Just seen this in the news. Another victim of Coronavirus, I am afraid.
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Jazz at Lincoln Centre video tribute just now... RIP. It's certainly taking its toll.
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My obit (and a slightly embarrassing photo) here: https://www.jazzwise.com/news/articl...4-1-april-2020Comment
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From Wynton's Facebook page...
...."he told me,” Man, I don’t determine the time. A lot of people are losing loved ones. Yours will be no more painful or significant than anybody else’s”.
That was him, “in a nutshell”, (as he would say before talking for another 15 minutes without pause).
In that conversation, we didn’t know that we were prophesying. But he went out soon after as he lived—-without complaint or complication. The nurse asked him, “Are you breathing ok?” as the oxygen was being steadily increased from 3 to 8, to too late, he replied, ”Yeah. I’m fine.”
For me, there is no sorrow only joy. He went on down the Good Kings Highway as was his way, a jazz man, “with grace and gratitude.”
And I am grateful to have known him.
- Wynton"
SO Very sad.Comment
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