![]() ![]() They are listed below in chronological order by the date they left us. According to Peter Haining, Merritt survived a harrowing experience while a young reporter at the. (Our colleagues at Jazz Night In America have spent much time already remembering and paying tribute to those lost this year.) What follows is a memorial to musicians we lost in 2020. Abraham Merritt Born in Beverly, New Jersey, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894.Originally trained in law, he turned to journalism, first as a correspondent and later as editor. The world of jazz, so reliant upon elders to anchor its constantly developing notion of history and legacy, bore an especially heavy burden. We lost icons in every genre: founders and innovators and steadfast traditionalists. Throughout this relentless year it has been constantly renewed. ![]() ![]() The truth at the end of 2020 is that the tremendous and overwhelming volume of loss nearly renders the need for that kind of reminder irrelevant. Collecting the names of musicians who die in any single span of time, as NPR does at the end of each year, can be an occasion for tribute or reflection or an exercise in collapsing days, a gateway to a specific moment of pain or gratitude. ![]()
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