A SHRINE

In memory of departed musicians.

I begin with just a few jazz and blues greats (too many to feature).
This is not any particular order.

 

Charlie Patton	Duke Ellington	Cab Calloway	Robert Johnson	Charlie Parker
Count Basie	John Coltrane	Frank Sinatra	Miles Davis	Muddy Waters
Mississippi John Hurt	Lightning Hopkins	Sonny Boy Williamson	Albert King	Freddy King
Elmore James	Leadbelly	Jimmy Reed	Slim Harpo	T Bone Walker
Billie Holiday	Wes Montgomery	Charlie Mingus	Ella Fitzgerald	Woody Guthrie
Sarah Vaughan	Bo Diddley	Screaming Jay Hawkins	Lionel Hampton	Louis Armstrong
Louis Jordan	Sun Ra	Thelonious Monk	Art Tatum	Albert Collins
John Lee Hooker	Big Joe Turner	Howlin' Wolf	Bill Haley	Elvis Presley
Eddie Cochran	Gene Vincent	Buddy Holly	Roy Orbison	Johnny Cash
Richie Valens	Johnny Burnette	Billy Fury	Vince Taylor	Johnny Kidd
Jimmie Rodgers	Bill Munroe	Hank Williams	Johnny Horton	Hank Snow
Sam Cooke	Otis Redding	Marvin Gaye	Jackie Wilson	Ray Charles
Oscar Peterson	Max Roach	Don Cherry	Chet Baker	Dexter Gordon
James Brown	Larry Williams	Little Walter	Junior Walker	Curtis Mayfield
Brian Jones	Jim Morrison	Jimi Hendrix	Janis Joplin	Duane Allman
Berry Oakley (The Allman Brothers Band))	Paul Kossoff (Free)	Rory Gallagher	Ian Stewart (The Rolling Stones)	Randy California (Spirit)
Keith Moon	John Entwistle	John Lennon	George Harrison	Marc Bolan
Mick Ronson	John Bonham	Chas Chandler	Stuart Adamson (Big Country)	Alexis Korner

Long John Baldry	Syd Barrett	Steve Marriott	Ronnie Lane	Mike Bloomfield
Lowell George (Little Feat)	Ian (Pig Pen) McKernan (The Grateful Dead)	Jerry Garcia	Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys)	Carl Wilson (The Beach Boys)
Christa Päffgen (Nico)	Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground)	Frank Zappa	Richard Manuel (The Band)	Rick Danko (The Band)
John Phillips (The Mamas And The Papas)	« Mama » Cass Elliot (The Mamas And The Papas)	Tim Hardin	Billy Roberts	Tim Rose
Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)	John Cippolina (Quicksilver Messenger Service)	Tim Buckley	Bob Hite (Canned Heat)	Alan Wilson (Canned Heat)
Steve Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd)	Billy Powell (Lynyrd Skynyrd)	Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynyrd Skynyrd)	Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd)	Leon Wilkeson (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Alex Harvey	Roy Buchanan	Bob Marley	Peter Tosh	Phil Lynott
Bernard Edwards (Chic)	Tony Thompson (Chic)	Stevie Ray Vaughan	Freddie Mercury	Jaco Pastorius
Prince Far I	Steve Perigrin Took (Tyrannosaurus Rex)	Dusty Springfield	Ricky Nelson	Lee Dorsey
Del Shannon	Dizzy Gillespie	Willie Dixon	John Campbell	Dan Hartman
Nina Simone	Link Wray	Jeff Buckley	Jim Capaldi (Traffic)	Graham Bond
Pete Farndon (Pretenders)	John McGeogh (Magazine - Siouxie & The Banshees)	Johnny Thunders (The New York Dolls / Heartbreakers)	Jerry Nolan (The New York Dolls / Heartbreakers)	Arthur Kane (The New York Dolls)
Frankie Lymon	Danny Whitten (Crazy Horse)	Sammy Davis Jr	Robert Quine	Chubby Checker
Malcolm Owen (The Ruts)	Rob Tyner (MC5)	Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5)	Lee Brilleaux (Doctor Feelgood)	Sandy Denny
Bobby Fuller	Al Jackson (Booker T & The MGs)	Johnny Guitar Watson	Eddy Hazel	Gene Clark
Clyde McPhatter	Glen Buxton (Alice Cooper)	Robert Calvert (Hawkwind)	Stiv Bators (Dead Boys)	Marc Sandman (Morphine)
Andy Gibb	David Byron (Uriah Heep)	Vivian Stanshall (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)	Brian Connelly (Sweet)	Billy McKenzie (The Associates)
Larry Young	Earl King	Rick James	King Curtis	Coleman Hawkins
Rick Gretch (Family / Blind Faith / Traffic)	Gram Parsons	Paul Butterfield	Andy McCulloch (Thunderclap Newman / Wings)	Bon Scott (ACDC)
Felix Pappilardi (Mountain)	Chris Wood (Traffic)	Keith Relf (The Yardbirds / Renaissance)	Arthur Lee (Love)	James Honeyman-Scott (Pretenders)
Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone)	John Cummings (Johnny Ramone)	Jeffrey Hyman (Joey Ramone)	Kurt Cobain	Joe Strummer
Tommy Bolin	Chris Whitley	Ian Curtis	Jim Croce	Serge Gainsbourgh
Michael Hutchence (INXS)	Robert Palmer	Nick Drake	Harry Nilsson	Sid Vicious
Adam Faith	Cozy Powell	Luther Perkins	Clifford T. Ward	Edwin Starr
Lawrence Payton (The Four Tops)	Mary Wells (The Supremes)	Eddie Kendricks (The Temptations)	Tammi Tyrell	David Ruffin
Claude Nougaro	Nicky Hopkins	Rick Wright (Pink Floyd)	Noel Redding	Mitch Mitchell
Delaney Bramlett (Delaney & Bonnie)	Buddy Miles	Ron Asheton (The Stooges)	John Martyn	Erik Lee Purkhisher (Lux Interior - The Cramps)
John Fahey	Billy Preston	Isaac Hayes	Alain Bashung	Barry White
Willie De Ville	Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine / Isotope)	Michael Jackson	Les Paul	Mick Avory (The Kinks)
Solomon Burke	Gregory Isaacs	Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)	Ronnie James Dio (Rainbow / Black Sabbath)	Ariane Daniela Forster (Ari Up - The Slits)
Calvin Russel	Marion Elliot (Poly Styrene - X-Ray Spex)	Gil Scott-Heron	Gary Moore	Jim Carroll
Ian Drury	Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band)	Amy Whinehouse	Jerry Leiber	Bert Jansch
Alex Chilton (The Box Tops / Big Star)	Nick Karn (Japan)	Gerry Rafferty	Hubert Sumlin	Howard Tate
Doby Grey	Etta James	Whitney Houston	Davey Jones (The Monkees)	Ronnie Montrose (Montrose)
Jeff Healey	Levon Helm (The Band)	Bert Weedon	Chris Ethridge (Flying Burrito Brothers)	Donald "Duck" Dunn (Booker T & The MGs)
Doug Dillard	Donna Summer	Barry Gibb	Bob Welch (Fleetwood Mac)	John Lord (Deep Purple)
Scott McKenzie	Dave Brubeck	Ed Cassidy (Spirit)	Mickey Baker	Ravi Shankar
Kevin Coyne	Reg Presley (The Troggs)	Donald Byrd	Tony Sheridan	Kevin Ayers
Tom Evans (Badfinger)	Peter Ham (Badfinger)	Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)	Leslie Harvey (Stone The Crows)	Dan Toler (The Allman Brothers Band)
Bob Brozman	Peter Banks (Yes / Flash)	Richie Havens	George Jones	Trevor Bolder (David Bowie)
Herman Brood	Warren Zevon	Ray Manzarek (The Doors)	J.J. Cale	George Duke
Usef Lateef	Pete Seeger	Lou Reed	Phil Everly	Dave Higgs (Eddie & The Hot Rods)
Paco de Lucia	Scott Asheton (The Stooges)	Johnny Winter	Bobby Womack	Thomas Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone)
Robert "Throb" Young (Primal Scream)	Glen Cornick (Jethro Tull)	Paul Revere	Jack Bruce (Cream)	Bobby Keyes
Linsey de Paul	Ian McLagen (The Small Faces / The Faces)	Joe Cocker	Kim Fowley	Dallas Taylor (Crosby Stills & Nash / Manassas)
Demis Roussos	Don Covay	Andy Fraser (Free)	Steve Strange	Daevid Allen (Gong) (
John Renbourn	Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate)	B.B King	Percy Sledge	Ben E. King
Bob Burns (Lynyrd Skynyrd)	Louis Johnson (The Brothers Johnson)	Ornette Coleman	Chris Squire (Yes)	Eddie Louiss
Cilla Black	Allen Toussaint	Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead)	Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (Motorhead)	Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots)
Edgar Froese (Van Der Graff Generator)	John Denver	Chet Atkins	Dan Fogelburg	Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys)
Nathlie Cole	Glen Frey (Eagles)	David Bowie	Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane)	Maurice White (Earth Wind & Fire)
Andy "Thunderclap" Newman	Lonnie Mack	Keith Emerson	Dennis Davis	Billy Paul
Alan Vega	Bobby Hutcherson	Prince	Prince Buster	Leonard Cohen
Bobby Vee	Pete Burns	Leon Russell	Mose Alison	Greg Lake
George Martin	Merle Haggard	George Michael	Rick Parfitt	Mike Kelly (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones)
Overend Watts (Mott The Hoople)	Rod Temperton (Heatwave)	Butch Trucks (The Allman Brothers Band)	John Wetton (Family, King Crimson, Uriah Heep,...)	Deke Leonard (Man)
Jaki Liebezeit  (Can)	Buddy Greco	Bobby Freeman	Peter Sarstendt	Al Jarreau
Peter Skellern	Larry Coryell	Chuck Berry	Scotty Moore	John Warren Giles Jr. (J. Giles Band)
Alan Holdsworth	Junior Wells	Greg Allman	Glen Campbell	John Abercrombie
Dave Hlubek (Molly Hatchet)	Holger Czukay (Can)	Top Petty	Walter Becker (Steely Dan)	Fats Domino
Chuck Brown	Ricky Wellman (Chuck Brown, Miles Davis)	Johnny Hallyday	Malcolm Young (ACDC)	"Fast Eddie" Clarke (Motorhead)
David Cassidy	Ray Thomas (The Moody Blues)	Hugh Masakela	Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)	Terry Kath (Chicago)
Don Williams	Charles Bradley	Mark E. Smith (The Fall)	Dennis Edwards (The Temptations)	Didier Lockwood
Tim Bergling (Avicii)	Reggie Lucas	Arthur Blythe	Danny Kirwan	Ed King (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Marty Balin	Otis Rush	Aretha Franklin	Charles Aznavour	Tony Joe White
Patsy Cline	Rickey Wilson (B52s)	Andy Williams	D.J. Fontana	Donny Hathaway
Roy Hargrove	James Wisely (Chris Isaak's band)	Michel Legrand	Mark Hollis (Talk Talk)	Peter Tork (The Monkees)
Keith Flint (Prodigy)	André Previn	Scott Walker	Dick Dale	Lonnie Donnegan
Dieter Moebius	Rocky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators)	Mac Rebennack - Dr. John	Leon Redbone	Boon Gould (Level 42)
Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead lyricist and solo)	Rick Ocasek (The Cars)	Ginger Baker	Eddy Money	Barrie Masters (Eddie & The Hot Rods)
Paul Barrere (Little Feat)	Kenny Lynch	Neil Innes (Bonzo Dog Dooh-Dah Band, Monty Python, The Rutles,...)	Larry Wallis (Blodwyn Pig, Motorhead, Pink Fairies, UFO Shagrat.)	Robert Parker
Neil Peart (Rush)	McCoy Tyner

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