Tag Archives: Jazz

NEW YORK – Ann Rinking, Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and collaborator of Bob Foss, who helped spread the gorgeous, muscular hybrid of jazz and percussion movement on Broadway and beyond, has died. She was 71 years old. Ricking died Saturday while visiting the family in Seattle, his manager Lee Gross …

Annie Ross, the British singer who became world famous with the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and had a varied acting career, died at 89 at her home in New York City. His death was due to emphysema and heart disease, confirmed his manager, Jim Coleman. Ross was …