van
2008-12-21 04:49:53 UTC
I don't know why I've become obsessed with this, but upon recently
discovering the music of singer/songwriter Judee Sill, I learnt about
her first husband, Bob Harris #1, who did the orchestrations on her
1st LP.
From there I found out he was in The Mothers in 1971 (from your pal
and mine, Biffy the Elephant Shrew) played with Gabor Szabo, The
Leaves, produced Lady-O for The Turtles,
and worked as a freelance jazz pianist with Sill on upright bass for a
while.
He seemed to be associated with a group of S. California jazz and rock
musicians such as Bill Plummer, Jim Pons, Lynn Blessing, John Beck,
Tommy Peltier, and a bassist named Denis Del Giudice who described him
as a "superb musician who tutored Sill."
In the booklet that comes with a Sill CD, he's described by a composer
named Tina Gancher as "talented, but petulant, immature and a
junkie.Extremely harmonic. Ear musician. Excellent sense of harmony.
Not rhythmically. That was not the outstanding thing..."
Then another composer tells a story about how BH hired a musician for
50 beans, and when the gig was over, paid him in real beans. When the
musician complained, he held his ground "I told you beans."
Anyway, did he die in 1993 like it says in allmusic?
I read something else about him introducing the real Reuben to FZ.
Are there any good, improvised solos by him on any of FZ's LPs (Live
at the Fillmore, John and Yoko "Sometime in NY, or Playground
Psychotics)?
TIA
discovering the music of singer/songwriter Judee Sill, I learnt about
her first husband, Bob Harris #1, who did the orchestrations on her
1st LP.
From there I found out he was in The Mothers in 1971 (from your pal
and mine, Biffy the Elephant Shrew) played with Gabor Szabo, The
Leaves, produced Lady-O for The Turtles,
and worked as a freelance jazz pianist with Sill on upright bass for a
while.
He seemed to be associated with a group of S. California jazz and rock
musicians such as Bill Plummer, Jim Pons, Lynn Blessing, John Beck,
Tommy Peltier, and a bassist named Denis Del Giudice who described him
as a "superb musician who tutored Sill."
In the booklet that comes with a Sill CD, he's described by a composer
named Tina Gancher as "talented, but petulant, immature and a
junkie.Extremely harmonic. Ear musician. Excellent sense of harmony.
Not rhythmically. That was not the outstanding thing..."
Then another composer tells a story about how BH hired a musician for
50 beans, and when the gig was over, paid him in real beans. When the
musician complained, he held his ground "I told you beans."
Anyway, did he die in 1993 like it says in allmusic?
I read something else about him introducing the real Reuben to FZ.
Are there any good, improvised solos by him on any of FZ's LPs (Live
at the Fillmore, John and Yoko "Sometime in NY, or Playground
Psychotics)?
TIA