DON BLACKMAN
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Released: Mar 23, 2012
Label: Late Night Tales
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Genre: Funk / Jazz
Location NEW YORK, New York, US
Profile Views: 40735
Last Login: 8/29/2012
Member Since 7/30/2006
Website www.donblackman.com
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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 -
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10 of 239Morehey great music :)
Hey!i love you music
thanks a lot for accepting us! can I hook you up with some free song downloads? I have a special web page set up that I can send you to, and you can grab some of our songs for free anytime you feel like it. We give away a few from each album we've released. Just send me a myspace message with the subject "downloads" and I'll take care of it :) let me know Dylan
How are you? My New friend.Thanks a lot for adding
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