Vivian Trimble, a singer and keyboardist finest often known as a member of the trendy Nineties rock band Luscious Jackson, died Tuesday. She was 59.
Her former bandmates introduced her demise in an Instagram publish that stated Trimble had “been in remedy for most cancers for a number of years and developed a complication on Monday.”
“We weren’t anticipating this,” learn the assertion by the group, which additionally included singer Jill Cunniff, guitarist Gabby Glaser and drummer Kate Schellenbach. “We’re devastated past phrases to lose our sleek sister.”
As soon as described by Mike D of the Beastie Boys as “someplace between Gap and the Indigo Ladies,” Luscious Jackson performed a cool and melodic model of other rock that seamlessly blended samples and reside instrumentation; the music, which documented life within the band’s native New York Metropolis with wit and angle, was constructed on sturdy, low-slung grooves but showcased parts drawn from the various genres the members absorbed rising up in New York.
“Again within the early ’80s, one evening you’ll be in a hip-hop membership, the following evening you’ll be at a Unhealthy Brains present, the following evening you’ll be at a reggae membership,” Glaser advised The Occasions in 1997. “It was a incredible time for a younger mind to be influenced by music.”
Luscious Jackson’s Vivian Trimble performs at Lollapalooza in 1994.
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Named after the ’60s basketball star Lucious Jackson, the quartet was lengthy related to the equally eclectic Beastie Boys, for whom Schellenbach performed drums within the early ’80s and whose Grand Royal label launched its data.
Luscious Jackson scored its largest chart hit in 1996 with the lithe and propulsive “Bare Eye,” which peaked at No. 36 on Billboard’s Scorching 100; the only got here from the group’s second album, “Fever In Fever Out,” which it recorded with esteemed producer Daniel Lanois. The band additionally had songs featured within the films “Clueless,” “Good Will Searching” and “A Life Much less Peculiar.”
Trimble was born Might 24, 1963; her dad and mom had been classical musicians, she advised Out journal in 2000, and he or she spent her childhood between america and France. Citing feminine punk bands just like the Slits and the Raincoats as inspirations, Luscious Jackson shaped in 1991 and launched its debut EP, “In Search of Manny,” in 1992; “Pure Elements,” the band’s first full-length, got here out in 1994 and earned admiring evaluations from Rolling Stone, NME and The Occasions.
Trimble and Cunniff shaped an acoustic-based aspect challenge, Kostars, which launched an album in 1996 with visitor spots from Dean and Gene Ween of the comedian rock act Ween. Trimble additionally performed with the Breeders’ Josephine Wiggs in a mellow, ’60s-ish duo known as Dusty Trails, which launched a self-titled LP in 2000 that featured an look by Emmylou Harris.
Trimble — whose survivors embody her husband, David, and their two kids, Nathaniel and Rebecca — left Luscious Jackson in 1998. The group continued with out her for “Electrical Honey” in 1999, then cut up up in 2000 earlier than reuniting with out Trimble to make 2013’s “Magic Hour.”
