George W. Botts Sr., a tenor saxophonist who lived and played jazz in Washington, D.C. for more than six decades, died last Wednesday at 83.
Botts, a third-generation Washingtonian, was born in 1928. From his youth he was an avid jazz fan: He could vividly recount concerts he saw at the Howard Theater, Club Bali, [...]

Steve Reid, a New York-based drummer who moved through several forms of African-American music while rarely straying from the cutting edge, died this morning in New York at 66 years old. The cause of death has not been reported.
Reid's professional career began at 16 as the house drummer of Harlem's Apollo Theater, with his [...]

CNN, Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times have confirmed that Michael Jackson has died. He was 50 years old. Damn.

Last Saturday, May 2, Jon Blank of Rockville, MD passed away of a suspected drug overdose. Blank was the bassist in Rezin and, most recently, Scott "Wino" Weinrich's latest project; he played on Wino's new album Punctuated Equilibrium and is pictured above playing with Wino at the 9:30 Club this past February. Blank was the [...]