“The music producer and long-term Saturday Night Live music supervisor Hal Willner has died aged 64. No cause of death has been confirmed, but he was said to be experiencing symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.”

Well, that's really sad about John Prine. :(

His debut album has a wonderful collection of songs on it, many of which turned into classics. Rather to MB's shame, we never had a thread dedicated to John P, though he turned up sometimes on people's lists of "Best this" or "Favourite that." It'd be weird to open a thread now, right?

Richard Teitelbaum. Played with Braxton, George Lewis, and played on one of my all time favourite jazz albums: Space Minds,New Worlds, Survival of America

Belated RIP for Pekka Airaksinen who died last May.

Nobuhiko Obayashi Dies: Influential Japanese Filmmaker Succumbs To Cancer At Age 82.

Director of the legendary insanity that is House. RIP.

oh no :(

RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor (The Goodies).

John Conway died on the 11th from Covid.
RIP