{"id":2552,"date":"2019-01-21T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2019-01-21T10:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:46:59","slug":"2018-jazz-blues-and-beyond-deaths-w-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2019\/01\/2018-jazz-blues-and-beyond-deaths-w-links.html","title":{"rendered":"2018 jazz, blues and beyond deaths w\/ links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cecil Taylor, March 15, 1929 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c April 5, 2018, photo by S\u00c3\u00a1nta Istv\u00c3\u00a1n Csaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not a happy post, but a useful one: here are the hundreds <\/a>of musicians and music industry activists who died in 2018, as compiled by photographer-writer Ken Franckling for the Jazz Journalists Association. Ken scoured local newspapers, the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt newsletter, AllAboutJazz.com, Wikipedia, the New York Times, Legacy.com, Rolling Stone, Variety, JazzTimes.com, blogs, listserves, Facebook pages and European publications. Links to their fuller biographies or obituaries are provided where possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not a happy post, but a useful one: here are the hundreds of musicians and music industry activists who died in 2018, as compiled by photographer-writer Ken Franckling for the Jazz Journalists Association. Ken scoured local newspapers, the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt newsletter, AllAboutJazz.com, Wikipedia, the New York Times, Legacy.com, Rolling Stone, Variety, JazzTimes.com, blogs, listserves, Facebook pages and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,1355,20,1497,1708,1609],"class_list":{"0":"post-2552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"tag-cecil-taylor","9":"tag-howard-mandel","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-jazz-beyond-jazz","12":"tag-jazz-deaths-2018","13":"tag-ken-franckling","14":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CecilTaylor-nea-jazz-master-2014-santa.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-Fa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2431,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2018\/04\/cecil-taylor-dead-at-89-celebrated-nine-years-ago.html","url_meta":{"origin":2552,"position":0},"title":"Cecil Taylor, dead at 89, as celebrated when he’d turned 80","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"April 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The brilliant, challenging, perplexing and incomparable pianist\/improviser\/composer Cecil Taylor died April 5, 2018, at age 89. 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