The Rest in Peace Thread (RIP)

[rostasi]

Here you go...

[rostasi]

Here’s the list for 051:

[OccultHawk]

Thank you.

This virus is being ruthless with the remaining elder statesmen of jazz

[rostasi]

Yep, that’s a fact. My wife was pretty upset when she found out about Grimes this morning.

[OccultHawk]

It got me thinking of Roscoe Mitchell (who thankfully afaik is not infected or sick or anything bad)

But I thought about how I thought of The Art Ensemble of Chicago and how I discovered them back when I was in college and how I thought they were old then. Then, as I’ve expressed before I adore Bells for the South Side which I interpret as an expression of the pain that even after they’ve given so much for so long Chicago remains so deeply stuck in the pattern of urban black on black violence.

I get Mitchell has lived as a working a musician. Which in a way is a dream life but still how it must feel to have lived so long and never see Chicago be what it should be. Maybe I’m just in the mood to be sad but goddamn. How much are people supposed to endure?

[rostasi]

Chicago, like most large American cities is a microcosm of our general American inattentiveness and ennui. The “south side” has been a problem since before I was born and musicians have always had to navigate their way thru this for many decades. Yeah, it’s gotten more intensely dangerous especially since the Reagan years, but it was no picnic before him either. The AACM has been a sustaining force since the mid-60s, but, to be honest, it may not have even developed any further than Muhal’s band if it weren’t for the political and economic upheaval that developed quickly right after the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

I’ll tell you tho: Roscoe knows how to wear a suit!

[Exo]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Thank you.

This virus is being ruthless with the remaining elder statesmen of jazz

Logan and Grimes were just discovered favorites of mine recently. Within a few years our living jazz greats are going to be reduced to who exactly? Ughhh.

[rostasi]

I'm dreading the demise of Pharoah, Sonny, and...

[Exo]

Originally Posted by rostasi

I'm dreading the demise of Pharoah, Sonny, and...

Cecil Taylor, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter...

[rostasi]

ummm... Cecil's been gone a while now.