Stewart died Friday morning after falling from a parking garage in Santa Monica, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.
For much of the 1980s and ’90s, before music playlisting and influencer culture democratized the term “best,” the name Gary Stewart carried with it a trademark of quality.
Said Rhino Records co-founder Richard Foos of Stewart’s work for the company across two decades: “I give him almost all the credit for overseeing everything. Approving every album, which were hundreds a year.”A longtime advocate for charitable causes, his life was celebrated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in a Twitter post, who called him “one of the funniest, most humble people we knew. A true champion of justice. A model of modesty, and most of all, our dear friend. L.A.
“We all knew Gary as a nerdy 17-year-old,” Bronson said of the budding music fan’s arrival at the record store. “He was hungry to soak it all up and to learn,” Bronson said of Stewart. As the Rhino imprint evolved into a reissue label, Stewart harnessed his obsessions in service of important releases by the Bobby Fuller Four, the Byrds, the Kinks, Roy Orbison and more. It was the peak of the compact disc boom, and customers were eagerly updating their old vinyl with new plastic.
“Gary’s name is on a lot of records as a producer,” wrote the music producer Andy Zax, one of the many producers who was mentored by Stewart, in a Facebook post, “but I think his true passion was for compiling, separating out the things he thought were important, the things that really mattered — the greatest songs, the greatest ideas, the greatest people — from the inessential stuff that he could safely leave behind.
That determination, Foos stressed, was born of a fervor in the sanctity of music. After Rhino Records was absorbed into the Warner Music Group, Stewart shifted to digital media at Apple.
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