juan rodriguez, a pioneering montreal rock music critic for the gazette and the montreal star, died saturday afternoon at the jewish general hospital. he had faced health challenges for some time. he was 76.
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a voracious reader of musical biographies and contemporary novels, he was a valued source for anyone writing about music in the eras he covered, said louis rastelli, director of arcmtl, a not-for-profit organization working to promote and preserve the independent arts in montreal. rodriguez did an extensive interview with the organization in 2017 and remained a source of information for arcmtl projects chronicling the new penelope , a montreal concert venue during the 1960s, and the black bottom jazz club . he wrote an unpublished book about jazz and also a memoir, although the laptop on which he wrote it has been lost, rastelli said.
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