Stacy Rowles, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 54

November 7, 2009
Stacy Rowles, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 54
By BEN RATLIFF

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.

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