Even if an artist didn't die in the apartment that honours him, loss and absence are often in the foreground.
The society that honours him is so fondly regarded that two nationally known bluesmen, Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh, agreed to come to Helena recently to perform a Sunday night show featuring more than three hours of music before a far smaller crowd than they could draw in the big cities, and for a fraction of their standard fee.The pair are a microcosm of today's blues.
But since that flopped, Laurence Olivier honoured him by asking him to play Hamlet in the National Theatre's London debut at the Old Vic – with Olivier directing.
Jabs' mother, Brenda, said that to honour him, Shaelynn now uses his Kurdish last name in addition to Dilan, the name she'd been given by the Kurds on her first tour.
Jessie, now 24, was given her middle name by her grandfather, and it is entirely appropriate that she honours him in her work Jessie feels "equal parts" Chinese and New Zealander, something she sees as systematic of an emerging aspect of contemporary New Zealand.
"It will be a collaborative and celebratory stage performance that honours their multi-nominated music".
This family that honours Dev Narayan and Sundar Mata also worships lineage deities at home.
Any city that honours its fallen musical heroes has to be cool.
He released Kisses on the Bottom, a collection of standards, in February 2012; that same month the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honoured him as the MusiCares Person of the Year, two days prior to his performance at the 54th Grammy Awards., McCartney remains one of the world's top draws.
"It's shocking, extremely shocking, that it was done like this, at a festival that was out to honour him; bizarre that Switzerland, a country where he has a house and spends time each year, should suddenly decide to be the only European country that's prepared to take this step, while so many others have allowed Polanski to travel freely," he says.
