Entries from LAist tagged with 'sax'
August 20, 2008
I'll admit it. I'm a "Davehead" who's seen and followed the Dave Matthews Band more than a dozen times in at least four states. And I know some LAist readers (and my fellow editors – right, Andy?) will judge me for actually liking their world-jazz-bluegrass-lite style of pop. But LeRoi Moore's death at 46 yesterday in LA was saddening. Matthews' sax player was a consummate jazz musician whose work often got overshadowed by the......
Continue Reading "LeRoi Moore 1961-2008: An Appreciation"August 19, 2008
Dave Matthews Band sax player, LeRoi Moore, died earlier this afternoon at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center "from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia," according to a statement given to TMZ. Moore, 46, lived in Los Angeles and had returned to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program after the June 30th accident that left him with a punctured a lung and some broken ribs. Although Moore usually played......
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