Musical R.I.P.s

Teo Macero, a record producer, composer and saxophonist most famous for his role in producing a series of albums by Miles Davis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including editing that almost amounted to creating compositions after the recordings, died on Tuesday in Riverhead, N.Y. He was 82.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/arts/music/22macero.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin

And we also say goodbye to the co-writer of a tune written long ago, but made famous in the early 1970s by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen called "Hot Rod Lincoln"...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004189601_weblincoln19m.html?syndication=rss