Author: DOuG pRATt

Ian Whitcomb has died. I am heartbroken over the passing of such a treasure of a man. A great delight for me in recent years has been connecting with Ian and his pal Jim Dawson on their Wednesday night LuxuraMusic program. This is such a terrible loss.

Ian never fully recovered from surgery he had last year. He developed complications and returned to the hospital in early March. It’s rumored that he caught Covid-19 there, but that has yet to be confirmed. What has been confirmed is that he died this afternoon.

Follow-up: Definitely NOT Covid-19.

Correction: Although word of his passing did not appear until yesterday, Ian died on Sunday. Here is a remembrance from Jim Dawson: https://luxuriamusic.com/ian-whitcomb-1941-2020/

On March 7 I saw ‘The Invisible Man’. That was my last time in a theater before we were all locked down. The reviews of the movie were mixed, but I thought it was a clever updating of the H.G. Wells premise, and had a lot going for it, including the soundtrack. I was so impressed by it that I stayed through the end credits to listen to the music.

Some of what I heard reminded me of ‘Forbidden Planet’. Which made me appreciate, not for the first time, just how far ahead of its time the so-called electronic tonalities were, as created by Bebe and Louis Barron.