[Dixielandjazz] "They Died Before Forty" documentary

[Bill Haesler]

 sep troelstra wrote:
> I forwarded this message to another (more modern jazz oriented) list I'm on, and immediately got the expected response of omitted names:
> "Interesting he didn't include probably the best-known members of this tragic group, namely Bix Beiderbecke and Charlie Parker. Also no Fats Navarro, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy or Jaco Pastorius, but I guess you can't have everyone."

Dear Sep (and Dick Baker),
It would seem that you did not check out the link given with the article.
8>)
Apart from the well known names mentioned in it, the following were included in the link:
Very kind regards,
Bill.

Charlie Parker, alto saxophone - died at 34 in 1955

Bix Beiderbecke, cornet - died at 28 in 1931

Fats Navarro, trumpet - died at 26 in 1950

Sonny Berman, trumpet - died at 22 in 1947

Lee Morgan, trumpet - died at 33 in 1972

Clyde Hart, piano - died at 34 in 1945

Lil Green, vocals - died at 35 in 1954

Eddie Costa, piano, vibes - died at 32 in 1962

Robert Johnson, singer, guitar - died at 27 in 1938

Dick Wilson, tenor saxophone - died at 30 in 1941

Wynton Kelly, piano - died at 39 in 1971

Tommy Ladnier, trumpet - died at 39 in 1939

James "Bubber" Miley, trumpet - died at 29 in 1932

Nat Jaffe, piano - died at 27 in 1945

Frank Teschemacher, clarinet, saxes - died at 25 in 1933

Eddie Lang, guitar - died at 30 in 1933

Wardell Gray, tenor saxophone - died at 34 in 1955

Albert Ayler, tenor saxophone - died at 34 in 1970

Dinah Washington, vocals - died at 39 in 1963

Serge Chaloff, baritone saxophone - died at 33 in 1957

Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, piano, vocals - died at 24 in 1929

Eric Dolphy, saxophone - died at 36 in 1964