† Remembering - NOV 26: ***1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, trumpet player, and composer (b. 1905) Thomas Francis Tommy Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. On November 26, 1956, Tommy Dorsey died at age 51 in his Greenwich, Connecticut, home. He had begun taking sleeping pills regularly at this time, from which he was so sedated that one night he died in his sleep from choking after eating a heavy meal......... O:) https://youtube/watch?v=A4lHAvegoK8 ***2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (UTP) (b. 1978) James Adarryl Tapp, Jr. (September 9, 1977 – November 26, 2003), better known by his stage name Soulja Slim, was an American rapper. He is known for writing the U.S. No. 1 hit Slow Motion. On Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2003, an unknown gunman shot him four times; three times in the face, and once in the chest, in the front lawn of his mothers home located in the 4600 Lafaye St. in the Gentilly neighborhood. Soulja Slim was buried with his Cut Throat Comitty charm and jewelry and also the leather camo clothes he wore on the cover of Give It 2 Em Raw. On New Years Eve, December 31, 2003, police arrested 22-year-old Garelle Smith in connection with Tapps murder. Police discovered a stolen police pistol in Smiths possession with a scratched-off serial number. A ballistics test matched bullets from that gun to the ones that killed Soulja Slim but no witnesses would testify against him. By 2008 Smith had been arrested for three more murders and in each case, charges were dropped and he was released due to lack of witnesses and the New Orleans 60 day law. Along with the other murders, the District Attorneys Office dropped the Soulja Slim murder charge against him and his death became a cold case. In August 2011, Smith himself was found dead with gunshot wounds to the face and chest................ O:) ***2013 – Saul Leiter, American photographer and painter (b. 1923) Saul Leiter (December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013) was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York School. He died on the 26th of November 2013.......... O:) ***2013 – Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1936) Anthony Peter Tony Musante (June 30, 1936 – November 26, 2013) was an American actor. Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the television series Toma (predecessor to Baretta) and the soap opera As The World Turns.. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in a 1975 episode of Medical Center, A Quality of Mercy. Musante also played Nino Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald City during the first season of the HBO critically acclaimed television series Oz. He died of complications following surgery on November 26, 2013, aged 77.................... O:)
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