Passages

[Jonathan S]

Michael Cox, best-known as the producer and main driving force of Granada's Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett.

[ando]

Gregory Sierra (January 25, 1937 – January 4, 2021)

[hearthesilence]

One of Joe Zawinul's sons, the Austrian concert promoter Erich Zawinul, from COVID-19

[hearthesilence]

James Purify, also from COVID-19.

I LOVE "I'm Your Puppet," great 'oldie' that never seems to get played. I discovered it by reading something Dave Marsh wrote about it, and the only time I've ever heard it in public was from a busker at the MTA station across the street from MoMA.

[Saturnome]

I LOVE "I'm Your Puppet," great 'oldie' that never seems to get played.

I very often heard a french version growing up (my parents were big on stuff that was often older than themselves, not much different than me) but hearing this for the first time this sound better.

[kuzine]

Ghédalia Tazartès

[mizo]

Ghédalia Tazartès

Man, I was just listening to Diasporas yesterday. RIP

[kuzine]

Ghédalia Tazartès

Man, I was just listening to Diasporas yesterday. RIP

That's a good one! Great performer too (or especially). Saw him live twice, once with Reines d'Angleterre, and once in the trio with Corsano and Tyfus that's mentioned in the linked article; both memorable shows.

[dadaistnun]

Milford Graves

[MichaelB]

Casting director Lynn Stalmaster.

[brundlefly]

Fania co-founder Johnny Pacheco.

[lzx]

Narusawa Masashige, filmmaker who wrote many of Mizoguchi's late films, at age 96 (source in Japanese)

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Ghédalia Tazartès

That is just so sad. I am moving house and strangely I had just carefully wrapped my Tazartes collection and put its bubble wrapped greatness to rest in a carton when I read this.

[domino harvey]

Rush Limbaugh mourning and tears-letting moved here

[Dylan]

John C. Hora, the cinematographer on many of Joe Dante's films including The Howling, the It's a Good Life segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie, Gremlins, Explorers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and Matinee.

Dante wrote this about Hora on Twitter: "Not only one of the most talented and amusing Directors of Photography I ever worked with, but a truly unique and eccentric character who knew more about lenses than I know about my own life. A real loss in a world of losses."

[colinr0380]

He was also the director of photography of the "Foreverware" episode of Eerie, Indiana and for the speakeasy set Smooth Criminal segment of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.

As well as being as a member of the American Society of Cinematography's "Education Committee" at the time that the Visions of Light film was produced in 1992 and noted in the credits.

[okcmaxk]

Hopping onto this, he also played the scientist at the beginning of Innerspace that injects Dennis Quaid into Martin Short
(at the suggestion of Steven Spielberg).

[hearthesilence]

U-Roy the legendary dancehall innovator and reggae toaster.

[hearthesilence]

U-Roy the legendary dancehall innovator and reggae toaster.

Loved this tribute from Jon Langford of the Mekons (if you're a fan, check out the documentary on the Mekons too - came out like six years ago):

Mekons played the beautiful Sines Festival in a Castle in Portugal in 2010. Took the boys down to breakfast and met U-Roy my total hero and he graciously invited us to sit with him. I was doing the Eclectic Company show for WXRT at the time and ran back upstairs to get my mini-recorder with Tommy running behind me yelling "Everyone U-Roy is here! U-Roy is here!".

They knew exactly who he was from those long drives to school with me cranking his tunes. We did a little interview in the hotel breakfast room. To my horror Tommy's hand reached out and started stroking U-Roy's dreadlocks. "It's cool" said U-Roy "He can touch them." He did a station ID "This is U-Roy and you are listening to Jon Langford on the The Electric (sic) Company on WXRT, Chicago's finest RAAAAHHK!.... your son told me to say that". Well done James. Later he came out by the pool and waved to all the Mekons and we waved back...

I pinched a bunch of his records from the VIRGIN press office in Vernon Yard back in 1979 and I still treasure them. They've been played so much down the years its amazing they still work, but they do, that incredible authoritative voice burned deep into the grooves forever! Thank you U-Roy - so glad my boys got to meet you - another terrible loss in 2021

[therewillbeblus]

Miles Seaton, from Akron/Family, at 41

[senseabove]

Damn... That's awful. Akron/Family's first album was very likely my most-played album in college, and they're still the band I've seen live the most times. Their shows were some of the most refreshing, energizing shows I've ever seen—they felt like a revival meeting. Even when their albums got less interesting and more jam-bandy, they were just as electrifying in person, and Seaton was a huge part of that, just so unreservedly, enthusiastically into the music and the spontaneous community of a concert from the first note.

[therewillbeblus]

I never saw them live but that first album was played constantly in my apt senior year of college, specifically Running, Returning on repeat, which I still return to quite often. I actually find myself throwing on River a fair amount, despite a lot of early warning signs common in the kind of song I find hokey, it really grows into something cathartic

[hearthesilence]

Pianist Gene Taylor of the Blasters, as seen here in their prime

EDIT: The story on Facebook from LA writer Chris Morris behind Taylor's death is fucking horrible. He was living in Austin and had been without water or power for FIVE days. A family member says it may have been a heart attack brought on by hypothermia.

[knives]

Daft Punk

[hearthesilence]

Daft Punk

At least they're technically still alive. Presumably.

If they weren't, that would be a hell of a way to announce their deaths.