BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die

[viscousmemories]

I'd probably recognize a dozen of his songs but there's no way I'd be able to pin one to him.

[BrotherMan]

Definitely one of my favorites from my youth.

[Crumb]

How was he only 81? He seemed like an old man in the 80s.

[Stephen Maturin]

He didn't look all that young even in the late 60s. He's looking like a bearded Glen Campbell in this teevee appearance.

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped...

[viscousmemories]

See? I had literally no idea the Lebowski hallucination song was Kenny Rogers.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88.

Once his moonwalking crewmates were back on board and headed home, Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk — nearly 200,000 miles from Earth. He inspected the service module’s science instrument bay and retrieved film. His foray outside lasted just 38 minutes.

Worden said of the mission: “Now I know why I’m here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.”

[JoeP]

Albert Uderzo: Asterix co-creator and illustrator dies aged 92 - BBC News

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Stuart Gordon - Wikipedia

[LarsMac]

Freddy Rodriguez Sr
A local legend

Denver jazz legend Freddy Rodriguez, Sr., dies from coronavirus complications

[lisarea]

I keep telling Matlock we need to go to El Chapultapec soon, but we just haven't gotten around to it. I haven't been for a long long time, and he's never been. And I know this isn't a huge surprise, or the biggest tragedy of this pandemic. I mean, he was 89 years old. But it does sort of drive home how much everything is going to change. I've been worried about El Chapultapec itself for a while, too, but I thought the biggest threat was gentrification.

And I'm worried that when society comes out of this, the only businesses that will have the resources to start up again are going to be big behemoth chains. The world is going to lose a whole lot of small, independent, and local culture.

Like this.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Mark Blum, actor in 'Desperately Seeking Susan' and 'You,' dies of coronavirus complications - CNN

[lisarea]

NO. DAGNABBIT.

Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86

I know. He was super old, and it's fine and normal for 86 year olds to die, but I really like some of these old people and am sad when they die.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Country Artist Joe Diffie Dead From Coronavirus at Age 61 | Billboard

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Adam Schlesinger Dead: Fountains of Wayne Member Had Coronavirus – Variety

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Ellis Marsalis Jr. - Wikipedia. Also COVID

[Stephen Maturin]

RIP Bill Withers. That man had the smoothest, sweetest voice ever.

Bill Withers - Just the two of us - YouTube

[JoeP]

Not such a lovely day, lovely day.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Ellis Marsalis Jr. - Wikipedia. Also COVID

Aw, man! We just lost McCoy Tyner, and now Ellis Marsalis...

Ellis Marsalis Trio Live - Twelve's It (1998) -...

[Kyuss Apollo]

Wallace Roney 1960–2020 One of the world’s leading jazz trumpet players is a coronavirus casualty at 59

Wallace Roney, a star trumpeter—and the only trumpeter ever to study personally with Miles Davis—who built a 40-plus-year career chasing the cutting edge of jazz, died on the morning of March 31 at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. He was 59.

The Times also has a decent write-up for him. He came to Newport more than once in the recent past, but I didn't go on those days for a variety of reasons, figuring I would just catch him "next time..."

RIP Wallace Roney

With the Tony Williams Lifetime in 1989

Tony Williams Lifetime Live in New York

In an excerpt from a longer interview, talking about playing with Art Blakey, Elvin Jones & Tony Williams

Wallace Roney: Art Blakey, Elvin Jones & Tony...

After Miles died in '91, he played as part of a tribute to Davis with the Second Great Quintet: Herbie Hancock on piano, Wayne Shorter on saxophone and Ron Carter, bass, with Tony Williams on drums and of course, Roney on trumpet.*

Tribute to Miles Davis by Herbie Hancock, Wayne...

*After posting this, this notice came up: "This video contains content from nikitaventures music, who has blocked it from display on this website or application. Watch on YouTube." So just watch it on YouTube, ya filthy animals


More recently, at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2012 with Joey DeFrancesco, Robben Ford, Omar Hakim, Darryl Jones and Rick Margitza

Miles Smiles North Sea Jazz 2012 - YouTube

Music from his 59th birthday weekend -- May 24, 2019 at the Jazz Forum in Tarrytown NY.

Wallace Roney - Live at the Jazz Forum club -...

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Coronavirus: Lord Bath dies after contracting Covid-19 - BBC News

[JoeP]

Lord Bath was a good guy and a weirdo in the best English tradition.

[Limoncello]

Mrs. Kitner of Jaws fame died at 91 today, complications of Coronavirus.

That slap heard across Amity and around the world will never die.

[JoeP]

Honor Blackman: elegant and witty star who never took herself too seriously | Peter Bradshaw | Film | The Guardian

Cathy Gale in the Avengers, Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

'Jaws' actress Lee Fierro, whose Mrs. Kintner slaps Chief Brody, dies covid