Trumpeter John Brunious, 67, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's leader and senior member, has died after an apparent heart attack, the hall said. He died Feb. 12 in Orlando, Fla., where he had been living since Hurricane Katrina. A native of New Orleans, Brunious carried on the heritage of jazz funerals and second-lines, playing the slow, somber music that marks the march to the cemetery and high-spirited, upbeat tunes that symbolize the cutting loose of the spirit of the deceased.
The Rev. James E. Orange, a lieutenant of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died. He was 65. Orange died Saturday in Atlanta at Crawford Long Hospital. He had suffered complications from gallbladder surgery, his daughter, Jamida Orange, said. Orange marched in his hometown in 1963 alongside King and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy to help integrate facilities and transportation.
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