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Charles "Don" Alias au paradis ! [Percussionniste]
Charles « Don « Alias nous a quitté le 28 mars 2006 à New York, où il était né le 25 décembre 1939. Percussionniste et batteur, il débute dans la musique avec le Dizzy Gillespie Big Band en 1957. Il deviendra successivement accompagnateur de Nina Simone (To Love Somebody - 1969) en 1967, avant d’enregistrer avec Miles Davis en 1969 (Bitches Brew). Mais aussi avec Mongo Santamaria, Tony Williams (Spectrum : The Anthology), Elvin Jones (The complete Blue Note Sessions - Session au Village Vanguard en 1971), Joni Mitchell (Mingus - 1979), Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius (Jaco Pastorius Donna Lee - 1976), Blood, Sweat and Tears (More Than Ever - 1976), ou Weather Report (Black Market - 1976).[...]
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NEWS 'Bitches Brew' drummer dies
Thu, 06 Apr 2006
Drummer Don Alias, who kept tempo for Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Lou Reed, has died in New York aged 66, his website said on Wednesday.
Alias died at home on March 29.
In a nearly 50-year career, Alias showed his versatility on drums and other percussion instruments, accompanying headliners Carlos Santana, Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack.
Alias was born in 1939 to parents from the Caribbean who settled in New York. He picked up his technique wherever he could find it, from Afro Cubans, Puerto Ricans and other Caribbeans playing in New York City.
He played his first professional gig when Eartha Kitt took him to the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 and he played with Dizzy Gillespie's band.
His family pressed him to study biology, but he still played in clubs after class. Before long, he met Gene Perla, a student at the Berklee School of Music, and Nina Simone, who hired him.
In 1969, he joined forces with Miles Davis on the landmark 'Bitches Brew' at the height of jazz-rock fusion.
He also formed his own group, Stone Alliance, with Perla.
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| http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4287.html a écrit: | Jazz Percussionist Don Alias Dies at 66
By Ben Mattison
05 Apr 2006
Don Alias, a drummer and percussionist who played with Nina Simone and Miles Davis, died on March 28, the New York Times reports. He was 66.
The cause of death is "under investigation," his companion Melanie Futorian told the Times.
Born in New York, Alias played the congas with the Eartha Kitt Dance Foundation as a teenager. In 1957, he traveled with Kitt to the Newport Jazz Festival, where he played with Dizzy Gillespie.
In the 1960s, Alias became the drummer, and later, musical director for Simone. In 1969, he joined Davis's group and appeared on the seminal jazz-rock album Bitches Brew.
Other jazz and rock artists with whom he appeared include Joni Mitchell, Roberta Flack, David Sanborn, and Herbie Hancock. His conga playing, the Times says, "augment[ed] a rhythm section in a way that was urgent but never intrusive." |
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