FAREWELLS

, the Canadian writer whose features, columns, and reviews appeared regularly in for nearly 20 years, died May 17 in Toronto of complications from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was 62. Loudon spent most of his career working in the publishing field, as an editor as well as a writer, most often with a focus on arts and entertainment. He began writing for in 2001, taking over the Vox review column that focused on jazz vocal albums, and soon expanded to features and profiles of artists, usually vocalists. His larger pieces included cover stories on Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, and Jamie Cullum. Later, frustrated that he couldn’t cover as many artists in Vox as he. Still, it was his contribution as a passionate, knowledgeable writer about singers and songs that looms largest for so many in the jazz community.