Bobby Few(1935-2021) ~ RIP

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  • Jazzrook
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    • Mar 2011
    • 3123
    #1

    Bobby Few(1935-2021) ~ RIP

    Bobby Few (1935-2021)
    https://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/85945-bobby-few-1935-2021/
    sad news from his colleagues -- the great pianist Bobby Few has died in Paris at age 85. I was just thinking about him the other day as I went back through a tape of an interview I did with him, wherein he played as we chatted over the phone. Really nice guy and an amazing player -- saw him twice...


    Bobby Few - Continental Jazz Express (1979)
    https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=yaq0mSegVUI
    No one played piano like Bobby Few. Every piece of his was an epic in miniature, a journey, an event. Here is the title track from Few's 1979 record, complet...


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    Last edited by Jazzrook; 09-02-21, 11:14.
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  • Serial_Apologist
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    • Dec 2010
    • 37877
    #2
    As somebody who knows embarrassingly little about Bobby Few, it really is high time I made some effort. What little I have heard of his playing he came across as a useful bridge between Cecil Taylor and McCoy Tyner, though that's probably an over-simplification.

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    • Jazzrook
      Full Member
      • Mar 2011
      • 3123
      #3
      Bobby Few with Booker Ervin, Richard Williams, Cevera Jeffries & Lenny McBrowne playing 'Sweet Pea' from the 1968 album 'The In Between':

      Sweet Pea (1997 - Remaster)
      https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=XIYbPkDr3VI
      Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupSweet Pea (1997 - Remaster) · Booker ErvinBlue Note Saxophone Legends℗ 1997 Blue Note RecordsReleased on: 2019-11...


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