Our picks include the Stinkfoot Orchestra's tribute to former San Diegan Frank Zappa at Winstons, jazz trumpet standout Ambrose Akinmusire and his band at The Jai, and Sleater-Kinney rocking out at the Observatory North Park
35 Musicians With Legendarily Long Careers
Musicians especially in the rock and jazz genres don’t always have long lifespans. Accidents, drugs, random violence, suicide, and disease have claimed far too many talented lives too early.
Rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly died at 22. For Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and Amy Whitehouse, 27 was as far as they got. Jazz great Charlie Parker died at 33 (though the coroner conducting his autopsy originally guessed that he was about 60), and John Coltrane only made it to 40.
On the other hand.Some musicians seem to beat the odds and make it to 75, 85, or more; some have even achieved 100 or beyond, like country singer Slim Bryant, jazz vocalist Herb Jeffries, and bandleader Orrin Tucker. These are 35 rock stars who are now 75 or older.
Today in Music History - April 9
The Canadian Press 1 hour ago
Today in Music History for April 9:
In 1932, rock n roll pioneer Carl Perkins was born in Jackson, Tenn. He wrote Blue Suede Shoes, which went to No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart and No. 1 on the country chart in 1956. Perkins nearly died in a car accident in March of 56, and never had a similar hit. Perkins died in Nashville on Jan. 19, 1998, following three strokes.
In 1939, about 75,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to hear black contralto Marian Anderson perform after she was denied use of a Washington hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt quit the D.A.R. over the incident.