rostasi Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 Bohanon, Bohanon, Bohanon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 I sure hope somebody did a good oral history with him... RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 R.I.P .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 (edited) 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 by Mark Stryker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 RIP. Really enjoyed his work with Chico Hamilton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 (edited) 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 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 (edited) 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 by Rabshakeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 10 Report Share Posted November 10 Hamilton Bohannon was the hitmaker. Although considering the number of Motown dates George did, he probably was on more hits than Hamilton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted November 11 Report Share Posted November 11 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 11 Report Share Posted November 11 that's too bad. RIP, excellent trombonist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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