Cyril

Bob Babbitt, a bass player for Motown's studio band the Funk Brothers, died at 7:15 a.m. Monday in a Nashville hospice. Babbitt was 74. http://www.soul-source.co.uk/_/articles/soul-news/sad-news-bob-babbitt-has-passed-away-r2519

flat, what's he singing???

You are damn right! They don't have a mustache...

Funny. The stuff you can learn from this board! In 2004 George Avakian spoke with jazz journalist Bert Vuijsje, author of Rita Reys: 'Lady Jazz', about the recording sessions with Rita and The Jazz Messengers, and told him: "Rita could really swing. It was the swinging quality of her phrasing that persuaded me, and which also impressed the musicians. They recognized right away that she could stay right with them. That is exactly what happened on that record, and everybody can still hear it today". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P8nDV-Pum0

Rob Pronk has written more than 1,200 arrangements for Holland's magnificent Metropole Orchestra! I like the pictures: http://www.jazzmasters.nl/robpronk.htm#pictures R.I.P. Rob Pronk

Zutty Singleton

Light Henry Huff

Blue Mitchell Junior Cook Booker Little Don Cherry

Benjamin Herman has also a twin brother, Jonathan. He studied jazz guitar at the Dutch conservatorium.