Re: musicians

["Alan Reddig" <areddig@kodak.com>]

>The English rock band Kula Shaker('s)...next single will be a cover
>of Deep Purple's "Hush".

I know I'm getting old when no one else on the list mentions that Deep Purple's 
version was itself a cover of the original.

I'll second the appropriate mention about the death of Tony Williams--truly a 
great drummer and one of my favorites. I last saw him with Herbie Hancock and 
Ron Carter eight or nine years ago at Saratoga, and they could still give me 
goosebumps.

I'd also mention the loss last year of Howie Wyeth, a good keyboardist and 
consummate musician in NYC. I think he was about 52 years old--far too young to 
go, and had just released "Chadd's Ford Getaway," some of his own jazz piano 
compositions. He could play several instruments well, and was Bob Dylan's 
drummer on the "Rolling Thunder" tours and a couple of albums of the same era. 
(He also appears in Dylan's, um, movie, "Renaldo and Clara.") I was acquainted 
with Howie in college, and he always had some sort of group project going on, 
with a emphasis on horn-driven R&B. I say "project" instead of "band," because 
Howie's bands always had room for anyone who walked in with an axe and wanted 
to jam. Never could tell who was in the band and who wasn't.

Which reminds me...keyboardist Lloyd Baskin, who sang lead in Seatrain, also 
ran in the same crowd. Anyone know whatever happened to him? He earlier 
played--extremely well--a Wurlitzer electric piano in Otis and the Headliners 
(later Otis and the All-Night Workers) in central New York in the 60's, 
pre-Seatrain.

Alan Reddig