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Jukebox: Remembering Tony Markellis, our boss of the beat | The Daily Gazette
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Tony Markellis at the Hurricane Ivan Relief fundraiser at Saratoga Springs Music Hall in November 2004. (Photo by Ed Burke)
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Nobody who loves music hereabouts wanted to believe that bassist and producer Tony Markellis has passed. Sadly, devastatingly true; among the most terrible news of a wretched time. How unfair that he moves on just as the world begins to recover.
Tony was my second favorite musician after my brother Jim. A player of subtle supportive listening on ballads or mighty muscular force in any groove, Tony made every song he played on better, every band he played in both more poetic and more powerful.