By: Gary Panter

He is still ahead of the glitter rock curve and pulling away.

By: Brian Berger

He was fluent in all jazz and classical idioms.

By: Alix Lambert

He wasn’t crushed by exhaustion, frost, hunger, and endless humiliations.

By: Alix Lambert

“It’s not necessarily a happy world. We need to talk about this stuff.”

By: Barbara Bogaev

Her audacity and un­willing­ness to please remain shocking.

By: Devin McKinney

For him jazz was never simply music, it was life.

By: Peggy Nelson

He turned the map into the territory.

By: Lynn Peril

“Please don’t make me decide between you and a bottle of beer.”

By: Jerrold Freitag

He made us wonder whether we’ll ever figure anything out.

By: Robert Wringham

His anti-hero was a portly, dissolute art dealer.

By: Tucker Cummings

She planted a seed of doubt about the price of progress

By: William Nericcio

She wielded mad intellectual superpowers.

By: Suzanne Fischer

She rationalized factories and kitchens.

By: Brian Berger

The irrepress­ible embod­iment of America’s racial ambi­guities

By: Joshua Glenn

One of the era’s truly great high-lowbrow high-wire artists.