Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Alto Reed (real name Thomas Neal Cartmell), saxophonist in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, of colon cancer at 72.

Wow. A bunch of friends and I saw Seger at MSG in January, and we found it endlessly amusing that his trench coat wearing sax player was named Alto Reed.

Dawn Wells, from Covid-19

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/

Claude Bolling, composer who scored some classic ‘70s French films including “Borsalino”, “Flic Story” and a ton of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3JT4yXDwU

Mary Ann with the Shaky Hand.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dawn-wells-dead-mary-ann-gilligans-island-was-82-1149549

(Missed C. Grissom's post.)

Adolfo Quiñones, Dancer, Choreographer and Cultural Icon Known as Shabba-Doo, Dies at 65. (Was right under the Dawn Wells obit.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adolfo-quinones-dancer-choreographer-and-cultural-icon-known-as-shabba-doo-dies-at-65

Adele Rose, creator of Byker Grove

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55488255

Might be first woman to write on Coronation Street too, if my friend who is currently writing it has his facts right.

Joe Clark, the NJ high school principal played by Morgan Freeman in the movie Lean On Me.

Friends and neighbors of mine went to Eastside HS under “crazy” Joe Clark and other friends were extras in “Lean On Me”!

the reaper is filling out his quota for the year I suppose

Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist.

just saw that, RIP

Tommy Docherty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55501754

RIP - will always remember him like this:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/31/16/37457240-0-image-a-39_1609430508566.jpg

:( RIP Doc

Kimbrough put out a six-CD set of every Thelonious Monk composition in late 2018 that's well worth hearing. The full band was a quartet (sax, piano, bass, drums) but they subdivided a lot from track to track. Some are piano solos, some are sax/drums, like that.

I didn't know much about him but did enjoy his Solstice album a few years back.

Oh, RIP Tommy D!

Not sure how Tommy Docherty managed to reach 92, to be honest. He must have been the oldest living man from the Gorbals ever.

I had no idea that Byker Grove lasted that long, I thought it was just 4 or 5 years. Many years after the last time I saw the show, I saw Purely Belter late one night and it seemed like it had a good chunk of Byker Grove's cast and it was such a weird time capsule into such a specific time and place.

Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck Quartet bassist, 97

A final piece of sad news in the last hours of this worst of all years...
The bassist of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, the great Eugene Wright, has died. He was 97. pic.twitter.com/ST92HuUG38

— Philip Clark (@MusicClerk) December 31, 2020

MF Doom, 49

aww no RIP

Vaudeville Villain is classic!

Damn he died 2 months ago!

Fuck. :(

what!

wtf

COME ON

Noticed that Frank Kimbrough Monk recording but haven't tried it yet. Seems like a really good band.

Oh, wow. Too young... this is terrible. RIP.

MF :’-(

Phyllis McGuire (Feb 14, 1931 – 29 Dec 2020) The youngest of the harmonizing ‘The McGuire Sisters’ died at her estate in Las Vegas at age 89.

McGuires' version of "Sincerely" is all time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55508606

Mark Eden; British actor most widely known from a long role in Coronation Street but also Marco Polo in the oldest missing Doctor Who story.

This year...

I think I posted him in the People You Were Surprised to See Were Still Alive thread last year, he was 92!

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021