Stacy Rowles passed away Friday Oct.30

ChuckCorbisiero · #1 11-03-2009, 05:23 PM

This is very sad. Los Angeles based Stacy Rowles, trumpeter and vocalist passed away Friday from complications from a car accident. She is the daughter of jazz pianist Jimmy Rowles. When I read this today it reminded me of when Emily Remler passed away so suddenly years ago. Stacy was a great musician that always made her Dad proud. Stacy will be sorely missed. When this type of thing happens, it reminds me that life is very precious indeed.

Marcus Johnson · #2 11-03-2009, 05:30 PM

Wow.... I'm really sorry to hear that. Very sad.

ChuckCorbisiero · #3 11-03-2009, 05:48 PM

I don't know about her singing but she could flat out play the trumpet and the flugelhorn. She had great chops. Her brother Gary lives up in Corvallis. He's a stud on the guitar. Wow.

Paul Warburton · #4 11-03-2009, 05:50 PM

What bad news. Colin Bailey gave me the side he did with Stacy, Jimmy and Red. I'll call him.
Thanks, Chuck.

EDIT: Colin just told me she was out of the hospital and doing well, playing gigs and everything seemed fine.
She was 54 I guess. Damn.

ChuckCorbisiero · #5 11-03-2009, 06:30 PM

Paul. Sometimes people hit their head in an accident and don't know it. I had an accident last year where I hit my head and I was just fine after a week with a lump. Two weeks later I passed out at a baseball game and had seizures and end up in intensive care. I had bleeding in my brain and didn't know a thing until after it all went down. Stacy was at her house in Burbank when she passed. What a really nice family. A buddy of mine plays drums with Gary, her brother up in Corvallis. He put me in touch with him a few years ago because Gary is a wizard at digital mixing, something I can't do. Well, to make a long story short, he spent hours helping me on the phone not knowing me from Adam. Just a great guy. Stacy was the same. They have the good genes from their Dad.

EDIT: Here is a nice story about Stacy and Jimmy. www.tonyspage.com/rowles.htm

Paul Warburton · #6 11-03-2009, 06:42 PM

She was lucky to have Jimmy as a Dad. We all loved him.
I, personally, spent some great time with he and John Poole when we were with Anita O'Day.
I missed meeting and playing with Stacy, but with a Dad like that she must of had some beautiful stories.

Phil Rowan · #7 11-03-2009, 11:41 PM

Very sorry to hear this.. I have a Red Mitchell/Jimmy Rowles lp she plays on and she sounds great. Don't know if I mentioned it here, but I had a bad, bad TBI 2 1/2 years ago.. so far so good, but I hope I don't have any more complications (aside from permanent anosmia).

Paul Warburton · #8 11-04-2009, 08:09 AM

That may be the one I mentioned above, Phil.
Colin sent me the out takes. At one point, Red sits down at the piano and does "I get A Kick Out of You" He sings his own lyrics: "I'll Kick The **** Outta You". It's like I'll quit drinkin' and drugin' on my own.....but if YOU tell me to, I'll kick the **** outta you.

dylanjohnson · #9 11-04-2009, 09:30 AM

I had the opportunity to play with Stacy twice and she was always very, very cool. She told the most amazing stories about her dad! Very sorry to hear this.

dylanjohnson · #10 11-04-2009, 09:33 AM

She also used all her dad's changes for standards, and had a wonderfully smoky voice and a melodic, clear, chet/miles style of playing the trumpet. Very refreshing to me.... Damn.

Ed Fuqua · #11 11-04-2009, 09:38 AM

wineaux · #12 11-04-2009, 10:49 AM

Play every note like it's your last one, because you never know.

RIP Stacy.

ChuckCorbisiero · #13 09-11-2010, 01:33 PM

I found this article in the New York Times Archive. Miss you Stacy.

Stacy Rowles, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 54

by BEN RATLIFF New York Times
Published: November 6, 2009

Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpeter, fluegelhorn player and singer who had been active on the Los Angeles jazz scene since the 1980s, died on Oct. 27 at her home in Burbank, Calif. She was 54. The cause was complications from a car accident on Oct. 13, said her sister, Stephanie Rowles.

The daughter of the jazz pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, Ms. Rowles was perpetually under-discovered: better known in Europe than in America, and much better known on the West Coast than around New York.

She played restful, melodic solos with a warm tone and sang in a wise, honest voice, shy but swinging.

Ms. Rowles made her name partly in the company of her father, with whom she often played until shortly before his death in 1996. The albums they made together included Mr. Rowles’s “I’m Glad There Is You”; “Me and the Moon” and “Looking Back,” under the leadership of both Rowleses; and “Tell It Like It Is,” her only album as a leader, released in 1984.

For a stretch in the early ’90s, father and daughter shared a weekly gig at Linda’s, a Los Angeles jazz club.

On her own, Ms. Rowles also played regularly in several all-female jazz groups, including the Jazz Birds and Maiden Voyage, in both of which she played alongside the trumpeter Betty O’Hara, and the European band Witchcraft, with which she had toured since 2002.

In addition to her sister, of Cambria, Calif., she is survived by her brother, Gary, of Lebanon, Ore.