Bill Lesley dies

[brownie]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/obit...ies/6171109.htm

Bill Leslie's album 'Diggin' the Chicks' came out on Argo.

[Dan Gould]

He also co-led Soul Cookin' with Thornel Schwartz, on which Lawrence Olds, i.e., Larry Young, played.

RIP.

[JSngry]

I've not heard SOUL COOKIN', but DIGGIN' THE CHICKS is a pretty interesting album for me. One or two people whose opinions I respect quite a bit don't dig it, but I hear a pretty personal story being told. Leslie plays on Larry Young's GROOVE STREET as well.

Sorry to hear of his passing. Yet another unheralded "local" figure of the type whose place in the overall makeup of the jazz landscape often goes unfairly unnoticed. R.I.P.