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Remembering Bucky SHARE BUTTON “I feel like I’m burying my father again,” said jazz guitarist Ed Laub. Laub was talking about the leg- endary New Jersey musician Bucky Pizzarelli who passed away from complications of COVID-19. Laub was friends with Pizzarelli NJ STAGE - ISSUE 70 by Gary Wien for decades from the days he was a teenager studying guitar with Bucky to playing as his partner in a guitar duo for well over a decade. Pizzarelli died at his home in Sad- dle River, New Jersey on April 1st at the age of 94. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 36