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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!".

Mingus.

I did some research for Ulrich on that book, and am mentioned in the "Special Thanks" section. Along with a Special Thanks credit in the documentary film on Judee Sill, those are my public credentials as a music researcher.

So sad to hear about this. He could play the guitar AND the piano like Bill Evans, and then play the ECM stuff with Oregon, Paul Winter etc... A friend of mine studied with him, and at one lesson RT said he had just done a solo concert at Carnegie Hall, and then he packed up his guitar, walked back to his apartment, and he was just teaching a lesson like nothing happened! RIP, to one of the greats.

CJ DA MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Ten games in a row!

I just read on FB that the West Coast Arranger/Composer Gordon Goodwin passed about two weeks ago. Ironically, it was on Arranger/ Composer Sammy Nestico's page, who must be many years older than GG.

see my message I sent you.

I heard an interview with Chuck Wayne that was interesting, if only to hear what his speaking voice sounded like. I saw him live with the duo he had with Joe Puma many times, and even played a tune with him at a clinic the duo had, live on the air on WBAi, but he rarely spoke. I can only describe him as sounding like a well-spoken, 1940's Hollywood actor; not a trace of a Bronx accent like his buddy Puma. Phil mainly dealt with his connection with Coleman Hawkins, via the Joe Marsala group, and the cuts Phil played must have had Wayne squirming in his seat. Wayne was VERY young at that time... Another odd interview I listened to was with the great Frank Strozier, a week before he was going to make his piano playing debut with a trio featuring his old buddy Curtis Boyd at Carnegie Recital Hall. Frank is a very quiet, thoughtful person, and Phil would ask one of his long, rambling questions, and it would be met with complete silence! Phil would have to re-word his hyper-active question so Frank COMPLETELY understood it, and then Frank would succinctly answer it in a few short sentences. An example would be Phil spending five minutes summing up some of Frank's great accomplishments, and then asked Frank, so what are you doing now? and Frank would simply say in his slight Southern accent, "I'm a sixth grade teacher." LOL! I'm annoyed that there's barely anything on Jimmy Raney and Tal Farlow, two ground-breaking Bop guitarists, but it doesn't really surprise me...

Great to hear Billy Taylor play with Russell Malone! Good Phil Woods interview, too. Thanks for the link!

I know Nothing!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, the collaborations were mainly with Robert N. Bruno (Bob), leader of CM. JJW and the other guys followed Bob's lead. Here's all you need to know about Bruno: https://www.soundclick.com/bobbruno

Yeah, Byrd was a wild guy! A student of Barney Childs starting a rock band! Kind of reminds me of the experimentation going on in the 60s with Bob Bruno and his band Circus Maximus. To quote Wiki, "In late December 1967, the band performed in an unusual pair of "Electric Christmas" concerts together with New York Pro Musica, an ensemble that performed early music. There were two 80-minute performances. The material performed included a reworking of 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut's "La douce dame jolie" as an English-language song "Sweet Lovely Lady" arranged by Robert M. Bruno for the ensemble, and Bruno original "Chess Game" that, unbeknownst to Bruno but noted by John White, director of the Pro Musica, strongly echoed the "Romanesca", a piece that first appears in 16th-century Spanish lute books."] Then you have Phil Woods recording "Love Song for Che" on his "Round Trip" album.