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I read his autobio, "Three Dog Nightmare: The Chuck Negron Story". He had a tough life, battling drug addiction, but finally overcoming it. Besides being a vocal star, he also had a college basketball career at Cal State. in LA.

I'm devastated. First the guy gets cancer at an early age, overcomes it, and then dies of a heart attack at 66? I played on two albums with him, and used to drive him to gigs, because he didn't have a car back then. I idolized the guy, and when he walked up to me and told me that he liked the way I play during one gig, I was on cloud nine. Most guys that double don't master BOTH instruments, but he was frightening on BOTH clarinet and sax. As jazzbo said, he was a true 'keeper of the flame' as he showed on his many albums for Concord. What a great loss for jazz. RIP, Kenny...

This is beyond sad. I'd watch any movie with her or any of the other members of SCTV in it, and they'd always be the high point of the film. We've lost Guy Caballero, Johnny LaRue, and now Lola Hatherton. Melonville will never be the same. RIP, Ms. O'Hara.

"Donny Hathaway Live"33&1/3 series

Who knows?😁

RIP. A keyboard player friend of his used to tell me some of his jokes.: What's Red White and Black? A nun with an arrow through her head.

LOL!!!!!

LOL! With that many hours of jazz every day, I could see passengers start to throw jazz musicians overboard after a while!😅

Yeah, NYC.

Youse guys in Northern NY are supposed to get it the worst of all . Don't go out! Here in Queens it's already turned to sleet. I don't know how many inches we got, because as Phil Woods once said to an empty room at the Half Note, "I'm getting snow blind from the table cloths!"

As Howard McGhee introduced him to a group of confused rock guitarists back in the early 70s at a Jazz Interactions classroom in NYC: "Here's Attila the Hun!".

Mingus.

I did some research for Ulrich on that book, and am mentioned in the "Special Thanks" section. Along with a Special Thanks credit in the documentary film on Judee Sill, those are my public credentials as a music researcher.

So sad to hear about this. He could play the guitar AND the piano like Bill Evans, and then play the ECM stuff with Oregon, Paul Winter etc... A friend of mine studied with him, and at one lesson RT said he had just done a solo concert at Carnegie Hall, and then he packed up his guitar, walked back to his apartment, and he was just teaching a lesson like nothing happened! RIP, to one of the greats.

CJ DA MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Ten games in a row!