PIANIST/SINGER/WRITER MY NAME IS DON BLACKMAN,I WAS BORN 1953 IN QUEENS,NEW YORK GREW UP SURROUNDED BY JAZZ INFLUENCES;A COUSIN WAS McPHERSON--A CHARLIE PARKER DISCIPLE-- WAS MY NEIGHBOR. I PLAYED WITH McPHERSON'S GROUP
IN 1968 ALONGSIDE SAM JONES AND LOUIS HAYES WHEN HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD I SWITCHED TO ELECTRIC PIANO AND TOURED WITH PARIARMENT/FUNKADELLIC IN THE EARLY '70s I LATER BECAME AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF LENNY WHITE'S TWENNYNINE
("PEANUT BUTTER") A KEY PIECE IN JAMAICA QUEENS 70 JAZZ-FUNK EXPLOSION. A
DEAL WITH GRP/ ARISTA BIRTHED THE SOLO LP DON BLACKMAN (1982), A GOOD SET
SADDLED BY POOR PROMOTION MY RESUME INCLUDES KURTIS BLOW SESSION AND SINGING
"HABOGLABOTRIN" ON BERNARD WRIGHT'S ALBUM A FIXTURE IN NEW YORK STUDIOSI WORKED ON SESSION FOR A LONG LIST OF ARTIST INCLUDING NAGEE, DAVID SANBORN,AND ROY AYERS, AND HIS COMPOSITION "LIVE TO KICK IT TU-PAC'S R U STILL DOWN (REMEMBER ME)RELEASE ANDREW HAMILTON ALL MUSIC GUIDE
Hey Don!!! I hope You are Fine!! Thanks for your precious friendship and your great music! I bought the rerelease of your 82's album and I wanna say that I it is an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING ALBUM!! Thanks Don!! Dimitris
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