Media blog AustraliaArtObituaryMartin Sharp obituaryPsychedelic artist, cartoonist and joint founder of the underground magazine OzMartin Sharp, who has died of emphysema aged 71, gave the 1960s counterculture its visual expression. He was Australia's pop artist extraordinaire, an innovator of psychedelic art and one of the founders of the underground magazine Oz. At a time when Sydney culture was at its most conservative and repressive, Oz was, in Martin's words, against "

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JazzObituaryRonny Jordan obituaryJazz guitarist who had a cult dancefloor success and was one of the key figures of the 1990s acid-jazz movementThe jazz guitarist Ronny Jordan, who has died aged 51, was a gifted self-taught performer of warmth, humility and spirituality, who became famous for crossing a thoroughly worldly hurdle – vaulted by Dave Brubeck and very few others – when he turned a jazz instrumental into a pop hit.

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