Stacy Rowles, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 54

By BEN RATLIFF. 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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/arts/music/07rowles.html