Thread by @dean_frey

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Charlie Watts by Jill Furmanovsky
Halcyon Hotel, London, March 1991

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Fou Ts'ong by Giorgio Lotti, Milan, 1965
Nelson Freire by Simon Alekna, 1994

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Louis Andriessen by Dirk Buwalda, 1977
R. Murray Schafer by Dick Loek, 1992

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Gerry Marsden by David Redfern, 1965
Spencer Davis by Michael Putland, 1973

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Annie Ross by Chuck Stewart, 1959

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Christa Ludwig by Erich Auerbach, 1965

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Michael Nesmith by Michael Putland, 1970

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Dave Frishberg by Jim Marshall, 1987
His great song with Johnny Mandel, "You Are There", sung by Blossom Dearie:

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Chick Corea
A great shot by Guy le Querrec of Gary Burton & Chick Corea on the road, from 1983

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Junior Mance by Jan Persson, 1970
Lonnie Smith by Don Hunstein, 1967

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Stephen Sondheim by Yousuf Karsh, 1986
"Send in the Clowns", by Blossom Dearie:

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Bernard Haitink by Erich Auerbach, 1966
The magic baton!

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Igor Oistrakh by Erich Auerbach, 1965

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Mikis Theodorakis by Jan Persson, 1985

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Nanci Griffith by Sherry Rayn Barnett, 1994

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Peter Ind by Brian O'Connor, 2000

So many wonderful musicians gone in 2021
#RIP2021
Dusty Hill
With his ZZ Top bandmates Billy Gibbons & Frank Beard, in a 1984 photo by Paul Natkin