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Yeah, the "Never My Love" had the Piano Concerto/Symphony(?) I mentioned in my post. I heard his version of "Misty"the other day, and the fact that he didn't sing a note of the melody, and changed the chords to a gospel progression in the A section, might have confused the listening public of the time. I bought the vinyl of a Danny O'Keefe album, and was amazed to find DH playing his Wurlitzer on it! I think Atlantic encouraged its artists to collaborate on their albums. They got into some wild jams that you wouldn't expect on a Pop/Country singer's album!

Thanks for that, Jim. He was all over the place as a sideman, composer, arranger and producer. If the illness hadn't gotten him, Black music would've been in a much better place than it is now. Even Stevie Wonder admitted he was heavily influenced by him.

I just finished the 33&1/3 book "Donny Hathaway Live" by Emily J. Lordi, and it's hard to believe this was the only book written about this great pianist, vocalist, Composer of film music, songs, and I just learned from the book, a Piano Concerto! I just heard the concerto (sometimes called a symphony in the book)yesterday, and it's better than anything I've heard of the thankfully departing head of JALC director Chicken Marsalis. If Donny hadn't passed at 33 in 1979, he would've gotten my vote for music director at JALC, and maybe I would've gone to some of their concerts. He was a jazz pianist also, and was classically trained, so "Chicken" had nothing on him.

Have you tried emailing Felipe Luciano, who does the Latin Roots program on WBAI? It's the only music program I listen to on the radio. He knows everything about Latin Music. Just go to this contact page link. and enter his name in the search engine and there's an email form for him. I emailed him yesterday with some suggestions for his show. He totally freaked me out yesterday by saying that he was going to play the one song that describes himself best, and it turned out to be a Jackie McLean tune, "A Fickle Sonance", with some great Tommy Turrentine.on it.: https://wbai.org/contact.php

I read his autobio, "Three Dog Nightmare: The Chuck Negron Story". He had a tough life, battling drug addiction, but finally overcoming it. Besides being a vocal star, he also had a college basketball career at Cal State. in LA.

I'm devastated. First the guy gets cancer at an early age, overcomes it, and then dies of a heart attack at 66? I played on two albums with him, and used to drive him to gigs, because he didn't have a car back then. I idolized the guy, and when he walked up to me and told me that he liked the way I play during one gig, I was on cloud nine. Most guys that double don't master BOTH instruments, but he was frightening on BOTH clarinet and sax. As jazzbo said, he was a true 'keeper of the flame' as he showed on his many albums for Concord. What a great loss for jazz. RIP, Kenny...

This is beyond sad. I'd watch any movie with her or any of the other members of SCTV in it, and they'd always be the high point of the film. We've lost Guy Caballero, Johnny LaRue, and now Lola Hatherton. Melonville will never be the same. RIP, Ms. O'Hara.

"Donny Hathaway Live"33&1/3 series

Who knows?😁

RIP. A keyboard player friend of his used to tell me some of his jokes.: What's Red White and Black? A nun with an arrow through her head.

LOL!!!!!

LOL! With that many hours of jazz every day, I could see passengers start to throw jazz musicians overboard after a while!😅

Yeah, NYC.

Youse guys in Northern NY are supposed to get it the worst of all . Don't go out! Here in Queens it's already turned to sleet. I don't know how many inches we got, because as Phil Woods once said to an empty room at the Half Note, "I'm getting snow blind from the table cloths!"

As Howard McGhee introduced him to a group of confused rock guitarists back in the early 70s at a Jazz Interactions classroom in NYC: "Here's Attila the Hun!".