Passages

[Lowry_Sam]

Abdullah Ibrahim, 91. He lived a long life and stayed musically active till the end. This is up there with Sonny Rollins's recent passing as a loss

Agreed. I picked up The Children Of Africa in the early 80s sight unseen mistakenly thinking it was an ECM release (similar minimalist artwork) and discovered a new label (enja) and artist to collect in the process. Probably still my favorite album by him.

Musician Oliver Tree ... among others

This is a shocker. I used to deliver his records while he was dj'ing in his bedroom @ his parents house & before he moved to LA. Really nice & unassuming kid, I had no idea he became a pop star or had music videos with over 100M views until someone else on my route pointed it out fairly recently.

[domino harvey]

Wow. Tree was an interesting figure, I really like a few of his earlier songs (here’s a somewhat bitter one given the current news) and he certainly committed to some consistent and wild looks in his now brief career

[Gregory]

Abdullah Ibrahim, 91. He lived a long life and stayed musically active till the end. This is up there with Sonny Rollins's recent passing as a loss

Agreed. I picked up The Children Of Africa in the early 80s sight unseen mistakenly thinking it was an ECM release (similar minimalist artwork) and discovered a new label (enja) and artist to collect in the process. Probably still my favorite album by him.

You may already be aware but two of his earlier albums were released by ECM Records' sister label JAPO (Jazz by Post): African Piano and Ancient Africa. I'm going to listen to at least one of those today.

[hearthesilence]

Nick Doob, even if you don't recognize the name, there's a good chance you've seen something he filmed. IMDb continues to make the same bizarre error, mixing him up with his late colleague Jim Desmond, but he began a lifelong friendship with D A Pennebaker on Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and was involved in nearly everything he made after that. (The Criterion edition of The War Room includes an interview with Doob where he discusses working on that.) As the Yale Film Archive mentioned, he maintained a close relationship with the school after graduating from there, going back to teach and mentor students in their film program. He was still making non-fiction films for HBO as late as last year's Country Doctor.