Rip 2013

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

The Jazz Men And Women We Lost In 2013

The List from NPR

[Serial_Apologist]

Hadn't realised Ronald Shannon Jackson had gone - he would have been 74 this year. For myself, as someone who normally didn't go much on loudness, RSJ's Decoding Society epitomised the best of re-energised late Fusion in the middle '80s.

[Ian Thumwood]

Quite shocked by the names on this link as there are many favourites of mine who I wasn't aware had passed. Derek Watkins was particularly sad as he was a mainstay of many of the big bands I have heard over the years. There were others who seemed to be mainstays of recordings from the 50's and 60's including Al Kiger, Ben Tucker, Peter Appleyard, Al Porcino (trumpeter), Jim Godbolt and Laurie Frink. The latter played trumpet in many big bands but I was totally unaware how much she was involved in coaching players like dave Douglas and Ambrose Akinmusire.

[Serial_Apologist]

Quite shocked by the names on this link as there are many favourites of mine who I wasn't aware had passed. Derek Watkins was particularly sad as he was a mainstay of many of the big bands I have heard over the years. There were others who seemed to be mainstays of recordings from the 50's and 60's including Al Kiger, Ben Tucker, Peter Appleyard, Al Porcino (trumpeter), Jim Godbolt and Laurie Frink. The latter played trumpet in many big bands but I was totally unaware how much she was involved in coaching players like dave Douglas and Ambrose Akinmusire.

I think that Jim Godbolt was the writer on British Trad, who had a sometime column in Jazz at Ronnie's magazine, but I could be wrong...