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Charnett Moffett R.I.P.

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I heard a cut from this* last weekend as npr connecting music, my 2nd exposure to Charnett one of the best albums of all time made in 1991 (produced by Lazwell, but Sharrock's masterpiece, Elvin Jones, come on), then he became Wallace Ronney's bassist, sadly we lost him early in Coved. Wallace was the young kid that covered Miles' hard parts in the late life concert. *Ask the Ages - Sonny Sharrock | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic)
 
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Bummer! R.I.P. Charnett. I used to love watching him play on my old Stanley Jordan Cornucopia VHS tape. He just tore that Standup Bass up - like he was angry at it. Stanley bragged him up in that video. Kinda makes me wish that I still had a VHS player so I could watch it again. I believe I still have the VHS tape somewhere if I looked hard enough for it. :(
 
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BassBrass said:
I heard a cut from this* last weekend as npr connecting music, my 2nd exposure to Charnett one of the best albums of all time made in 1991 (produced by Lazwell, but Sharrock's masterpiece, Elvin Jones, come on), then he became Wallace Ronney's bassist, sadly we lost him early in Coved. Wallace was the young kid that covered Miles' hard parts in the late life concert. *Ask the Ages - Sonny Sharrock | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic)
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I spent 2.5 years as a college radio jazz dj. I played this track on my first-ever show, at the recommendation of a friend who was doing it with me. A *lot* of the music he introduced me to for that specific show had an impact on me. None were even close to this track and this album. It was my intro to Charnett's playing, Sharrock, Sanders and Elvin's playing post-1970, and Laswell's production. It opened an entire new path for my musical tastes that I continue to explore, 27 years later.

"Ask the Ages" was arguably "Ground Zero" for me.
 
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acleex38 said:
I spent 2.5 years as a college radio jazz dj. I played this track on my first-ever show, at the recommendation of a friend who was doing it with me. A *lot* of the music he introduced me to for that specific show had an impact on me. None were even close to this track and this album. It was my intro to Charnett's playing, Sharrock, Sanders and Elvin's playing post-1970, and Laswell's production. It opened an entire new path for my musical tastes that I continue to explore, 27 years later.

"Ask the Ages" was arguably "Ground Zero" for me.
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Wow, I did say best of all time. (one of) I imagine it's possible that someone at the board over at wgbh fm had just read on the news feed that CM had passed. It was the weekend and Eric in the Evening jazz show was about to start... I would Love to see a documentary on how that album was made. Very compositional with all that wisdom & firepower on hand (Elvin and Saunders).(I mean it's not a usual Sonny Sharrock album, maybe it was Lazwell doing like what he did for j Lydon and Ginger Baker?
Did you ever hear These excellent pieces of npr bumper music? an Aaron Copeland cover, Bill's band plus Guy and Don and more Bill with Ron Miles (cornet) who died a few weeks ago, so salute for him too.

 
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