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Ray Mantilla: 22 June 1934–21 March 2020

Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, 8 April 2020

The great percussionist and bandleader Ray Mantilla died on 21 March aged 85 at New York's Columbia University Medical Center due to complications of lymphoma ...

Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell: Charles Mingus, Jazz Pioneer, Dead

Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 January 1979

CHARLES MINGUS, the innovative jazz composer, band leader and bassist, died Friday night in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was 56. ...

Charles Mingus: Charlie Mingus: April 22, 1922 — Jan 5, 1979

Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 January 1979

SOME TIME back a 'friend' borrowed a large number of my jazz albums — and sold them. All I can say is that the rip-off ...

Nina Simone: Always Searching for a Key

Obituary by Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2003

The realisation that she was black in a country run by whites, a woman in a world run by men, turned Nina Simone into the ...

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