George Bohanon (1937-2024)

[rostasi]

Bohanon, Bohanon, Bohanon

[JSngry]

I sure hope somebody did a good oral history with him...

RIP

[soulpope]

R.I.P    ....

[Peter Friedman]

Back in about 1965 I was still living in Detroit. I used to go see the George Bohanon Quintet playing at a club, whose name escapes me. It was good hard bop oriented music. 

[Mark Stryker]

15 hours ago, JSngry said:

I sure hope somebody did a good oral history with him...

RIP

Thankfully, his full interview with us for The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit is 80 minutes long and will be part of a Jazz from Detroit Oral History Archive that we are creating. Sigh.

Edited November 10, 2024 by Mark Stryker

[felser]

RIP.  Really enjoyed his work with Chico Hamilton.

[sidewinder]

Sad to hear this, RIP. I saw him on one occasion in the trombone section of a Gillespie Tribute big band back in the 90s. That section also had Jimmy Cleveland in it, if I remember rightly and Melba Liston was sitting in the section (but not playing).

Will dig out his Motown/Workshop Jazz LP for a spin.

Edited November 10, 2024 by sidewinder

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Mark Stryker said:

Thankfully, his full interview with us for The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit is 80 minutes long and will be part of a Jazz from Detroit Oral History Archive that we are creating. Sigh.

Good to know that such a thing is becoming.

[Rabshakeh]

I hadn't realised until today that George Bohanon was not The same person as disco hitmaker Bohannon. I had always struggled to understand why his discography was comparatively meagre.

 

Edited November 11, 2024 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

Hamilton Bohannon was the hitmaker.

Although considering the number of Motown dates George did, he probably was on more hits than Hamilton!

[Rabshakeh]

7 hours ago, JSngry said:

Hamilton Bohannon was the hitmaker.

Although considering the number of Motown dates George did, he probably was on more hits than Hamilton!

I think that's what threw me. Plenty of other jazz guys had very successful disco careers at the time so it made sense to me, save that I couldn't understand why GB had so few leader dates if he was such a feature of the disco scene.

[clifford_thornton]

that's too bad. RIP, excellent trombonist.