Jazz musician Yuji Ohno passed away peacefully on May 4 at 84 years old due to old age.
Debuting in the 1960's, he has since produced many works and is most famous for composing for the Lupin III series.
Space Adventure Cobra, The Inugami Family, Proof of the Man, Nebula Mask Machineman, and many more series were composed by Ohno.
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In memory of the incredible Tony Stella @studiotstella
I've posted up the full unedited conversation I had with him back in Oct 2024 over on my Youtube channel.
Tony's one and only request when we sat down was that I not show his face, so the video is audio only.
He supplied the below image to me to use over the top of the video, it's as close to a self portrait as I believe he ever created ( originally for a Japanese interview some years back) . We arranged to sit down for an hour, Tony spoke for over four ( and another two hours after we stopped recording)
He was a extraordinarily talented, passionate, articulate, funny, extremely knowledgeable and massively entertaining man.
I am extremely grateful I got to know him a little more in the years that passed since we recorded this,we spoke pretty frequently, usually via email and text.
I very much thought of him as a friend,
I hope he felt the same way,
He will be deeply missed.
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I know a lot of people are incredibly sad right now about Tony Stella. But hearing his voice is making me smile so I want to share one of my favorite recordings with him where we unleashed him on the subject of Federico Fellini. We miss you buddy. wrongreel.com/podcast/wr446-…
Tony. Instinctual to contact him. To learn of his passing and find that he is unreachable now, except through his brilliant, definitive artwork, is tragic. We saw so many films together though miles apart. May his family and friends find comfort. May he soar with the immortals.