Steve Blailock, RIP

[jeffcrom]

From a New Orleans musician Facebook friend: the highly respected New Orleans guitarist Steve Blailock has died. I don't know the details, but it looks like it might be a shooting death under strange circumstances.

Steve Blailock is not a name that many people here are likely to know, but he was a talented guy - equally adept at traditional jazz, bebop, soul jazz, and R & B. Of the albums I know, perhaps the best showcase for his talent is Uncle Lionel Batiste's GHB album, available from Jazzology.

He deserves a memorial thread here. I hope that the circumstances of his passing turn out to be more mundane than the first reports make it appear.

[colinmce]

Don't know him, but sounds like an awful situation. The gun violence down here is so depressing. RIP Dinerral Shavers, Magnolia Shorty, Lil Snupe, Steve Blailock ...

[jeffcrom]

Okay, here's the first semi-official confirmation I've found. Unfortunately, it appears to have been a murder-suicide, as I had heard. I was hoping that wasn't the case.

I didn't know that Blailock had been living in the Houston area.

[jeffcrom]

A little more here, from Offbeat magazine.