Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Ah fuck, one of the ECM greats. I loved the synergy between him and Paul Bley above all. RIP.

yep he was a class player and some of them Bley albums he's on are among my alltime ECM faves. RIP

RIP Gary Peacock.

RIP

Damn

Oh shit

Now it appears the reports on Gary's death may be a hoax, which indeed would be good news!

— Annette Peacock (@_AnnettePeacock) September 5, 2020

???

Somebody better tell Jack DeJohnette.

I hope it’s a false rumor.

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/jiri-menzel-dies-czech-director-oscar-1234761137/

Director/actor Jiri Menzel, 82. Closely Watched Trains is probably his biggest title, but don't miss Larks on a String.

Poker player/announcer Mike Sexton

Former MLB Stole Base King Lou Brock

Looks like it's been confirmed.

Sadly, the news of the great bassist Gary Peacock's death has been confirmed by his family, so I've expanded and reposted my Blue Moment tribute: https://t.co/KhlaElsOCA

— Richard Williams (@rwilliams1947) September 7, 2020

Kind of figured Jack DeJohnette knew what was up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/obituaries/aldir-blanc-mendes-dead.htm

Aldir Blanc samba lyricist RIP from Covid at 73 . with a guitarist named João Bosco who wrote the music, he wrote the lyrics for “O Bêbado e a Equilibrista” (“The Drunk and the Tightrope Walker”), written in 1978, was ostensibly about a Charlie Chaplin film."....subtly criticized Brazil’s government and called for the peaceful return of political refugees. Sung soulfully by Elis Regina, it became a kind of amnesty anthem and a popular call for the reinstitution of democracy.....his songs reflecting the hardscrabble lives and language of the working-class neighborhoods where he lived, according to Hugo Sukman, the author of “Parallel Stories — 50 Years of Brazilian Music” (2011).

Simeon Coxe from Silver Apples.

https://obits.al.com/obituaries/mobile/obituary.aspx?n=simeon-coxe&pid=196760627&fhid=18119

Damn, RIP

Ronald Bell from Kool & The Gang

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ronald-bell-kool-gang-dead-1057338/

I just saw them two years ago :(.

dammit.

aw shit. kool & the gang were great.

There was some internet thing going around asking "most underrated act?" and Jason Isbell responded pretty quickly with "Los Lobos" (which is fair, imo). I'd not really thought about it that much, but when I did I kinda thought "Kool & the Gang."

Diana Rigg!

The very best.

I had some experiences with the Bells. They lived in my town and Kool's sone went to my high school, first guy I knew with a beeper. After I got into music production I learned there was a famous recording studio hidden away directly across the street from my house more or less so I went by and got myself a summer internship. It was called the House Of Music. Bat Out of Hell, Synergy, Patti Smith, Dr. Buzzard and many other big names recorded there. It was attached to/associated with another studio run by the Bells who's name I can't remember but I used to make them coffee and stuff.

oh god the most beautiful woman who ever lived lived long enough to be tagged "Game of Thrones Star" in her obituary :(

Shit news. RIP

(itv4 currently repeating avengers series 5 fwiw. would be on this very second but for tour de france highlights)

oh man rip

Best Bond girl ever.

The Assassination Bureau (w/Rigg, Ollie Reed & Telly Savalas) is one of the most wacky & fun action films nobody's seen.

;_;

This is no good, very bad news. RIP.

RIP Alan Minter, a boxer who was also mentioned in The Fall's 'Fit and Working Again'

Everyone at Sky Sports is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of British boxing great, Alan Minter, aged 69.

Alan was an Olympian and unified middleweight champion who shared the ring with some of the very best our sport has ever seen. He'll be thoroughly missed. pic.twitter.com/DuhLJ7a1Zv

— Sky Sports Boxing (@SkySportsBoxing) September 10, 2020

Shere Hite, author of the Hite Report and loathed by lotharios everywhere:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/10/she-began-the-real-sexual-revolution-for-women-shere-hite-dies-aged-77

lol NV, RIP queen

Alan Minter was my first (and last) celebrity autograph. RIP.

Toots

:(((((

Terence Conran.

Ronald Harwood, playwright of The Dresser and screenwriter of The Pianist

Charles Saunders, pioneer of African fantasy and black sword and sorcery
https://www.facebook.com/milton.davis.52/posts/10214005770897028

Apparently his Imaro character is getting a tv series, sad that he couldn't see it. The last couple of books were self-published and he has been very obscure for a long time.

Original Bad Brains singer Sid McCray

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/original-bad-brains-singer-sid-mccray-rip/

Aline Chrétien, wife of former PM Jean Chrétien.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/statement-by-the-prime-minister-on-the-passing-of-aline-chretien-812442387.html

Paul Méfano, French conductor of contemporary classical music and founder of the 2e2m Ensemble. He was 83. RIP.

Jiri Menzel

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/jiri-menzel-dies-czech-director-oscar-1234761137/

Menzel was fortunately able to see a big re-evaluation of his work outside of the Czech Republic. A magnificent filmmaker

Stanley Crouch, jazz critic, amateur pugilist (he was known to swing on other writers and sometimes musicians), and master of the liner note essay so hyperbolic it could give you vertigo.

RIP. Haven’t read a lot of him, but I’ve liked what I read. Just included his piece on “The Roots of Black Homophobia” on a syllabus I’m putting together for January.

Thought he would keep doing that stuff forever. RIP

RIP, that's a bummer. he was a regular and welcome face in the crowd and a worthwhile writer. had not heard about his fighting spirit before.