RIP ANDRÁS MOHAY (1978-2014) a great Hungarian jazz drummer - who was killed this weekend in a highway accident; driving home after a gig with Grammy award winning saxophonist Joe Lovano and the Budapest Jazz Orchestra. The car he travelled in pulled over in pitch-dark and tried to help clear the road from a previous accident when he was accidentally run over by a tour bus carrying other members of BJO. Friday Night at the Cadillac Club by jazz saxophonist Bob Berg (1951-2002) who was killed in a road accident, driving home; the person who crashed into his car was driving a cement truck that skidded on ice. Clifford Brown (1930-1956) was an American jazz trumpeter. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind only four years worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence, he was also a composer of note: two of his compositions, Joy Spring and Daahoud have become jazz standards. Brown and Richie Powell embarked on a drive to Chicago for their next appearance. Powells wife Nancy was at the wheel so that Clifford and Richie could sleep. While driving at night in the rain she lost control of the car and it went off the road. All three were killed in the resulting crash. Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960) was born in Budapest, and studied there with Zoltán Kodály, with whom he toured Hungary collecting folk songs. In 1928, he became director of the jazz department at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which offered the first (!) academic jazz courses anywhere. After they were closed by the Nazis in 1933, Seiber left Germany and settled in London. He was killed in a car accident in Kruger National Park, while on a lecture tour of South Africa. His most well known composition is perhaps the score to the animation of George Orwells Animal Farm. To this day, his works are part of the piano curriculum of the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music, UK.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:40:36 +0000
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