Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

RIP Blakey :(

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33914037

― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), 2020年4月13日 星期一 下午 11:23 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

14 August 2015

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), 2020年4月13日 星期一 下午 11:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this celebrity death should’ve been ahht five years ago

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jimmy-webb-of-trash-vaudeville-i-need-more-has-died/

From cancer, 62 years old Jimmy was a buyer at Trash & Vaudeville clothes store in NYC and pal of Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch and others. Punk, glitter, hard rock fashion guy

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Radio_pioneer_Gil_Bailey_dies_from_COVID-19_

Gil Bailey, Jamaican who lived in NYC area and dj’d a reggae show for years on AM radio

Famed actor Malcolm Dixon, 66, died 9 Apr 2020.
Strutter in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, an Oompa Loompa in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, and roles in Flash Gordon, The Dark Crystal, Willow, & Labyrinth. #cryptokubrology @CryptoLoren pic.twitter.com/jGOpDTQw4S

— Loren Coleman (@CryptoLoren) April 15, 2020

X-post - an occasional ilx -er tells me that dj Gil Bailey was once on small listener-funded WHBI out of New Jersey right before Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack in the early 1980s on Friday nights. Mr Magic later moved to big commercial NY radio, while Bailey moved to AM radio

Lee Konitz

I loved that album he did with jimmy giuffre..RIP Lee

i saw konitz at a company week in the mid 80s, blithely negotiating derek b's militantly free improv his way, and tbh he was the best thing abt the week and one of the best live shows i ever saw

:-(

(marcello just told me he was in the same audience, we didn't know each other back then)

People who you thought were dead. RIP Lee.

Last time I saw him Donald Fagen was in the audience. No sign of a weeping Lou Reed though. Nor a pork-pie hatted bespectacled Anglo-Irishman bearing a birthday cake.

lol i just read a lee konitz review and was busy tweeting "how is lee konitz only 75?" when i checked: he's not, he's 92, and the piece i was reading is 17 years old lol

— tiktok uncle dubdobdee (@dubdobdee) December 18, 2019

Keiji Fujiwara, after a long battle with cancer.
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2160153/full/

one of Japan's top voice actors, he has too much stuff to list, but if you have any passing interest in anime or video games you've probably heard his work numerous times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Fujiwara

RIP Lee Konitz. Loved the fact that he engaged with Derek Bailey and Keiji Haino at a time in his life/career when it would have been so much easier to play it safe.

This is also one of my v favourite alb covers and seems quite poignant today:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/Lee_Konitz_with_Warne_Marsh_album_cover.jpg/220px-Lee_Konitz_with_Warne_Marsh_album_cover.jpg

I really dig the one he did with Giuffre and mainly know him through sideman projects but he was clearly a massively huuuge talent. What would be his best album to you?

Motion, as mentioned on the other thread.

cheers James!

Was a favorite of Robert Quine's too.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/04/15/knox-phillips-dies-obituary-sam-phillips-memphis-music/5142374002/

Knox Phillips at 74 ( had had cancer previously), Sam Phillips’ son, and producer of albums by John Prine and Jerry Lee Lewis. A longtime supporter of Memphis music. Writer Robert Gordon has a nice tribute on Facebook

Jim Marshall lists Quine's favorites

Writer Robert Gordon has a nice tribute on Facebook

WWE's Howard Finkel aka The Fink, at 69

People who you thought were dead. RIP Lee.

― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.),Thursday, April 16, 2020 

Brian Dennehy. I thought he died a few years ago. He was 81. Not COVID-related.

Sad. He was America's answer to Otm Shank.

I saw Dennehy onstage in an all-star Cherry Orchard, not his Willy Loman alas.

Ah shit. Dennehy was the best. F/X still one of my favorites of his. And of course First Blood, Silverado etc. And all those Dad roles on tv! If you needed a Chicago dad, Irish cop dad, sports dad, you got Dennehy.

i was gonna mention f/x! rip big man, it was always a pleasure to see your gruff visage

recently rewatched "10," which I think is the first time I saw him -- he was the bartender at the Mexican resort

rip, he was as has been noted yr go-to mick

I love Dennehey. First Blood is burned onto my retinas.

Love him so much I spelt his name wrong.

Adding to the f/x love.

Always loved seeing Brian Dennehy pop up in anything. RIP.

Of course, I instantly thought of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnflT0t7wtw

(Dennehy bit starts about 5 mins in)

Allen Daviau, cinematographer of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun. Bugsy, Avalon and many others, of coronavirus.

https://deadline.com/2020/04/allen-daviau-dead-e-t-the-extra-terrestrial-empire-of-the-sun-cinematographer-coronavirus-1202910470/

Me, shot by Allen Daviau. RIP.

https://i.imgur.com/HLMw9yl.jpg

Wow

indeed! Empire?

holy shit

Empire

Yes. Here's my other close-up, Mr Daviau.

https://i.imgur.com/YGWo401.png

i was shockingly old when i learned this

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whats Malkovich like

Aloof?

hahaha I got that impression

well, Method

certainly he always acts like malkovich

Norman Hunter, Leeds United player, 76 of Covid-19.

wp:

A tough tackling centre-half and defensive midfielder, he was nicknamed "Bites Yer Legs" Hunter. The nickname originated from a banner held up by Leeds United fans at the 1972 FA Cup Final against Arsenal; the banner simply read "Norman bites yer legs".