D’Angelo R.I.P.

[Dr. Cheese]

My wife just read a press release to me that D’Angelo has passed from pancreatic cancer. I will post more information as it comes available.

 

[BGroovy]

Guess I'm listening to Voodoo for the 500th time today...

 

[I´mTheUrbanSpaceman]

Dang it, such an amazing and unrelenting talent.. Voodoo and Black Messiah are incredible great records..
R.I.P.

 

[jerry]

Oh no! Some of the best R&B from the last 30 years and maybe one of the top influences to bring back something we ignored for years, A simple P-bass and flatwoumds. A rare artist where every album was a masterpiece, especially in groove.
Fly on D'Angelo...................................

 

[Lo-E]

Oh, no!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

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[ReillyProductions]

That is terrible news. May he rest!!

 

[Steve59]

R.I.P

 

[winston]

Oh jeez that is terrible news, R.I.P. D'Angelo.
Such incredible, genre-defining (and defying) music, those grooves with Pino, ?uestlove, Chris Dave, Charlie Hunter and everyone were groundbreaking!! His music is/was something that defies words and logical thought, I always described it as "sounding like a rumor about a heatwave."

 

[WG Plum]

Damn. That just flat sucks.

 

[Joshua]

Was just listening to Brown Sugar last night. Absolutely horrible news.

RIP, Dangelo.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I keep thinking about a story . ?uestlove told of Ron Carter being called in for a session on D’Angelo’s first album. Carter played on one song but refused to play on the song “S—- Damn MF’er” because Carter did not approve of profanity. D’Angelo played on that track. That story stuck with me because it really showed how different generations viewed what they felt was appropriate. I’m about ten years older than ?uestlove and I do not see Carter’s refusal as funny, he simply stuck to his values.

The bottom line is that popular culture changes and D’Angelo helped to bring about such change.

 

[Swamp_Ronin]

An unequaled, generational talent. He lived his life as a true Artist and did not compromise. Deeply sad. I put this in Bassists because of his notable. collaborations with Pino Palladino and Charlie Hunter.

I hope Questlove will oversee and release some of his certainly numerous recordings.

Here he is at the height of his power as a bandleader.

 

[I´mTheUrbanSpaceman]

I keep thinking about a story . ?uestlove told of Ron Carter being called in for a session on D’Angelo’s first album. Carter played on one song but refused to play on the song “S—- Damn MF’er” because Carter did not approve of profanity. D’Angelo played on that track. That story stuck with me because it really showed how different generations viewed what they felt was appropriate. I’m about ten years older than ?uestlove and I do not see Carter’s refusal as funny, he simply stuck to his values.

The bottom line is that popular culture changes and D’Angelo helped to bring about such change.

Great story, thanks, Doc! I had no idea Ron Carter ever refused a gig, i thought he's kinda like Lance Henriksen of bass playing..

 

[Phil Mastro]

Just saw this, too. Very sad, only 51.

Edit:

Here he is at the height of his power as a bandleader.

Holy crap that performance is insane. Is that Sharkey on guitar? Didn’t even know they’d played together.

 

[JRA]

so young. what a loss.


R.I.P., d'angelo.

 

[alexclaber]

I was so pleased to hear D’Angelo playing on BBC Radio 1 when I walked into the gym today. And when I left I found out why…

D’Angelo was a genius songwriter, singer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and performer. Like all the greats his influence has gone so far beyond his music - there are so many of us who changed what we do musically after hearing his work.

RIP.

P.S. Regarding the one with the sweary title, I was listening to Live In Stockholm whilst on a long drive with my two smaller children, the younger one asleep, the older one playing Pokémon on his DS2 (this was a few weeks ago!) He’s very bright and observant and when that song came up he saw the title and said “how rude” and carried on with his game…

 

[PrimitiveMan]

What a talent and visionary. When Voodoo came out it totally shifted my musical interests

RIP

 

[ProbablyTooLoud]

D is my Marvin

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Great story, thanks, Doc! I had no idea Ron Carter ever refused a gig, i thought he's kinda like Lance Henriksen of bass playing..

He is not on keen profanity in Rap. He made sure A Tribe Called Quest did not curse on the track where he played too.