TIM BELL, 75, on Oct. 18 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Bell was an in-demand reedman and professor of music at University of Wisconsin-Parkside from 1975 through 2009, a specialist in jazz. He taught countless students, founded the Parkside Reunion Big Band in the early 1990s, and performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, touring Broadway shows, Milwaukee’s Skylight Opera Theatre and national headliners including Aretha Franklin and Harry Connick Jr.
He played his final concert in Racine as part of the Racine Concert Band the night before he suffered a fatal heart attack. He also hosted a Saturday night radio show, Classic Big Bands and Beyond, on WGTD-FM 91.1. “The ‘beyond’ lets me flip out and play anything,” he said.
