التصنيف: Obituaries
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NPR: “Nanci Griffith Has Died. The Texas Singer-Songwriter Was 68”
"Nanci Griffith Has Died. The Texas Singer-Songwriter Was 68"NPRAugust 13, 2021
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NPR: “Peter Rehberg, Influential Electronic Musician And Label Head, Has Died At 53”
"Peter Rehberg, Influential Electronic Musician And Label Head, Has Died At 53"NPR MusicAugust 10, 2021
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Welcome (Back) to Night After Night.
Change is upon us once again, and with it a fresh start for Night After Night—elsewhere. As of Thursday, April 23, the primary focus of my work has shifted over to a newly launched Substack newsletter, also called Night After Night. That title has provided my online identity – my "brand" – for more than…
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Jon Christensen (March 20, 1943–February 18, 2020).
Jon Christensen, a deft, sensitive drummer who embodied the "ECM Sound" and an enormously influential musician, has died at age 76. Read Ethan Iverson's tribute, here, for as beautiful a succinct summary of Christensen's contributions to music as you possibly could want, and then watch this live video of Christensen playing in Keith Jarrett's storied…
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Lyle Mays (Nov. 27, 1953–Feb. 10, 2020).
Word has come that Lyle Mays – an extraordinary pianist, composer, bandleader, and a longtime member of the Pat Metheny Group – has died after a recurring illness. Nate Chinen, in an obituary written for WBGO, gets to the heart of Mays's creative persona: Mays was a musician of clear, analytical temperament, but within the…
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RIP Leandro “Gato” Barbieri (Nov. 28, 1932-April 2, 2016)
Stories proliferate when a figure of some stature passes, but I hope you won't mind if I share a tale I've never told before. What follows is not an obituary by any stretch; for that you'll want to read the very fine Associated Press obit. This is nothing more than a personal memory I hadn't…
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RIP Chris Squire (4 March 1948 – 28 June 2015)
Chris Squire, by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing of my dear friend, bandmate and inspiration Chris Squire. #yes — Geoffrey Downes (@asiageoff) June 28, 2015 Farewell, Chris Squire. I came to Yes late, but made up for lost time, and I wished…
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RIP Steve Backer, June 3, 1937 – April 10, 2014
As America takes stock of itself in this complex time-cycle, it is important to understand that one person can still make a difference. That not everyone has to follow the tried-and-true traditional path—to get tried-and-true traditional results. Steve Backer opened a door for a generation of creative artists to connect to the greater culture (and…
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Kenny Kirkland’s Unanswered Promise.
Kenny Kirkland JazzizFebruary 1999 Word leaked over the Internet before any official sources were heard. But in the end, the stories were the same: Pianist Kenny Kirkland was found dead in his Queens home on Friday, November 13. He was 43. At press time, no apparent cause of death was revealed.* Kirkland came of…