guy Pedersen and percussionist Gus Wallez, he recorded an album of Paris-themed songs arranged for jazz piano trio, titled Paris Jazz Piano. Nearly a decade later he recorded At Shelly's Manne-Hole (1968), a live trio session with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, in which four of the compositions were improvised on the spot. Legrand also provided an odd scat vocal on "My Funny Valentine". Legrand returned to his role as jazz arranger for the Stan Getz album Communications '72 (recorded in December 1971) and resumed his collaboration with Phil Woods on Le Jazz Grand (1978) and After the Rain (1982); then, he collaborated with violinist Stephane Grappelli on an album in 1992. Not as well received as his earlier work in the field of jazz was a 1994 album for LaserLight entitled Michel Plays Legrand. Later, in 2002, he recorded a solo jazz piano album reworking 14 of his classic songs, Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand. His jazz piano style is virtuosic and eclectic, drawing upon such influences as Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, and Bill Evans.

In 1966, he made the arrangements of the international song "C'est si bon" by Henri Betti and André Hornez for the Barbra Streisand album Color Me Barbra. In 1948, his father Raymond Legrand had conducted the orchestra for the recording of this song by Les Soeurs Étienne.

A number of his songs, including "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", "Watch What Happens", "The Summer Knows", and "You Must Believe in Spring", have become jazz standards covered frequently by other artists.

Ulises Butrón

guitarist, singer

22.07.1962 - 21.01.2019

Ulises Butrón was a rock musician, guitarist, singer and producer from Argentina. In the 1980s he was part of the first integration of Soda Stereo and Metropolis. Then he joined the bands of Miguel Mateos, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Fito Páez. Later he formed the band La Guardia del Fuego, to then integrate the trio, Triangular, with Ricky S. Paz (bass) and Aitor Graña (drums).

In 2012, it was ranked No. 56 among the 100 best guitarists in Argentine rock in the survey conducted by Rolling Stone magazine.

Edward 'Ted' McKenna

drummer (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher, The Michael Schenker Group)

10.03.1950 - 19.12.2019

Edward 'Ted' McKenna was a Scottish drummer, who played with bands The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher, The Michael Schenker Group. He toured with Ian Gillan for a short period in 1990, alongside fellow former SAHB member, bassist Chris Glen. He lectured in Applied Arts at North Glasgow College from 1996–2011.

Although primarily known as a rock musician, McKenna worked with jazz guitarist John Etheridge, Juno Award-winning American/Canadian blues guitarist Amos Garrett, American soul duo Womack & Womack, Paul Rose, Gwyn Ashton, The Rhumboogie Orchestra, Frank O'Hagan, and Fish. He toured with Rory Gallagher bassist Gerry McAvoy and Dutch guitar virtuoso Marcel Scherpenzeel in "Band of Friends", a celebration of the music of Rory Gallagher.

Reggie Young

guitarist, sitar player

12.12.1936 - 17.01.2019

As lead guitarist for the Memphis Boys, the house band at American Studios, Young played on more than 100 of the most recognizable hits of late Sixties and early Seventies, including Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” and “In the Ghetto,” followed by a brief stint in Atlanta before relocating to Music City. Neil Diamond's “Sweet Caroline”, B.J. Thomas' “Hooked On A Feeling”, Willie Nelson's “You Were Always On My Mind”, The Box Tops’ “The Letter,” Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man” and “Drift Away” by Dobie Gray are just a mere sampling of songs he played on throughout his career. He also lent his skills to albums by Kenny Rogers (The Gambler), Waylon Jennings (Honky Tonk Heroes) Guy Clark (Old No. 1) and Many, Many More...

Christopher John Wilson

singer, guitarist, harmonica player, saxophonist

1956 - January 2019

Christopher John Wilson was an Australian blues musician who sang and played harmonica, saxophone, and guitar. He performed as part of the Sole Twisters, Harem Scarem and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, and fronted his band Crown of Thorns. Wilson's solo albums are Landlocked (June 1992), The Long Weekend (March 1998), Spiderman (2000), King for a Day (July 2002), Flying Fish (2012), and the self titled Chris Wilson (2018).

In March 1996 Wilson collaborated with Johnny Diesel in a blues project, Wilson Diesel, which issued an album, Short Cool Ones, composed mostly of "soul and R&B standards". It peaked at No. 18 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Outside his music career Wilson taught English in various secondary schools in Melbourne for about 20 years.

Brian Velasco

drummer (Razorback)

1978(?) - 16.01.2019

Brian Velasco was a Filipino​ musician based in Manila​. Brian Velasco was a former drum instructor at RJ Guitar Center and a drummer of the Razorback, a Filipino hard rock band formed in 1990. The band is originally known for being regulars at the now-defunct Kalye, a club in Makati, the band has performed at full-scale concerts and opened for Silverchair, Rage Against the Machine and Metallica. Velasco joined the band in 1996.

Willie Murphy

guitarist, singer, pianist, bassist

17.11.1943 - 13.01.2019

Willie Murphy was an American pianist, singer, producer, and songwriter. He is best known as a singer and pianist for the blues band Willie And The Bees. Murphy performed on piano, bass, guitar and other instruments as a session musician for Bonnie Raitt, John Koerner, Greg Brown, Prudence Johnson, Little Milton, and many others. He formed the Atomic Theory Records label in 1985 and released albums by himself, Phil Heywood, Boiled in Lead, Larry Long, and various world music artists.

Eric John Haddock (Eric Haydock)

bassist (The Hollies)

03.02.1943 - 05.01.2019

Eric Haydock (born Eric John Haddock) was a British musician, best known as the original bass guitarist of The Hollies from December 1962 until July 1966. He was one of the first British musicians to play a Fender Bass VI, a six-string bass. Although considered a great bass guitarist, he was replaced in 1966 by Bernie Calvert, after disputes related to the conduct of the band's managers.

On 15 March 2010, Haydock along with Calvert and the other fellow Hollies members Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, Tony Hicks, Bobby Elliott, and Terry Sylvester were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul Steven Ripley

guitarist

01.01.1950 - 03.01.2019

Paul Steven Ripley was an American recording artist, record producer, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist, and inventor. He entered the music industry in 1977. He was also the leader/producer of country rock band The Tractors.

As a producer, recording engineer, and studio musician, he has worked with Bob Dylan, playing guitar (on Shot of Love) and on the "Shot of Love" tour, with J. J. Cale, and he produced Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Roy Clark and Johnnie Lee Wills. Bob Dylan listed Ripley as one of his favorite guitarists.

He created guitars for Steve Lukather, J. J. Cale, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Jimmy Buffett and Eddie Van Halen, before moving to Tulsa in 1987 to buy Leon Russell's former recording studio called The Church Studio.