Dick Hafer 1927-2012

[brownie]

Dick Hafer, one of the best of the Prez Brothers, died December 15 in California.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=Dick-Hafer&pid=161874223#fbLoggedOut

Hafer had a very interesting interview with Marc Myers of Jazz Wax

http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/11/interview-dick-hafer-part-1.html

[BillF]

Fine saxophonist! Like the way he held his own on the Bird with the Herd album.

[king ubu]

Sad news - enjoyed his playing in those few spots he turns up in my collection ... first took notice of him with Mingus on Impulse - he's got some fine moments there!

This one's well worth getting, too:

[king ubu]

And there's a thing for Randy - his father Arno with Woody's band (from the JazzWax interview):

http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f088340153931d0126970b-popup

and another one:

http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f088340153931d1483970b-popup

[Peter Friedman]

Here is another very nice CD by Dick Hafer.

Dick Hafer Quartet - Prez Impressions - Fresh Sound

With Ross Tompkins, Dave Carpenter, and Jake Hanna,

[paul secor]

Was recently looking at an old copy of Cadence with an interview with Dick Hafer. He had interesting stories to tell - some about Mingus.

R.I.P., Mr. Hafer.

[king ubu]

Was recently looking at an old copy of Cadence with an interview with Dick Hafer. He had interesting stories to tell - some about Mingus.

R.I.P., Mr. Hafer.

Any chance you can share some of that?

[paul secor]

Was recently looking at an old copy of Cadence with an interview with Dick Hafer. He had interesting stories to tell - some about Mingus.

R.I.P., Mr. Hafer.

Any chance you can share some of that?

It was in a print issue, so there's no link - at least that I could find.

Here's another (three part) interview with Dick Hafer:

http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/11/interview-dick-hafer-part-1.html

http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/11/interview-dick-hafer-part-2.html

http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/11/interview-dick-hafer-part-3.html

[king ubu]

That's a great interview, just re-read it yesterday!