Obit watch: June 11, 2015.

It seems like all I’m doing this week is posting obituaries. I could do with a week where good people don’t die.

Ornette Coleman, noted jazz musician.

Christopher Lee: NYT. WP. A/V Club.

Not exactly an obit, but:

Spain gave its greatest writer, Miguel de Cervantes, a formal burial Thursday nearly 400 hundred years after his death, unveiling a funeral monument holding recently unearthed bone fragments believed to include those of the author of “Don Quixote.”

Edited to add: A/V Club obit for Ornette Coleman.

Lawrence challenged me to find some Coleman on YouTube that isn’t “unlistenable” (his word, not mine). I’ve never really acquired the ability to appreciate jazz, but I like this well enough.

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One Response to “Obit watch: June 11, 2015.”

  1. Lawrence Person says:
    June 11, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    “Good evening, I’m Leonard Pince Garnell, and welcome to The Atonal Bleating Hour.”

    I will grant that it’s less unlistenable than just about anything off The Shape of Jazz to Come.