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Musicians Who Died on September 29

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  • 1915 Luther Orlando Emerson, American composer, dies at 95
  • 1915 Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), dies fighting in World War I at 28
  • 1968 Eddie Wilcox, American jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader (Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra), dies at 59
  • 1977 Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 78
  • 1979 Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Russian microtonal composer, dies at 86
  • 1991 Zapata Jaw [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese jazz musician, dies
  • 1992 Paul Jabara, American singer-songwriter and actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
  • 1994 Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26
  • 1994 John Heddle Nash, English operatic singer, dies at 68
  • 1995 Seger Ellis, American jazz pianist, pop vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader, dies at 91 [1]
  • 1997 Bobby Campbell, Scottish journalist and musician, dies at 55
  • 1997 Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, Swedish composer, dies at 77
  • 2006 Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer, dies of heart failure at 30
  • 2009 Greg Ladanyi, Hungarian-American record producer and recording engineer, dies of injuries sustained in a fall at 57
  • 2011 Sylvia Robinson, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"; solo - "Pillow Talk"), record producer, and record label executive (Sugar Hill Records), dies of congestive heart failure at 76
  • 2015 Phil Woods, American jazz saxophonist and composer (Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu"; Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are"), dies of emphysema at 83
  • 2017 Dmitry Smolsky, Belarusian orchestral, choral, theater and pop music composer, and teacher (Belarusian State Academy of Music, 1962-2014), dies at 80
  • 2018 James "Big Jim" Wright, American Grammy and Dove Award-winning keyboardist, composer, arranger, and record producer (Sound of Blackness; Mariah Carey), dies at 52
  • 2018 Otis Rush, American blues musician (Right Place, Wrong Time), dies from complications from an earlier stroke at 83
  • 2019 Larry Willis, American jazz pianist and composer, dies of an aneurysm at 76
  • 2020 (Francis) Rocco Prestia, American funk-rock bassist (Tower of Power),dies at 69
  • 2020 Helen Reddy, Australian-American rock vocalist ("I Am Woman"; "You And Me Against The World"), dies at 78 [1]
  • 2020 Isidora Žebeljan, Serbian classical, opera, and film composer, dies at 53
  • 2020 Justin Connolly [D'Arcy-Dawson], British classical and electro-acoustic composer (Diaphony; The Garden of Forking Paths), dies at 87
  • 2020 Mac Davis, American country music singer-songwriter ("Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me"; "In The Ghetto"; "I Believe In Music") and actor (North Dallas Forty), dies following heart surgery at 78 [1]
  • 2021 Bronius Kutavičius, Lithuanian composer (The Gates of Jerusalem; Lokys) and teacher (Čiurlionis School of Art, 1975-2000), dies at 89


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