ITT: living legends

>>68158225
>living

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Sonny Rollins

>>68158269
>living

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David Bowie

>>68158305
>dead

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>>68158285
hes fine

much better than Wayne Shorter, anyway, who is an arguably larger jazz legend alive

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GG Allin and Pink Floyd

>>68158225
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-DrBuAoF9E

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so here's a jazz-centric related question:
is Danish violinist Svend Asmussen also known as "the fiddling viking" the oldest living noteworthy jazz musician at 100 years of age?

he's not an international legend, but he played with Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington etc.

are there other musicians of any renown in other genres that are at least 100 years old?

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>>68158247
yeah living

>89 years old
>still alive
I think hell be fine

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Booker T Jones is only 71 but he's a lechend.

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>be Richard Dale, c.mid 1930s
>grow-up with musical Eastern European parents
>learn all these weird Eastern European scales from the senpai
>start playing dad's accordion as a child, and eventually pick up the guitar because America
>blow away the neighborhood with you skills, then the city, pretty soon you're playing all over the state
>new guitar company called Fender sponsors you
>makes you your own guitar
>you're lefty but play the guitar upside down it's fine
>you begin to rock-out, inspired by the likes of Chuck Berry and Little Richard
>doesn't quite catch-on because weird Romanian scales
>Fender builds you the most power guitar amp ever made
>you blow it
>They make you an even more powerful one
>you blow it
>pretty soon you're blasting the world's first 100W amp
>more powerful than any PA system, peoples' faces melt at your shows
>Fender builds you an amp rig with a spring reverb tank
>Little Richard is passé, Elvis is playing for MILFs
>Rocking your Strat, your 100W amp and spring reverb with your crazy scales
>you accidentally invent Surfer Rock with this sound
>10yr old Jimmy Hendrix wants to be you, picks up a righty strat and plays it the way you do because he loves you
>you never stop
>over the decades you slow down only to beat cancer, twice
>2016
>you're 79
>you're still fucking at it
>everyone else has either quit or died
>you are a legend

>>68158225
>Turns 90 in under a month.

Will he make it?

>>68158940
I certainly hadn't realized Dick Dale is still alive

79 is not that old, though

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>>68159193
79 going on 80 though anon

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ringo and macca

>>68158940
all hail dick dale

>>68159114
he'll be fine

>>68159114
He'll be fine... he's gonna be on Kendrick's new album

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>>68160778