Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

https://www.wbgo.org/2022-08-22/wbgo-remembe
WBGO’s Michael Bourne

trumpeter-composer Jaimie Branch.

What the fu k I can’t find this anywhere

Word's getting around — I saw it from Angel Bat Dawid on FB.

Are fucking shitting me, Jesus

Sadly confirmed

At 9:21 pm on Monday, August 22, composer and trumpeter jaimie branch passed away in her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Her family, friends and community are heart broken. pic.twitter.com/nGAkHpfPab

— International Anthem (@intlanthem) August 23, 2022

absolutely awful, I just discovered her music like two months ago and had become totally enamored with it, what a blow

This hit me hard, and I’m not even a huge fan, but they had a unique voice and was gonna be an artist who was going to be interesting to watch.

And already was interesting to watch, I should clarify

I got into Fly or Die a few years ago, but had really been into this year's Anteloper album. Still having trouble wrapping my brain around this.

Three of my favorite moments at Big Ears this year revolved around Jaimie Branch — her set with Fly or Die, which was fierce and fiery and fun; then she and the band backed up Alabaster DePlume; and then while I was watching Lonnie Holley she came and sat right in front of me, trailing plumes of weed and tobacco, she was super into the set. R.I.P. to a great player.

I just started listening to the new Anteloper just a couple days ago and was thinking about how much fun and far out it is. This sucks.

shocking news, way too young.

Just woke up to this news. Devastated. RIP Jaimie.

Hall of Fame KC Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson, at 87.

I liked how Len Dawson stuck with a 1950s haircut right through to the mid ‘70s. RIP

aw shit, RIP. My father inlaw used to play football for UOP back in the mid 50’s and talked about lining up against Dawson when they played Purdue on occasion.

Always seemed like such a classy dude

Just saw that Dean Young died last week

https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/in-memory-of-dean-young-1955-2022/

The actor who played the owner of the Peach Pit on "Beverly Hills, 90210" -- the watering hole for Brandon, Brenda, Dylan, Kelly and the rest of the high schoolers -- has died. https://t.co/OszFUdkR7P

— TMZ (@TMZ) August 25, 2022

Little-known fact: He was actually two years younger than Gabrielle Carteris!

Ernest Bryant Crutchfield (1937-1922), inventor of the Trapper Keeper school binder

I had one or two in high school

-2022)

Joey DeFrancesco.

Mable John, the first female solo artist signed to Motown (then Tamla) Records, a Stax singer and longtime Ray Charles collaborator, has died at the age of 91 https://t.co/5W8Ac6yOaP

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 27, 2022

oh man RIP
“Your Good thing is about to end” is such a stone classic

RIP Able Mable

Activist, Scholar, Historian, Professor Gwendolyn Midlo Hall RIP. Best known for her book Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Last year Hall published her final book, a memoir. Haunted by Slavery: A Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle

https://64parishes.org/remembering-gwendolyn-midlo-hall

Midlo Hall was 93.

Robert LuPone, Dr. Cusamano on The Sopranos.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/entertainment/robert-lupone-the-sopranos-dead-intl-scli/index.html

WTAF https://variety.com/2022/film/news/charlbi-dean-dead-triangle-of-sadness-black-lightning-1235354577/

I know nobody owes anyone an explanation for dying, but I hate to see these vaguely worded death announcements for young-ish people because they all just fuel the anti-vaxxers.

Mikhail Gorbachev

... beat me to it.

His wife died years ago, I believe

Soviet premiers did not often live super long lives lol

I mean the first four had long runs one way or another but then Andropov and Chernenko skewed the curve.

Lenin was 53 when he croaked

Man I thought he at least made it into his sixties. Younger than I thought!

Live fast, die young and have preserved corpse on public display.

Gorbachev was sworn in the same day my special-ordered USA imported copy of "Zen Arcade" arrived in the local music store :D #80s

Did you...turn on the news?

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/27/16/45/22866264/3/1200x0.jpg

San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon, aged 97

Picked up his recent Vineyards collection a couple years back, really beautiful book
San Francisco Noir is another great one

lol Ned

This evening I watched a documentary available for rent on Amazon about Fred Lyon, Living Through the Lens. It's less than an hour long and worth your time. He was a remarkably creative and engaged guy into his 90s.

BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62714293

the Wycombe Wanderers fan

Shame, seemed like a decent bloke.

UK 80s-era synth wizard (and co-writer of Sam Fox's 'Touch Me (I Want Your Body)') Mark Shreeve, 65.

Founding member of Aswad, Angus "Drummie Zeb" Gaye

barbara ehrenreich

Sad news. Barbara Ehrenreich, my one and only mother, died on September 1, a few days after her 81st birthday. She was, she made clear, ready to go. She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.

— Ben Ehrenreich (@BenEhrenreich) September 2, 2022