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		<title>Farewell: Himie Voxman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet I heard about this on the Klarinet list this morning, and now it is verified. Sad. He made and complied a lot of wonderful things. Farewell: Himie Voxman:   Himie Voxman (1912-2011) Influential music educator and longtime University of Iowa faculty member Himie Voxman has passed away at the age of 99. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saxophonist Falls To His Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From the Local: A Swedish musician fell 20 metres to his death during a performance at a Leipzig street festival over the weekend. The man, Finn Martin, was supposed to use a rope to help him vertically slide down the façade of a building while playing a saxophone before dozens of cheering fans late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarence Clemons Dies at 69</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Rueters is reporting that long time Bruce Springsteen saxophonist Clarence Clemons has died. &#8220;Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s E Street Band, died on Saturday, according to media reports, almost a week after he had a stroke at his Florida home. He was 69.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>George Shearing dies; pianist, composer was 91</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet The Washington Post reports: &#8220;George Shearing, 91, the virtuosic jazz pianist who wrote the standard &#8220;Lullaby of Birdland,&#8221; died of cardiac arrest today in New York.&#8221; If you haven&#8217;t checked out his work before, now is a good time to acquaint yourself with them.]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Rust, Father of Modern Discography, Dies at 88</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Brian Rust died. Don&#8217;t know who this is? Oh, but you know his work. Yes you do you jazzer you. &#8220;Brian Rust, a discographic detective who compiled comprehensive guides to recorded jazz and other popular music, in the process setting the standard for the modern field, died on Jan. 5 in Swanage, in southern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Barry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Barry composer of the classic James Bond theme died today. It’s impossible to imagine James Bond without it&#8217;s signature theme, but that almost happened. &#8220;Shortly after this Barry would receive the fateful phone call from Bond producer Harry Saltzman. “I got a phone call from Harry,” recalled Barry in a 2006 article in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Moody Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet James Moody passed away today. Sad. Another legend has left the building&#8230;&#8230;. UPDATE: NYTimes has an article up now about him]]></description>
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		<title>Leon Breeden Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Sad news &#8220;Leon Breeden, the longtime director of jazz studies at the University of North Texas, who half a century ago transformed the program from a clandestine enterprise into the international Mecca for jazz training it remains today, died on Wednesday in Dallas. He was 88.&#8221; My college band got to do a concert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louie Bellson Dies at 84</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Sad news today: Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer and bandleader who combined remarkable instrumental virtuosity with far-ranging compositional skills, has died. He was 84. According to his wife Francine, Bellson died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications of Parkinson&#8217;s disease following a broken hip in November. Got to play with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gerry Niewood Dies In Plane Crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Lohud reports: &#8220;Rochester native Gerry Niewood, whose jazz saxophone was a familiar sound for four decades in venues ranging from the downtown Rochester Shakespeare Lounge to &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; was among the victims of Thursday night&#8217;s Continental Airlines crash. Niewood, who was 65, was on his way to Buffalo to play in last night&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Floyd Founder Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet From the BBC Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died at the age of 65 from cancer. I always think of Pink Floyd as sort of a Miles Davis rock group (without Miles). Lots of colors, and mood to their music. Plus, they had saxophone (sometimes). I can cite two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don LaFontaine Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68. LaFontaine was known as the &#8220;king of the movie trailers,&#8221; having done the trailer voiceovers for films such as Terminator, Fatal Attraction, Cheaper by the Dozen, Batman Returns and his personal favourite, The Elephant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LeRoi Moore Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet This is sad, tragic news: &#8220;LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday from complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an ATV accident, the band&#8217;s publicist said.&#8221; DMB is one of the few good rock bands out there&#8230;..he is going to be hard to replace&#8230;..]]></description>
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		<title>Randy Pausch &#8211; Last Lecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Now, this really has nothing to do with saxophone. Or Jazz. But it is well worth your time to watch. Here is a little background on Randy Pausch and his death this week from incurable pancreatic cancer. His approach to teaching is something I strive to do.]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Griffin Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Sad news today &#8220;US jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played alongside such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk, died Friday in France, his agent Helene Manfredi said. He was 80. Nicknamed the Little Giant, Griffin was due to perform Friday evening alongside US organist Rhoda Scott, French saxophonist Olivier Temime [...]]]></description>
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