Dominic Duval (1945-2016)

[clifford_thornton]

Bassist Dominic Duval, who worked extensively with Joe McPhee and Cecil Taylor, among others, is sadly in his final stages of life after a battle with lymphoma. He is in hospital but the family are taking him to hospice care. 

There is a gofundme page here if you would like to donate towards making his last weeks more restful.

I always liked his playing and this is such a bummer. 

Update: just got word from the family that he has passed.

Edited July 22, 2016 by clifford_thornton

[alankin]

That's very sad to hear.  He's only 71.  

[JSngry]

Go in peace.

[Justin V]

I saw Trio X in Rochester in 2014, and Dominic Duval, Jr., who is a heck of a bassist himself, filled in for his father.  There was a get-well card at the gig, but I had hoped that he just had the flu or something.  Thank you for the music, Mr. Duval, and rest in peace. 

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, his son is very good from what little I've heard. There was a board member who went by the name "jazz kat" and I believe he was/is good friends with Duval Jr.

[Steve Reynolds]

Horrible news

was lucky to see him with Cecil Taylor back ~ 1997 or so with the quartet. I was still very new to that sort of thing and I recollect that he was strumming and bowing very seriously. I must have seen him again once or twice and I did have one conversation with him at the bar at The Knitting Factory back in the very late 90's. He was playing with Ivo Perelman upstairs or downstairs and a few of us from the old Jazz Central Station were getting ready for Dave Holland's band with Steve Nelson, Chris Potter and Billy Kilson. I might have mentioned seeing him with Cecil a couple of years before and I noted that Abdullah Ibrahim had played the first set with his trio - which to this day is one of the oddest combinations - and Dominic then said that Cecil referred to Ibrahim as "Half-Dollar"'as he wasn't a big fan!!

Dominic came across as a passionate learned guy and he urged us to blow off the Holland band for the trio with him, Ivo and I think Michael Wimberly or Jay Rosen but we didn't - I believe Mr. Ducal had a bit of Internet correspondence at the time and he sent me a solo CD recording some time later. I havn't kept up - been meaning to pick up some Trio X stuff, etc. I didn't know he was sick. Brings back a flood of incredible memories. What experiences he must have had playing with those that he did - from Cecil to Ivo to Joe McPhee - and all the others

RIP, sir

[OliverM]

This is very sad, condolences to his family.

There is an interesting interview of him here covering different moments of his life and carrier:

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/dominic-duval-follow-your-melody-dominic-duval-by-maxim-micheliov.php?pg=1

[paul secor]

Good interview. Thanks for posting it.

[jazzulov]

an interesting story with the two different albums of similar Monk material in a sax/bass duo setting, looking forward to find Monkinus to check out and compare.