Charnett Moffett R.I.P.

[Dr. Cheese]

 

[Dr. Cheese]

He's is a lot younger than I am.This is so sad.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Aw, man... that sucks.

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Yeah that is sad.

 

[Les Fret]

Sad. Too young. Great player!

 

[JimK]

Have had Net Man on LP for years...lucked out & found the CD just recently. In fact, was playing some of it in my car couple days ago.
Norfolk used to have something called the Townpoint Jazz Festival every August. One year, Joe Ford played with Charnett on URB, Kenny Kirkland, & Tain Watts. Ford explained at the outset that all 4 had never played together as a group prior to the album, Today's Nights. Pick it up if you can...
The opening tune was a 20-minute tour de force. Charnett just destroyed it. The sheer stamina & energy just blew my mind.
A Jazz drummer friend told me he left after that one tune...he had seen it all & anything after woulda been anti-climactic.

RIP, sir...

 

[Kaa]

Godspeed, Mr. Moffitt

 

[kobass]

RIP.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Wynton Marsalis, from his book "Sweet Swing Blues On The Road":

"Listen to him! DOOM-DOOM-DOOM!"

Gone far too soon, yeah.

 

[Joshua Pickenpaugh]

Oh no, that's terrible. Way too young. Amazing player...condolences to his family.

Net Man was one of the, if not the first, album I heard in the late 80's where the URB was in a funk setting, not relegated to walking all the time. Encouraged me to pursue the instrument because of that.

RIP CM.

 

[dalkowski]

 

[WillyW]

gone too soon, go with God.

 

[Relsom]

Wow, what a list of accomplishments at a a young age. Gone far too soon too. RIP

 

[HolmeBass]

Terrible news!! He was way too young. Condolences to his family and fans.

 

[InhumanResource]

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Wow, that's terrible. I saw him play with McCoy Tyner at the Gershman Y in Philly. Tremendous player and way too young.

 

[Mark 63]

Sad.
Music From Our Soul is great jazz.

 

[akukulich]

I'm very sorry to hear that.

 

[Joshua]

RIP, Mr. Moffett.

 

[bararan]

I remember being completely blown away by his performance on Kenny Garrett's amazing Standard of Language album (all performances.on that album are mind-blowing anyway) in my early 20's.

Very sad news indeed...

 

[jerry]

I remember in the late 80's discovering Charnett and Lonnie Plaxico around the same time, both doing bass solo albums that ran a deeper than a lot of other bass projects of the time. It also seemed a time when it was becoming more normal for younger cats to be flat out killin' on both electric and upright.
Fly on Charnett........................................