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Jazz Great Tony Campise Dies at 67

Jazz Great Tony Campise Dies at 67

Source: Michael Ricci

Local jazz saxophone great Tony Campise, who was nominated for a Grammy in 1992 for his “Once In a Blue Moon" LP, died Sunday morning at University Medical Center Brackenridge a day after having a brain hemorrhage. Campise, 67, never fully recovered from an October fall outside a Corpus Christi hotel, where he hit the back of his head. He had shown signs of improvement, even playing the sax to the delight of his nurses at Texas Neuro Rehab Center, ...

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