Peacefully at home in Kemptville, as he wished, with his wife and daughters.
Husband of Shirley Glaser. Father of Natasha Macklam (Chris) and Kaleigh (Luc). Son of Rodolphe. Brother of France Morin (Marc) and Dan (Kathy). He also leaves behind many step-children and step-grandchildren.
To his family, friends, and loyal fans, he has left a legacy of beautiful and inspiring music – music that tells a story and each story exposes a search within for the answers to life and art.
The music lives on.
Our sincere gratitude goes to those who cared for Guy during his illness. Thanks to all the staff and volunteers from Beth Donovan Hospice, to the CCAC nurses and personal support workers, and to Drs. Zakhem, Morgan and Ong.
Cremation has taken place and there will be a memorial to celebrate Guy’s life and music on July 12th at his home.
Guy was a stalwart supporter of Beth Donovan Hospice. Please consider making a donation to this organization in his memory at http://www.bethdonovanhospice.ca/
Final message from Guy to his fans: "My work with Camel will continue beyond my grave."
>Художник-иллюстратор Леонид Владимирский, работавший >над самым известным оформлением книг "Буратино", >"Волшебник Изумрудного города", "Три толстяка" >и многими другими, скончался 20 апреля на 95-м >году жизни. Об этом сообщил ТАСС генеральный директор >издательства "РОСМЕН" Борис Кузнецов.
Даже не мог представить, что он еще жив. Спасибо ему за детские впечатления! Будем помнить...
>2Ясный Перец - ну предположим не все про винил >забыли. Но не забывай, что из музыкального носителя >он окончательно превратился в предмет коллекционирования.
Однако за 13 лет ситуация конкретно изменилась.
Re: Твин Пикс и окрестности Автор:CorvinДата: 06.04.15 22:35:15
Another friend has just passed away… Dave Ball was a great guitarist, mostly known for his work on PROCOL HARUM’s live album with an orchestra and his part in BEDLAM; he also was a top-notch illustrator and a writer; he was a storyteller and a funny man. And he was a great person to engage in a conversation with. Dave’s battle with cancer is well-documented, as he wanted to raise awareness for the importance of catching symptoms as early as possible. Sadly, Ball’s illness returned and, the last time we spoke, Dave said he had to move back from England to Australia where climate was better for his therapy and where his bassist brother Denny cared for him. He also wanted to add some bits to our fairly recent interview, which is going to be a tribute to the great artist. A soldier to the end, R.I.P., Dave, you’ll be sorely missed.
The influential folk guitarist was found at his home in Hawick in the Scottish Borders after suffering a suspected heart attack. Renbourn teamed up with fellow musicians, including guitarist Bert Jansch who died in 2011, to form Pentangle who were a critical and - to some extent - a commercial success towards the end of the 1960s.
Speaking after John's death this afternoon, his manager Dave Smith said the guitarist was "a huge character". He said: "He was always playing and teaching. That is what he loved doing and he never stopped."
As news of his death hits social media a bevy of musical stars have taken to the social media sites to pay tribute. Cerys Matthews said: "So sorry and sad to hear of John Renbourn's passing. A loving, lovely man. RIP John, it was an honour and pleasure meeting you." While novelist Ian Rankin tweeted: "Ach, and now John Renbourn has died. What a guitarist ..."
Orrin Keepnews, Record Executive and Producer of Jazz Classics, Dies at 91
Orrin Keepnews, who as a record company executive and producer helped create some of the most celebrated recordings in jazz over a half-century, died on Sunday at his home in El Cerrito, Calif. He was 91.
His death was confirmed by his son Peter.
Mr. Keepnews, a four-time Grammy Award winner, was a jazz journalist, essayist and writer of album notes as well as the producer of enduring albums by the likes of the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and the pianists Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans.
His attention to detail and sensitive hand as a producer earned him the respect of musicians almost as soon as he started Riverside Records with Bill Grauer, a record collector and former classmate at Columbia University, in 1953. As a tribute, Evans wrote “Re: Person I Knew,” a composition whose title is an anagram of Mr. Keepnews’s name.
Mr. Keepnews began his professional jazz life as a journalist. In his mid-20s, while working as a junior editor at Simon & Schuster, he moonlighted as the managing editor of The Record Changer, a small but reputable jazz magazine. It was in that capacity that Mr. Keepnews, in 1948, wrote one of the first profiles of Monk, the influential pianist and composer, who at the time was relatively unknown.
Riverside Records, established by Mr. Grauer and Mr. Keepnews five years later, was initially a shoestring operation driven more by ambition and enthusiasm than by any proper business savvy.
The company — its name was derived from the telephone exchange of its Manhattan office — started out with a series of reissues, using material licensed from RCA Victor and Paramount. Because the original masters for most Paramount recordings proved impossible to locate, some of Riverside’s early output was mastered to magnetic tape from 78 r.p.m. discs borrowed from the collection of the record producer John Hammond.
Riverside branched out into contemporary recordings in 1954 with the signing of Randy Weston, a pianist from Brooklyn whom Mr. Grauer had heard at the Music Inn, a summer resort in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. The next year the label signed Monk.
Mr. Keepnews liked to say that his job as a producer was that of a facilitator — he often used the word “catalyst” — rather than someone who actively shapes the musical result. One notable exception was Monk’s composition “Brilliant Corners,” recorded in 1956. The piece, with its melodic angularity and unusual structure, proved tricky enough that even after numerous takes, the musicians — heavyweights like Mr. Rollins and the drummer Max Roach — hadn’t managed a complete version. Mr. Keepnews ended up splicing together a take. It would stand as his most hands-on producing effort.
Through the 1950s and into the ’60s Riverside released dozens of albums that Mr. Keepnews produced, including “The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery,” “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” and Mr. Rollins’s “Freedom Suite,” as well as a string of well-regarded releases by the alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley and three of the earliest albums by the singer Abbey Lincoln. Still, the label had years of financial difficulty and went bankrupt not long after Mr. Grauer died of a heart attack in 1963.
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Mr. Keepnews started a new label, Milestone Records, in 1966, in partnership with the pianist Dick Katz. Its roster featured some former Riverside artists, as well as others, like the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and the pianist McCoy Tyner, who came from Blue Note.
In 1972 Milestone was sold to Fantasy Records, which had also acquired the rights to the Riverside catalog. Mr. Keepnews moved to San Francisco to oversee Fantasy’s reissue department, which involved many of his old titles. He later started another label, Landmark Records, perhaps best known for a pair of early albums by the Kronos Quartet: “Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk” and “Music of Bill Evans.”
But he never lost his connection to his old material. In 2007 the Concord Music Group, which had acquired Fantasy, introduced a “Keepnews Collection” reissue series, with his active involvement.
In 2004 he received a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and in 2011 he was recognized as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Orrin Keepnews was born in the Bronx on March 2, 1923, the only child of Louis Keepnews, a social worker, and the former Naomi Perlman, a schoolteacher. He grew up in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan.
He fell in love with jazz as a teenager, becoming a regular at clubs like the Hickory House on 52nd Street. After graduating with a degree in English from Columbia in 1943, he served in the Army Air Forces, flying bombing raids over Japan in World War II.
Besides his son Peter, an editor at The New York Times, Mr. Keepnews is survived by his wife, Martha Egan, and another son, David. His wife of 41 years, the former Lucile Kaufman, died in 1989.
Mr. Keepnews wrote about jazz throughout his career. Two of his four Grammy Awards were for best album notes, for releases by Evans and Monk. The other two were for best historical album, for the same Monk reissue, “The Complete Riverside Recordings,” and “The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973),” released in 1999.
In 1987 his collection “The View From Within: Jazz Writings, 1948-87” was published by Oxford University Press. It included jazz criticism as well as a memorably cantankerous takedown of the field. “After all these years,” he wrote, “I find myself unable to avoid an unhappy conclusion: Jazz criticism is a bad idea, poorly executed.”
Nestled within the same essay was one of his clearest descriptions of the record producer’s responsibility. “Our job,” he wrote, “is to create what is best described as ‘realism’ — the impression and effect of being real — which may be very different from plain unadorned reality.”
>Как-то уже отмечала, что как бы кощунственно >это ни звучало, но всегда добавляю хороших шотландцев >в дрожжевое тесто для куличей... >они отлично работают на улучшение структуры теста, >а также замачиваю в них изюм - бесподобные аромат >и вкус выпечке гарантированы на все сто.
Пошел пробовать
Re: Приложение сайта Битлз.ру для андроид или мобильная версия сайта. Автор:CorvinДата: 25.02.15 22:29:43
>Подскажите, пожалуйста, существует ли приложение >для андроид этого сайта? Или хотя бы мобильная >версия сайта. А то с телефона жутко неудобно читать новости...
Пока ничего этого нет. Но есть планы сделать адаптивную верстку для пользователей, кто читает сайт с телефона.
А можете сказать, что вас конкретно напрягает? Я довольно часто читаю сайт с телефона (Android). Не могу сказать, что безумно удобно, но пользоваться можно...