Farewell to Pamela Espeland
The Twin Cities arts community, and beyond, lost one its most ardent supporters and promoters with the unexpected passing of journalist Pamela Espeland, who died of a stroke on September 26, at age 70....
View ArticleGreg Tate, critic of culture and more, RIP
Gregory Stephen “Ironman” or “Ionman” Tate, a writer, author, editor with an innovative, influential and utterly original critique of American culture as well as one of the founders of the Black Rock...
View ArticleFinal bars, 2021
An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died in 2021. Photos © Sánta István Csaba, unless...
View ArticleRIP Terry Teachout, a polymath, age 65
Terry Teachout, jazz. literature, dance and drama critic, podcaster, blogger, playwright, album annotator, opera librettist and biographer of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, H. L. Mencken and George...
View ArticleRIP Don Heckman, belatedly
Prominent jazz critic Don Heckman died November 14, 2020 in Los Angeles at age 89, just five weeks before his 90th birthday. His health had been in decline for several years. This article has been...
View ArticleRIP John Swenson – journalist, colleague, mentor, friend
Award-winning music journalist and editor John Swenson, who covered a wide swath of musical genres throughout his career, died March 28 at home in Brooklyn, New York after a lengthy battle with cancer....
View ArticleMusic writer Gene Santoro, RIP
Tall and lanky with a hearty laugh often dripping in sarcasm and a sneer to match his acerbic wit, Gene Santoro was a keen observer of the human condition and gifted writer who could turn a phrase like...
View ArticleRIP Michael Bourne, 2/4/46 – 8/21/22
Broadcaster, journalist and critic Michael Bourne died of natural causes on August 21 at 9:42 pm at the Actor’s Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. He was seventy-five. Michael arrived December 4, 1946...
View ArticleVoice of Boston jazz Eric Jackson, 1950 – 2022
The passing of Eric Jackson on September 17, after years of health issues, marked the end of his more than half-century as a presence on Boston radio, a presence who was scheduled to be honored as one...
View ArticleArnold Jay Smith, 1934-2022
Arnold Jay Smith died peacefully on October 4 at his Brooklyn home, surrounded by family and friends. A writer, publicist, educator, founding member of the JJA (and instigator of its 501 (c) 3 status),...
View ArticleFinal bars, 2022 edition
An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died in 2022. Compiled for the Jazz Journalists...
View ArticleMichael Cuscuna, 1948 – 2024
Michael Cuscuna, known best as a record producer associated with Blue Note Records and co-founder of Mosaic Records, has died. A sophisticated man, devoted to creating new works by a wide range of...
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