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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Wayback on April 05, 2009, 04:48:59 PM

Title: RIP Bud Shank, 82, jazz musician
Post by: Wayback on April 05, 2009, 04:48:59 PM

Musician Bud Shank, 82.  That's his flute solo in the Mamas & Papas "Calif Dreamin"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_en_mu/obit_shank_4 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_en_mu/obit_shank_4)

Title: Re: RIP Bud Shank, 82, jazz musician
Post by: ggould on April 05, 2009, 06:39:02 PM

Quote from: Wayback on April 05, 2009, 04:48:59 PM

Musician Bud Shank, 82.  That's his flute solo in the Mamas & Papas "Calif Dreamin"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_en_mu/obit_shank_4 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_en_mu/obit_shank_4)

I remember digging his World Pacific album with Ravi Shankar, a million years before the advent of "World Music."  Check out "Fire Night" from Shankar's "Improvisations" LP in 61/62.