"Portrait Of Hod O'Brien" on Night Lights

[ghost of miles]

On this recent edition of Night Lights, veteran pianist Hod O'Brien talks coming of jazz age in the 1950s, playing with Ornette Coleman and Chet Baker, and much more.  We also check out recordings he made as a leader and with Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, and Idrees Suliemann, JR Monterose, Roswell Rudd, and others:

A Portrait Of Hod O'Brien

 

[T.D.]

Excellent! Listening now. Very timely in light of the fairly recent discussion of O'Brien's book.

[BillF]

Now listening. Just the sort of artist I want to know more about.

[fasstrack]

Thanks for doing this. I played with Hod in the earliest '80s in Marshall Brown's Wednesday group, and used to hear him with Joe Puma at Gregory's in the '70s. A natural swinger, very relaxed and graceful. Good guy, too.

I'm sure he had some stories to tell...

[Quasimado]

A swinger - book ordered. Q

[ghost of miles]

Up in memory of Mr. O'Brien, who passed away today at the age of 80:

A Portrait Of Hod O'Brien

 

[BillF]

On 2/1/2016 at 4:15 PM, fasstrack said:

Thanks for doing this. I played with Hod in the earliest '80s in Marshall Brown's Wednesday group, and used to hear him with Joe Puma at Gregory's in the '70s. A natural swinger, very relaxed and graceful. Good guy, too.

I'm sure he had some stories to tell...

No more posts like this. That's why it's a pity to lose Fasstrack. How many of us played with Hod?

[T.D.]

Damn...I was happy to see O'Brien's book come out, but now I think it was somewhat of a final statement. [The post quoted above referred to H O'B's recent book. Hod looks rather ill in the 80th birthday photo on his website.]