Musicians Who Died in 1999

Feb 7 Robert "Bobby" Troup, American jazz pianist and actor (Emergency, Acapulco), dies of a heart attack at 80
Feb 11 Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist (Charlie Mingus), saxophonist, drummer, composer, arranger, and educator, dies from an unsolved gunshot at 76
Feb 14 Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey), dies at 65
Feb 15 Big L [Lamont Coleman], American rapper (Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous), murdered at 24 after being shot 9 times in the face and chest in a drive-by shooting
Feb 15 Jan Masseus, Dutch composer, dies at 86
Feb 16 Betty Roché [Mary Elizabeth Roach], American jazz singer (Duke Ellington - "Take The 'A' Train"), dies at 81
Feb 16 Björn Afzelius, Swedish rock and progg singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hoola Bandoola Band), dies of cancer at 52
Feb 16 Johan Kvandal, Norwegian composer, organist, and music critic, dies at 79
Feb 16 Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish classical composer, dies at 90
Feb 20 Howard Boatwright, American composer and violinist, dies at 80
Feb 23 Ruth Gipps, British prolific conductor and composer, dies of cancer at 78
Feb 27 Horace Tapscott, American jazz pianist and composer (Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, 1961-98), dies at 64
Mar 2 David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
Mar 2 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), dies at 59
Mar 5 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (Kismet; Man of La Mancha; Endless Love), dies at 76

Mar 7 Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
Mar 8 Hans Eklund, Swedish composer, dies at 71
Mar 9 Harry Somers, Canadian composer, dies at 73
Mar 12 Yehudi Menuhin, American-British violinist, conductor and teacher (Bartok's Sonata), dies at 82
Mar 13 Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
Mar 16 Eric Norman Stokes, American composer, dies in an auto accident at 68
Mar 17 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77
Mar 18 Lillian McMurry (née Shedd), American blues producer, audio engineer, and record label owner (Trumpet Records - Sonny Boy Williamson II; Elmore James), dies of a heart attack at 77 [1]
Mar 19 Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 75
Mar 28 Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
Mar 29 Joe Williams [Goreed], American jazz singer (Everyday I Have The Blues), dies of natural causes at 80
Apr 1 Jesse Stone, American R&B pianist, songwriter (Shake, Rattle and Roll), arranger, and record producer, dies at 97
Apr 3 Lionel Bart, English pop and theatrical music composer (Oliver), and writer, dies of liver cancer at 68
Apr 4 Aldus Roger, American Cajun accordionist (Lafayette Playboys - "Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés"), dies at 84
Apr 6 Red Norvo [Kenneth Norville], American jazz vibraphonist known as "Mr. Swing" (Congo Blues; Knockin' on Wood), dies at 91

Apr 6 William Pleeth, British cellist and teacher (of Jacqueline du Pré), dies of leukemia at 83
Apr 12 Boxcar Willie [Travis Martin], American soldier (USAF) and singer ("King Of The Road"), dies of leukemia at 67
Apr 14 Anthony Newley, British actor and singer-songwriter (Doctor Dolittle; Goldfinger theme; Willy Wonka score), dies at 67
Apr 16 Alexander "Skip" Spence, Canadian-American guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane), dies of lung cancer at 52
Apr 21 Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American film actor (Wings), singer, and dance bandleader, dies at 94
Apr 22 Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (first Greek artist to record or re-record the authentic, "prohibited" rebetika songs in the early 1970s with their original lyrics), dies at 60
Apr 23 Melba Liston, American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer, dies at 73
Apr 25 Roger Troutman, American funk musician (Zapp), dies during his brother's apparent murder-suicide at 47
Apr 26 Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound), dies at 41
Apr 27 Al Hirt, American jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), dies of liver failure at 76
Apr 28 Walter Gieseler, German composer, dies at 79
Apr 29 Léon Barzin, Belgian-American conductor (NY City Ballet, 1948-58), dies at 98
Apr 29 Perry Ford [Brian Pugh], British pop singer, session musician and songwriter (The Ivy League - "Tossing And Turning"), dies at 65
Apr 30 Darrell Sweet, British hard rock drummer (Nazareth - "Love Hurts"), dies of a heart attack at a concert soundcheck at 51
May 1 (Edwin) Eddie Chamblee, American jazz and R&B saxophonist, bandleader, and occasional vocalist, dies at 79
May 6 Dennis Riley, American composer (Masques (for wind quintet)), dies at 55
May 10 Shel Silverstein, American writer and cartoonist (Now Here's My Plan: A Book of Futilities; The Giving Tree) and songwriter ("A Boy Named Sue"; "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone"), dies at 68
May 17 Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian musician and record producer (Loverboy; Bon Jovi; Aerosmith), dies at 49
May 18 Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown), dies at 44

May 18 Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter, dies at 78
May 19 James Blades, British classical percussionist, and educator, dies at 97
May 21 Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12), killed in a picnic dispute at 21
May 26 Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor and entrepreneur, dies at 93
Jun 2 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
Jun 5 Mel Tormé, American singer (The Velvet Fog) and composer (The Christmas Song), dies at 73
Jun 8 James "Rosy" McHargue, American jazz clarinetist, and vocalist (Ted Weems Orchestra; The Wolverines), dies at 97
Jun 16 (David) "Screaming Lord" Sutch, English rocker ("Jack The Ripper"), and politician (founder of Official Monster Raving Loony Party), commits suicide at 58
Jun 20 Ernie Wilkins, American jazz saxophonist, arranger (Count Basie, Harry James), and bandleader, dies after suffering a stroke at 76
Jun 21 Kami [Ukyō Kamimura], Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 27
Jun 22 Lubos Fiser, Czech composer, dies at 63
Jun 27 Brian O'Hara, English rock guitarist and singer (The Foremost - "A Little Loving"), commits suicide at 57
Jun 27 Einar Englund, Finnish composer, dies at 83
Jul 1 Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer ("Money In My Pocket"), dies of a collapsed lung, after a heart attack, at 42
Jul 1 Guy Mitchell [Albert George Cernik], American singer and actor (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle), dies at 72
Jul 2 Angelo Paccignini, Italian composer (Flou II), educator (Milan Conservatory - electronic music chair. 1969-80), and musical director (Nuova Armonia), dies at 68
Jul 3 Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter and musician (Morphine; Treat Her Right), dies of a heart attack at 46
Jul 4 Ronny Graham [Stringer], American composer, lyricist, screenwriter (M*A*S*H (TV series), and actor (Chico & the Man; Mel Brooks films), dies of liver disease at 79
Jul 4 Ruby Johnson, American singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away), dies at 63

Jul 6 Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer, dies at 97
Jul 9 Talib Dawud [Alfonso Rainey], Antiguan-American jazz trumpeter (Dizzy Gillespie Big Band), dies at 76
Jul 11 Helen Forrest [Fogel], American big band, pop, and swing jazz singer (Artie Shaw; Benny Goodman; Harry James), dies of heart failure at 82 [1]
Jul 14 Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth), dies of liver failure at 41
Jul 16 Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
Jul 17 Kevin Wilkinson, British drummer (The Waterboys), commits suicide at 41
Jul 27 Harry "Sweets" Edison, American jazz and session trumpet player, dies of prostate cancer at 83
Jul 28 Rudolf Halaczinsky, German composer, dies at 78
Aug 3 Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz and session bassist (Shelly Manne; Teddy Edwards; Les McCann), dies of a heart attack at 71
Aug 20 Bobby Sheehan, American bassist (Blues Traveler - "Run-Around"), dies of a drug overdose at 31
Aug 21 Juan Carlos Zorzi, Argentinian composer, and conductor, dies of esophageal cancer at 63
Aug 24 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian-French classical guitarist and composer, dies at 70
Aug 25 Rob Fisher, British rock keyboardist (Naked Eyes), dies at 42
Sep 4 Klement Slavický, Czech composer (Sinfonietta No. 4 - Pax hominibus in universo orbi), dies at 88 [1]
Sep 5 Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
Sep 8 Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin], American composer, musician and poet ("Cofee Beans"), dies at 83
Sep 10 Alfredo Kraus, Spanish bel canto operatic tenor, dies at 71
Sep 14 Attila Bozay, Hungarian composer, dies at 60
Sep 14 Hans Melchior Brugk, German composer, dies at 89

Sep 17 Frankie Vaughan, British pop singer ("Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl"), dies of heart failure at 71
Sep 19 Ed Cobb, American pop vocalist (The Four Preps, 1956-66 -"26 Miles (Santa Catalina)"), songwriter ("Tainted Love"), sound engineer and producer, dies of leukemia at 61
Sep 20 Tahia Carioca, Egyptian actress and belly dancer (Watch Out For Zouzou), dies at 79
Sep 24 Torsten Nilsson, Swedish organist, choral director, composer (Out of the Night of the Earth; Septem improvisationes), and pedagogue, dies at 79
Sep 28 Carl Hall [Caldwell], American soul singer ("You Don't Know Nothing About Love"; "What About You"), and session vocalist, dies at 65
Sep 30 Anna Mae Winburn, African American bandleader of all female big band (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), dies at 86
Oct 1 Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and child star ("Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me)"), dies of bronchial pneumonia at 35
Oct 4 Art Farmer, American trumpet player (Farmer's Market, The Jazztet), dies of a heart attack at 71
Oct 4 Grim [Erik Brødreskift], Norwegian black metal drummer commits suicide at 29
Oct 6 Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer, dies at 79
Oct 9 Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (Modern Jazz Quartet), pianist, and composer ("Bags Groove"), dies of cancer at 76
Oct 11 Zbigniew Wiszniewski, Polish composer, dies at 77
Oct 18 Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer and bandleader, dies at 74
Oct 26 Hoyt Axton, American songwriter, singer ("No No Song"; "Joy To The World"; "I've Never Been To Spain"), and actor (McCloud; Gremlins; The Rousters), dies of a heart attack at 61
Oct 27 Frank De Vol, American pop arranger, composer (theme songs to My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, Family Affair; Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte ), orchestra leader, and actor (Fernwood 2 Night - "Happy Kyne"; The Big Mouth), dies of congestive heart failure at 88
Oct 28 Robert Linn, American classical composer and educator, dies at 74
Oct 31 Howard Ferguson, British-Irish pianist, composer, teacher and musicologist, dies at 91
Nov 8 Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
Nov 13 Don "Sugarcane" Harris, American rock guitarist and electric violin pioneer (Don & Dewey; Frank Zappa), dies of pulmonary disease at 61 [1]

Nov 13 Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 84

Doug Sahm (1941-1999)

Nov 18 American roots-rock and Tex-Mex musician (Sir Douglas Quintet - "Mendocino"; Texas Tornadoes - "Adios Mexico"), dies of a heart attack at 58

Nov 18 Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky), translator, and composer, dies at 88
Nov 21 Alvin Cash [Welch], American pop singer ("Twine Time"; "The Philly Freeze"), and actor, dies of ulcer complications at 60
Nov 21 Eddie Maxwell [Cherkose], American lyricist (Breathless) and actor, dies of natural causes at 87
Nov 27 Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, American electric and Chicago blues pianist, organist, and bass guitar player (Muddy Waters; Junior Wells; Elmore James), dies at 72
Dec 2 Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado), dies of lung cancer at 74
Dec 3 "Scatman" John [Larkin], American jazz pianist and singer ("Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)"), dies of lung cancer at 57
Dec 3 Madeline Kahn, American stage and screen actress (What's Up, Doc?; Young Frankenstein; Paper Moon; Blazing Saddles), and singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 57
Dec 5 Robert Parris, American composer (Book of Imaginary Beings), dies at 75
Dec 10 Rick Danko, Canadian rock bassist and singer (The Band - "Stagefright"), dies of heart failure at 55
Dec 11 Charles Earland, American jazz Hammond organist, and bandleader, dies of heart failure at 58
Dec 12 Leo Smit, American classical pianist, composer (The Alchemy of Love), teacher and photographer, dies of congestive heart failure at 78
Dec 14 Dave Shogren, American rock bassist (The Doobie Brothers, 1970-71), dies at 49
Dec 15 George Elrick, Scottish-British singer ("I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones"), and broadcaster known as 'The Smiling Voice of Radio' (BBC's "Housewives' Choice"), dies at 95
Dec 17 Grover Washington Jr., American jazz saxophonist ("Just The Two Of Us"; "Mr Magic"; "Let It Flow"), dies of a heart attack at 56
Dec 17 Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter known as the "the Arizona Cowboy", and actor (Frontier Doctor - "Dr. Baxter"), dies at 78
Dec 20 [Clarence] Hank Snow, Canadian country singer ("I'm Moving On"; "I Went To Your Wedding"), dies of heart failure at 85
Dec 23 Marcel Landowski, French composer (Un enfant appelle), dies at 84
Dec 24 Zeke Carey, American R&B singer (The Flamingos - "Goodnight Sweetheart"; "I Only Have Eyes For You"), dies of a heart attack at 66