Remembering Earl Scheelar (1929-2023)
David Radlauer
July 31, 2023
Bay Area bandleader, clarinetist and cornet player, Earl Scheelar (1929-2023) died peacefully on July 28, 2023. Few have shown greater leadership keeping Classic Jazz alive,
Harriet Choice, a true jazz journalist, has died at 82
Joe Bebco
July 16, 2023
Harriet Choice died on July 13th, she was 82 years old. In 1968, she became the first jazz critic at the Chicago Tribune had ever
Upstate NY Banjoist Dick Sheridan, has died at 88
Russ Tarby
July 16, 2023
A mainstay of the jam sessions staged for decades by the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse, N.Y., Richard (Dick) P. Sheridan, 88, died on May
St. Louis Ragtimer Al Stricker has died at 87
Larry Melton
July 16, 2023
Friends in St. Louis have announced that Al Stricker, banjo player. Historian, and spokesperson for the St. Louis Ragtimers, died on July 13 in St.
