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July 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Jamie Oldaker
Jamie Oldaker has died. He was 68. The Tulsa drummer is perhaps best-known for his long and crucial associations with Peter Frampton and particularly Eric Clapton. That’s where I first learned of his work, read the name, then saw him in some of the video footage. Ahead of appearing on a string of mid-70s Clapton […]Archive
July 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Joe Porcaro
Joe Porcaro has died. He was aged 90. The patriarch or a musical family Joe was a trained jazz drummer and educator. He worked in sessions across kit and percussion and stretched over so many genres – but he could also be found in a jazz club playing his first love, leading or sitting in […]Archive
July 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone
The great Ennio Morricone has died. He was 91. He was the greatest and most influential film composer of the 20th Century – his work carrying on into the 21st Century, which was when he was finally honoured with Academy awards – far too late. But Hollywood was somehow irrelevant to Morricone. He stayed in […]Archive
June 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Aaron Tokona
Last night the news was flooding my social media feeds – and yours no doubt too – it still doesn’t seem real. Aaron Tokona has died. The Aaron Tokona that lit a fuse with the band Weta. The Aaron Tokona that was the heart and soul of the duo Cairo Knife Fight. The Aaron Tokona […]Archive
May 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Jimmy Cobb
The great Jimmy Cobb has died, aged 91. He was the last surviving member of the dream team that played on Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue – the jazz album that even non-jazz fans know and love (and probably own). Cobb was one of the great jazz drummers – a master of sensitivity and taste, […]Archive
May 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Tony Allen
Reports are coming in that Tony Allen has died. He was just shy of his 80th birthday and had remained very active in music across the last decade; in fact he was super prolific – with a diverse range of collaborations across jazz, pop and funk music. But even if he had stopped playing 40 […]Archive
April 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Hamilton Bohannon
Hamilton Bohannon has died. The drummer and journeyman musician was 78. He was no household name, but there’s a good chance your household has heard his music – whether when a teenage Bohannon was playing drums for the teenaged (“Little”) Stevie Wonder and as the bandleader backing many other Motown players, or via his own […]Archive
April 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Bill Withers
Bill Withers has died. He was 81. I wasn’t going to add to the eulogy posts as you can – and will already have perhaps already – read about him almost anywhere else. But then, Bill Withers meant the world to me. As he did to so many. So I wanted to share a line […]Archive
March 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango a giant of afro-jazz and funk has died. He was 86. And had been diagnosed with Coronavirus. Dibango, from Cameroon, is best remembered for his 1972 hit Soul Makossa – a song Michael Jackson stole from twice; a tune that arrived in time for disco and seemed to exist then and now in […]Archive
March 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg has died. He was 80 and is at peace now having wrestled with dementia across the last half decade. Even if you don’t think you know the work of Eric Weissberg – you do. You know it because of an iconic movie and the score that he helped to create. Weissberg was a […]Archive
March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman