Noteworthy – Page 16

24Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Peter E. Gill, golfer

Peter E. Gill –an English professional golfer – died on 23 April 2020, due to coronavirus. In 1959 he won the Coombe Hill Assistants' Tournament and the Gor-Ray Cup in successive weeks. He died in 2020 Gill was an assistant professional in the 1950s, first at Little Aston Golf Club and then at Addington Golf Club. He played regularly in assistants' tournaments and in 1953, while still at Little Aston, he reached the semi-final of the Gor-Ray Cup, the PGA Assistants' Championship, before losing to Geoffrey Hunt. He qualified for the Open Championship the same year. In 1959 he won the Coombe Hill Assistants' Tournament and the Gor-Ray Cup in successive weeks. He won the Coombe Hill Tournament after a six-hole playoff with Billy Bingham and then won the Gor-Ray Cup, a stroke ahead ...

23Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Bootsie Barnes, jazz saxophonist

Robert "Bootsie" Barnes –an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia died in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, at age 82 on April 22, 2020 from COVID-19. In the 1950s, Barnes played with various musicians in Philadelphia, including Lee Morgan, Philly Joe Jones and Bill Cosby (then a drummer). During the 1960s, he performed with various organists including Jimmy Smith and Don Patterson, with whom he recorded in 1978. In the 1980s, he toured with Sonny Stitt. He continued to play in his home town and recorded his album "You Leave Me Breathless!" in 1995. In an article for Patch, Kim Tucker writes... "Barnes has toured the world performing the music he loves, jazz in places like St. Croix US Virgin Islands, to Europe and back home to Philly. From the “Chitlin Circuit” to the infamo...

Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

23Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

Enrique Castellón Vargas aka El Príncipe Gitano ("The Gypsy Prince") a Spanish flamenco singer, actor and dancer – died on 22 April 2020, due to Covid-19 complications. He was the brother of rumba singer Dolores Vargas "La Terremoto". At the age of 14 he made his debut at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid in the same show as Lola Flores and very soon after he performed his first show, “Pinceladas”, becoming a great figure in Spanish song in the 1950s, despite the fact that his real passion was bullfighting, but he did not have success in that field. His most famous song is "Obí, obá". He also made a peculiar version of the Elvis Presley song "In the Ghetto".

22Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Josep Sala i Mañé, casteller

Josep Sala i Mañé a Spanish Catalan casteller died on 20 April 2020 in his hometown, at the age of 82, after suffering from COVID-19 during COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. He was born in Vilafranca del Penedès in 1938. In his youth, he was member of the Castellers de Vilafranca until his family moved to Barcelona in the 50s. In 1958, alongside the Duch family and Pere Català i Roca [ca] he founded the colla (team) of Castellers de Ballets de Cataluña, but this group dissolved in 1963. Six years later, Sala founded the Castellers de Barcelona, the fourth oldest, and was its head between 1969 and 1976.

22Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Jacques Pellen, jazz guitarist

Jacques Pellen a French jazz guitarist died of COVID-19 on 21 April 2020 at Brest hospital. Pellen worked with many musicians over the years such as Peter Gritz, Kenny Wheeler, Bruno Nevez, Henri Texier, Riccardo Del Fra, and violinist Didier Lockwood.

22Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Joel Rogosin, TV producer & writer

Joel Rogosin an American television producer and screenwriter died from complications of COVID-19 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on April 21, 2020, at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Deborah, and their three daughters, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Rogosin was known for producing such television series as 77 Sunset Strip, The Virginian, Ironside, Magnum, P.I., and Knight Rider from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for his production work on Ironside in 1970 and 1971, and received his third Emmy nomination for producing Magnum, P.I. in 1983. Joel Rogosin was born on October 30, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was raised in Boston and Virginia, where he attended hi...

22Apr

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Japan, Noteworthy, Profiles

Teruyuki Okazaki, karate master

Teruyuki Okazaki a tenth degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, as well as the founder and chief instructor of the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) died on April 21, 2020 from complications due to Covid-19. Along with Gichin Funakoshi and Masatoshi Nakayama, Okazaki helped found the Japan Karate Association's instructor training program. Okazaki was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As a young man, he grew up studying judo, kendo, and aikido. In 1948, at the age of sixteen, he entered Takushoku University. It was here that Okazaki began his karate training. Teruyuki Okazaki studied primarily under Gichin Funakoshi, as well as Masatoshi Nakayama. In 1953, Okazaki graduated and was immediately appointed coach of the Takushoku team. Later that year, it was decided ...

José María Fernández Calleja, journalist

22Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

José María Fernández Calleja, journalist

José María Fernández Calleja a Spanish journalist, political prisoner during the Francisco Franco era and anti-ETA activist died in Madrid, aged 64, after suffering from COVID-19, on 21 April 2020. He was born in Ponferrada. Until the end of the ETA's activity, he had to live with bodyguards as he was under threat of death from the Basque terrorist group.

22Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles

David Reno Bacuzzi, footballer

David Reno Bacuzzi an English footballer and manager who played for Arsenal, Manchester City and Reading – died from Covid-19 on 21 April 2020. He also represented England as a youth international. After a moderately successful career in the English League, Bacuzzi settled in the Republic of Ireland where he enjoyed a successful spell as player-manager with Cork Hibernians before going on to manage Home Farm. He later opened a travel agency in Dublin. Bacuzzi was born into an Anglo-Italian family that had settled in London. His paternal grandparents originally came from Milan. His father, Joe Bacuzzi, was also a notable footballer, playing as a defender for both Fulham and England during the Second World War. Born in Islington, London, Bacuzzi began his career with Eastbourne Un...

21Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Russia

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, composer

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin a Russian composer died in Moscow on 19 April 2020 from pneumonia, or COVID-19. His works, including the opera The Devil in Love, were played and recorded internationally. Vustin studied composition first with Grigory Frid at a regional music college, and later with Vladimir Ferè at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1969. Between 1969 and 1974, Vustin worked as a music editor at USSR Radio. From 1974 he worked as an editor at the Kompozitor publishing house. Vustin composed from 1963, but regarded only works written since 1972 as valid. His musical language is distinctive by the remarkable organization of its musical texture. Vustin uses the twelve-tone technique, but in his own original way. His first notable compositions were written in the mid...