Andy Bey RIP

[mjazzg]

Gilles Peterson is reporting that Andy Bey has died

https://www.instagram.com/p/DI-CaPzhdCa/?igsh=MWRvYmNsZDM1NWlmdw==

What a voice, what a career

[rostasi]

Ahh, man, that's too bad. This was my introduction to him
as a 12-year-old listening to the radio show "Transition."
Uhuru too! Yes, definitely: that voice!

Edited April 28 by rostasi

[optatio]

So sad ... R.I.P.

[Rabshakeh]

Oh no!

[sidewinder]

That's sad news - RIP.

[EKE BBB]

RIP

I'll spin a few of his recordings today...

[jazzbo]

I see no news outside of Facebook about his passing. I hope it's not true! 

[felser]

RIP, especially liked his work on the two Bartz - Harlem Bush Music albums.  And he sounded good on the three Horace Silver - United States of  Mind albums despite the painfully dated lyrics.

Edited April 28 by felser

[clifford_thornton]

I had heard a few years ago that he wasn't doing well health-wise. Too bad. Crucificado!!!

[JSngry]

One of the great voices. RIP.

 

[HutchFan]

Sorry to hear this sad news.  R.I.P.

 

[mjazzg]

5 hours ago, jazzbo said:

I see no news outside of Facebook about his passing. I hope it's not true! 

Very happy for mod, calling @JSngry, to change thread title to "Reports Of..." until confirmed elsewhere 

[JSngry]

Edited per request.

[mjazzg]

Thank you (again)

I do trust Peterson as a source, he was quite close with Bey I think, but as @jazzbo points out there's nothing much online so best safe in the circumstances 

Edited April 28 by mjazzg

[John L]

Wikipedia has now added a date of his passing as April 27, 2025.    But it is strange that still no official announcement would appear to have been made. 

[clifford_thornton]

Bey didn’t have close living family from what I was told. I trust Gilles.

[Alex Potts]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

Bey didn’t have close living family from what I was told. I trust Gilles.

His sister Geraldine seems to be living yet, and she has several children - including Darius de Haas.

[AndreyHenkin]

And she and late bassist husband Eddie de haas are/were nearby in New Jersey.

[optatio]

1 hour ago, AndreyHenkin said:

And she and late bassist husband Eddie de Haas are/were nearby in New Jersey.

Apropos Eddie de Haas https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_de_Haas - no article in english - but see here https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001190709  

Eddie de Haas was under his european stage name Eddie O'Hare with Bill Coleman in Göttingen November 15, 1954.

[medjuck]

IIRC he used to perform with "Andy and the Bey Sisters" in Toronto in the '60s.

[felser]

49 minutes ago, medjuck said:

IIRC he used to perform with "Andy and the Bey Sisters" in Toronto in the '60s.

Yes, and they recorded a few albums as such.

[paulfromcamden]

Downbeat obit.

https://downbeat.com/news/detail/vocalist-andy-bey-dies-at-85

[mikeweil]

Such sad news. He was one of the greatest, and one of my favourites. R.I.P.

[John L]

RIP

[gmonahan]

I'm just returning from a trip to see this. I came to Bey fairly late, but I loved the quality of his voice. There was something intensely intimate about it. RIP.