Addison Farmer

[epistrophy007]

Eddie Costa too...

[jmjk]

I am laughing my ass off at the way this thread has devolved. Degenerataed, even.

Edited February 18, 2012 by jmjk

[Chuck Nessa]

As a former Chicagoan and regular visitor, I can affirm there are no farmers on Addison.

[Swinging Swede]

Bob Gordon and Dave Lambert both died in a car crash...

As well as Lambert's former singing partner Buddy Stewart.

Also two of Sweden's most famous jazz musicians, Stan Hasselgard (Åke Hasselgård) and Jan Johansson.

But there were so many more who met the same fate. Frank Teschemacher, Earl Hines's tenorist Cecil Irwin and Charlie Barnet's guitarist Bus Etri are some that come to mind. It's a terrible shame.

[GA Russell]

Smith Dobson, like Bob Gordon on the way to a gig.

[Bill Nelson]

Back to Addison Farmer -- from Down Beat, April 11, 1963:

"Following his doctor's orders, bassist Addison Farmer had taken a prescribed anti-depressant tablet the evening of February 19. Later he complained of feeling especially drowsy and swallowed an energy tablet, sold without prescrption in drug stores. The combined effect of the two medications produced a fever that ultimately reached 106 degrees. Farmer was taken to New York City's Knickerbocker Hospital, where he was treated, but the fever did not abate. On Feb. 20 the bassist died of the fever produced by the accidental combination."

BTW, 1963 was the Grim Reaper for another bassist: Curtis Counce, 37, heart attack, July 31.

[AllenLowe]

stop distracting us with reality.