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There's a very good piece in the current Bass World, the magazine of the International Society of Bassists, about Eddie Khan. The piece is written by Jeff Campbell, a fine bassist who teaches at Eastman. Campbell was a kid in Salt Lake City in the '70s when Khan moved there to work as film editor at the local ABC-TV affiliate -- he also played gigs on the local scene. There's no link because the magazine doesn't post content online. However, I thought I would point it out so that anyone who might be interested could track down a hard copy. Kahn ("One Step Beyond," "Speak Brother Speak," "Smokestack," "Breaking Point," etc.) was a really great player -- versatile and adventurous in the manner of Richard Davis, able to play bebop, modal, odd meters, free, hooking up tightly with the drummer, strong technically and always playing with a vivid imagination. Campbell's piece has a lot of transcription and analysis. Apparently, at a certain point Kahn became a video engineer and worked in TV news. He died in 1988 of lung cancer in his early '50s.