[78-L] Deceased boppers

[Eric Goldberg]

Whenever a great, yet still promising musician dies, it is shocking. Think of this list of early deaths many of whom recorded in the later days of the 78.

The road claimed a number of great be bop players: Clifford Brown. Richie Powell and Doug Watkins. 

And let's not forget early deaths from illness that took Booker Little (23 from kidney failure), Eric Dolphy (35 diabetes complications), John Coltrane (who was only 40), Bobby Jaspar (37 heart attack), Bobby Timmons (38 cirrhosis). 

Wardell Gray (34) broken neck, possibly murdered.

Early death from drugs include Richie Twardzik (24), Emily Remler (32)

The list could go on and on, but it breaks my heart to think about it.

Eric

--- On Wed, 6/1/11, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deceased boppers
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 4:06 PM
> Other shocking music-related deaths
> include producer & discographer Bozy White, 
> killed by people he'd rented rooms to (or something like
> that), and Lonnie 
> Johnson, hit by a car in Toronto..never able to work
> again.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 6/1/2011 4:04 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> > I like the song which was a combination of bop and
> 1920s studio bands:
> >
> > In The Land of Oh-Bla-D. Onivas.
> >
> > I think the most shocking musician death I've read
> about in recent years was
> > that of Lucky Thompson...who was living a very
> marginal life right here in
> > Seattle,  almost as a street person and even
> homeless on occasion.  No
> > musician or fan I knew was even aware that he was
> right here in town,  and
> > in need of aid.
> >
> > I guess he stopped playing around 1980 or so, 
> but lived for several more
> > decades...a great player lost to depression and other
> mental illness.
> >
> >
> > Taylor
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 12:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Deceased boppers
> >
> >
> >> What a great name for a bopper..Shihab.
> Practically Shibab.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 6/1/2011 3:56 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> >>> I was checking some boppers whom I'd assumed
> were still with us. Sahib
> >>> Shihab, Cecil Payne and Duke Jordan. All are
> deceased, but I don't
> >>> recall their deaths being mentioned on 78-l.
> Roy Haynes seems to still
> >>> be around.
> >>>
> >>>         Julian
> Vein
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