The Final Chorus January 2019

View an individual entry to share on social media by clicking on a picture or name. Karen Beatton died peacefully December 10th after a fight with cancer. She was a classic jazz superfan who attended scores of festivals and events, cruises and weekly meetups. She helped to host many jazz events in the Los Angeles area. She was familiar to many from Karen's DixieJazz Beat, a newsletter guide to jazz happenings in Southern California and beyond, that she has been compiling for many years. It has often been a source of news later reported in The Syncopated Times. Nancy Wilson, 81, in Pioneer Town, California. She had eight albums reach the top 20 on Billboards album charts during the 1960s and would record more than 70 during her career as a "vocal stylist." She made a memorable album with Cannonball Adderley, and had hits with "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her debut single "Guess Who I Saw Today". She began singing professionally at 15 around her hometown of Chillicothe, Ohio. After a year in teacher college, she decided to devote herself to a music career. She toured for several years with Rusty Bryant's Carolyn Club Big Band before being advised by Cannonball Adderley to move