Willie Ruff, who fashioned an unlikely career in jazz as a French horn player and toured the world as a musical missionary in the acclaimed Mitchell-Ruff Duo while maintaining a parallel career at the Yale School of Music, died on Sunday at his home in Killen, Ala. He was 92.
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Tigers MVP, World Series champion Willie Hernandez dead at 69
Willie Hernandez, one of the hearts and souls of one of the greatest teams in the history of Major League Baseball, died on Monday at the age of 69. Hernandez was not only the Cy Young Award winner in 1984 with the World Series-winning Detroit Tigers, but he was also
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023: Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson
The reclusive (but freshly relevant) experimental pop singer Kate Bush, the one-of-one rapper Missy Elliott and the 90-year-old country stalwart Willie Nelson are among this year’s genre-spanning inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The organization behind the museum and annual ceremony announced the lineup on Wednesday, underlining
Neil Young and Snoop Dogg joined Willie Nelson on stage for a 90th birthday concert
FILE – Willie Nelson performs at the Producers & Engineers Wing 12th Annual Grammy Week Celebration at the Village Studio in Los Angeles, on Feb. 6, 2019. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP FILE – Willie Nelson performs at the Producers & Engineers Wing 12th Annual
Ex-Patriot Willie McGinest out at NFL Network amid assault charges: report
The NFL Network is reportedly parting ways with Willie McGinest as he faces up to eight years in prison. McGinest was hit with one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury stemming from an attack
Bobbie Nelson, Longtime Pianist for Brother Willie, Dies at 91
“With out my sister,” Mr. Nelson wrote in that e-book, “I’d by no means be the place I’m right this moment.” Bobbie Lee Nelson was born on Jan. 1, 1931, in Abbott, Texas, north of Waco, to Ira and Myrle Nelson. They’d married once they had been youngsters, and shortly
Willie Winfield, Angelic-Voiced Doo-Wop Singer, Is Lifeless at 91
Willie Winfield, whose silken lead vocals with the Harptones within the Nineteen Fifties made him a favourite of doo-wop connoisseurs, regardless that the group by no means achieved large mainstream industrial success, died on July 27 in a hospital in Brooklyn. He was 91. The trigger was cardiac arrest, his