ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – A great loss to the jazz music community tonight (Sunday). Guitarist Rick Haydon has passed away. Haydon was a Professor of Music at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville where he served as Director of Jazz Studies and head of the Guitar Program .
Professor Haydon received the 2004 Woody Herman Award from the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Door County, Wisconsin.
Haydon played with many of the greats like the legendary Bucky Pizzarelli, the late father of guitarist John Pizzarelli…